10 Changes That Totally Ruined Comic Book Characters

2. Iron Man

Tony Stark has gone through a lot since building a suit of armor in captivity to keep his heart beating. He€™s succumbed to alcoholism, lost his company and his fortune on more than once, and has a string of lost loves in his wake. To make things worse, he€™s also been handled by quite a few incompetent writers who chose to interpret Stark€™s occasional jerkish behavior as more supervillainous. One of the greatest offenders was The Crossing, a story-arc in the 90s that revealed Tony Stark had been a pawn of Avengers€™ villain Kang for years. During The Crossing, Iron Man became even more of a dick, flat-out murdering characters like Marilla and the female Yellowjacket. To stop him, the Avengers went back in time and brought a teenage Tony Stark into the present to battle his future self, and this teen Tony then became Iron Man and joined the Avengers. After the events of Onslaught and Heroes Reborn, Kurt Busiek brought Tony Stark back as an adult and things were back as they should be. But then during Civil War, Mark Millar decided to transform Iron Man back into a supervillain. Supporting the highly questionable Superhuman Registration Act, Iron Man not only hunted his former teammates, but even participated in the creation of a homicidal cybernetic clone of Thor and then sent psychotic supervillains after his supposed friends. Recent comics haven€™t been kind, either. Now, Iron Man and the rest of his Illuminati have even seriously considered eliminating entire universes to preserve their own, an act of genocide on a level never before seen. Marvel just can€™t seem to resist the urge to turn Iron Man into a straight-up supervillain.