Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines)
Jack Elley, somewhat effeminate, but beneath his Mr.Rogersly appearance was a cruel fighting animal just waiting to be let out. But this wasn’t known to many, if any people. Jack when through school bullied and “ruffed up” by any number of his “schoolyard chums” as his teacher would so caringly call them.
After finishing trade school training as a lumberjack looking for a job somewhere in Canada, Jack found that his true calling was the silver screen. A talent agent noticed him acting like his boss to the very apparent amusement of the other waiters working at the restaurant that he was temporarily working at to scrape up the money for his trip to Canada.
Needless to say, after a short discussion with the agent Jack was going of to Hollywood where he would audition for a brand new movie. Unfortunately, during the makeup application for his first scene he inhaled a near-lethal amount of iron-dust. He was rushed to the nearest doctor. This doctor wasn’t your average doctor though.
This doctor practiced the ancient voodoo arts. These weren’t your Hollywood, make-belive voodoo ceremonies, they were the real things. After a long bout of chanting and waving of petrified animal carcasses, the doctor declared that Jack was possessed by a dangerous jaguar-spirit.
To remedy this problem the doctor placed Jack into a cage of pure cast-iron, the greatest weakness of the animal-spirits. Unfortunately, because Jack’s body already had iron inside of it, instead of weakening the spirit, the cage strengthened it. While the doctor went home for the night Jack used his new found strength to dismantle, and then eat, his former prison.
Writhing in pain and spasming in agony Jack fought for control of his body, though he won the fight, it seemed that jack was a lot hairier then he was before but, instead of hair, his body now sprouted thin, iron wires. His teeth and nails, likewise, were now made out of iron, and razor-sharp at that. Using his new-found strength, agility and hardy, metal skeleton, Jack Elley, now known as The Iron Man, battles corporate corruption and crime in the most marvelous of cities, Hollywood, California!