MCU Tony WTF
okay, I keep seeing this in so many fics and it is driving me fucking INSANE...
Is there some comic canon somewhere that puts Tony Stark's birthday in 1974? Because I keep seeing in SO MANY FICS that he was "17" when Howard and Maria are killed by the Winter Soldier, and that is just WRONG.
MCU Tony was born May 29, 1970, and his parents were killed December 16th, 1991. That makes him TWENTY ONE when they are killed. Where in the fuck does this "17" thing come from???
It wouldn't get to me so much except that it happens SO OFTEN. If someone mentions an age when he's orphaned, it's ALWAYS 17, unless it's a blatant AU where it happens sooner or later. And it always jars me out of the fic so damn bad. WHERE IS IT FROM!??? Why do so many people say 17? Is that a fuck up factoid from one of the MCU artbooks or something? Is it fanon that people adopted because they have forgotten basic math? WHAT? Is it something said in Ironman 1 or something that I have flushed from my brain? I DON'T UNDERSTAND, because there's no ambiguity in the source material that I am aware of.
WHY do so many people keep trying to make him 17 when his parents are murdered?!? WHY 17?!
someone please explain this to me?