Wow, just... wow. The amount of blindness and bias in both this article and the comments are overwhelming.
1. Why is not mentioned in this article anything about the fact that HE HAD HIS MIND TWISTED BY THE RED SCULL? This is not Tony Stark, this is the aftermath of the "spell" that reversed his mind and his personality. The fact that he started drinking again is more than proof enough this something is terribly wrong with him. How the hell none of you mentioned that? Tony once said that his greatest fear was that someone would use his mind to destroy his life. This is EXACTLY what's happening here. (again: drinking. If you are familiar with what Tony went through to stop his addiction, this should have raised a thousand alarms for you.)
2. I love how people in the comments keep bringing the CW into this. When Tony Stark wasn't even the villain during Civil War. And if you believe so, we did not red the same story at all.
Truth be told, there was no villain in that story. I once wrote an ass-long thesis about the events of it from the point of view of simple humans compared to the conditions of life in the history of our world (safety of the majority vs. rights of the minority) and the whole story is a struggle, a search for balance between the two. But if you are so convinced that Iron Man was the villain, go read "What If? Civil War" (What if? vol.6 or Earth-2108) Let's see how you'd like if he WAS NOT involved in it (clue, it's NOT pretty. What he did for the superhuman community as a whole during CW was far more what Captain America did.)
3. Tony Stark has a history of being Marvel's rag doll. They throw him around and blame him with all for making bad decisions when, first of all, he makes one bad decision in between a hundred good ones, and he is eaten alive, and second: at least he DOES SOMETHING. He is always in charge of choosing the lesser evil when there is no other options, and when his plan works and everything is over he is blamed by the idealists that didn't know what to do in the first place. (Specially Steve. Seriously, that guy's characterization is so badly done sometimes I want to bang my head against a wall)
He protects his own no matter the cost, even if he knows he will be demonized for it. That's what he did during CW, that's what he did during the Incursions, and that's what he is NOT doing now because HE IS NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
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