May 18, 2025
Just saw an over 65,000 liked video on TikTok about how Stan Lee’s plan from the beginning for the MCU was that Tony Stark was going to turn into Victor Von Doom….
With a comment liked by the original poster being “I’ve been screaming since AOU that Tony Stark was the real villain of the Infinity Saga!”
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That creator is probably right, and I seriously fucking cannot.
That’s why the MCU couldn’t fucking stop with the “Tony Stark was always the villain” narrative, even after he’s dead.
And most MCU fans are going to eat. that. shit. up.
It is going to be fucking brutal to be a fan of MCU Tony Stark these next couple of years, even more so than during the Infinity Saga (especially during Civil War).
But to mainly sum up my feelings about it: