It probably wouldn't have helped Tony to know that Wanda feels just as drained. Somehow, in three years, they've managed to avoid this conversation. It had been enough for Tony to know what she and Pietro had, nebulously, been collateral damage to his ignorance. The details only make it worse for both of them.
Before they met, before Ultron, Wanda had sometimes fantasized about the day she would meet Tony Stark and confront him with this, tell him it was all his fault. Now the day has come and it feels hollow, pyrrhic. Watching him squirm with all the weight of guilt brings her no satisfaction.
"You are one man," she says. "All the money and power in the world doesn't change that there are six billion other people." That means a lot of people without hope, a lot of warlords, and only one Iron Man. Only one Scarlet Witch. Tony Stark knows about resource management, after all. He must know it's unsustainable.
She isn't sure if it's ironic or appropriate for a Jewish woman to call Stark out on his messianic complex.
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Date: 2018-08-08 07:33 am (UTC)Before they met, before Ultron, Wanda had sometimes fantasized about the day she would meet Tony Stark and confront him with this, tell him it was all his fault. Now the day has come and it feels hollow, pyrrhic. Watching him squirm with all the weight of guilt brings her no satisfaction.
"You are one man," she says. "All the money and power in the world doesn't change that there are six billion other people." That means a lot of people without hope, a lot of warlords, and only one Iron Man. Only one Scarlet Witch. Tony Stark knows about resource management, after all. He must know it's unsustainable.
She isn't sure if it's ironic or appropriate for a Jewish woman to call Stark out on his messianic complex.