Where is this birth date coming from for Anton Vanko?
I've been rewatching the MCU in chronological order recently, and I've been taking down notes as I do for the timeline. I just watched Iron Man 2 and this has got me confused. So, when Tony is looking up info on Anton and Ivan, it says their birthdays, and Anton's is apparently February 15, 1943 (I apologize for the roughness of the third photo displaying it, I took that off my TV with my phone).
But this had me quite confused because, I watched Agent Carter before this (which I've always believed as official canon, given its placement and creative involvement) and Anton shows up there as an adult in 1946. Which, I think also means that he couldn't have defected to the states in 1963, as the film says.
So I've taken that this initial birthdate has been retconned, for that to make sense. Or the showrunners probably just forgot they showed this. But where is the wiki getting this new date from? I'm having a hard time finding this info.
But this had me quite confused because, I watched Agent Carter before this (which I've always believed as official canon, given its placement and creative involvement) and Anton shows up there as an adult in 1946. Which, I think also means that he couldn't have defected to the states in 1963, as the film says.
So I've taken that this initial birthdate has been retconned, for that to make sense. Or the showrunners probably just forgot they showed this. But where is the wiki getting this new date from? I'm having a hard time finding this info.
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1943 might make sense with Anton a lot younger than Howard and that's part of why/how he was screwed over by him. But only if Ivan was decently younger than Tony. But Mickey is more than a decade older than RDJ.
Funny though, I dunno if I've ever looked up Howard's age relative to Tony. Howard was born 1917, Tony 1970 (5 years younger than RDJ). You'd think an ultra wealthy type like Howard would've had a kid way earlier than that, I mean it's not like he'd have to do any of the hard stuff having or raising a kid. Particularly cause he was around to experience the post-war era and the baby boom. But he didn't have Tony til he was 53. Just looked it up and Maria doesn't have a DOB listed. Logically, she must've been like a decade younger than Howard. That's all just cause they needed Howard old enough to be fully Howarding during WW2 though, with RDJ in the modern era. Interesting to see the numbers though.
Ivan's age is also shown in the same image right after Anton's. He was born February 15, 1968. Weird they chose the same day, but this age works for the age range with Tony. Even though Mickey Rourke was born a decade and half earlier, lol.
The only issue with, if you want to consider Agent Carter canon like me. You have to figure out a different year that he comes to the USA. It Iron Man 2, it says he defects in 1963, but in Agent Carter, he's already there in 1946. My workaround guess has been some point durihg WWII.
The Agent Carter version lines up with when he could've actually realistically been born too imo. Ivan may be canonically younger than Mickey, but, Mickey looks as Mickey does in that movie, he's not a young dude. And I personally put more weight on what we actually see on screen over background details we generally need to pause/screenshot to even see lol.