The Really Messed Up Thing About These Superheroes We Ignore

Comic books are full of daring action and high stakes, but they also get into some pretty weird stuff. Here are the messed up parts of these superhero stories that we all just usually ignore.

Everyone these days knows Tony Stark as the wealthy industrialist who fights evil as the invincible Iron Man. If you were only reading comics for about five minutes back in 1996, though, you'd know Tony as a teenager who traveled through time to replace his older self after the elder Stark was mind-controlled into becoming a murderer. When that shocking twist was revealed, Old Tony went berserk and shoved his hand through his younger self's chest. Then, he finally came to his senses and sacrificed his own life to save Teen Tony. The result was that we all got a cool new '90s teen version of Iron Man who fought crime while attending high school, hopefully taking some tips from the older Tony's mistakes..

While the move was meant to breathe some new life into the character and entice new readers, it didn't exactly catch on. Teen Tony and his exaggerated, anime-inspired armor managed to stick around for only eight issues before he sacrificed himself yet again. After that, he was rebooted along with the rest of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four on a parallel Earth, and then a year later was re-rebooted back in the regular Marvel Universe. The weirdest part? Tony actually remembers all this stuff, including three different childhoods.

And you wonder why he drank. Still, it's nice to know that if Robert Downey Jr. ever gets tired of playing Iron Man in the movies, there's actually precedent for replacing him with one of those kids from Riverdale.

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