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I quite like the opening theme, does anyone know what it's called?
Extremis was high concept but also a revamp. This can't be ambitious in quite the same ways because it has to tie in with the films. (Also, everyone ended up hating Extremis. Last I checked, it had been retconned and blamed for Iron Man's unpopular behavior in Civil War.)
The high concept I see here is Ellis musing on how a character like Tony Stark, who is a reformed arms dealer but at heart still kind of a weaponsmith, interacts with a society like Japan that hasn't had a real military in over 50 years.
For instance, Tony clearly wants to develop the Dio suit in Japan because he thinks, with no real standing military, he'll be free to act as with all his altruism without anyone trying to exploit his work. Japan is famously technology-forward, though, and how forward can you be with no military industrial complex?
I suspect that wanting to explore this theme is why we have a new villain group rather than any established Marvel group. I'm betting that Zodiac turns out to be a front for activities by the JSDF or some other group that wants Japan to have its own military again, with the need to fight Zodiac as an excuse.
I'm still not sure how exactly they "undid" it anyway. Stark is still armoring up like he's got Star Trek tech.
I think it's called "Activation."
The Extremis nanites are explicitly no longer a part of Tony's body. The process of eliminating them also lead to him "losing all memory" of what he did in Civil War, since he had to restore his mind from a "backup copy." It happened in an issue of Fraction's Iron Man book.
The last Iron Man comics I read were using more movie-like armor. It's possible they're using the nanites in a more limited way in some books, though.
Wow. Even Iron Man comics are so complicated I can't understand them anymore.
Now I understand why the female reported was kinda uselss! Inoue was behind it! :laugh:
Here's what I can say in the first ep:
http://orendsrange.blogspot.com/2010/10/marvel-anime-iron-man-01-iron-man.html
Well explaining Iron Man is still easier than War Machine, I think right now he is in a cloned body after spending a year as Micronaut-like cyborg which all of course happened after he was in-charge of the Sentinels.I don't know if it's getting older or what, but I read some of those comics and apparently just had a totally different understanding of what was happening than what was correct.