I like it! Any time the answer is "because of money" (or "because of lawyers"), there is a ring of truth to it. You have attached it to BOTH, so this is now becoming my own personal canon.
conveniently "accidental" deaths that a guy like Tony might get into, like car crashes or overdoses or being smothered between a woman's thighs
::cackle:: Oh, awesome. And I like the whole thought: "in case of this, check it out A WHOLE LOT". I'd add that it might not be lawyers, exactly, but that the military, who has a whole lot riding on the whole idea of keeping Tony Stark alive and exclusively on their side*, might be the leaning force on that one.
But something like Afghanistan? Sort of like the presidency, I'm guessing before taking trips to war-torn countries to sell weapons, Tony signs shit that transfers temporary control to Obie while he's out of the country, and BOY. Maybe those are the papers Pepper had him sign before she hustled him out? (Oh, man, poor PEPPER.)
BRAIN JUST BLEW UP. Okay, I am eyeing this with such interest right now, you have no idea. Oh, PEPPER. Yes, I can totally see this happening. It's probably rote by now. They've probably done it eighty times. And this time, the trap was sprung! ...because, yeah, think about it, first Obadiah would think "wow, it would be great if he'd just die on one of these, because then there wouldn't be a question of who'd succeed him like there was with Howard" (wait, I just made that up, but it's another wonderful thing along the lines of him taking out his post-Howard's-death frustrations on Tony) and then having to get 10 Rings to agree to this (which does beg the question of which came first: dealing under the table, or wanting to kill Tony?), and then setting up the trip.
Add in that, knowing Tony, he may well have skipped some of these trips at the last minute in the past. Obadiah has got to have serious ulcers by now. I could almost feel BAD for him.
* Incidentally, and not in keeping with the military-is-good-folks theme in the movie, if the military knew they couldn't get Tony back, and knew he was building weapons for terrorists... does he become expendable? Like, shoot-to-kill expendable? I can totally see that happening, in a scary way.
Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
conveniently "accidental" deaths that a guy like Tony might get into, like car crashes or overdoses or being smothered between a woman's thighs
::cackle:: Oh, awesome. And I like the whole thought: "in case of this, check it out A WHOLE LOT". I'd add that it might not be lawyers, exactly, but that the military, who has a whole lot riding on the whole idea of keeping Tony Stark alive and exclusively on their side*, might be the leaning force on that one.
But something like Afghanistan? Sort of like the presidency, I'm guessing before taking trips to war-torn countries to sell weapons, Tony signs shit that transfers temporary control to Obie while he's out of the country, and BOY. Maybe those are the papers Pepper had him sign before she hustled him out? (Oh, man, poor PEPPER.)
BRAIN JUST BLEW UP. Okay, I am eyeing this with such interest right now, you have no idea. Oh, PEPPER. Yes, I can totally see this happening. It's probably rote by now. They've probably done it eighty times. And this time, the trap was sprung! ...because, yeah, think about it, first Obadiah would think "wow, it would be great if he'd just die on one of these, because then there wouldn't be a question of who'd succeed him like there was with Howard" (wait, I just made that up, but it's another wonderful thing along the lines of him taking out his post-Howard's-death frustrations on Tony) and then having to get 10 Rings to agree to this (which does beg the question of which came first: dealing under the table, or wanting to kill Tony?), and then setting up the trip.
Add in that, knowing Tony, he may well have skipped some of these trips at the last minute in the past. Obadiah has got to have serious ulcers by now. I could almost feel BAD for him.
* Incidentally, and not in keeping with the military-is-good-folks theme in the movie, if the military knew they couldn't get Tony back, and knew he was building weapons for terrorists... does he become expendable? Like, shoot-to-kill expendable? I can totally see that happening, in a scary way.