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Working for a no win, no fee lawyer firm's personal injury department, I find I spend a lot of my paid time looking at whiplash injury cases, but there are times outside work where I find myself experiencing a bit of overlap. And recently I've seen that with the gossip about the new Iron Man film.
The reason for this is that the new villain has been strongly rumoured to be Whiplash - and will be played by the resurgent Mickey Rourke. It's a tangential connection to working here to talk about him, I suppose; the one is a neck injury often caused by a car accident, the other is a crazy scientist who throws away a promising electrical career for the temptations of organised crime. But I'm excited enough to get away with it, I hope.
As with all the Marvel characters, the years and years of interlocking back stories mean that there's elements of confusion - the character has changed his name to Blacklash, and even given up crime intermittently during his time in costume. And there's another Whiplash, who's a female member of the Band of Baddies. Plus - if the rumours are to be believed - the new film version is to take on elements of the Crimson Dynamo, a sort of Communist mirror of the hero.
Now, he's not one of the best-known villains from the comic books; Doctor Doom sticks in the mind for his alliterative name, and the Joker is incredibly memorable - not least because of Heath Ledger's recent Oscar-winning turn - and has great longevity. Lex Luthor has both. But, if the Iron Man film is as well-received as the first one was, I can see there being yet another thing that people hunting for information about whiplash compensation claims will have to try to ignore.
About a year ago, I wrote a piece on things that might turn up if you put "whiplash" into google; that includes rodeo monkeys, computer games, Metallica songs and some things best not considered in family pages. If you've come out of a car crash and you're looking for the help that a no win, no fee lawyer can bring, that's really not what you want getting in the way of the information about legal assistance.
In that situation, you'd probably regret the addition of the supervillain as yet another thing in the way. And in many ways, I ought to be there resisting that too; it'll make my job harder, after all. But there's no way of hiding the fact I'm excited about the film - even without mentioning it's got Scarlett Johansson in it - as I can't wait to see the armoured characters crash into each other.
And, seeing as I have reminded myself of the job in that last paragraph, I really ought to wind this up and return to the no win, no fee world where a whiplash injury is a result of a car crash, not of crossing the bad guy.
