The MCU's Weirdest Iron Man Hangover Has A Perfect Solution
Warning! SPOILERS for Ms. Marvel.
Marvel Studios' weirdest Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) problem has a perfect solution. It has been several years since Tony Stark's death in Avengers: Endgame, but he remains a factor in the MCU Phase 4's storytelling. Surprisingly, Iron Man's legacy plays a small but important part in Ms. Marvel.
Marvel Studios' seventh Disney+ series introduces the franchise's newest hero, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) — a 16-year-old Jersey City native who is obsessed with the Avengers and gets her own unique powers. As she navigates her newfound capabilities, the Department of Damage Control starts hunting her. It's still unclear how exactly the organization shifted its purpose from cleaning up cities where Avengers' battles take place to targeting unregistered superheroes, but that seems to be its function now. In Ms. Marvel episode 4, they even took in the ClanDestine following a commotion in Jersey with the intention of locking them up. Regardless of how they changed their mission, their actions are tainting Iron Man's legacy, considering that he was funding Damage Control, as revealed in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Based on the events of Ms. Marvel, Damage Control has veered away from its initial role. Even if they now have a different mandate, using brutal force to execute it isn't a good look on them and by way, Iron Man. This is especially the case if Stark Industries and Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) continue to fund them.
Luckily, Marvel Studios has a fairly easy way to resolve this issue: by bringing back Iron Man 2 villain, Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell). The Hammer Industries executive is essentially a dark mirror of Tony
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