Peter is recruited by Tony Stark for entirely marketing and metatextual reasons, and so it's really unworkable to ever explicitly acknowledge it as a plot element. It's a gigantic creaking weakness.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
i actually think it's very in-character. sure, there's lots of metas, but none of them with spider-man's combination of power and weak will like every time this young demigod calls him "mr stark" it's such a hit of dopamine
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
The circumstances of Peter Parker siding with Tony Stark are completely different in the comics version of Civil War but it still gets pointed out the Spider-Man being on the pro-reg side makes no sense because he has the most to lose of all of them from government oversight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
It's weird because I don't actually think there are any instances of classical secret identities in the MCU prior to Peter Parker I guess just Scott Lang but that was in parallel
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
Yeah and Peter's only viable morally - or consistent with Stark's most driving motives - if he literally doesn't know he's a kid.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
the point is that tony is driven by guilt but in a totally displaced and maladaptive way he feels incredibly bad about what happened and does less than zero soul-searching about what character flaws led him to the mistakes he made
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy and
I don't disagree, I just feel that it's ultimately not wholly consistent with Tony's better angels, in a way that ultimately causes more problems - especially in some truly insufferable Discourse - than it solves.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
Really, after the whole Ultron incident, nobody should have trusted Tony Stark with any kind of responsibility ever again.
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Replying to @cymaiden @loudpenitent and
Yeah that was pretty much a worst case scenario, even with the movie trying to make it as innocent an accident as they possibly could
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden and
In the comics, ironically, there's this famous scene where Tony Stark and Hank Pym are yelling at each other and Hank points out all the damage the registration conflict did to the world in Civil War And Tony just goes *beat* "YOU CREATED ULTRON"
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Whoever created Ultron in the current universe shouldn't ever get to win any argument ever again Whoever they're talking to can just play the "You made Ultron bitch shut up" card
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