Iron Man: Armored Adventures is an upcoming television series which is set to debut on the Nicktoons Network in 2009.

Read more here, and see the trailer here.

17 years old!? wtf???

MUST we turn everyone into kids now!?

And Darth vade.. I mean Mandarin has his own armor now too?


Done by the same animation technique used on the Spiderman a few years back. Ironically, there they made Spidey OLDER...

I'm starting to be slightly pissed at every damn cartoon reboot turning our heroes into teenagers and younger.

Damn, they are supposed to be older than us, and yet they are successfully going through rejuvenation. I guess the Metuselah Foundation is already working miracles.

Well, this one in particular is a bit obnoxious. Instead of a playboy, we have a boy at play.

Instead of realizing the mistakes in his own life, he become a mixture of Batman who saw his father die, and Spidey who has powers and exhuberance...

Shouldn't this be 'Ironboy?'

Mandarin's new duds cries of 'we don't want to actually animate another person's face... let's put a helmet on him!'

Yeah, but just because you womanize and drink liquor doesn't make you an adult... there are ways to make it very appealing and still be aimed at kids without rejuvenating them.

In the 80's, characters were adults, and we still enjoy them, and we were not confused at all.

Hell yeah Stark's mullet was godlike

So... granted... you might not want to put the drinking and womanizing parts in there, but we've had other Ironman cartoons that successfully had the same character without those parts... And if they try saying kids can't relate, that's just stupid. Yeah, kids just don't get Superman, Batman, Captain America... they're all just old fogies.

Captain America doesn't have a mullet. I think we know who wins here.

Or they could just chose another network. MTV's Spider-Man (actually I think the last show done by by Mainframe...) was very mature in terms of level of action and some language was probably PG-13. But again it probably wasn't as successful as the networks wanted.

I know I feel the same way as PM & RB here... When I was younger I wanted all my heroes to be adults, much older than myself. But someone has the idea that kids today want their heroes to be "kids" as well. I guess they've never heard of Teen Titans, or Generation X, or any of the many teenage/youthful heroes & hero groups that already exist.

This was my major gripe with X-Men evolution back when it fiorst came on, but many people still liked it. I can understand that the X-men started out as teens, but that was over 40 years ago. I know comic book characters are technically timeless, but it does make the older viewers feel as though this is "NOT" the hero that they have followed for a much longer period of time.

I'll still give the show a chance, but if this is the way things are going, eventually we may have a Transformers show with a 14 year old Optimus Prime instead of a 4 million year old one............

First of all...

Spider-Man as a kid = good. Spider-man started out as a kid, he's playful and often childish, and he's also small, dwarfed by practically ever one of his popular foes. Spider-Man, despite getting married and having a clone, really tries his best to say a kid at heart.

X-Men as kids = neutral. Once more, they're story started out with them being kids. Despite comic books being "timeless" they still grew up. A few X-Men characters we can't really see as ever being children(Wolverine, Prof X, Magneto, ect), but on the whole it's alright to make them young. The whole "mutant" thing is often a coming of age story anyway. That was the whole point of Generation X, to make the X-Men kids again.

Superman as a kid = bad. Superman was never a kid. You want Superboy.

Batman as a kid = bad. Seriously, it doesn't work.

Ironman as a kid = ? I'd say Bad, but I'm going to give it some time. I'm seriously leaning towards bad however.

Of course they haven't... because those heroes arn't popular(well, Teen Titans is, but Legion of Superheroes wasn't). They need Popular Heroes... who are teenage and youthful.

That is why we'll never see a New Warriors cartoon. *sob*

Too late. Had that, technically, with Beast Wars(I know, it wasn't Prime it was Primal). Then again with RiD. And now again with Transformers Animated. Optimus Prime is getting younger and younger.

Not quite,

Yes Prime is getting yonger, but he's still not Bumblebee (yet). A Younger adult is STILL an adult as opposed to a teenager or child. And for the record I thought LOSH was a great show, for teenage superheroes, yes the whole calling Superboy "Superman" thing was a little odd, but from what I've read there is a huge lawsuit going on with the name "Superboy", probably why it wasn't used initially, and by season 2 when he came back he was an adult anyway..... Yes Spider-Man as a kid works for the reasons yous stated, Spider-Man as an adult is much better though because he has been so for a longer period of time.

I just think for an animated series to work, the characters should be the approxamate ages they have been for "most" of their ficitonal lives.

I never thought he was that young, though he did act/sound younger, he seemed to be a fairly adept commander already.