Opinion | Tony Stark is the best thing about the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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It's best when focused on Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and the ways in which he has changed.

Robert Downey Jr. of"Avengers: Endgame" shows off his palms during a hand- and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles April 23. By Sonny Bunch Sonny Bunch Bio Follow May 1 at 9:00 AM This post contains spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame.” Please do not read it if you do not want spoilers. I cannot travel back in time and unspoil the movie for you. Marvel’s very stingy with how it uses the Time Stone.

First things first: Downey deserves every penny of the tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars that he’s earned for portraying Tony Stark. The saucy insouciance with which he imbued the character gave the MCU writ large a sort of swagger, projecting an at-the-time-unearned confidence that the franchise and its handlers knew what they were doing.

But there’s a second aspect to Stark’s growth that has been just as interesting and just as moving: his acceptance of fatherhood and his desire to contribute to the next generation. A key plot point in “Endgame” is Tony’s refusal to do anything that would endanger the existence of his daughter, born in the five years between “Infinity War” and the main events of “Endgame.

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