Wolverine vs Iron Man? Who has been the better movie character?

[Jayson1]

With Jackman no longer playing Wolverine and I think Downey Jr is not going to be playing Iron Man much longer either it means that a end or era is happening in the modern comic book movies. I think both of these guys have been the heart and soul of the entire genre for a very long time and I thought it would be intresting to see who you think has been better. Also which actor do you think will have the best career afterwards?

I think I will side with Iron Man. My reasoning is I like how Tony Stark's intelligence is treated with respect yet they never forget that he does have a bigger than life ego and get humor from it. As great as Wolverine has been it wasn't until "Logan" were they really let him go as wild or even be a asshole enough to really maximize all the character's potential.
The actor I think will have the best career afterwords is Downey Jr because I can see him going back to be a upper level character actor where as I wonder if Jackman will ever become a great leading man outside of the role, especially now that you will forever see Wolverine when you see him.

Jason

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Whose performance have I liked better? Well they both got some great movies and they both got some bad ones (IM sequels and Wolverine 1/2 are easily the worst movies in their respective franchises). But I liked Jackman the most. Not sure exactly why - maybe just because I like Wolverine more than Iron Man, maybe because of his relationships. I don't think Iron Man's had any story as personally moving as Wolverine/X23 or even Wolverine/Rogue.

Who will have the better career going forward? Well, I feel like Jackman has a better shot of continuing more action style movies. Downey already seems to be stepping back from the action even while he continues as Iron Man. Then Again, Jackman is only 3 years younger than Downey, so...

Outside of action, Downey has always had the better career and by far the most respect/name recognition of the two. Hard to see why that would really change.

 

[Tosk]

As far as their movies go, Logan has had lower lows, but he's also had higher highs. Tony has been more consistent, but also more "same as last time" entries, whereas Logan has gone from early reluctant heroics to fully embraced superheroism, down to the he's-still-a-hero-but-doesn't-believe-it heartbreaking final film.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don't like the direction they've taken with Tony Stark since Avengers. Logan, on the other hand, ended on such a high note there's no way he's not the winner in my eyes. I don't see Marvel ever ending Stark's story in such style.

 

[Dales]

wolverine.

disney made iron man into a joke.

wolverine has had better character development, better story arcs. iron man got dumbed down as he got more popular. I find iron man the most immature of the avengers.

saying logan is the only time wolverine got to shine is something I dont agree with. X-Men, X2, last stand, DOFP, The wolverine, logan heck even the opening scene from x-men origins.

wolverine is just the better well rounded character who has come of age, iron man is not.

 

[Beagleman]

Yeppers, I like RDJ's Stark a lot but for me the answer has to be Logan.

 

[Refuge]

Wolverine.

To Edit.. Downey is Downey in every role. Jackman is more versatile.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Wolverine definitely.

 

[DigificWriter]

Wolverine; Tony Stark has become less of a character and more just an extension of Robert Downey Jr., and has also remained stagnant, whereas we actually saw character growth from Hugh Jackman's Wolverine throughout the course of the X-Verse films, and Wolverine remained a character and not just the "actor playing himself".

 

[Cyke101]

I don't like the direction they've taken with Tony Stark since Avengers. Logan, on the other hand, ended on such a high note there's no way he's not the winner in my eyes. I don't see Marvel ever ending Stark's story in such style.

I hated Wolverine when the movies started. I already thought he was overexposed in the comics, but then the first movie came out where it was Wolverine guest-starring the X-Men. And then that pattern continued until they gave him his own movie. To coincide, the comics put him on more X-teams outside of the main X-Men, and they even made him an Avenger. They had him usurp Cyclops as headmaster and Xavier's heir (okay, I'm biased there) but they also outright gave him a TV show and book both called Wolverine and the X-Men, dropping any pretense altogether.

Then Logan comes out and all it took was 2 hours to make me completely reevaluate my opinion of the character overall, both comic and film. That's one hell of a shift.

I suppose, for the moment, that's where I'm at.

No disrespect to RDJ's Tony Stark. He's a jerk that I like to love. But one thing I blame him for is the rise of mediocre guys trying to pull off Stark facial hair IRL. For some reason, a lot of them like to wear wrap-around sunglasses too, even though Stark never did in the movies.

 

[Mage]

I've got a soft spot for Iron Man, but that's because he's a person I can relate to, because of his anxiety disorder and OCD. I suffer from both as well, and I understand where he's coming from. Even himself being aware of his problems and how they are affecting those around him and still not being capable of truly dealing with it. So yeah... Even though I was Team Cap for Civil War.

I haven't seen Logan yet, so I can't make a final judgement about the character yet, but what started as a good anti-hero character in the movies became a gimmick after X-Men 3. I was ok with him in DoFP, The Wolverine was do-able to a point. But his Wolverine Origins and Apocolypse were just plain bad use of a good character. So yeah, I 'll wait untill Logan to really decide about movie-Wolverine.

 

[Anwar]

Iron Man, mainly for being more than an archetypal anti-hero.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Captain America

 

[JD]

RDJ's Tony Stark has been a fun character, and he's gotten a few nice dramatic moments, but I've got to go with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. It feels to me like we've gotten more depth, and good dramatic moments from Wolverine.

 

[Jayson1]

I think another intresting aspect is which franchise will best survive without each character. I think the X Men universe might really suffer without Jackman's Wolverine because he has been the number one favorite thing in the franchise for the most part and the second favorite thing I think is Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan and they are also done with the movies as well I would imagine.
Still I think Wolverine as a character is proably easier to make intresting than it is to make Iron Man intresting without Downey Jr because wasn't Iron Man a kind of second rate character until the movies? SInce people don't really read comic's anymore like they use to then maybe that doesn't matter anymore.

Jason

 

[JD]

I think both franchises will be fine, they have plenty of other characters they can shift the focus over to.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Well, I think the big danger with the X-Men franchise is not that they don't have other things they could do. It's that Fox and the creatives Fox continues to hire have obsessed over Wolverine so much and so heavily to the detriment of other characters that it's somewhat questionable whether they understand how to do the X-Men without him. As well as, of course, the fact that Fox just make lots of bad decisions in general, so the X-Men franchise is always in more danger of having major problems than the MCU is.

 

[LJones41]

When you say "better movie character", what exactly do you mean?

 

[JD]

I'm not @Jayson1, but I would assume he meant which is better written, performed, and developed.

 

[Jayson1]

When you say "better movie character", what exactly do you mean?

I would go for most intresting and most important to their franchise.

Jason