Has Iron Man lost its edge?

We all know CBM's have to be made viewable to all age groups to maximize profits; this can lead to many older viewers becoming dismayed by how kid friendly movies/characters have to become.

Sometimes in an effort to do this characters can feel like they have become a diluted representation of what we would want to see on the big screen. Case in point would be Wolverine in the Fox movies, Hugh Jackman's character doesn't seem at home in this environment. What we wanted to see was bloody body ripping claw action but obviously they couldn't do it. With a better story (eg X2) you can forgive the fact they had to do that; but lets face it, the character was better portrayed in the video game "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" than it ever was in any of the movies.

Tell me you wouldn't go to the cinema to see this


Other films have gone the route to push the PG-13 rating as far as possible while still keeping it open for the younger audiences. The Dark Knight and Iron Man are both good examples of this; with there themes and violence steering very close to the edge.

One thing that i personally always preferred Marvel over DC for was the fact that Marvel's heroes, if necessary, were always willing to kill for the greater good. In Iron Man, Tony Stark killed numerous people with guns, explosives and even flamethrowers. However, so far the only things Stark and Rhodey seem willing to shoot at are robot drones. Did Marvel get more heat over the actions of Stark in the first film than they let on? or are they worried that the MPAA are tightening the regulatory system and they might lose there rating?

I truly don't like the drones in Iron Man 2, i wouldn't mind so much if they are piloted (like War Machine) or remote piloted by personnel somewhere but in no way would the Armed Forces allow any computer controlled drone to issue its own kill order. Not now, nor anytime in the near-future. All drones with weapons can only work autonomously up until a point; but when it comes to the command to fire, a human pilot has to give it.

You may ask "maybe they are piloted, we havent seen the movie" but as we have seen the TV promo where one targets, and prepares to fire, on a child dressed in a Iron Man toy helmet. So that seems unlikely. I believe there was also something said about the drones attacking Iron Man was some secret program put in by Whiplash but we will have to wait and see.

It makes me feel the only reason why they used robots was simply so they could get the suits to fire off more rounds and rip 'em apart with violent intent but still leaving them able to turn round and say "dont worry Mums and Dads their only robots." What is this a Saturday morning cartoon!

Its not the end of the world be any means, but i does worry me that they will go too far when it comes to the other movies. If Captain America manages to get through WW2 without shooting a Nazi then there is something very wrong.