Iron Man: Armored Adventures a show for younger audiences
Iron Man: Armored Adventures takes on the task of presenting Tony Stark and his battles against the forces of evil when he puts on the technologic marvel that is the Iron Man suit. The animated series aims at a young demographic, and in order to make the show more relatable for kids this version of Tony Stark is a teenager – so not only does he have to deal with all of the hassles of being a teen in modern society, but he must take on an enormous cast of villains as well.
“You know, the bottom line is that his is a show for younger audiences and not necessarily the hardcore comic fan,” the show’s head writer Christopher Yost tells Comic Book Resources. “But I am a hardcore comic fan so I really wanted to reconcile the two worlds. So when your six-year-old or eight-year-old are watching you can’t have Tony in bed with women or drinking and nobody particularly wants to watch a big executive board meeting. What we decided to do was focus on elements of Tony’s personality that make him who he was. Like that obsession he has with retrieving his technology that we saw in the move, and that anger and temper of betrayal from Obadiah Stane. Those are translatable things and when you put that on top of a teenager and everything that a teenager has to deal with, it really starts to become a fleshed out character.”
The first season of this animated series is due out on DVD, and fans of the action hero are likely to be impressed with the range of villains presented in the cartoon, as well as the action animation in these episodes.
