
Tony Stark is the head of a prosperous weapon company and he owns billions of dollars. He inherited the company from his father, who equaled his genious. In the first movie Stark invents a metalarmored suit with integrated weapons. He uses the suit to fight for the good and defeat the bad. At the end of the movie he announces that it is he, who is Iron Man. In Iron Man 2 he is forced by the US government to give up his Iron Man suit to the US military for purposes of combat. But having seen the terrors of war, Stark does not trust the government, and refuses to share the suit. Being opposed to the government and having a strong desire to claim individual property rights is very much in the spirit of the Ayn Rand novel 'Atlas Shrugged' where the protagonists sees the world falling apart because the government is taking over the companies, and the only ones who can stop it is the minds of the capitalists who only wants the best for the world, and therefore does not trust anyone other than themselves, in order to save the world. Iron Man 2 has a strong undertone of objectivism, a term proposed by Rand
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