What's happening? Tony is a lot of things, and one of those things is an amateur racecar driver. He enters a race and wrecks so badly no one seems willing to help his ass out. Luckily, some brute is nearby and pulls Tony from the wreckage. The two become life-long pals when Tony offers him a job. This is our introduction to Happy Hogan. Tony and his new chauffeur head back to Stark HQ where Tony introduces Happy (and us, gentle readers) to the lovely secretary Pepper Potts. In short order, Happy falls in love with Pepper, who freely admits she's in love with Tony. While Happy and Pepper flirt, Tony goes and tries on the Iron Man suit. Lucky he did, because a once-loyal professor working for Stark has decided to steal the transistor formula. Iron Man stops him, but Tony lets him go in return for services rendered. The professor heads back to a secret lab where he creates an ice suit which basically makes him Iceman. Jack Frost is the result and he goes about doing villain-y things before trying to exact revenge on Stark. Iron Man turns his light ray into a heat ray (I dunno how, he just does, OK?), but not before Frost turns Happy and Pepper into ice blocks, thus ending the wonderful, yet extremely short runs of iconic Iron Man characters. No, excuse me... they thaw out after Tony turns on the sprinklers. Nevermind.
ETC: Jack Frost's power might be to make things cold and be bulletproof (cause the bullets turn to snowflakes, you see) but his true talent is chill-inspired puns. He doesn't rob a bank for money, oh no, he robs it for "cold" cash. We can only hope Jack Frost is a regular after this.
Frost derives his power from the concept that things can be frozen and kept longer. His original plan was to make a youth serum. Somehow that turned into him putting on a wet suit and he became an ice-wielding bad guy. At one point, he freezes a cat, then uses a heat ray to thaw the cat, and the cat runs off. I hope even people in the 60s didn't think that could remotely work.
MVP: Happy Hogan. Without him, Tony's dumb ass would have melted in the wreckage of his car. Not only does Happy pull Tony from the wreck and get him to an electric outlet (so Tony can plug his chest piece in) but, as a former boxer, he naturally makes great boxing-related jokes and references contemporary pugilists in casual conversation. Also, Pepper thinks he's dog-ugly.
MIA: Tony's Organization Skills. Tony wrecks in the race because he forgot to plug his chest piece thing in. Look, I'm as guilty as any for letting my cell phone die because I forget to plug it in before I go to bed. And while my phone is an important tool for my daily life, it is not a life-saving device that KEEPS MY HEART FROM EXPLODING. Fuck, Tony. Get your shit together, pal.
WTF: Tony Stark has a huge picture of Iron Man in the lobby of his building. We're talking a 12-foot tall portrait of him. He explains to Happy that they're real good buddies. Like, best friends in the universe and have secret meetings together when Jack Frost comes to attack. Look, Tony. If you don't tell people you're really Iron Man, they're just going to think you're sleeping with the guy.
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