12 Iconic Characters Utterly Ruined By Terrible Commercials

5. As If Iron Man Shops For Phones Off The Shelf

Not only is this commercial shoddily made, but for some reason whoever was in charge of producing it decided that it would be great to make Iron Man look like a butterfingered goof who doesn't understand his own technology. In this commercial the audience is meant to believe that Tony Stark is a billionaire tech genius, with access to all the world€™s latest gadgets, who still buys his phone off the shelf like everyone else. His phone was probably nice for 2008, but the idea that Tony Stark would be slumming it with us peasants seems farfetched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZVPc4UL1I But this is the least stupid part of the commercial. Because in addition to using a pretty mediocre phone from a very mediocre brand, Stark inexplicably appears to carry the device with him in his hand while he is flying on missions. He has the most incredible hardware ever devised by man, and yet this commercial posits the idea that he is so stupid that he can't grasp the notion that his own technology (that is making him fly mind you) is far superior to this 2008 cellphone. Then to add insult to injury, when he is flying with it, he drops it like an infant teaching itself the concept of grip. Tony Stark everybody €“ a superhero so cool and so smart, he battles evil while dropping a crappy 2008 LG phone.