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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It's also worth noting that Scott's previous foray into superheroing also involved going outside the law and being forgiven for it because it was the right thing to do. Pretty far too: they blatantly imploded an entire building and murdered the CEO of major corporation, which would be extremely bad for them even if Cross didn't rather blatantly have government contracts in addition to his more duplicitous ones - it's rather the definition of domestic terrorism.
But the important thing is that it's Tony Stark's fault and he should be hated for it.
Scott and Peter parallel each other in interesting ways. They're both wise-cracking goofballs who are thoroughly unaffiliated with either side of the central conflict. They're third parties recruited by their respective side despite having no actual stake in the conflict but who buy in out of enthusiasm for their side's leader.
And they both wind up being wildcards whose skillsets and abilities leave the other side utterly flummoxed.
edited 7th Mar '18 4:35:23 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Stark deliberately brought a teenager into a fight despite the fact that "getting a teenager killed" was his motivation for signing the Accords in the first place.
Cap asked for assistance from another adult superhero in order to stop a villain from getting control of around a half-dozen or dozen super-assassins.
Only the former really feels like a "moral compromise".
I mean, Spidey is probably the third most powerful super there. And no one would be utilising lethal force. Like, I could imagine there's risks of Spidey getting injured, but, I'm not sure he can get injured?
There's greater risk of Spidey getting someone else killed. Perhaps by throwing an oil truck at someone.
edited 7th Mar '18 6:04:07 PM by Whowho
Irrespective of how tough Spider-Man is, he's a 15-year-old kid who hadn't been in any major fights prior to that time, and Tony threw him into a battle involving someone who was (going by Tony's knowledge) an unstable and dangerous assassin who had no reservations about using lethal force.
The Winter Soldier is infamous, and Spidey isn't bulletproof.
In Stark's defense, I'm pretty sure threatening to tell Aunt May was a joke on his part. If Peter had stood his ground and still said no, Stark would have shaken his hand and left peacefully. That being said, Peter is a fifteen year old kid, so I'm absolutely sure he took that threat 100% seriously. Might fall into Dude, Not Funny!.
Also, Stark didn't know Cap had brought reinforcements. If it was just the people that Stark knew about, Peter could have webbed them up by himself easily. Toss in backup from Stark's team, and it's easy to see how Stark would think he wouldn't be in any danger.
Now, all this aside, Stark shouldn't have dragged Peter into it. It's clear Reckless Endangerment, and Ross said he was lucky not to be in a cell after the airport fight. Ross didn't explicitly mention Peter, but I imagine he's on Ross's list of things that Stark did wrong.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Once his movie length nervous breakdown ends, Tony himself seems remorseful over involving Peter
A lot of his actions in Homecoming are, ironically, damage control. And unfortunately backfire to some extent too
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Scott not taking Stark's side isn't in question. I was responding to this:
I mean cmon it's Captain fucking America.
Iron Man's got nothing on him.
Iron Man's as much a big-name super-celebrity as Captain America is, so it makes sense that Peter would fanboy over him just as much as Scott fanboys over Cap.
edited 7th Mar '18 4:33:36 PM by TobiasDrake
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