Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man (Civil War comic arc): dedicates a lot of effort to the Superhero Registration Act, in order to make superheroes accountable for their actions. Is ultimately proven wrong, I guess.
Doesn’t he act in characteristically supervillainish ways during that arc? Cloning Thor and all that.
IIRC, there was an Elseworlds comic where he acted slightly differently and it worked out fine. It was framed with a Mysterious Stranger offering to show him what would have happened if he chose differently, as I recall. So it was just bad luck, I guess?
If he hadn’t threatened Captain America just before Clor went crazy, Cap would have joined forces with him to fight the Thor clone, ended up joining the pro-registration side, and he’s so damn trustworthy that everyone would have signed up. So yeah, it was basically karma.
Oh, and it was actually a What If?, not an Elseworlds. Those are DC, aren’t they?
Doesn’t he act in characteristically supervillainish ways during that arc? Cloning Thor and all that.
He does, it’s true, I forgot it was him who did that. In Iron Man’s case, thinking like a supervillain had worked out… poorly.
IIRC, there was an Elseworlds comic where he acted slightly differently and it worked out fine. It was framed with a Mysterious Stranger offering to show him what would have happened if he chose differently, as I recall. So it was just bad luck, I guess?
I don’t know, I haven’t read the Elseworlds version. People tend to make their own luck though, good or bad...
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If he hadn’t threatened Captain America just before Clor went crazy, Cap would have joined forces with him to fight the Thor clone, ended up joining the pro-registration side, and he’s so damn trustworthy that everyone would have signed up. So yeah, it was basically karma.
Oh, and it was actually a What If?, not an Elseworlds. Those are DC, aren’t they?