theatomicboom:

Not to be a DC fan on main but at least they never made the conscious decision to make everything tied to one character like Marvel as to Iron Man. Wonder Woman didn’t get a new uniform or weapons from Batman to be at “top performance”, Aquaman didn’t need his help or “mentorship” to become a hero, Superman had his own story with minimal mention to Wayne at all.

Compare this to Marvel where Spider-Man, perhaps the most iconic superhero to EVER come out of Marvel, and their origin, personality, and story is completely erased. There’s no Uncle Ben, Aunt May is reduced to flirting with every hot guy and for Iron Man to oglie at, and Spider-Man himself? The character known to have created his own suit, his own weapons, his own story? He’s just Iron Man’s little pet project til he can get an actual kid out of Pepper. He’s just Iron Man jr with a spider motif who needs Stark to hold his hand and tell him what a good boy he is. Give me a fucking break. Iron Man was the joke of Marvel comics for decades until the movies made him “charming”. Spider-Man doesn’t and will never need him to be the hero he is, but god forbid RDJ not get another quick 10 million for acting like himself and for the writers to completely miss the point of their own characters for the sake of box office revenue.