Pointless Because: Though playful banter is what Tony Stark is all about, he didn't really need someone to bounce dialogue off during the exile part of his journey in Iron Man 3, and if he for some reason did, it probably shouldn't have been a small child. It's hard to escape the feeling that Tony's pint-sized pal was brought in largely to make the film more appealing to kids, and going by its $1.3 billion box office total, that plan seems to have worked. Harley in Iron Man 3 is apparently based on the female Marvel comics character Harley Davis, not that this makes him feel any less out of place here. How To Fix It: Recast him with a kid who looks less like Steve Zahn. Seriously, I'm not trying to knock the kid or anything, because there was nothing wrong with his acting at all, but I found this really distracting. On the other hand, he has zero plot necessity even by the standards of this list's roster of characters, so it would be easy to just pretend he doesn't exist, or accidentally died while playing with that flashy chemistry set Tony bought him.
Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.
