Tony Stark needs to rest in peace (Picture: Rex Features)
This may be an unpopular opinion and I should be girding my inbox, but please, for the love of Thor, don’t bring Tony Stark back into the MCU.
He’s dead. Let him rest in peace.
We’ve shed our tears, and we’ve cried our cries at the end of Avengers: Endgame, when Robert Downey Jr and Tony made his final play for the good of the universe.
He snapped that mighty gauntlet and Thanos was dusted and everyone was happy.
Of course we were far from happy when Tony, and along with him, Iron Man, died and Gwyneth Paltrow cried and Tom Holland definitely cried and frankly, you find me someone who wasn’t a blubbering mess in the theatre when Pepper Potts whispered ‘we’re gonna be okay, you can rest now’ and I’ll find you a liar.
But his heroes ending just wasn’t enough for people. They now want more.
And because Marvel and Disney know a brilliant moneymaker when they see it, all the ‘sources’ are talking about is the idea Tones is making his big comeback in the upcoming Black Widow spinoff.
Tony’s story is perfectly fine where it is (Picture: Rex Features)
Starring Scarlett Johansson in the titular role, it’ll focus on her life after the events of Civil War – hence not only why Avenger Natasha Romanoff (AKA BW), but also Tony can return; it’s all in the past.
It’s bad enough Black Widow is coming back despite also biting the dust big time in Endgame (another harrowing scene, no less), but now we might have to contend with the return of two fallen comrades?
You might as well bring back Thanos if deaths in the Marvel Cinematic Universe mean so little to you, fam.
While it’s also been prophesied Tony is making another return to the world of Marvel in an upcoming Disney+ series, already suggested to be an AI in Iron Heart, I just don’t understand why we can’t accept the loss of these characters and move on?
But why must we always need to bring someone back, even if their ending says they don’t exist anymore?
Since when did Marvel become an episode of Neighbours, where death ACTUALLY means they’re just kicking elsewhere before returning like it was no big thing they were in a car accident and drowned (Dee, we’re looking at you).
I’m not saying I don’t want Tony to return because I don’t like him. Heck, I love the iron fella – he brings a certain spunk and moxie to the franchise none of the other characters can master.
But why must we always need to bring someone back, even if their ending says they don’t exist anymore?
I’m saying we need to learn to let go. Otherwise, every time a massive character carks it, we’re just going to roll our eyes, sigh, take another handful of popcorn and feel nothing knowing they’ll probably get their own spin-off next year.
I know I’m raining on everyone’s parade by poo-pooing a possible return of Tony, but what happens if he does appear and it sucks?
The last memory of Iron Man won’t be of his heroic feat, his wife kissing him on the forehead and the whole team of the Avengers getting down on one knee to salute their fallen leader.
It might be in a throwaway scene that means nothing and, thus, sort of ruins his legacy a little.
Hey, it might be brilliant and the whoops and cheers of the audience will serve to throw pie on my face, but the last thing I want for you, boo, is to be left disappointed by something you once held so dear.
