Also. if Tony's much-admired Dad didn't marry until late in life, leads to some interesting thoughts about whether Tony's playboy-ing is, in some way, modeled after Daddy's.
!! This is a fascinating idea. I am having a moment where I am torn between "which means he will settle down and have genius babies, yay!" and "oh dear God somebody is going to write babyfic about this in about three minutes now". Uh oh.
And, yeah, good point re: probably not HALF his age, so... probably an age gap similar to Howard/Obadiah.
Speaking of whom, I'm still trying to hash out Obadiah's plot. Not only do I have no idea why he would kill Tony NOW, I keep going through his whole thing at the end and wondering what the hell he was planning on doing. It is very Underpants Gnomes.
1) Build own super-suit. 2) Get the miniature arc reactor from Tony to power it, thus happily killing him in the process. 3) ??? 4) Profit!
I seriously do not see the long-term plan here, particularly if he's just been reported to the government and is going to be in deep shit in the U.S. after this. Clearly he can't stay with Stark Industries. But then, clearly Stark Industries can't be selling weapons directly to terrorists, either; does he have a shell company set up in a third-world country to launder the weapons/money, which would then be perfect for building the Iron Monger suit and arc reactors and selling them? I am so confused.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-29 06:48 pm (UTC)!! This is a fascinating idea. I am having a moment where I am torn between "which means he will settle down and have genius babies, yay!" and "oh dear God somebody is going to write babyfic about this in about three minutes now". Uh oh.
And, yeah, good point re: probably not HALF his age, so... probably an age gap similar to Howard/Obadiah.
Speaking of whom, I'm still trying to hash out Obadiah's plot. Not only do I have no idea why he would kill Tony NOW, I keep going through his whole thing at the end and wondering what the hell he was planning on doing. It is very Underpants Gnomes.
1) Build own super-suit.
2) Get the miniature arc reactor from Tony to power it, thus happily killing him in the process.
3) ???
4) Profit!
I seriously do not see the long-term plan here, particularly if he's just been reported to the government and is going to be in deep shit in the U.S. after this. Clearly he can't stay with Stark Industries. But then, clearly Stark Industries can't be selling weapons directly to terrorists, either; does he have a shell company set up in a third-world country to launder the weapons/money, which would then be perfect for building the Iron Monger suit and arc reactors and selling them? I am so confused.