With the release of Disney+, fans have been able to rediscover some forgotten favorites from Disney's huge collection of properties, including Star Wars and Marvel. The Disney+ library includes quite a few animated series from the 90s, including Iron Manwhich aired alongside Fantastic Four as part of Marvel's Action Hour.

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Unfortunately, a rewatch of Iron Man doesn't hold up as we had hoped, and actually revealed a few odd choices made that raised some questions about the series and its characters. So today we are going to look at a few of the issues we saw from the 90's Iron Man animated series that just don't make a whole lot of sense.

10 THAT CGI SCENE

Iron Man aired for two seasons, but those seasons couldn't be farther apart in tone and quality. The production studio was changed for the second season of Iron Man, the animation was improved and the episodes began to adapt comic storylines, something the first season didn't was lacking. The new season also removed some oddities that were included in the first season.

One of those oddities was a bad CGI-version of Tony Stark armoring up that would occasionally play after the stock 2D footage of Tony Stark activating his briefcase armor. Not only was the transition between CGI and 2D animation jarring, but the scene added little to the transformation and in many cases contradicted the scenes entirely.

9 ARMORING UP

Not only was that CGI scene hard to watch, but the actual armor transformations did not go very smoothly in the 2D animation for either Tony Stark or Jim Rhodes. Stark's initial debut in the armor is with his briefcase armor, though that changes in subtle ways with each new attempt at explaining how his 90s/modular armor worked.

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What made things even more confusing was the fact that Rhodey changed into his War Machine armor completely different, though that would also change with each new "Armor Up!" exclamation. A little bit of consistency here would have gone a long way into selling these highly advanced suits of armor.

8 IRON MAN'S NEW ORIGIN

We can understand the need to change Iron Man's origin for a kid-friendly cartoon, as the original wartime setting of his origin along with his imprisonment as a POW was pretty heavy material for the 90s, but the new changes didn't make much sense. Justin Hammer and the Mandarin were now responsible for the accident that left shrapnel in his spine.

They were also the reason for the creation of the armor, completely removing the origins of the idea from Stark. Also, Ho Yinsen was changed to Wellington Yinsen and first appeared in an odd Lion God costume, and they created a fake Tony Stark dummy using straw and theatrical training to fool their captors.

7 JUSTIN HAMMER'S FREEDOM

Justin Hammer is one of Tony Stark's business rivals who is also in league with the Mandarin and his cronies and is often seen working alongside the villains as they attempt to steal Tony's latest invention of the week. Most of their crimes would be easy to tie back to Hammer and his company, yet he never goes to prison.

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Even when it was revealed in Iron Man's new origin that Hammer was responsible for sabotaging Stark's company which would ultimately lead to the death of Howard Stark, there were no repercussions for his actions, and this would become a running theme in his appearances on the show.

6 MANDARIN'S ORIGIN STORY

The Mandarin is a problematic character who was created using Asian stereotypes that Marvel has spent years trying to retcon into something workable, and the animated series fell into the same rut other characters like Flash Gordon's Ming the Merciless fell into with modern reboots, when characters were recolored green instead of offensive golds and yellows used in early stories.

Not only was this version of Mandarin given this same recoloring, but his origin was reimagined and he was now a white archeologist named Arnold (Arno) Brock who is transformed into his new appearance by the alien gem that housed his powerful rings. It was an odd change made to Mandarin's origin that didn't really make it any better.

5 MANDARIN'S RINGS

Speaking of Mandarin's rings, it's never really clear what the individual rings do, though they are shown at times to be able to move items, fire blasts of energy, open portals, communicate telepathically, and solve plot issues.

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In the comics, each ring has a very specific function or control; matter-rearranger, impact, vortex, disintegration, black and white light, flame-blast, mento-intensifier, electro-blast, and ice-blast. Now every one of those rings has a perfect name for a cartoon, yet they are never revealed nor do the rings ever really display these specific abilities.

4 MANDARIN'S GOALS

IRON MAN 90S - Mandarins Goals

While most of Mandarin's long-reaching goals revolved around world domination of a sort, he went about accomplishing that in a very weird way. Not only did he surround himself with inept underlings who constantly botched their missions, but he was also usually focused on stealing Tony Stark's shiny new vehicle of the week.

That sounds like an oversimplification but for the first season, aside from a few earnest attempts to steal Iron Man's armor, he was after Tony's new military boat or stealth tank or whichever vehicle the plot of the week called for. What makes it more confusing is he constantly boasts about the power of his rings yet does nothing but try to steal a more powerful weapon.

3 JULIA CARPENTER

We love the fact that Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman II joined the rest of her teammates in Force Works (and Hawkeye, for some reason) on the animated series, but her portrayal on the series was a little odd, which actually goes for almost every member of Force Works.

Julia specifically was reimagined as the Vice President of Stark's company and the eventual love interest of Tony, which sounds a lot more like Pepper Potts than Julia Carpenter. It's likely the potential for toy options that dictated the choice for Julia over Pepper (Spider-Woman even had a themed jet), but it was still strange to see her in that role.

2 HYPNOTIA

The character of Hypnotia was an interesting inclusion to Mandarin's team of villains, as she had never appeared in the comics before Iron Man. It even seemed at first that her creators weren't sure of her appearance as it fluctuated in the early episodes, and she would only appear a few times throughout the entire series.

When they settled on her final appearance she resembled the X-Men villain Vertigo, though with altered costume colors. While we've seen some animated creations transfer to the comics due to popularity (Harley Quinn, X-23), Hypnotia was never seen again following her appearances in the animated series.

1 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Seriously, who are these characters? Now obviously as comic fans, the potential for this kind of knowledge exists, and most Iron Man fans are going to know who villains like Dreadknight and Blizzard are, but for a Saturday morning cartoon series aimed at a younger fan base, there was not much in the way of character introductions let alone development.

The first season saw not only Mandarin's evil lackeys but the majority of the Force Works members left unexplained beyond names. Considering characters like Scarlet Witch were uncharacteristically represented or flash-in-the-pan heroes like Century were featured with incredible but undefined abilities, a little more information would have made a lot more sense.

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