# So why are the male leads of Marvel movies such studs?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-are-the-male-leads-of-marvel-movies-such-studs/694915 "2014-08-06T02:29:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-are-the-male-leads-of-marvel-movies-such-studs/694915/61 "2014-08-07T20:29:14Z")

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> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> I think Robert Downey makes Iron Man a lot more likeable than he is in the comics. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him have any fun in the comics. He’s normally just an uptight jerk.

This is true. Stark in the comics is a dry drunk in every sense of that term. There was a point right after he hit bottom, got sober and started rising up again where he was kind of fun, when he had the little startup after Stane took Stark Industries away from him.

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**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-are-the-male-leads-of-marvel-movies-such-studs/694915/62 "2014-08-08T04:04:32Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> Just an observation- Tom Hiddleston’s Loki is the new Alan Rickman’s Snape.

😃

That explains A LOT about why I like both characters so much (and the actors, by extension)! Both of them have lovely voices as well. :o

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