Iron Man Comics Question

[ithildin]

For those of you who know the comics, and assuming future movies may utilize characters from those comics, I have a question. Tony's household staff. He has a mansion, so obviously he must have a housekeeper/cook/some combo. I think Nin told me that in the comics, Jarvis is an actual person? If so, he may be part of that combo. So, the question: are there such characters and what are their names? If not, Tony's getting a housekeeper from me [g] She has a name and a history, and now just need to know if she gets to keep her job!

On the writing front, I got about 700 words done on the 'chocolate chip waffles' story last night. Then my mum called, and I lost my momentum.

Later the Same Day: I'm endlessly amused by the fact that we're actually discussing Tony's possible household staffing arrangements. I love being excited over a fandom again!

Comments

[dorothy1901]

Entry for Edwin Jarvis at the official Marvel Comics site.

He has a mansion

Last I saw (and I am very behind), he was living in the penthouse apartment of a skyscraper he owns in Manhattan.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

In the movie, he lives in a mansion on a cliff overlooking the Malibu coastline, and Jarvis is an AI program. Though, as rich as he his, I'm sure he has a place in NY too. In the novelization, he has a mansion in Dubai.

[dorothy1901]

There are a lot of differences between movieverse and comicverse Iron Man besides location. Comic!Tony is a recovering alcoholic and the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D, Pepper is Happy Hogan's widow and heads up something called the Order, Rhodey has his own set of armor and is known as War Machine, etc. Comic!Tony has been Iron Man for about a decade (a decade in Marvel time; about 45 years, real time) and has gone through a lot of changes, while Movie!Tony is a lone newbie superhero.

Looking to the comics to predict little details of the movies (such as servants) is probably futile. Even when the movies incorporate details from the comics, they transform them considerably (such as turning Jarvis into an AI). You might find more useful information by checking casting gossip, etc. for future Marvel movies.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'm not worried about it, just figured if they used Happy and Pepper, etc., in the movie from the comic books, there might be other names they'd use in other movies. Just idle curiosity for the most part. And it saves me going back and changing names after the fact.

I just read fic where Pepper and Happy got married in fact. Nin had told me about Rhodey and his armor, and a few other bits and peices. I know future movies are going to incorporate other superheroes, but I haven't decided if I like that idea or not yet [g]

Additional domestic staff?

[dorothy1901]

I've been thinking about what you said: that he'd need a staff. I'm not so sure that he would, outside of the people he already has (Pepper and Happy). Jarvis runs the house, so no housekeeper. There are robots to do the housework. As for a cook: this is a man who eats cold pizza and drinks icky-looking protein shakes. There's no sign of a cook on the premises, and no sign that he would want a cook.

Re: Additional domestic staff?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

They show robots in the workshop, but nothing upstairs. I'm thinking there would have to be some humans to take care of such a huge place. Not as many in a non tech type house, but some. And there are stairs [has visions of Daleks floating around Tony's mansion]

These little things give me something to mentally entertain myself with when it's slow at work [g]