Peter Parker replacing Tony Stark and Tony Stark’s legacy, and taking on his curse never made sense, also proved that The MCU has failed to understand Tony Stark’s Legacy.
Despite, Iron Man being the backbone of the franchise, the MCU simply doesn’t understand Tony Stark’s legacy. After Tony sacrificed his life at the end of Avengers: Endgame, Stark may go but his monuments, his memories, his inventions will live on, but the idea of replacing Stark is quite disheartening.
Tony Stark’s arc in the MCU is one of a man cursed and so is Tony Stark’s legacy. Thanos alludes to his misery in the now-infamous “cursed by knowledge” parallel the mad Titan drew between the two in Infinity War, but by then it was already well-established. Tony has fought since he suited up as Iron Man to defeat the idea of becoming his father and repeating his mistakes or adding more sins on the Stark name.
He tussled control of Stark Industry from the hands of Obadiah Stane for the very same reason but ended up choosing a cursed life when he decided to be a superhero. For that point – Stark’s need to save the universe took a lot from him it ruined his relationship, it ruined his peace of mind.
Is Peter Parker Able To Take On Tony Stark’s Legacy?
But then in Captain America: Civil War a new player entered the game. Marvel gifted Tony a sidekick in the mask of Spiderman, a kid superhero whom Tony decided to mentor. The idea that his life was ruined by an obsession with being Iron Man – which was entirely unsubtly paralleled with an actual disease in Iron Man’s sequels – and that it could only with his death does not fit with the idea that he would somehow want to pass on the mantle to another hero.
Tony’s desire to sacrifice his life so no one else has to lose his life is that one thing that Tony will never like to pass on.
Bringing Spiderman in Civil War was Tony’s strategy to neutralize Captain America who will never throw punches on a kid. Despite Spiderman being a strong and great hero on his name, he was chained to Iron Man, which somewhere restricted him to be a better superhero. But Tony’s decision to bringing Spiderman as his sidekick was wrong too, Tony should have fought more against Peter molding himself in his image and he absolutely should not have left Spider-Man E.D.I.T.H. as a sort of legacy gift.
