Depressing and perceptive. Several things jump out at me here.
"He realized suddenly that he hadn't thought of himself as Iron Man since all this started. Iron Man was a hero. Tony Stark was a fuck-up. The armor had been something noble, once, but when he looked at it now he only saw a tank."
The armor is Tony, in a way. And it isn't... It's definitely his most recognized and personal art form. There's something of Rudyard Kipling's 'Killing an Elephant' in this calling the armor a tank. -The sense that he's ceased to be able to guide events, and is now just following a hardwired set of dead-end and unavoidable decisions. The death of the art of writing the future with your hands.
"Osborn would kill Spider-Man."
When he thinks of the horrors to come, that's the first one. The first, most personal, most indicative tragedy. Peter is one of the good ones. One of the men without whom the world becomes less bright, and more malleable to all the wrong people. Someone like Steve, except that he's still alive. For the moment.
Tony has the ability to know some things ahead of time, to reach logical conclusions no one else can see. It's changed him. Made him more distant, more driven... harder for people to understand, really. He sounds like he's either admitting to being able to do magic, or being unimaginably arrogant. Except he's NOT. He -can- see some things. Some pitfalls, some traps before they snap closed on himself and everyone else. That knowledge, equated in Tony's mind with the responsibility of keeping the future he saw from taking place, lead him to take on more than he could handle. Exponentially. Because he already knew that nobody would really -believe- him, and only Steve would bother to try.
...The man who saw the future, and brought back the knowledge to save the world... then ended up burning it half to the ground because nobody would listen to him? Wait a minute... these F%&*#! writers were listening to Black Sabbath, weren't they.
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"He realized suddenly that he hadn't thought of himself as Iron Man since all this started. Iron Man was a hero. Tony Stark was a fuck-up. The armor had been something noble, once, but when he looked at it now he only saw a tank."
The armor is Tony, in a way. And it isn't...
It's definitely his most recognized and personal art form.
There's something of Rudyard Kipling's 'Killing an Elephant' in this calling the armor a tank. -The sense that he's ceased to be able to guide events, and is now just following a hardwired set of dead-end and unavoidable decisions.
The death of the art of writing the future with your hands.
"Osborn would kill Spider-Man."
When he thinks of the horrors to come, that's the first one. The first, most personal, most indicative tragedy. Peter is one of the good ones. One of the men without whom the world becomes less bright, and more malleable to all the wrong people.
Someone like Steve, except that he's still alive. For the moment.
Tony has the ability to know some things ahead of time, to reach logical conclusions no one else can see. It's changed him. Made him more distant, more driven... harder for people to understand, really.
He sounds like he's either admitting to being able to do magic, or being unimaginably arrogant.
Except he's NOT. He -can- see some things. Some pitfalls, some traps before they snap closed on himself and everyone else.
That knowledge, equated in Tony's mind with the responsibility of keeping the future he saw from taking place, lead him to take on more than he could handle. Exponentially.
Because he already knew that nobody would really -believe- him, and only Steve would bother to try.
...The man who saw the future, and brought back the knowledge to save the world... then ended up burning it half to the ground because nobody would listen to him?
Wait a minute... these F%&*#! writers were listening to Black Sabbath, weren't they.