elanya

"Apologies to chiv and the few other Ironman diehards out there"
I wouldn't call myself an Iron Man diehard, but I know plenty about him from reading other marvel books. Eventually I borrowed a copy of the huge marvel original Iron Man collection and read up on him, but I didn't learn much more than I knew already.

I have no idea whether Batman or Iron Man came first, but I'm much more familiar with "the guy whose been running/helping run his company since his dad's time taking over and selling weapons to terrorists" from Iron Man than from Batman - it just seemed like a good way to fit Ra's Al Ghoul into Batman Begins to me.