It struck me that if the movieverse ever did Civil War (the comics event in which superheroes, most notably Cap and Iron Man, fought each other over superhero registration), Steve's and Tony's roles would be reversed, if it could happen at all.
This is something that I've thought but had a hard time putting into words. I just cannot see Tony ever supporting any kind of government-mandated registration, not after what he's been through in relation to the government. Even if he didn't have a huge aversion to doing things because someone told him to, after them trying to take the suit from him in Iron Man 2 (and really his experience with them through his weapons building), I just would not be able to buy him siding with them on that issue at all, let alone becoming the poster boy for it. And with how his relationship with Bruce developed in the movie, how much he believed and trusted him to get control, I can't really buy him giving up and shooting him into space, either.
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Date: 2012-05-14 03:22 pm (UTC)This is something that I've thought but had a hard time putting into words. I just cannot see Tony ever supporting any kind of government-mandated registration, not after what he's been through in relation to the government. Even if he didn't have a huge aversion to doing things because someone told him to, after them trying to take the suit from him in Iron Man 2 (and really his experience with them through his weapons building), I just would not be able to buy him siding with them on that issue at all, let alone becoming the poster boy for it. And with how his relationship with Bruce developed in the movie, how much he believed and trusted him to get control, I can't really buy him giving up and shooting him into space, either.