Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 10 Incredibly Disturbing Comic Moments That Won't Be In The Film
10. Tony Stark Turns Evil, Murders Many, And Is Replaced By A Teenage Version Of Himself
In a misguided attempt to reboot Iron Man, Marvel decided to kill him in the worst possible way - with Time Travel. The villain Immortus took control of Iron Man and sent him on a murderous rampage that could only be stopped by (no not Thor, not Captain America, not The Hulk, not Franklin Richards) a teenage time-swapped version of Iron Man. The Teenaged Tony was able to secure an Iron Man suit because of MacGuffins and then set out to defeat his much more powerful and wiser self, and indeed he succeeded at great cost, but in a final moment of redemption, the older Tony sacrifices himself to save his younger self. (Though on second thought this is hardly redemption is it? He's still saving himself...) Teen Tony then goes about becoming Iron Man in the present in a series of awful plot developments that include his pretending not to be related to himself, which in a way is consistent with Iron Man pretending to be his own bodyguard. Suffice it to say that this entire affair - which basically amounts to Iron Man's clone saga - was horrible. Besides being awful, the complicated nature of this story is enough to ensure that this will never be seen on screen. And let us never speak of it again either.
Brandon grew from the awkwardness of his youth into the awkwardness of his adulthood. He is the author of the Eat Your Serial Press title "Ten Years Gone: Pomp and Circumstance" and is a contributor on Maglomaniac, Polite on Society, and What Culture.
