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Jan 31, 2013 -- 5:02PM, Dragon_Nut wrote:

Well, working off of Movie!Stark (Since we need some common reference frame across his myriad interpretations by quite a few different writers) I'd say the main point here is that he's just not selfish enough. Sure, he does the whole 'rich playboy' thing, but he does so in more of impulsive desires rather than greed. He seems most interested in fiddling with things and playing around rather than amassing personal power.

Yeah, but Iron Man (the comic) was mostly started because Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men were all hippie icons, and in the case of the last two, obvious left-wing political slant (by 60s standards) is obvious. The John Birchers were complaining, and just a decade before that, comics had been a source of moral panic anyway. So in a very real way, Iron Man is capitalism.

I want to put Captain America in blue. Mostly because he's a World War II one, created specifically to contrast with the Nazis' attitude about nature versus nurture.

Jan 31, 2013 -- 5:02PM, Dragon_Nut wrote:

I'd also put Magneto (Working from a combination of movies and XMen Evolution since that's most of what I know) as rather than mainly because of the selfishness of his cause. He is working for a group, but his methods indicate that he believes the lives of anybody outside his group to be forfeit.

Oddly, the more that I think about it, Magneto would agree with the ideals of the Gruul more than any other guild.