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Stark Transcendent (Iron Man/Marvel Quest)

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Pfft Stark could do more than Parker... if he could be bothered.
 
illusivepunk said:
I have a question.

How close is Bruce Banner in intellect to certain of his comic versions? If I recall, in certain comic storylines, you had some of the smartest guys in Marvel (Stark, Reed, etc) losing their shit at the sophistication of his tech when he wasn't Hulking out or trying to find ways to stop himself from Hulking out. The dude was literally running rings around all the heavy hitters.
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There's an in universe explanation that suggests that a cosmic entity made Banner the Hulk in an attempt to protect everyone from the creations of Banner, which scare the pants off of it.
Vlad III said:
Seriosuly, I think there should be some limit on the level how much a mad scientist a human can get.

This is leading to DBZ power creep levels, but with IQ points or technology.


I don't want ridiculous level where Reed can spam Cosmic Cubes or Tony can build armors that can bust planets.
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Happens and happens, but generally in different continuities.

Kaioo said:
Pfft Stark could do more than Parker... if he could be bothered.
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This sentence is literally the opposite of what it should be.
 
Enohthree said:
There's an in universe explanation that suggests that a cosmic entity made Banner the Hulk in an attempt to protect everyone from the creations of Banner, which scare the pants off of it.

This sentence is literally the opposite of what it should be.
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This is the problem with collective universes where characters are written by a series of different authors. The intellect, capabilities, even basic personalities shift so much between various incarnations that throwaway comments and high-power variants build on each other so that somehow authors' favorite characters eventually have their crowning moments and self-serving hyperbole become standard interpretation rather than outliers.
 
Mithril-blade said:
Peter Parker has A LOT of venues of brokeness. The problem is, he really, can't persue all of them.

For example, his Spidy sense: Weeeeeeeeell that bad boy can be turned on into full on clairvoyance that give him minute reports and details to anything and everything concerning him months in advance. It works as everything from True Combat Precog to Honest to Goodness prophecy at it's most developed like in that one 'What If?" comic Marvel made.

But he can't crank that and be a super duper mind at the same time. Either would take a lot of dedication.
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Yeah, it's basically

Do you want to be a perfect pre-cog, or a hero?
Do you want to be the world's best scientist, or a hero?
Do you want to be loved by the public, or a hero?

And you know what choice he would pick every time. It's those rare few moments during downtime where he doesn't have to pick one over the other that you see glimpses.
 
My chem teacher was talking about a conversation she had in college with some friends. It was about their classes, and why they chose their major, and then this little gem comes up:

Friend: It kinda sucks to be this smart.
Chem teacher: [shocked] Why?
Friend: Because I have so many things that I'm good at and like that I don't know what I really want to do.

This totally sums up Peter, except he chose heroing in the end. :)
 
For that matter, just paying him a decent living wage and telling him "do what you want with your life, if you want to do press photography you can do it on a part-time basis, just go out there and do some good for the world." It's not like Tony would miss $100k/year.
 
Uxion said:
Except that his heroing was impacting his grades, job, and social life.

And he is a hero because he feels responsible.

We can at least give him a break by making him an intern at least.
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Are you kidding? The moment Stark realizes what he's found he will subsadies whatever the hell he wants to do.

We will make sure of it.
 
Uxion said:
The BoD would get suspicious...

I would at least advise on making him an intern and then promoting him as soon as he invents something good as head of something.
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We can pay him out of our own salary. No need to make him official.
 
Forgothrax said:
We can pay him out of our own salary. No need to make him official.
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Tony: "This is my personal coffee-fetcher! I pay him $100k a year."
Media: .... [CONSPIRACY THEORIES]
Peter: /builds a better coffee machine. shaped like a spider

I'm sure this won't be at all suspicious!
 
That sounds like a great idea. Maybe it can be a robotic spider coffee machine and walk itself from the kitchen to the bedroom to deliver coffee.

Bonus points if it climbs to the ceiling, spins a web, and descends right above the pillow to deliver said coffee.
 
Zen said:
Tony: "This is my personal coffee-fetcher! I pay him $100k a year."
Media: .... [CONSPIRACY THEORIES]
Peter: /builds a better coffee machine. shaped like a spider

I'm sure this won't be at all suspicious!
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To be fair, Tony would probably have to pay his personal coffee-monkey that much to get him to stay for any length of time.
Not to mention that good gofers are hard to find.
 
Forgothrax said:
Bonus points if it climbs to the ceiling, spins a web, and descends right above the pillow to deliver said coffee.
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So basically, this is what we're going to use to serve any guests their drinks, right?

Reed Guest: Where's that coffee you promised?
Tony: It's above you.
Reed Guest: ... /slooooowly looks up
Spider: [MASSIVE FUCKING SPIDER-THING RIGHT ABOVE THEM]

 
Tylonius said:
A position that is probably taken.
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On a completely off-topic note, if that '&' were only changed to something beginning with an 'O', his title would be H.O.T.R.O.D.

I'm probably the only person on Earth who thinks that would be funny rather than lame. :(
 
Peter?

Record keeper. He documents, through photography, writings, and personal accounts, different events, projects, or other such things on our behalf.

Pay? ~60K a year. More then enough for a single young man to live off quite comfortably. if your a bit on the frugal side its enough for a family of 4. It also comes with Possible Hazard pay and great medical. War-zones and Experimental tech and all.
 
fallenblades643 said:
Peter?

Record keeper. He documents, through photography, writings, and personal accounts, different events, projects, or other such things on our behalf.

Pay? ~60K a year. More then enough for a single young man to live off quite comfortably. if your a bit on the frugal side its enough for a family of 4. It also comes with Possible Hazard pay and great medical. War-zones and Experimental tech and all.
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Plus medical, dental, full college expenses paid, plus possibly an internship if he does well in college?

That I'd be fine with, and certainly Stark can afford to be generous.
 
I wouldn't say a full ride on us, but we would definitely help pick up the tab.

We might as well make our own Newspaper if we hire Peter.... OR just buy out the Bugle.
 
Mithril-blade said:
And keep J.J. as the director because the man is actually awesome.
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Part of the reason the Spiderman series is so good is because of the interaction between J.J. and Parker about Spiderman. And most of their issues together is because Parker need the money J.J. pays.

J.J. also knows how to run a rather successful Newspaper.
 
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