Iron Man: Armored Adventures features classic villains, cutting edge technology
Iron Man: Armored Adventures isn’t exactly like the original comic book. Rather, the cartoon series deals with a teenage version of Tony Stark, who utilizes his position as heir of the billion dollar corporation to create his greatest invention: the Iron Man suit.
“You know,” creator Christ Yost told Comic Book Resources, “the bottom line is that this is a show for younger audiences and not necessarily the hardcore comic fan. 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 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 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.”
Together with his best friend Jim Rhodes and high school classmate Pepper Pots, Tony Stark continues to upgrade the suit which makes him invincible, in order to protect the would-be victims of the corrupt. In season one of the series, Tony battles against a plethora of villains – including Whiplash, Blizzard and Crimson Dynamo.
Yost continues: “For the most part, the villains that Tony faces are pretty much on target. They’re the adult villains. You’ve got characters like Whiplash, Crimson Dynamo and Blizzard. The Iron Man rouges gallery is kind of a funny thing because there’s not a lot of stand outs in it. There’s a lot of weirdness in it too. You’ve got guys like Unicorn and Killer Shrike. You know, things that don’t quite make the top ten villain list of all time. But at the same time you’ve got the Mandarin and the Living Laser, so you’ve got the big ones in there too. But we used as many as we could humanly possibly fit in there.”
