You Could Make a Case for That

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You Could Make a Case for That
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Using villains to prop Tony Stark is appropriate, because he often is one

This one makes me wonder about some prop-Tony writers. Here, they are pretending that Team Cap's actions had catastrophic effects on the MCU, but Team Cap didn't notice. (Apparently the writer didn't notice that none of this actually happened, and Tony Stark's best contribution to the MCU was finally kicking the bucket.) Plus, if you're using villains to prop your fave, maybe your fave doesn't deserve to be propped? Strangely, their section on Hank Pym has him telling the actual truth about how awful Tony is, so I'm not sure what the point was.

Note: There were a LOT of people in this that I'm not familiar with (including someone called omake who I couldn't find at all), so they're probably out of character.

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Hank Pym didn't know what to expect when he suddenly appeared in a large, cluttered room. He immediately wished he had Hope or Scott with him when he saw the other people in the room. All of them looked dangerous, but at least all but one of them looked just as confused.

In the center of the group was a disheveled person holding a handful of papers. They started pushing the papers at everyone.

Hank took his and saw 1. - HANK PYM at the top. As he read through, he wished even more that he had some backup. On the page was a strange rant about Tony Stark and "Team Cap." The odd part was that Pym didn't mind some of it, because it WAS true that Stark couldn't be trusted and that the Accords were crap. The U.S. government hunted Hank and Hope for Accords violations when they didn't even SIGN the thing. And Hank had a healthy respect for Steve Rogers and all of the good work he and his team had done. So Hank supposed he would offer them a base of operations if they needed it. But from what he'd heard about terrorists being stopped from selling Chitauri weapons, it looked like Team Cap didn't actually need anyone's money. He wondered whether he should point that out, or not risk upsetting whoever brought him here.

The young blonde woman next to him muttered something in Russian as she flipped through the pages. Hank saw 2 - YELENA BELOVA on the front. Yelena frowned and said, "This stupid. Does person not watch films? Or read? Nick Fury released files. Shield files not released. HYDRA files released. And encrypted. So encrypted Stark could not even find own name." After more flipping the woman gave a harsh laugh and said, "What this crap? Stark and his AI save Shield agents? When does Stark do ANYTHING to help ANYONE without being prompted? So stupid.”

Next to her a large blond man with pages marked 3 - BARNEY BARTON said, "You think that's dumb? I'm supposed to say that Laura divorced Clint because he abandoned her in the middle of the night--without so much as a word--to go fight. And I'm suposed to think that if you retire you don't care about the world. As if Clint is supposed to behave like Tony Stark. STARK'S the one who doesn't give a crap what happens to anyone else if he's okay. The best part is that supposedly it's all over the news, when the only reason ANYBODY--and by anybody I mean Thaddeus Ross--even KNEW about Clint's family is because that traitor Stark sold them out.”

Hank thought he recognized the man with 4 - BARON VON STUCKER on his pages. The baron said, "I am supposed to believe that Stark has better security than Hank Pym or Shield. What nonsense. Stark was easily hacked in Avengers 1, and can't even be bothered to keep an eye on his program running dangerous alien technology because he'd rather party. Even I had better security than Stark, because I actually managed to use Loki's scepter and NOT create a murderbot in the process."

A very red-faced man with 5 - JOHANN SCHMIDT on his packet shook his head. He said, "I refuse to be portrayed as THIS ignorant of events shown on actual film. Apparently this writer thinks that a small chunk of concrete is an entire tunnel, and that if a tunnel is collapsed, cars can still drive through it. AND they claim that roughly half of the police officers in the illegal execution squad died and all but a few received permanent injuries. Did they not find it strange that NO ONE in the film actually looked injured, nor did anyone mention this pile of corpses even when they DID mention the casualties caused by Zemo triggering the Winter Soldier?" Johann threw the paper down and spat on it. He said, "Then this dumb koff claims Stark was beaten close to death and abandoned alone miles from anyone. Did they not SEE T'Challa standing there? Or Stark in his limo making lewd remarks about the Parker woman? Or Stark walking around his compound hiding his crimes from his best friend? The one thing I do agree with is that Captain America is MUCH superior to Iron Man. But that of course has nothing to do with the serum, and everything to do with Steve Rogers being a good man and Tony Stark being Tony Stark.”

The giant silver robot laughed. Hank felt strange as he looked at 6 - ULTRON. Ultron tossed his papers in the air and said, "I despise Tony Stark because I am exactly like Tony Stark. We both believe that our ends justify any means, even if it costs people their lives or precious freedoms. The idea that he was unjustly vilified because of his intelligence and attempt to do good for the world makes me throw up in my mouth. He is vilified because he is an arrogant fool who thinks he is the only solution to all problems, and Stark ALWAYS ends up making things worse. Except when he died, of course."

7 - MAGNETO nodded and said, "This is idiotic. Claiming that people say that Tony Stark wrote the Accords is deliberately ignoring facts. The problem with Tony Stark and the Sokovia Accords is that he SIGNED the Accords just to get his girlfriend back while still being Iron Man. Then broke the Accords MULTIPLE TIMES in the same film but didn't man up and accept the consequences. If I ever come within crushing distance, Iron Man will be the size of a tomato soup can."

8 - OMAKE just sighed and said, "This person isn't even original. Claiming the twins joined Hydra is just stupid at this point. There are multiple clips and posts about how the twins thought they joined Shield, not Hydra. Also this entry brings up Hitler. I'm actually embarrassed for them."

Hank joined the others in looking at the prop-Tony writer with pity. Then they shrugged and left the room.

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