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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yep. Tony likes to believe he's in control of things. Being helpless is his greatest fear, which is difficult to pull off with a villain because villains are things he can approach as an engineer. This is a guy who agitated Banner when he first met him because he wanted to see the Hulk; he has no fear of physical threats.
His first response when faced with something he can't deal with is to go to his workshop and build something to deal with it. If you throw giant dudes at him, he'll build giant weapons. If you throw invisible dudes at him, he'll build a radar that detects invisible people. If you throw acid-spitting dudes at him, he'll build armored plating that's resistant to the acid. Whatever you throw at him, he builds countermeasures and punches its face in. This is his M.O.
We even see him trying to do it after being traumatized by the wormhole in both Iron Man 3 and Age of Ultron. He's stared into the abyss and seen infinity staring back at him, and now he's trying to build something to beat it. First the House Party armory, then Ultron, then Vision.
From the comics, the biggest thing that usually gets under his skin is magic because he can't just build an anti-magic armor or anti-magic weapons or magic-proof shields. It's not something he can approach scientifically and that cripples his ability to build responses to it. If you throw a dude that can turn people into frogs at him, how do you build a Don't-Become-Frogs Suit?
This is actually why Doom works so well as a nemesis to Stark and Strange in the comics: because he is basically a Fusion Dance of the two. Strange can match him spell for spell but Doom has technological advances Strange can't even conceive of, while Stark may be able to out-armor Doom but can't handle his incredible sorcery.
edited 15th Oct '15 1:12:45 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't know, I kind of like the idea that Tony's deepest fears are existential ones. Even when Stane ripped out his heart, Tony was able to replace it and then beat Stane into the ground. As long as Tony can punch it or snark at it, he's fine. But a wormhole's just part of the universe. It's not trying to kill anybody, it just is.
I think an additional wrinkle is that it's nobody's fault but Tony's if he dies in the wormhole (I mean, obviously it's the Chitauri's fault for making Tony go up there, but is that how Tony sees it?). With human adversaries, Tony can plan and build, but there's always a chance that someone will outsmart him temporarily. In which case, Tony just needs a few scenes to catch his breath and build a better suit. But if Tony dies not to enemy action but because of natural hazards, it's all on him.
Tl,Dr: Tony can't handle the idea that he's not good enough to handle every problem.
Edit: Tobias Drake said it better.
edited 15th Oct '15 1:18:23 PM by JBC31187
"You can't build infinity suits, Tony!"
"THE HELL I CAN'T"
Bruce: Hey i'm feeling a headache coming on. Do you have any Advil?
Tony: No but I can build you a suit for it. Give me 12 hours.
Bruce: Uh, nevermind.
12 hours later.
Tony: Okay the suit is done. Get in.
Bruce: Um...the headache's already pa-
Tony: -slaps something onto Bruce's wrist and presses a button-
-iron man parts starts flying onto Bruce's body-
Bruce- This....is....making me AAAANGRY!!!!
The Hulk: AAAAARRRRGGG
Tony: Good thing, I prepared for that and had the suit expand with the Hulk. You can thank me later, Brucey.
The Hulk jumps out the window and goes on a rampage in his new iron man suit.
@44855
Now it makes even more sense why Mandarin is Tony's main nemesis in the comics (I will abstain from launching into another "Manda-rant" both out of courtesy and for health reasons, so please dont run). The rings give him a plethora of different powers. And worse still, he has chi abilities which is pretty much martial arts magic in Marvel. So no armor Tony equips will be able to fully counter him.
You know...it seen Tony like to build things each time he is afraid: first bunch of armor, one of them almost choke her girlfriend, them he build pretty much marvel Skynet....
That means his next step will be creating the marvel version of death star, and since disney owns marvel he can totally do it
I calling in, Marvel-death-star, right there by Tony stark
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"@Fox Box Kid, I did but I got that out of my system when I first met Moon Knight in the Ultimate Spider-man comics.
Okay, no I didn't, 'Who wears white to a superhero fight?'
It would be interesting if he did get a show and he definitely would fit, being a street level hero, that would be perfect for the Netflix stuff. It would definitely help me get a better read on him since he hasn't exactly gotten much in the way of adaptations or anything.
And then we can have our Marvel Batman-Expies Alliance movie or series! Starring Iron Man, Daredevil, Black Panther, and Moon Knight!
edited 15th Oct '15 2:43:42 PM by MousaThe14
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Also, how badly does Tony react to having his tech go out of control or get misused by others?