10 Times The Avengers Ruined Tony Stark's Life
4. Not Realising He'd Been Turned Evil (Or Trying To Help Him) - Superior Iron Man
While the Superior Iron Man series - which contains a story wherein Tony Stark is turned evil and becomes a sort of dictator over San Francisco - is a brilliant story, it's a brilliant story that makes you ask one question the whole way through: where are the Avengers?
This comic occurs after the AXIS storyline, which saw all the Avengers be made into villains, only for all of them to be transformed back at the end of the series - aside from Iron Man, who was able to use a forcefield to stay in his villainous form. As such, you'd expect that the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes would immediately recognise that something had gone wrong with him, and to help out their friend and teammate.
Yet the entire comic takes place without any Avengers appearing, despite the fact that Tony has been more or less publicly broadcasting his misdeeds the entire time, in ways that may as well have 'I am not acting like myself' written all over them in big bold sharpie.