Iron Man: Armored Adventures creates a hero for young viewers
The first season of the animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures features a bit of a re-imagining of the original comic book in that main character and hero Tony Stark is actually a teenager in these episodes.
Writer Christopher Yost imagined “an alternate reality take” in which Tony Stark goes through similar incidents as occur in the movie, but at a younger age.
“You know, the bottom line is that this is a show for younger audiences and not necessarily the hardcore comic fan,” the writer 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 boardroom meeting. What we decided to do was focus on elements of Tony’s personality that made him who he was. Like that obsession he has with retrieving his technology that we saw in the movie, 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.”
Yost wanted to present the same Tony Stark that fans of both the comic and movie already know and love – Yost says that the “premise of teen Tony going to school in high school” was the show’s goal, though at the same time every episode seeks to make the hero recognizable to those who are already familiar with the story.
