The answer to that question is "who's going to make him?"
In the current franchise, his redemption arc was going from a playboy who didn't much think about the consequences of his actions, but did think he could do whatever he wanted, to someone who started thinking about the consequences of his actions and *still* thought he could do everything he wanted.
From a functional POV, he was right. He'd always had the money, the position, the education, and, yes, the talent to do whatever he wanted. So, he thinks he can do something good and he does this something good.
Ultron should have been a humbling experience for him, but it likely taught him not to trust in his machines to make decisions for him, which fit right in with the egotism.
Heck, Iron Man 2 was all about justifying that vary idea, starting off with Congress asking the very reasonable question of whether or not the Iron Man suit could be trusted, as a technology, in the hands of someone who is not answerable. Not answerable to an electorate (as Congress and White House are) not answerable to the White House (as the Military is) not answerable to basic consequences of his actions (as the people in war torn areas are after he's left).
How can you tell him that he needs to get therapy and treatment for, among other things, his alcoholism when he's too busy with things he thinks he can't trust anybody else to do? How can you tell him that there are some things that are so big that they cannot be trusted to even a perfect Tony Stark because he is not answerable to anybody (with the possible exception of investors), when he thinks that they're too big to trust to anybody else?
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Date: 2016-05-11 10:15 pm (UTC)In the current franchise, his redemption arc was going from a playboy who didn't much think about the consequences of his actions, but did think he could do whatever he wanted, to someone who started thinking about the consequences of his actions and *still* thought he could do everything he wanted.
From a functional POV, he was right. He'd always had the money, the position, the education, and, yes, the talent to do whatever he wanted. So, he thinks he can do something good and he does this something good.
Ultron should have been a humbling experience for him, but it likely taught him not to trust in his machines to make decisions for him, which fit right in with the egotism.
Heck, Iron Man 2 was all about justifying that vary idea, starting off with Congress asking the very reasonable question of whether or not the Iron Man suit could be trusted, as a technology, in the hands of someone who is not answerable. Not answerable to an electorate (as Congress and White House are) not answerable to the White House (as the Military is) not answerable to basic consequences of his actions (as the people in war torn areas are after he's left).
How can you tell him that he needs to get therapy and treatment for, among other things, his alcoholism when he's too busy with things he thinks he can't trust anybody else to do? How can you tell him that there are some things that are so big that they cannot be trusted to even a perfect Tony Stark because he is not answerable to anybody (with the possible exception of investors), when he thinks that they're too big to trust to anybody else?