Iron Man Was At MIT
Positive opinion: 69%
Negative opinion: 8%
Neutral opinion: 19%
Have heard of: 96%
Robert Downey Jr. has had a rollercoaster career that has gone from leading man to substance abuser back to leading man in one of Hollywood’s best redemption stories. Downey Jr. achieved fame in the 1980s with roles in "Weird Science,” "Less Than Zero,” and "Chances Are” before scoring the role of a lifetime with "Chaplin.” A series of arrests for drug-related crimes took over his life in the late 1990s before he began making a career comeback in the 2000s. Downey Jr. has since been on an incredible run of hit films that include the "Iron Man” and "Sherlock Holmes” franchises, garnering a number of Golden Globe awards.
Iron Man was riding his bike around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus yesterday. I’m referring to Robert Downey Jr. Downey, who is known for many roles, but his portrayal of Tony Starks as Iron Man is one of his most recognizable characters. Robert Downey Jr was seen riding a bike with many others around Cambridge. Downey was showing his love for bike lanes. He looked very happy riding his bike around town. According to Masslive.com, Robert Downey Jr was in the Boston area to “meet a pioneering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
Downey’s Every 1M spent on bike lanes creates 18 more jobs than the same amount for regular auto centric roads…lets “self-propel” our planets future….#bikelanesrock pic.twitter.com/HmW96JbE5J
— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) August 10, 2022?s=20&t=H75R97p_ANGZVp0qPF6O2Q">twitter post shows the actor riding his bike on The Harvard Bridge towards Cambridge. Robert Downey Jr twitted, “Touring MITs architecture, lit and fig…inspired by Hugh Herr’s Center For Bionics, the majesty of Beantown has the whole FPC team fired up!..big things ahead, shall keep y’all posted….” Downey is involved with climate change and wants to help change the negative effects on the environment.
Downey wrote on his Instagram, “Tony Stark went to MIT, and thanks to Hugh Herr and the K. Lisa Yang Center For Bionics, I’m witnessing the REAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY MIRACLES that will affect countless lives in previously unimaginable ways.”
Downey also added, ““It’s an honor and a privilege to be an Executive Advisory Board member, and I’m excited to make y’all part of this heroic journey to a brighter future.”
Robert Downey Jr. is now a podcaster too. Downey is the executive producer of the “
The Sunshine Place,” which is an investigative podcast series. This podcast is a eight part series from Audacy’s
Cadence13, which is in partnership with Team Downey and Wink Pictures. Two episodes of the podcast premier August 10th and the rest will drop every Wednesday through Sept. 21. You can access the podcast on all major platforms.
Marvel/Netflix Characters We Want To See In The MCU
For years, there’s been lots of talk among fans of Marvel’s Netflix TV shows about how they fit into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe… if they do at all. In the early seasons, there were definite references to the films — New York Bulletin reporter Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall) had reported on “The Battle of New York” (as seen in the first Avengers film). Jessica Jones name-dropped “the big green guy and the flag-waver.” Luke Cage also mentioned “the big green guy and his crew.” But the MCU never seemed to notice Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Danny Rand or the Punisher.
SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN HAWKEYE AND SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME.
Part of this came down to real-life corporate politics. Kevin Feige used to be “just” the President of Marvel Studios, but his department apparently didn’t have much communication with the television division. Allegedly, he didn’t like the television division and was interested in continuity with their storylines. But now, in addition to his role with Marvel Studios, he’s also the Chief Creative Officer for Mrarvel Comics, Marvel Television and Marvel Animation. To quote another classic franchise, he became the one boss to rule them all. Now he’s able to oversee story arcs from characters who may go from movies to TV shows back to movies. For instance, Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda’s story went from Avengers: Endgame to the Wandavision series on Disney+, and we’ll see her next year in Dr. Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (and she appeared in a post-credits scene after Spider-Man: No Way Home). Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson went from Endgame to the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series and we’ll see him next in Captain America 4.
But within one week in our timeline, we’ve seen two references to the Netflix characters, thrilling fans of those shows. But are the Netflix shows (all of which were canceled) part of the MCU’s canon? Will it turn out that the Netflix shows were part of another, darker, timeline? (If that doesn’t make sense, you should binge-watch Loki.) Time will tell. But here are the characters — and the actors who play them — who we want to see again (and, TBH, two that we’re ok with never seeing again).
