10 Comic Book Characters Every Reader Wants To Be
5. Iron Man The second character on this list who owes more than a small amount to his portrayal in the adaptation for the screen, ladies and gentlemen, Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, another billionaire genius in a flashy suit (they grow on trees in the Marvel Universe) - in this case, a high-tech battlesuit designed and built by the man himself, billionaire genius being the operating words here. Previously a mid-level superhero in Marvels roster and having just emerged from the Civil War storyline not entirely smelling of roses (he engineered a countrywide registration of all superhumans, resulting a lot of nastiness up to and including the arrest and assassination of Captain America), it took Robert Downey Jnrs unstoppable razzle dazzle to rehabilitate Starks faded aura and boy, did he. Single-handedly making our Anthony fun, charming and sexy again, hes the main reason Iron Man would ever make a list like this, and certainly the single reason hed make it to number five. And lets be honest he only made the suit fly because he knew itd be even more of a laugh than racing ridiculously fast cars, right? Yeah, wed like Tony Starks life for a day or two.