re: Avengers Endgame Offical Trailer

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Is it true that Iron Man was a relatively minor character in the comics before these movies?

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He wasn't A-list.

That's the beauty of the MCU, which DC hasn't figured out yet (or maybe they're beginning to):
you can make a better movie with a less iconic character, because you don't risk alienating everyone who believes the character isn't "right".

Tony Stark was rich, but he was also a bit of a dick if I remember rightly. But nobody cared that you made him hugely charismatic with Robert Downey Jr, because ... they just didn't get wadded up about it.

Take Batman and Bruce Wayne, alter him just a bit from the comics, and people go insane.