Ah, see I pay very little attention to actors, so I have no clue how old any of those people are in real life. Superhero ages in movies is a longtime pet peeve of mine, though. They always, always cast actors who are at least a decade too old when they do superhero origin stories. In the comics, everybody puts on the costume in their teens or early twenties -- Iron Man was 22, Captain America signed up for the supersoldier project at 21. The X-Men were all teenagers, Spiderman was 15 -- the only ones who didn't start superheroing before they were 25 are Reed Richards & Ben Grimm (late twenties), and Dr. Strange, who was old enough to have already had a career as a doctor.
Even if we're talking DC - Batman put on the cape and cowl in his early twenties, and spent the part of his life that most normal people spend in college training for it. Many of those characters are in their twenties or thirties (or forties, in the case of Strange) in comics now, but that's after spending the first ten to fifteen years of their adult lives as superheroes -- and that really makes a difference in characterization. For example, playboy!Tony in his pre-Iron Man days comes off somewhat differently when you're dealing with a guy in his very early twenties then when you're dealing with someone whose actually a good decade older than Tony actually is even in current comics canon (he's about 35 now).
Sorry for the rant ^_^. Opinionated comics-canon purist here, obviously.
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Date: 2008-05-04 09:10 pm (UTC)Even if we're talking DC - Batman put on the cape and cowl in his early twenties, and spent the part of his life that most normal people spend in college training for it. Many of those characters are in their twenties or thirties (or forties, in the case of Strange) in comics now, but that's after spending the first ten to fifteen years of their adult lives as superheroes -- and that really makes a difference in characterization. For example, playboy!Tony in his pre-Iron Man days comes off somewhat differently when you're dealing with a guy in his very early twenties then when you're dealing with someone whose actually a good decade older than Tony actually is even in current comics canon (he's about 35 now).
Sorry for the rant ^_^. Opinionated comics-canon purist here, obviously.