The War Is Far from over Now (Iron Man Lives Again, #1; Time to Carry the Colors Again, #1)

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Relationships: Jarvis (Iron Man movies) & Tony Stark, Pepper Potts & Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark, past Tony Stark & the Avengers, Maria Hill & Tony Stark, Nick Fury & Tony Stark
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The world keeps pushing him, demanding, because what he did wasn't enough. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, but that wasn't enough, wasn't ever enough.

Tony Stark was
tired
. But he had a planet to protect, even if everyone laughed at him whenever the prospect of alien invasions was brought up. He could count on one hand how many people he could trust, which was disheartening but then, what else was new?

Or,

In which Tony does not, in fact, intend to take over the world.

...unfortunately, everyone else missed that particular memo.

[gradual divergence from canon, starting at the end of Iron Man 3. In which it's Tony's self-awareness, rather than his support system, that becomes a cryptid sometime during Phase II.]