First films featured heroes creating their super alter-egos: Another similarity between Batman Begins and Iron Man is that much of the films' story focused on the hero creating his masked identity. That first Iron Man film, with its attempts to portray a somewhat realistic world around the hero, as well as some other elements I'll mention in a moment, were clearly influenced by Batman Begins, and it was a smart choice of influence - the Batman trilogy went on to blow the doors off the box office, and Iron Man's own trilogy became easily the most popular and highest-grossing of the Marvel Studios films.Ģ. to assume (contested) control over his father's company. Then, the story moves forward and we see him escape and finally make his way back to the U.S. In 2008, Iron Man used the same method of introducing billionaire Tony Stark, when we see him captured and hauled off as a prisoner in a foreign country before flashing back to give us his history leading up to his imprisonment. to assume (contested) control of his father's company. First films used nonlinear storytelling: In 2006, Batman Begins introduced us to billionaire Bruce Wayne by starting off with him already a prisoner in a foreign land, then flashing back to his past to show us how and why he got there, before moving forward again to his escape and ultimate return to the U.S. I'm going to explain the biggest ones below, and talk about why these similarities exist.ġ. Sean's article can be found HERE, and it goes into great detail about the nuances of the comparisons between the Dark Knight trilogy and the Iron Man trilogy. Meanwhile, both Sean and I have written up the comparisons for you to read as well.
You can listen to that podcast and download it HERE. So this past weekend, we got together for a podcast in which we spoke about all of those similarities. As we talked about what we loved about the film, we started to note the many similarities between the Iron Man and Batman franchises.
Sean and I saw Iron Man 3 early last week and came out agreeing it's the best of the Iron Man franchise and the best solo hero movie so far from Marvel- Disney.