Uh, yeah. TOny's suit totally kidnaps him and treats him like a battered lover. It's disturbing. And it also sets the bar for crack fic pretty high. So cloning? Totally realistic and not cracktastic at all, in this universe.

And yes, he is there already. I think it's more than him talking to those machines like they're real, I think to him, they ARE real. Just as real as the actual people he deals with, and that says alot about him. He's never been betrayed by one of his machines, and wow, when that happens, I don't even want to know what he'd do.