MasterWhedon wrote:DennisMM wrote:Not bloody likely. Maybe Stark is a super-villain and is warping minds.
If they fold back onto themselves with some bullshit like Stark being evil and manipulating this whole thing--which I genuinely don't believe--it will be the cop out to end all cop outs.
This new direction is too strong a concept to leave it as just a tease.
Stark and mind-control have some history. He used a mind-control device created by Mentallo to mind-warp THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET into forgetting his secret ID, because he thought too many people (villains, inconvenient heroes, gov't types) were aware of who he was.
He also was once mind-controlled by Kang and betrayed the team, killing the second Yellowjacket and one of the Inhumans. This was a long-term, behind-the-scenes storyline which ended with Tony's rebellion against Kang and Tony's death.
Yeah. He died. They put his body in cryo, but they couldn't bring him back. Somehow they plucked a teenage Tony from an alternate timeline (?memory is bad on this). He joined the team as a probie while he went to college. When the heroes were shoved into Franklin Richards's pocket universe during Heroes Reborn, Tony appeared as an adult. When the Heroes returned to the MU, Tony remained an adult.