military-industrial complex as it is an overt critique. Little has changed in the decades since Stark first donned his suit of armor: as a movie, Iron Man is as much a product of the U.S. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him … And he became very popular.” He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist. “So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree.
