Iron Man Archetypes

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When I hear the word hero my mind suddenly jumps to Marvel and most importantly jumps to my favorite movie, the Avengers. In “Avengers: Age of Ultron” Iron Man, Tony Stark, restarts a program that he hopes will relieve the Avengers of their heroic duties. Of course, things go wrong and the “peacekeeping” program’s new goal becomes total elimination of the Avengers and the entire human race. Despite his ignorance and cocky personality, Iron Man is my favorite hero. Due to his rebellious ways, Tony Stark can easily be classified under the bad boy hero archetype. Throughout the movie he takes chances and from the beginning of the story we are able to see just how risky those choices are. The engineering genius used his charismatic personality

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