Tony is the best. Always good heart. While steve was a traitor.
“Tony was the best. Always a good heart.”
Tony was a weapons manufacturer whose weapons likely killed millions of people. It doesn’t matter that he wasn’t directly responsible, he created weapons to kill a shit ton of people at a time and to profit from it.
He made a transphobic/homophobic joke that likely could’ve gotten Rhodey in trouble and/or harmed.
He build a killer robot and knowingly kept this from everyone. Said robot tried to kill most of the Jim’s population.
Tony didn’t give a damn about the mass destruction he caused until he was cornered in a hallway and it was only about American lives.
Tony blackmailed a teen into fighting on his side and never told him what he was fighting for. He then essentially abandoned him, despite being his mentor and chastised teen Peter for acting like a teen.
Tony consistently made insensitive and asshole jokes to his fellow avengers, which included remarks about their trauma.
After he died, he left billion dollar tech that was in control of drones to a fucking teen. Furthermore, this tech was in violation of the sovokia accords, which led to the “civil war.”
Tony tried to mortal injure Sam with vision, and then when Rhodey got hurt instead, he attacked Sam. He also exposed Clint’s family to the US government, which was a major asshole move. Despite knowing that Bucky was under mind control, he tried to kill him to hurt Steve.
“While steve was a traitor.”
Steve’s convictions are centered around his morals. If he feels something is morally and ethically wrong, he will “betray” it. We see in his first movie that, despite having orders to not rescue the POWs, he does so anyway because it’s morally wrong to leave them there to die if there’s a chance they could be saved.
When he finds out that hydra infiltrated shield and the US government, he acted against them for the betterment of humankind.
When the UN proposes the Sokovia accords, he opposed them due to various rights being stripped from people with powers or enhanced people.
Steve refuses to be loyal to anyone or organizations because they have agendas. We see him clash with authority figures for this very reason. He’s naturally distrustful of any entity that wields massive amount of power.
Not to say that Steve doesn’t make bad decisions, but he’s loyal to his friends and those he cares about. However, loyalty doesn’t mean allow said friend to harm someone else due to grief and anger.
Bucky was under mind control. As tragic as Tony’s parents deaths was, it would’ve been wrong to kill Bucky for something he literally had no control over. This was unambiguously established in that same film.
Despite this, we see Steve still extend himself to Tony and give Tony a way to contact him.
We see Steve form relationships with most avengers and that many of these said avengers are LOYAL to Steve. They chose him as the leader and were willing to die fighting beside him.
Tony is very charismatic, but you have to look at how he and Steve treat people to understand that Steve makes a way better friend, colleague, etc than Tony.
Steve can convince almost literally anyone to fight beside him even it means defying the government and/or going on the run. Most of the people who sided against Steve during civil war, sided in his favor in the beginning of infinity wars. No one went from team cap to team stark. Even tiny sided with cap at the end of civil war.
And if you think I’m exaggerating, check literally every cap movie as well as avengers 2-4. Steve will start a fight alone or with one or two other people and by the end, he has had literal armies and government agencies backing him. As i said about civil war, just about every avenger literally sided with him after all was said and done. He rallied the people together in infinity wars and they followed his lead in endgame.
Like Tony has literally betrayed his fellow avengers where as Steve has constantly defended and protected them.
Tony has the good heart, but was fine locking up other avengers and Steve’s the traitor when he broke them out.