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[Iron Man 3] is out now! Man of Steel coming soon.
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It was great!
It was just also more violent than the other ones, and if violence is someone's pet peeve when it comes to superhero movies, I can see why it would be off putting.
really though, they could have just given Dafoe green face paint and a purple hat
So your claim would be that Iron Man 3 is much more violent than a great deal of previous superhero films?
Hmm... I initially disagree with such a claim but will ask for clarity:
What superhero films do you think are more violent then Iron Man 3?
I'm with Sheri, here.
I mean, I get that she didn't have any superpowers or real combat training, so I get that she's an easy target.
But showing her basically being tortured was really unnecessary.
I think if violence is your pet peeve, maybe superhero movies aren't for you
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
GARY MY NEMESIS????
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But they don't do that any more than they do to the other characters.
Actually, if it's all the same to you, I'd rather drop it. It's not really something I'm invested enough in to argue about, and even if I were, I'm doing a piss-poor job of articulating myself tonight.
Super-heroes in movies aren't tortured, escape quickly or have super-villains imply committing sexual assault when they get their hands on them.
Fair enough.
Once.
I totally thought the goons in the Middle East were knocked out or something in the first Iron Man when he rescues those hostages.
Oh, Gatsby.
he shot them
he shot them with bullets
And explosives!
100 people killed.
That part though I don't even know what my brain was doing
We don't have a whole lot of details on the sort of energy the hand repulsors emit. and it seems to be just pure kinetic force, so I suppose it's possible to crank those down a bit and it would just be like getting punched really hard? But I'm just bullshitting there
Otherwise literally everything on the suit is for killin'
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Tony Stark's technology is so dangerous even the stuff he builds for non-lethal purposes kill people.
The only two big ones that aren't are Happy post explosion and Brandt on the power line.
Everything else was either CGI'd like hell or just standard PG-13 action.
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I still really enjoyed the film, but I definitely felt myself wincing a lot more in it at every hit and shot.
Not in the movies, though.
its a flight stabilizer, geez
Well...
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I get the impression from the comics that the Avengers have a general policy of "arrest if at all possible, kill only as a last resort".
They do individually but when they are, well, assembled they try not to kill. What with the team being bigger than any one person's views.
It is why Tony brought Logan on, they needed someone who could cross that line while keeping the Avengers name moderately unblemished.
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whereas over at DC the default policy is "never ever EVER kill, even on accident, no exceptions," generally speaking
I thought Tony brought Logan on because Logan's the best at what he does.
That's not going to keep the Avengers from being blemished by Wolverine killing folks. He'd have to be either in a covert group or kept unconnected from the Avengers as an outsider. Being a member is a public endorsement for Wolverine's actions.
Batman and Superman, sure.
Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and (I think) Martian Manhunter have all been willing to use lethal force if the situation requires it
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And what he does ain't pretty.
Maybe even the Flash as well what with him being in law enforcement.
Green Lanterns weren't allowed to kill with their rings until the Guardians changed the laws in the Book of Oa. Not sure whether that's canon post-new 52.
GL and Flash? since when? can you give examples?