"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
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I honestly think Carol has to a lot more to recover from from this event than Tony does. Tony wasn't arresting innocent people.
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"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Well, Infamous Iron Man made it sound like he's definitely presumed dead by the general public, though the impression from Avengers was that he was just out-of-commission for some reason.
Given the treatment of characters like War Machine, Bruce Banner, and even She-Hulk to some degree in this event, it's probably too much to expect Tony's last issue as Iron Man for the foreseeable future to be anything but an ignoble end. Especially given what we've seen of his final fight with Carol.
And given how Bendis has been treating Iron Man in the past few months, he might as well just put the titular character out of his misery for a while so he can write Dr. Doom and the new original creation he's heavily pushing...
One of the things I have overlooked about CWII is how brutal this event has been without the Mark Millar face smashing. As a general-run story you would never see Rhodey, She-Hulk and Hulk eliminated off the playing field so thoroughly like we got this Event. Sneakily, Bendis slipped in these deaths and injuries as evidence Death doesn't take a holiday in Events. We see our heroes consistently slip out of dangerous situations to be ready for their next appearance next issue, but in Events like this, someone removes the invulnerability clause in their contracts, and suddenly, you see characters beat up to within the edge of their life, or just plain killed, like one of those detective movies that kill all the characters one by one.
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It's an important point to realise that any citizen of the MU is basically living in Syria, with bombs raining down on them as they try to go about their daily lives. Anybody living in that kind of battle zone, constantly, would jump at the chance to have predictive justice to shoot down those planes as they appear. Anybody in the Second World War would have grasped at any advantage they could possibly have over the enemy, be it Dam buster tech, or Howling Commandoes doing sabotage, or, help escaping scientists, atomic bombs, U2 missiles, laser beams, vibrational weapons to explode bodies. Do you see why people always attack mutants, hate super heroes, rejoice when the Hulk is killed, bring out the SHRA or MRA, send Sentinels to keep mutants surrounded? I think it's worth realising the MU is a terror environment, and in some respects, the ANAD post-CWII is a welcome respite from the constant threat of house destruction and sudden death. The MU citizens are like ants getting stood on by inconsiderate giants just traipsing along blind to the mortality rate they cause all around them.
I can't see why the humans are not aggressively destroying Inhuman pods as they appear and just wipe out Crystals team every time they try to intervene. The Inhuman population growth after Inhumanity is just more Syrian bombers over their cities.
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That last part has been a major gripe for X-Men fans, too, for much the same reasoning as you point out. If the in-universe public is so hostile to superheroes and the super-powered in general because they perceive them as such threatening forces in their lives regardless of whether they self-identify as "heroes" or "villains," then why aren't the Inhumans facing just as much backlash as mutants have always had to deal with?
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