This whole thing came to me while I was re-watching Iron Man 1 and watching Tony get thrown into cement walls and falling a good 15-20 feet seemingly without too much harm and going HOW IS HE NOT DEAD.
Even before he's finished the suit, when he just has his gauntlets and boots. His "test one" sends him FLYING into a wall and then crashing to the floor. He also goes crashing through at least three floors and lands on a car. No way he wasn't feeling that a bit.
Howard Stark as he appears in the comics is a rather disgusting and disturbing man. And, no. Not really big on "moral fiber".
There are scientists in this world that believe the ends justify the means. Usually, in films and movies they're portrayed as the "bad guys" but human cloning is being researched in the united states. I imagine that Howard kept his experiments from everyone, but his wife. His business partners, his government contacts, they were all in the dark about it.
Canonically, Howard was a really terrible parent that didn't have the time or the inclination to raise a son. Tony also has a distant and cold relationship with his mother. This story is meant to explain that, to a degree.
I never thought about how many times Tony survived something he shouldn't have but your explanations really make sense and I think I'm going to adopt it for my head canon. I really like the direction this story is taking even if Howard is a SOB and I can't understand how Maria let him experiment on her children...
Well, they aren't perfect yet but I'm working on them to explain some things that just didn't make a lot of sense to me.
Howard is an SOB. Howard is CANONICALLY an SOB. Howard was at best distant with his son, but in my opinion he was abusive and destructive. He was a man obsessed and his son suffered for it.
This takes that about a million more steps forward. Howard is not a good man, or a kind man. He's a rich man, a smart man, and an ambitious man. In order for the plot to work, I had to sacrifice Maria as a decent human being and turned her into a gold-digger without any real inclination to have children. In the beginning, she doesn't particularly care for them, but at the same time even she comes to the point where she simply can't lose any more children.
The human fetus is actually very delicate and changing them on a cellular level like Howard does would cause too many problems for it to have worked the first time.
I don't really think Howard saw it so much as "experimenting" on them. More like "improving" the next generation of Starks. Which, isn't really any better, true.
And its terrible no matter whose children they are.
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This whole thing came to me while I was re-watching Iron Man 1 and watching Tony get thrown into cement walls and falling a good 15-20 feet seemingly without too much harm and going HOW IS HE NOT DEAD.
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That being said I would love to read it!
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There are scientists in this world that believe the ends justify the means. Usually, in films and movies they're portrayed as the "bad guys" but human cloning is being researched in the united states. I imagine that Howard kept his experiments from everyone, but his wife. His business partners, his government contacts, they were all in the dark about it.
Canonically, Howard was a really terrible parent that didn't have the time or the inclination to raise a son. Tony also has a distant and cold relationship with his mother. This story is meant to explain that, to a degree.
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I really like the direction this story is taking even if Howard is a SOB and I can't understand how Maria let him experiment on her children...
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Howard is an SOB. Howard is CANONICALLY an SOB. Howard was at best distant with his son, but in my opinion he was abusive and destructive. He was a man obsessed and his son suffered for it.
This takes that about a million more steps forward. Howard is not a good man, or a kind man. He's a rich man, a smart man, and an ambitious man. In order for the plot to work, I had to sacrifice Maria as a decent human being and turned her into a gold-digger without any real inclination to have children. In the beginning, she doesn't particularly care for them, but at the same time even she comes to the point where she simply can't lose any more children.
The human fetus is actually very delicate and changing them on a cellular level like Howard does would cause too many problems for it to have worked the first time.
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Is is better or worse that he only experimented on his own unborn children? I can't decide.
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And its terrible no matter whose children they are.
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I hope I can pull off all that I have planned properly. :)
Thanks for reading!
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