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The 8 Best Origin Stories In Superhero Movies

Ah, the superhero origin story. No matter how complex or varied the comic book movie genre becomes, it can never stray too far from that familiar story structure. Next month, Marvel will deliver another one in Doctor Strange. Its content might be different from the norm – the movie will introduce magic and mysticism to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – but its format will be cut from the same cloth as Iron Man, Ant-Man and Thor before it.
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Published: Sep 15, 2016 12:40 pm

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4) Iron Man

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Back in the 1960s, Stan Lee created Iron Man as an experiment – he wanted to see if he could create a really unlikeable guy and make the audience love him. In 2008, Marvel Studios likewise decided to tackle turning the billionaire womanizing weapons dealer into everyone’s new favourite superhero. Against all the odds, they managed it.

First of all, they obviously nailed the casting with Robert Downey Jr, the only person we could ever imagine playing Tony Stark. But it’s the movie itself that fleshed him out, putting Tony through the emotional ringer and forcing him to become a better person. In short, Iron Man is the definitive origins movie for this current era of superhero films.

Of course, Iron Man also gets plaudits for not only acting as an origin story for the shellhead but for the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe. In what was a revolutionary moment in the genre, Nick Fury turns up for a post-credits scene to introduce the concept of the Avengers…

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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