10 Superheroes Screwed Over By Reboots

10. Iron Man

Tony Stark is already considered to be obnoxious enough, so it's doubtful turning him into a teenager would have fixed this problem.

This reboot comes to us courtesy of the Avengers storyline The Crossing, in which our original Iron Man was revealed to be a bad guy working for Kang this whole time. If that makes absolutely zero sense to you, good, you still have all your brain cells working, so carry on as normal.

Anyway, to make a long and very dumb story short, defeating Kang requires the aid of Tony Stark...from the past. When he was a teenager. Who they then let stick around because they're already letting the space time continuum die in a pool of its own blood, why not kick in its teeth while it's down?

This reboot of the Iron Man story had teenage Tony Stark take center stage, seemingly to appeal to a younger audience. Which, like a similar later attempt - the cartoon series Iron Man: Armored Adventures - blew up right in their faces and didn't last long at all.