re: Avenger: AoU Reviews (**MAJOR SPOILERS**)

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Yes.

Iron Man has been an a-hole from Scene One of Movie One. He's based on a character who is an a-hole in the comics. He has been reliably portrayed as an a-hole in every film. And now its some sort of criticism that he's an a-hole in this movie as well? That makes no sense. That's the character.

That's like complaining that the hero of James Bond movies is a womanizer. I mean, that's the damn character.

I do like how hard DC partisans, particularly Mulder, are trying to push the city destruction angle, as that was a charhe lobbed at MOS. It doesn't fit at all, but damn it, they will make it work because that's how my beloved property was criticized so I will get Marvel back! I'm an enraged fanboy who will now try and deflect criticism by complaining about fanboys rooting for the other team!

Not that one can't enjoy both a DC and a Marvel property.

However, the "innocent civilians" complaint makes no sense regarding Ultron considering this move bent over backwards, to an almost comical degree, to demonstrate how our heroes were minimizing or outright preventing civilian casualties. In fact, it was to the point where it was legitimately distracting. And, it took away from the Hulk's narrative arc, as he refused to go green again due to his culpability in civilian deaths as the Hulk, Yet since the movie went into contortions to show that there were NO civilian casualties and all the buildings destroyed were empty and going to be purchased by Stark, then that arc makes less sense and loses its power.

It's like people had a talking point before the movie ever came out they were going to lob as a criticism, still smarting over the Superman criticism, and they are going to use that talking point even though the film's problem is the exact tonal opposite.

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