The day people learn that MCU Howard Stark is not the Howard from the comics and that he is actually a good person I swear I’ll throw a fucking party.
I mean did people fucking watch Captain America, Agent Carter and Iron Man 2? Cause it seems they fucking didn’t.
What is good about a father who never tells his son he loves him or even likes him? It screams emotional abuse–and that’s ignoring even all the scenes of Tony venting about how much Howard would talk about Captain America to Tony’s face. (It’s implied Howard would compare Tony to Cap and never favorably.)
Howard’s drunken message to Tony on the Stark Expo gag reel doesn’t mean squat because he never said anything to Tony’s face. Even then, on that video, he called Tony his “creation,” which relegates Tony to more of an object in Howard’s eyes than a living, breathing human being. Tony’s existence was all about Howard’s own ego.
In the MCU tie-in comic Iron Man 2: Public Identity (which is considered MCU canon), Howard was physically and verbally abusive to Tony. Tony’s relationship with Howard was so terrible, he was a kid begging to go back to school during his summer break–just to get away from him.
So, no. Howard Stark was not a good person. At all. He was an abusive sack of shit who whittled away at Tony’s spirit since birth. So much of Tony’s behavior today stems from this abject emotional neglect.
The real nail in the coffin with Howard stark is how Tony talked about him in homecoming. He wants to “break the cycle of shame” by doing the one thing his father never gave him; positive reinforcement. Jesus Christ Howard stark can die again
We have literal evidence that he was never there for Tony, that he physically and emotionally abused him and we’re gonna call him a good man?
Yes it has not been as graphic as the comics (because it’s DISNEY) but you cannot seriously think the dude is a good man.
Yes he might have been nice to Steve and Peggy in the 40s. Time passes. People change. Not because he was nice to Steve means he wasn’t a piece of shit father that directly caused his son’s alcoholism, his lack of self esteem, and his dislike of showing his true self to others.
Howard Stark can choke and die on a cactus.
Op deleted bc they couldn’t handle the truth
Come back and face the facts op
The only reason they should bring Hoeward back is to kill him again.
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