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admonition : Spoilers for Invincible Iron Man # 14!If anyone is the combining weight ofBatmanfor the Marvel Universe , it has to beIron Man . It seems as though the listing of such candidates rise with each passing year , most recently with Danny Rand , formerly live as the Iron Fist , making a good argument for being Marvel ’s Batman . Other heroeslike Moon Knightand even more oddball choiceslike MODOKhave drawn equivalence to the Caped Crusader .
Tony Stark ’s always been a name that systematically comes up when it follow to who ’s Marvel ’s Batman ( or frailty versa ) but his substantial showcase so far is made inThe Invincible Iron Man#14 by Gerry Duggan , Bryan Valenza , Andrea Di Vito , and VC ’s Joe Caramagna . The issue lead off with Tony receive a dream , or rather , his recurring incubus where he fails to deliver everyone as Magneto kills him .
However , the more fascinating vista of this dreaming is a line in which Tony monologues to himself:“I rarely dream of my life as Tony Stark . In my dreams , I am Iron Man . "
The Dichotomy of Batman and Bruce Wayne (and Iron Man and Tony Stark)
It ’s been well - documented that being Bruce Wayne ranks among one of the most important aspects of Batman , to the point that some stories depictBruce Wayne as Batman ’s real mask , while the hood reflects his on-key identity . This is often seen not only in comics , but across mainstream media . One of the more famous model comes in theBatman Beyondepisode " Shriek , " where an elderly Bruce confirm that in his subconscious , he call himself Batman . He regard himself as Batman , not Bruce Wayne .
Similarly , thanks in large part to his more mainstream appearance , Tony Stark ’s innovative comic al-Qur’an characterization is defined largely bythe iconic MCU line , " I am Iron Man . “It ’s always been suggested that Tony believes that he and Iron Man are largely one and the same , but this unexampled aspiration sequence suggests something different . Tony may see more Iron Man in himself than he does Tony Stark , or - much like how Batman sees himself strictly as Batman - Tony consider himself exclusively to be Iron Man .
Iron Man Adds New Layers to His Identity Crisis
More than create him Marvel ’s Batman , this unexampled revelation adds layers to the current personal identity crisis of sort Tony is know . Lately , Tony has been run through a grating patch , having had his company swept from under him by Feilong , someone henever prise enough to consider a nemesisbeforehand . His resources have been stripped from him , his best Quaker was thrown in prison for seek to help him , and he ’s even beentempted back to the nursing bottle . Everything that makes Bruce WayneBatmanalso apply to Tony Stark , but everything that makes TonyIron Manis being dismantle off from him .
The Invincible Iron Man#14is on sales agreement now from Marvel Comics .
