dude, when's your franchise gonna end?

[therealgenius]

It's got to end soon. At least, with Tony's part of the story. Look, the man is getting on in years, and he's not fooling anyone with dyeing his hair. You saw The Soloist, you know he's gray. Soon he won't be able to do any of his stunts at all, and you can't have a good Iron Man movie if Iron Man can't do any of his stunts.

[iron man 2 wasn't any good though shut your mouth]

And he's running out of Big Bad Countries In All The Movies And Books In Recent History to piss off. The Middle East is done, Russia is done, now it's China. If the second Avengers combines the Super Hot Villain Of The Month with North Korea, it's over. It's done. Unless he sparks another crisis in Cuba, where's he going from there?

Maybe we'll get a super god alien space movie that's tolerable after that. You know, more alien god problems, less boring shit on Earth. Iron Man and Captain America is on Earth. We have enough Earth movies. Seriously. I don't even care if the new bad aliens are, like, the lizard people from Battleship, it'd be more interesting than whiny human problems.

I mean, it can't go on forever, right? No one wants to see Iron Wheelchair. Not even me, and that's saying something.

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[manofiron]

Iron Wheelchair, huh? Tell me what you really think.

[therealgenius]

You sustain a lot of injuries. It's fully possible you'll get a really bad one, isn't it? I mean, it's not like it looks very kind to you, having you drag your suit in the snow when the other ones are, like, little suitcases.

Maybe I shouldn't say those things, though.

[manofiron]

Maybe. Maybe I'll die. Just think, if I do, then you can take my place.

[therealgenius]

[why you gotta do a thing, bro?]

Yeah right. I won't ever appear again. I'm not tragically misunderstood and fodder for legions of fangirls to swoon over. No one wants that when they can have You Know Who and all his blue problems.

[manofiron]

[ Why you gotta call him old?! ]

Do you want that kind of shit following you around? Seriously? Because it's starting to make the paparazzi look tame by comparison.

[veryastute]

Mister Stark is not the sort of human to quietly retire, Mister Hammer. It may take somewhat drastic measures.

[ he should know. 8'( ]

[therealgenius]

Are you saying you want to see a seventy-year-old Robert Downey Junior reprising the role for a ninth time in something that should just be straight to DVD?

[veryastute]

I'm afraid I don't have an opinion about the matter, Sir.

[therealgenius]

Horse crap. I'm sure you have a whole slew of opinions. You don't have to be worried about manners or whatever, really. It's okay to have opinions.

[veryastute]

I'm afraid my opinions tend to be decidedly sarcastic and generally involve distaste for Mister Stark's bad habits.

[arach_nerd]

I don't think we're going to see the end of whiny human problems. Marvel was built on whiny human problems. Specifically my whiny human problems.

[therealgenius]

Yeah, but you're superhuman. You're not human anymore. You're...superior. So it's more like...I don't know, couldn't it be more like you struggling with the human condition and refusing to give into the urge to eat spiders and flies and talk about the blood is the life?

[arach_nerd]

Because people have totally been clamoring for a David Lynch-penned Spidey book.

[therealgenius]

Are you gonna grow out your hair to look like a pencil eraser?

[arach_nerd]

I was more thinking along the lines of developing an obsession with cherry pie.

[liverletdie]

Now, Now, Justin. You'd be surprised how long I can go when I have an advanced suit of power armor. It'll keep me up and running long after I should've stopped.

[therealgenius]

For you, I don't doubt that, but [you're 2D and can live forever!] with the actor, you know, he's getting older, and soon it's not going to be...feasible for much longer.

[liverletdie]

Oh no?

Isn't Harrison Ford still making action movies?

[therealgenius]

Do you want Shia Labeouf to weasel his way into this franchise like he did with Indiana Jones? Really?

[liverletdie]

I don't think we need to shoehorn in any children.

[biologist]

Nothing against Tony, but alien god battles do sound more interesting.

[therealgenius]

Don't they just? They sound amazing! They sound like the could be everything the Transformers franchise refused to be. No one wants another Transformers franchise, right?

I hope not, at least.

[biologist]

I was more of a She-Ra girl, back in the day. Transformers never interested me. [ But it's fun to talk about stuff like that! Hee. ] Let me guess, you liked Transformers aaand ... Thundercats?

[therealgenius]

[Who doesn't like getting to talk about this stuff, right?]

Actually, it was more Mighty Mouse. I didn't watch much TV growing up, but I do remember liking Mighty Mouse.

[biologist]

Mighty Mouse! With his little friend, oh, I felt so bad for that guy. Wasn't he always running around, trying to keep up?

[ Nostalgia, aaaah. ]