Another person prejudiced by the Marvel Comics character.
(also, you can sing a sorta mish-mash of Dr Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham to the tune:
Would you in a boat/
Would you eat them with a goat/
Nobody wants them)
Interesting.
My take on him being turned to steel when he traveled time is different from Kent4mmy’s.
The way I always looked at it, he knew he had to do that, give up his humanity, in order to travel time for the future of mankind. So it would have been something that he had to agonize over.
Mankind repaid him for his sacrifice with its indifference, and by forgetting him over the years.
(There are a lot of undertones of the Jesus story in my take on it.)
But they’ll remember him now. Oh yes, they will.
He wasn’t turned to steel because he travelled time, per se, he was turned to steel in a great magnetic field. That makes all the difference, doncha think? I mena if he had used an alternative time travel method, like folding the universe or something he could have avoided all of the trouble.
And isn’t that the whole story, he went back in time to save mankind, yet he went through this magnetic field which transformed him into this thing. But instead of sympathy anf gratitude, he was shunned and cast out. He’ll give them gratitude, ten times over with his steel boots!! Bwahahahaha!!!
I always thought he was slightly bigger than normal (8 or nine feet tall).
Townshend actually got a whole album/stage musical out of Hughes’ book – it wasn’t very good, though.
As for Sabbath’s Iron Man, I think he is a big guy, but not a giant. The real mystery for me, however, is why he is called the iron man when he was actually turned to steel, and apparently has feet of lead too.