Elon Musk is the closest thing this world has to a real-life Tony Stark. Think about it. He builds cool cars. He builds cool rockets. He builds cool tunneling machines. He wants to fire people through pneumatic tubes. He built a ginormous battery factory in the desert, and how he's building the world's largest battery. OK, technically, Elon Musk isn't building it. Tesla is. But same difference, because Tesla is his company.

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