So, I'm one of those people who stopped reading the comics during the whole Hydra!Cap horribleness, which meant I missed out on the thing of beauty that Tumblr tells me was AI Tony.
But the end of the Endgame strikes me as the perfect time for AI Tony to make his entrance: he's a genius, he's an AI building genius, he's an AI building genius who took the time to record a goodbye message not once, but twice during that one film: do we really believe for a moment that he *wouldn't* make a recording of his own memory and brain patterns and build a backup AI?
So, AI Tony tries to fit back into the world, to be there for his kid(s if you count Peter and Harley) and his friends and his wife...but things are stretched and awkward and Pepper can't see that he's really him, and she just keeps crying and *resenting* him and it's awful.
So he starts to give her some distance and on the way he runs into an old (very old now) friend.
Cap's had the best of both worlds: he got his life with Peggy, he gets to see his friends, he's *happy*, and now here's Tony looking so fragile and *lost* and, ok, he's kind of an electronic ghost, but this is them -they've seen weirder.
Cap could stay old or could be de-aged (no Kobik around to make things go wrong), Tony could stay an AI or reboot himself: if the comics could do it so can we, but either way, this looks like the start of something beautiful.
AI Tony/Aged (or de-aged) Cap
But the end of the Endgame strikes me as the perfect time for AI Tony to make his entrance: he's a genius, he's an AI building genius, he's an AI building genius who took the time to record a goodbye message not once, but twice during that one film: do we really believe for a moment that he *wouldn't* make a recording of his own memory and brain patterns and build a backup AI?
So, AI Tony tries to fit back into the world, to be there for his kid(s if you count Peter and Harley) and his friends and his wife...but things are stretched and awkward and Pepper can't see that he's really him, and she just keeps crying and *resenting* him and it's awful.
So he starts to give her some distance and on the way he runs into an old (very old now) friend.
Cap's had the best of both worlds: he got his life with Peggy, he gets to see his friends, he's *happy*, and now here's Tony looking so fragile and *lost* and, ok, he's kind of an electronic ghost, but this is them -they've seen weirder.
Cap could stay old or could be de-aged (no Kobik around to make things go wrong), Tony could stay an AI or reboot himself: if the comics could do it so can we, but either way, this looks like the start of something beautiful.