I googled “is Tony Stark a war criminal” hoping to find at least ONE post agreeing with me that he is not a war criminal.
Boy, was that a fucking mistake.
Also, everyone absolutely adores interchanging “war profiteer” with “war criminal” when it comes to Tony Stark; probably because they will always associate Tony with the word “criminal”
Now, I wish I could say he wasn’t a war profiteer, but the definition of a war profiteer is “any person or organization that derives profit from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war.” Which he did, so he was.
HOWEVER.
The definition of a war crime (or criminal) is “is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by the combatants, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, the conscription of children in the military, committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.” Now, I know that there are one of these that anti-Tony people love to scream and shout…..but there’s something extremely hypocritical about their argument and their other MCU beliefs (which I’m going to talk about further down).
And they further push the belief “Tony Stark is a was criminal who deserved to be convicted and executed for his war crimes because he worked with the military.”
Which is fucking hilarious given their love and support for many other characters in the MCU…..who have had just as much involvement in the military as Tony (and by extension, Rhodey) have.
(Below is long, but I need to get it out)
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