Jarvis ("Marvel") is the butler of Mr. Howard Stark , the father of the legendary Marvel Comics character Tony Stark, better known by his Iron Man alter ego. Although he is considered a minor hero, sometimes he plays a rather significant role in the plot.
Jarvis ("Marvel"): Biography
The biography of this fictional comic book hero is quite interesting. It is known that before becoming a butler in the Starks house, Jarvis was a soldier, namely a pilot in the Royal Air Force of Canada. In addition, he was a hero of World War II, after which he returned to permanent residence in the United States.
Jarvis was born in Brooklyn, therefore, initially did not possess the gentlemanly manners and British accents inherent in his behavior, which he apparently acquired during his military service.
Edwin Jarvis (Marvel) takes a job as a butler in the mansion of the notorious Howard Stark and his wife named Maria. However, even after their death, Jarvis continued his service in this house, now with his son and heir to the powerful industrial empire Starki Tony.
When Tony Stark grew up and became Iron Man, Jarvis continued to serve him faithfully, and then to a team of superheroes called The Avengers, whose leader was Tony. After the Scarlet Witch destroyed the Stark family estate, the Avengers were relocated to the Stark Tower, a skyscraper owned by Iron Man. Edwin followed them, continuing to serve faithfully.
Appearance in movies and TV
In addition to comics, Jarvis repeatedly appeared on television and in the movies. Among the works where Jarvis ("Marvel") is present: animated series "Avengers. Always Together" (1999-2000) and "Avengers: Mighty Heroes of the Earth" (2010-2013), as well as full-length animated films "Ultimate Avengers" (2006 ) and his sequel "Ultimate Avengers 2", which was also released in 2006.
But this did not stop the appearance of Jarvis in films. When Marvel began to build its cinematic universe, this character was introduced into it as artificial intelligence, which plays the role of a butler in the house of Tony Stark, and also exercises almost complete control of all systems in the Avengers Tower and the costumes of Iron Man himself, including .
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The decision that Jarvis ("Marvel") in the movie "Iron Man" (2008) will be presented in the form of AI was made due to the fact that the creators did not want the hero to cause associations with Alfred - Batman's butler in DC comics . In addition, the film already had a lot of similarities with the picture "Batman: The Beginning".
In the Marvel comics of the late XX century. Tony creates an AI called Homer, which became a kind of prototype for the cinematic Jarvis. Two comic book heroes were merged into one. And so the artificial intelligence Jarvis-butler turned out.
He appears in the Iron Man trilogy, as well as two Avengers films.
Video games and books
Jarvis ("Marvel") appears not only in comics, cartoons and blockbusters, but also in books, as well as in video games.
This character is an important protagonist in the Iron Man series of books based on comics and movies of the same name, authored by writer Peter David.
And also Jarvis ("Marvel"), whose photo, or rather the illustrated image you can see above, is one of the heroes of several video games created based on full-length films about Iron Man. For example, he appears in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, where Philip Proctor, a well-known American voice actor, who has in his account a large number of animated and film works, became his voice.
In addition, Jarvis is present in games such as: Iron Man (voiced by Gillon Stevenson), Iron Man 2, where Andrew Chaikin became his voice.
Jarvis ("Marvel"). Actor
Probably the most famous actor who happened to play the role of Jarvis is Paul Bettany, who played him in all the tapes of the Marvel cinematic universe, where the AI Jarvis appears. By the way, Paul is also the performer of the role of Vision, which in the cinematic universe is regarded as the platonic body of Jarvis.
The actor himself claimed that when he agreed to this role in 2008, he had no idea what the character was. Bettany agreed to voice Jarvis only because his friend John Favreau was the director of the movie blockbuster Iron Man.
Today, the actor is very pleased that he agreed to this role then. Moreover, he managed to expand his presence in the most prosperous comic film universe, playing the role of Vision.
Interesting Facts
In the comics, Jarvis was once brainwashed by Ultron, making him the villain of the Scarlet Cloak, who let the Avengers Evil team enter the Avengers mansion. There was a battle between them and the Avengers, in which the forces of good managed to win. Edwin regained his mind, and he again took up his duties.
When the invasion of the Skrulls, alien invaders who are able to change their appearance, began on planet Earth, Jarvis was replaced by one of them. Under the guise of Jarvis, the Skrull abducts the daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, but soon death overtakes him at the hands of the killer maniac, who is referred to in the comics as Marked.
In a comic book series called Dark Reign, Edwin did not agree to serve the Dark Avengers led by Norman Osbourne. He leaves Stark’s tower and joins Henk Pym, better known by his Ant-Man alter ego.
Conclusion
The character of Jarvis (“Marvel”) is not key either in the comics or in the cinematic universe, but always plays a rather significant role in the plot, being a kind of mentor and right hand of the leader of the Avengers team Tony Stark.
His high manners of behavior, the position of butler and the role of assistant to Iron Man unwittingly lead to associations with the butler of Batman (Bruce Wayne), since there are quite a few analogies. Despite this, both characters have their own individuality that is unique to them, so we can not say that they are too similar.
Jarvis Edwin is an integral hero of comics and films about Iron Man, so it is not surprising that he has a fairly large number of fans, who, however, are rarely ardent fans of this particular character, but in many ways sympathize with him as Tony Stark's faithful assistant. He is an excellent secondary hero, which I would probably like to know a little more about, but you should not do spin-offs with him in a key role, since it is unlikely that many people will be interested.
In any case, Edwin Jarvis will repeatedly appear both on the pages of comics and in cinematic films in the form of artificial intelligence, which helps Stark in everything.