It’s the only way it could ever end. For Tony being iron man was like an addiction. He had the happy ending and yet he just couldn’t help but solve to time travel issue and jeopardise that to save the universe. If he’d walked away from the final battle he’d have only retired until the next thing came along. It’s been a plot point for Tony a number of times that he sort of retires and you find really he’s still been developing new suits or tech.

Hasn’t he been killed a few times just to come back, really hope he returns

I don’t see why the can’t go back in time and bring him to the future, They seem to be able to alter the past paradox free

I know the movie has been out for a while but it might be a good idea to delete this post because of the spoiler in the title :/

Try reposting saying you have a question then state the question in the description

There kind of a bit context to understand why some might be hesitant

Al Ewing kind doesnt get Iron man

He said in his interview that he does not see Tony as a good person more villain on the right side and will do anything for the precived "greater good" like a diet Dr. Doom. To him the more interesting part of Iron man is the self destructive aspect of him. So if he would write Iron man it will most likey be another Cantwell where tony is given shit for all his past mistakes and punch down

As for the sapce aspect mention that would sound cool tho always love how they did it with Venom the end where in the far future the AI empire at war were the Phalanx and the Iron men AI

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I think building on the concept introduced in I am Iron Man #5 could be a great way to do an Immortal Iron Man as well

ITT I learned I do not want one of my favorite writers going anywhere near Iron Man. Dang.

Removing him from the Avengers has zero effect on his solo series. Plenty of characters have had classic solo runs while being on teams. Soloes and teams just ignore each other anyway. No one creating these things care if the solo and team continuity contradict each other.

So all removing him from teams will do is eliminate chances for Iron Man to make more fans out of people who picked up the team book.

idk im of two minds

yes the new Iron man solo series must center more on developing Stark Unlimited and his supporting cast and villains that not controversial to say

but honestly i don't think they will cut him out of the avengers just cause they positioned him as a member of the avengers the one who "a core member" in the sense being irreplaceable and it not iron man comic that hold this belief that just marvel book in general even All New and All Different didn't want to remove him from the book when they sort of did in the wake of CW2 the book kind felt awkward about it even when they had Spider-man be head of the team

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nor do I really think that it would affect the solo series unless there a massive status quo ala Mortal Thor.

I completely agree. It's eroding the character's image. Other characters can take advantage of the space to improve their performance and build a better path, I think Hank Pym would be a great option.

AND BOURGEOIS NEEDS A HOLIDAY TOO!!! Even more so the fictional ones.

Do you think it's easy to be the great manipulator of Global Events in the Marvel Universe while planning to replace humans with machines and sacrifice children to the great God of Capitalism? /irony

Iron Man needs a true back to basics run

no crossovers, no avengers, just his supporting cast and villains

Yeah, cut him out for a change.

But they should also re-shuffle whole roster.

Idk, I feel that Cantwell tried to use the hook of a "back to basics" to tell a story that did everything but that. Part of it was intentional, taking a Tony who tried to stay out of his company to ground himself and ended up with the power of a god.
Plus, it's not really a "Iron Man goes back to his classic setting", since that would mean him being a CEO, fighting his villains and having his classic supporting cast. Instead, he just lives with what personal fortune he has, fights other villains like Korvac while his own rogues gallery are left on a back seat and unexplored, and his "closest friends" are now people like Hellcat, Frog-Man or Scarlet Spider, whom he had barely interacted before. In my mind, that's not a back to basics at all.
Something like Busiek, on the other hand, is.

We really haven't though

Cantwell was some cosmic schlop, duggan was an event tie-in, Ackerman seemed to be back to basics but got eaten by the Doom event

Iron Man needs a pause from the rest of the Marvel universe

Seems like an editing fluke. What I thought was peculiar though was that when Thanos snapped he was taken for a moment into a vision where he spoke with Gamora as a child. Why didn’t we have a similar scene when Hulk and Tony each snapped? I could see Hulk seeing Black Widow in his vision, and Tony speaking again with his father.

The Stones just did a "snap," so they were used up and not glowing at that moment.

I love that people love these movies as much if not more than I do. I think it’s great that people are dedicated enough to take the time to analysing details like this. However, as Steve returns all the items, it’s fair to say this is an editing mistake and not anything more significant

Was also shot with half his face torn off. Left on floor though. Shame

Its nothing.

Yes.

From the first Iron Man movie we saw the character of Tony Stark grow from a contrite businessman to a revolutionary superhero to a team leader… family man… and finally to the salvation of the universe. There was nowhere else for his character to go, except into the sunset.

His character had a well-defined journey with a reasonable and satisfying ending.

It also tied up the little time travel problem. Yes, time travel was possible… But it required two forms of technology with creators unknown to each other AND both unable to communicate. Hank Pym was dusted… and when he returned, Tony Stark died.

While Smart Hulk was able to use the tech to a small degree, the movie twice demonstrated how he doesn’t really have a handle on it. He nearly lost Scott Lang and he completely lost Steve Rogers (although Rogers wanted to be lost).

Problem solved. Time travel is now largely inaccessible to the heroes of Marvel.

The ending of Iron Man was outstanding in execution.

Not good, perfect

Would’ve been better if he died just by choking on a piece of shawarma. Would’ve really tied the whole story together

Is pizza good?

Seriously??

If the Covies think Master Chief is a demon, they'd believe that Iron Man was Satan himself.

10 years of prep time gives Tony an insane amount of wiggle room. As the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived to assault Reach, they'd find themselves engaged by tens of thousands of Iron Legion Drones which Tony would personally lead in the Godkiller MK II armor. Noble Team would sipping on mojitos in New Alexandria while Iron Man one-shotted Covenant supercarriers with ease. Tony would hijack the Covenant's communications network to blare Black Sabbath (RIP, Ozzy) and get in some quips about how non-threatening the Covenant was to someone who had fought Dark Celestials and Thanos of Titan. Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee would be wondering "What is a Dark Celestial?" as his flagship exploded following a repulsor burst from the Godkiller MK II.

Those victories were extremely rare they also came at extreme cost for the UNSC. For every victory humanity had 10 defeats. The UNSC only did slightly better on the ground than they did space but it didn’t matter because the covenant would always gain space superiority and glass the world once they recovered the relic they were after.

The only times the UNSC won is when they heavily outnumbered the covenant which was rare due to how many ships they lost early on.

It doesn’t matter how strong of a suit Tony makes when he has billions of aliens bearing down on him he is going to be overwhelmed

Also Stark industries doesn’t exist in halo. He’d need to lay the foundations down and make a name for himself all on his own before the UNSC would take him seriously which he doesn’t have the experience in since he had inherited his company from his father. So yes he would need to start from scratch because he if tried to rely on the UNSC than ONI would simply take his tech and suit from him before killing him.

Reach is just impossible for Tony alone to save especially for 10 years. If he was given 50 years? He has a great shot at it but 10 isn’t enough time for him to set up the industry he needs and build the forces he’d need to make a difference since the UNSC was already crumbling and it was just a matter of when rather than if the covenant would win.

As Tony would likely say, its a scaling issue. I feel like Tony wouldn't get lost in the weeds in prepping for a ground game - too much ground - and instead focus on knocking out ships before they get a chance to launch invading ground forces. If he knows about covenant tech, their strengths and weaknesses, he'd likely figure a way to exploit it on a larger scale.

I mean, hell, what would an injected Stark AI do to the flag ship?

Dude built a suit capable of taking tank rounds, with micro missiles capable of blowing up said tanks, in a matter of months. Give him a single year and he would be replacing the spartan program entirely. By five years he would likely reinvent his nano machine armor on a large scale. By ten he’s gonna single handedly save reach from the covenant invasion.

It's 10 years prep time. You can only imagine the possibility. His entire MCU time in operation was like 5-6 years just

Regardless I think Mark-50 or higher level would be enough. Why would he even need multiversal armor

So with 10 years and pretty much all of the unsc resources at his disposal? He would make every spartan better (swap nuclear core with a repulsor core, add nanite armor) and would probably have a disgusting orbital defense system in place. Would probably need to use Cortana or a similar AI as a basis considering ultron didn’t work out, so that would be the hiccup. Assuming he doesn’t also build a juiced ultron, the covenant would be afraid to go beyond their photospheres lol

He was at Tony's funeral in Avengers Endgame. As for the 10 years between the two events? No clue. I presume he went to college, got an engineering degree and possibly worked at Stark Industries.

But that's all guesswork.

He can be seen at the funeral in endgame

He’s the kid in the funeral scene at the end of endgame. That’s as far as we know though.

He was the lone teenage boy in Tony’s funeral scene.

Well there is absolutely a universe/timeline where Thanos leaves in 2014 and is killed in the main universe so he never becomes a threat and where Tony and Captain America may never resolve their issues.

Your explanation makes a lot of sense but leads to an even more grim possibility.

If none of the Avengers went back in time, then didn't Thanos win? Didn't he destroy all life in the universe?

Scott's arrival in 2023 wasn't time travel it was more like time dilation. He was so deep in the Quantum Realm that he was experiencing time differently than everyone else in the surface world. He didn't travel through time he was experiencing every year as an hour. So he wouldn't have caused any sort of time branch seeing as he wasn't messing with time rather time, via quantum physics, was messing with him. This was all clearly explained in the film.

According to hulk's explanation, the timeline branch only occurs if you travel to the past. Scott travelled to the future.

You're getting engrossed in the comic shenanigans and forgetting this is a movie.

Tony's death was a pivotal moment for him. It was a literal sacrificial death and a symbolic ending of the current MCU arc.

Underlying issues with your proposal here, it'd be an absolute slap in the face to all fans