1. I've been reading New Avengers, and you know? The more I get to know Tony, the more I hate what certain writers did to him in Civil War. (I haven't read all of it, but I have bits and pieces, and plenty of summaries.)
Considering it was a contradictory mess anyway, maybe I can just take the bits where he's pragmatic, arrogant, torn, and finally too far down a path spiralling out of his control to go back, and not the ones where he commits and condones atrocities and injustice and blatant stupidity.
He was far from the only character derailed - even Cap got tossed the Idiot Ball constantly - but he definitely got it the worst.
The worst part is, if all the writers had been on the same page, if they'd been subtle and thoughtful and consistent, Civil War
could have been pretty brilliant.