Find your tribe in a Sea of Creativity
(Sorry for my English, I’m French)
Tony is captured and tortured by terrorists in Afghanistan. He ends up with shrapnel in his heart and with an arc reactor. He discovers that the weapons he creates are used to kill innocent people. So he closes Stark Industries, despite what everyone tells him, and risks his life to wipes all trace of his weapons. He realizes that Obadiah, whom he considered as a father, tried to kill him and is responsible for all of that. He sacrifies himself by blowing up the building of Stark Industries with him on, to eliminate Stane. Some time later, he has new heart problems, and the arc reactor is killing him. He think’s he’ll die, and so gives his collections, his company.. He does everything to keep Iron Man’s property, so the armor does not fall into the wrong hands. He has to face Vanko who is against Tony because of a story with Howard (where in addition he was right) and of witch Tony knows nothing! He stops Vanko and Hammer. He work on self sustaining clean energy. He loses a friend, Coulson, and sacrifices himself to save New York by sending a missile into space. Since then he suffers from PSTD. Occupational hazard, anxiety attack, he no longer sleeps, he no longer feels safe. And spends his time making new suit to protect all he loves. He almost loses one of his best friends, Happy. His house is detroyed. And he apologizes to Pepper. He learns that he is a Hero even without his suit. He sacrifies himself to save a child. He arrests a terrorist and rescues the president. He does an operation of the heart, removes the arc reactor, to start off on a new basis. He is still betrayed, when he helps the SHIELD, with the Helicarrier for example, and that in fact it was Hydra. During a mission with the Avengers, Wanda shows him a horrible vision af his biggest fear, losing his friends, losing the Avengers, not to be up to. She puts into his mind the idea that something must be done, and lets him take the scepter, knowing the rest. Tony just want to make sure his vision never happens. He create Ultron WITH Banner, to protect the world, to prevent a disaster like the Battle of NY from happening again. He knows that we are powerless against an alien attack. All he wants is to save the world. And when he recalls that he saved New York, everybody ignored him. Captain blames him for Ultron, and hides things from him. Lol.. Tony talks to Fury about his vision. That he’s afraid of being responsible for the death of the Avengers. He creates Vision. He loses J.A.R.V.I.S, one of his besy friends, who has always been there for him. And the only good thing they’re told to him is “Stark is right” from Thor. Everyone blames him for Ultron and no one congratulates him on Vision. He creates a foundation that gives scholarships. He is aware of the collateral damages of the Avengers. And do what is right for it by signing the Accords. He does everything to keep the Avengers united. Steves blames him for keeping Wanda locked up while Tony just wants to protect her, and the world around her. He asks Ross to stop Steve himself, to limit the damage. His best friend is seriously injured, and becomes paralyzed. Natasha betrays him. Barton makes the asshole with Tony while HE is wrong. Tony decides nevertheless to go help Steve. He learns that his parents didn’t die in an accident, but that Bucky killed them. And that his friend hid the truth from him. Steve says not even the truth first. “Did you know?” “I didn’t know it was him” “Don’t bullshit me, Rogers. Did you know?” “Yes.” Steve and Bucky attack Tony, try to kill him, to make him suffer, after all that they have already made him endure. Tony could have killed Steve and did not. He asks him for his shield after realizing that Steve was not at all the hero his father saw on him. He takes care of Peter. He watch over him, protects him, saves him. He does everything to make sure that he doesn’t put his life in danger and that he continues his studies. He congratulated him, as his father did not. He doesn’t want him to have any deaths on his conscience, and he wants him to prove himself that he is a hero, even without his suit. And Tony keep going to creates stuff for the Avengers. For when they’re going to reassemble. Though they don’t do anything for him.
Anyway, I could say SO MUCH MORE. Conclusion: Tony is quite the opposite of a villain.