Hellz yeah! No REAL Steve in there would be... well, very high on my Tony emoeter. The one thing that the sentient armor story was missing was a REAL Steve to help save the day. I still wonder what would have happened had Tony managed to call the other Avengers...
On the other hand, there could be, again, different ways of looking at it. Maybe there is also a Jarvis AI, maybe, only it DOESN'T flip out, and perhaps manages to sustain itself against the other AI, and help save the day!
OR, a Steve AI is created, only to be secretly replaced by another AI, perhaps the sentient armor itself, which had somehow saved a copy of itself. But the Steve AI sustains itself long enough in order to help fight off the armor AI, perhaps destroying itself in the process, but there is always REAL Steve for cuddles in the end.
Of course, I am perhaps being a bit too mean to the armor... As crazy and flipped out as it was, it DID sacrifice itself for Tony. It was simply confused, and had no real was on understanding the the "emotions" it was experiencing. And it's only thread of conscience was Tony="good, always do what's best for Tony" and everyone else="bad, I know what's best for Tony, I will make sure he is never hurt again (whether he likes it or not)".
And you can't say Tony doesn't take steps to make sure the crap DOESN'T happen to him (again and again), but it seems like every precaution he take is undermined at every turn, and the error it followed by, "crap, I didn't think about that one..."
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On the other hand, there could be, again, different ways of looking at it. Maybe there is also a Jarvis AI, maybe, only it DOESN'T flip out, and perhaps manages to sustain itself against the other AI, and help save the day!
OR, a Steve AI is created, only to be secretly replaced by another AI, perhaps the sentient armor itself, which had somehow saved a copy of itself. But the Steve AI sustains itself long enough in order to help fight off the armor AI, perhaps destroying itself in the process, but there is always REAL Steve for cuddles in the end.
Of course, I am perhaps being a bit too mean to the armor... As crazy and flipped out as it was, it DID sacrifice itself for Tony. It was simply confused, and had no real was on understanding the the "emotions" it was experiencing. And it's only thread of conscience was Tony="good, always do what's best for Tony" and everyone else="bad, I know what's best for Tony, I will make sure he is never hurt again (whether he likes it or not)".
And you can't say Tony doesn't take steps to make sure the crap DOESN'T happen to him (again and again), but it seems like every precaution he take is undermined at every turn, and the error it followed by, "crap, I didn't think about that one..."