With gleefully tasteless, low-budget offerings such as The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Troma established a cult status that still persists today, long after its 80s and 90s heyday. Where the company founded by Walt Disney built its empire on family-friendly entertainment that never makes anyone uncomfortable, Kaufman created Troma Entertainment, a direct-to-video company that makes movies only to offend. Lloyd Kaufman is everything Disney isn’t. No, the real problem comes when both Tony and Pepper compliment Musk and his idea for an electric jet, with an impressed Stark saying, “We’ll make it work.” Lloyd Kaufman (Guardians of the Galaxy, 2014) Marvel has always taken place in the “world outside your window,” so it makes sense that a billionaire would be hanging out with other billionaires. The two choose a table next to Elon Musk, who hops up to congratulate Pepper on her promotion to head of Stark Industries. None more so than South African emerald mine scion Elon Musk, who every day reveals himself to be a bargain-bin Lex Luthor and nothing like Tony Stark.Īnd yet, in the largely disastrous Iron Man 2, Tony and Pepper Potts follow Natasha Romanoff (still incognito as Tony’s personal assistant) into a fancy restaurant.
But in the real world, tech leaders exploit the labor of others while advocating “advancements” that further diminish humanity. When kept in the world of fantasy, Stark is a compelling character, the Merchant of Death who has a change of heart and tries to make the world a better place. The Superhero Movie Industrial Complex has a lot to answer for (even as it keeps me employed), but one of the most damning may be its valorizing of the maverick tech genius in the form of Tony Stark. Granted, this scene did not make the final version of 1978’s Superman, the start of the first wave of superhero movies, but it was in one of the movie’s later drafts, and while Donner was able to limit the cameos in his movie to low-key appearances by Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill of the 1940s Superman serials, film critic Rex Reed, and TV star Larry Hagman, those who followed rarely showed so much restraint. Superman pauses for a moment for the audience to roar in laughter when they recognize the popular television character, who pulls out his sucker to utter his famed catchphrase, “Who loves ya, baby!” So when he sees a hairless man on the street, Superman accosts the pedestrian only to see not Gene Hackman’s menacing smile, but detective/lollipop enthusiast Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas. Even though the criminal mastermind only appears in public under one of his many wigs, Superman knows that Lex Luthor is bald. Superman is on the lookout for Lex Luthor.
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