The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.
Musk has much in common with Tony Stark though
Mainly being egocentric and a POS human.
The difference is that Tony had a character development that made him more likable, while Musk became more hated.
That and the genius bit, of course.
Elon Musk is a wannabe fanboy of Tony Stark, per Iron Man 2. It’s MCU canon.
When Stan Lee created Tony back in the 1960’s he probably took his inspiration from Howard Hughes.
Hughes had been the inspiration for a famous novel of the time, “The Carpetbaggers.”
HH was played by Leo DiCaprio in ‘The Aviator.’
Hughes was smart though. Unlike Elon “Phoney Starck” Musk.
Probably why Tony Stark’s father is named Howard, too.
Could be.
Off topic but fun.
The book ‘The Carpetbaggers’ became a movie; there was a Western actor mentioned in the story, Nevada Smith. Does anyone else know a daring character named after a state with a five letter last name?
Elton never invented anything, he’s skated on other’s success. He’s more the evil partner from the first Iron Man using others’ inventions.
Now now, Elon does technically have one patent to his name personally.
Its the shape of the charging port for Teslas.
He patented this with the idea that if he ever did actually build out that massive EV charger network, he would basically be owed royalties if it successfully became the USB C of EV charging ports, so himself personally would be owned royalties if other car companies wanted to use that charging port shape.
But that was like a decade ago, and last I heard he fired the entire team at Tesla dedicated to the charging network.
Stark actually was intelligent though. He really invented all the stuff he used, he earned the right to be a bit of an arse.
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The very first word in the article is a glaringly obvious fucking typo. Why on earth would I want to read anything that website has to say?!?
Because that’s a good canary to show the article wasn’t AI written?
Who cares. How is news?
You call them both innovators.
What has Musk innovated?
Buying other people’s ideas doesn’t count.
I don’t see it. Elon is a sociopath and doesn’t care about people at all. He is autistic as well. The man would easily sacrifice others in a crisis, not fight for them.
