Iron Man 2 Review 1

Part of the problem was that Tony Stark never had a best friend. He didn't have anyone who he could confide in and share his point of view. We wanted to create someone who was a counterpart to him who didn't have superpowers and wasn't just an employee — somebody that he had a personal relationship with. We felt he needed a human foil there. It was never our intention for him to take over as Iron Man. In fact, when we came back to series, both characters were operating as Iron Man. To me, it's confusing whenever you have more than one superpowered character in a story, especially when it's focused on a single character. It's Iron Man not Iron Men. In all of our stories, Jim Rhodes was always Tony's best friend and not Iron Man 2.