OK, there is NO WAY I'm the only comic book nerd out here who finds it massively creepy that at the end of Iron Man 2, Tony Stark and Pepper Potts hook up.
I'm sorry, but no. It is simply not OK.
In the first COMICS, Ms. Potts used to throw her little gold-digging self at her rich boss, but he would always snub her for whatever supermodels were already in his car. Largely because he was hiding a physical disability and secret robot habit and didn't want anybody too close to his personal life for longer than a weekend.
And in later comics, Ms. Potts wised up, realized that her boss was a flaky drunk and married the limo driver instead, as nature intended. Never once hooking up with her boss!
In IMMEDIATE comics, yeah, she did. After being widowed and after she thought Tony was going to die soon. But it was too brief to be much of an affair, and then he jumped straight into bed with his other primary female ally, because he thought he was dying and could burn a few bridges on the way out. Being a party boy and all.
Now, I love the Iron Man comics. The Iron Man Civil War collection is something I re-read frequently. I love the weird social and psychological dynamics of the title, the love-hate friendships that start to resemble family, the fantasy of wealth... It's even fun to imagine what the weight of the world must feel like when it's resting on mentally unstable, brilliant shoulders.
But dude! Hollywood should NOT have turned one of comics' best awkward male-female friendships into a "the guy gets the girl because main characters always hook up" scenario. Part of the fun is that he never really does.
OK, nerd moment over for now.
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