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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You know what I just thought of, what would've been cool? Obadiah Stane being connected to the hit on Tony's parents. Not necessarily being part of HYDRA himself or paying them to do it, just having knowledge of it and profiting off of it and this being retroactively revealed in Civil War. Would've served as a great connection to the earlier MCU.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI recall way back when I watched the original movie after all the stuff with Hydra infiltrating shield had become well known that I considered that Stane may have been part of Hydra.
I believe at the time most said that it likely wasn't the case.
.....I think it was on this thread. It may have been on a different forum.
One Strip! One Strip!Its easy to assume that HYDRA most likely wanted an 'in' to Stark Industries, Stane was a perfect way to get that, and for all we know they were the other side in several (if not all) of the undertable deals that got Stark Weapons into the hands of terrorists. And in order to get more weapons, as well as some control over the whole company wouldn't have STOPPED any plans to allow Stane to get majority control.
Irony would be if post Ao U Tony tracked down how his weapons were involved with the death of the Twins Parents only to find out it was Stane selling the things to a Hydra shill and they joined up with the very organization that ACTUALLY killed their parents.
It has been noted Stane's speech in Iron Man 1 feels distinctily Hydra-like:
Namely:
The fact he speaks on plural in particularly is interesting given Obadiah was a solo player in the first Iron Man movie. In context he's presumably speaking about war profiteers in general but you could easily read that as HYDRA.
I always took the fact Stane never brags about killing Howard during confrontation with tony as evidence he had nothing to do with that, though, particularly since he doesn't shut up during that whole fight and brags about basically everything else. I could even see Obadiah legitimately having some level of fondness for Howard as a Pet the Dog moment for his character.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."It's very likely Stane had some sort of connection to Hydra, but given that Shield wasn't formalized quite yet (you can argue they had gone under several different restructurings over the years) that Stane was probably more of a splinter group that Hydra had indirect contact with but not an actual "Heil Hydra" type agent. Thus Stane may not have been personally responsible for the Stark's murder but aware it was not a car crash.
I think it's possible given Howard's role in forming SHIELD that Stane had some contacts who were members of HYDRA. Now, did Stane know they were really HYDRA? I doubt it, but I think it is likely that he knew there were certain sections in SHIELD that would appreciate his more unscrupulous methods.
I think the idea of him being aware of how the Stark's died is less likely, but it makes for good fanfic fodder. Maybe Stane was the one who let it slip that Howard was trying to replicate the super-soldier serum?
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jan 6th 2021 at 7:00:22 AM
I remenber when the russo brothers were invited to honest trailer of winter soldier and they response some plot hole stuff(like how stark hacking of shield in avenger didnt reveal any hydra stuff) and they said not all shield were compromised and were mostly the weapon creation deparment that was full of hydra studs.
In short, if was about making some big weapon, hydra was behind it, which led the posibility of encounter with stane.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Moon Knight gets some more directors announced
, including Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

Make up friend. It's incredible.
One Strip! One Strip!