8 Most Ironic Scenes In MCU History
3. Tony Stark Was Almost Killed By His Own Weapon
Tony Stark and Stephen Strange share a lot of similarities in terms of their origin stories. They were both vain, obnoxious, arrogant, and rich, with little else to care about than their own self interests, and both had their lives turned around by near death experiences.
While Strange was almost killed in a car crash, Tony was ambushed and kidnapped in Afghanistan by the Ten Rings on the commands of Obadiah Stane. He was held for three months in a cave, but came out the other side no longer as Tony Stark, but as Iron Man.
The first thing he did when he got home, after eating an American cheeseburger, was to shut down the weapons division of Stark Industries. This was a reaction to seeing so much death caused by the weapons he helped create and sell.
One of those deaths was almost his own. Lying helpless in the sun baked desert, the last thing Tony Stark saw before being almost killed was his name on the side of the missile. His own design, built from his own company and his own money, was almost the cause of his own death.