Stark Industries would still be blowing up the Middle East and supplying weapons to terrorists if my parents weren't dead.
[ -- okay, so tony is both more blunt and more vague about what he would change, but honestly, what else in his life would he alter? not getting kidnapped? not getting blown up? all of that is easy to get through in comparison to losing his parents. ]
I'd probably change the last thing I said to them, if I could change something minor that wouldn't up-end the realities of space and time. Make me feel a little better. But I don't know if I'd have the willpower to stop there.
[ he knows he wouldn't, but he's not going to admit it ]
But that's why it doesn't exist. And it shouldn't. Because people are people, and people screw things up, and it's better off if things just stand as they were. Tragedy is a part of life. You can't undo what's already been done. You just keep going forward or whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day.
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[ -- okay, so tony is both more blunt and more vague about what he would change, but honestly, what else in his life would he alter? not getting kidnapped? not getting blown up? all of that is easy to get through in comparison to losing his parents. ]
I'd probably change the last thing I said to them, if I could change something minor that wouldn't up-end the realities of space and time. Make me feel a little better. But I don't know if I'd have the willpower to stop there.
[ he knows he wouldn't, but he's not going to admit it ]
But that's why it doesn't exist. And it shouldn't. Because people are people, and people screw things up, and it's better off if things just stand as they were. Tragedy is a part of life. You can't undo what's already been done. You just keep going forward or whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day.