Every time Tony Stark learned from his mistakes

"Lost to a guy on steroids with a salad plate" I FUCKIN LOST IT! LMFAO

"Lost to a guy on steroids with a salad plate" pure comedy gold 🤣

One thing a lot of people miss is that during Age of Ultron, the Hulkbuster couldnt slow down the Hulk. So when he built the nano suit, he added more power and more blasters. When his arc reactor was taken out of his chest in the first film, he started adding individual ones to each bit of tech. When he realized that having each piece of the suit fly to him was too unreliable, he made the nano suit so its always with him. During the attack on his mansion, he couldnt aim the rocket in his suit. So he made them auto targeting in the nano suit. And finally, in the first movie, when hes fixing up his hand repulsor, he accidently fires it and realizes it can also be a weapon not just flight stabilizers. Everyone tends to view him as just the guy with money and tech, but hes really the epitomy of always learning from his mistakes. He always grows from his failures. Its why hes one of my favorites

I love that Tony was impressed that his own improvement took a lightning bolt without failing him

This really goes to show that genius isn't about knowing everything, it's about learning and adapting

The fact that Tony took three of these mistakes from his life and added as a precautionary measure in Peter's suit after one month of knowing him just showed how much he really cared about him.

Tony really heard the “fool me once” quote and decided he was never gonna lose a rematch

Two points that were missed here: In Age Od Ultron the Hulkbuster’s repulsers weren’t powerful enough to keep the Hulk at bay forcing him to fight hand to hand, so in Infinity War his nanotech suit has significantly more ranged firepower to keep enemies like Coal Obsidian away. And in relation to Rodey falling, Tony’s flight systems weren’t fast enough to catch him so in Infinity War he upgraded them to have a higher top speed. Because Tony learns from his mistakes.

"I nearly died twice in space." "My army wasn't strong enough." "I lost someone to a high fall." "Tennessee's weather sucks."

"Lost to a guy on steroid with his salad plate" this had me laughing to the core 🤣🤣🤣

Another great improvement was in Iron Man 2 with the final fight Tony takes down a whole crowd of the army drones by using that high powered laser and he tells Roadie "It's too bad I could only use it once." Then by the first Avengers movie he's using the same laser to weld metal together and take down those flying aliens. I always thought that part was well done, where he found a way to use his dad's age old technology and adapt it to the modern day.

I really appreciate that the second Iron legion were no longer suits. Them being suits was their main problem, since that forced them to be hollow and lighter, allowing for less durability and space for computing software. Him making them fully robotic completely solved that problem

Stark was the embodiment of "Know your limits, but don't limit yourself"

I would add another one: in Infinity war Tony tries to steal the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos, but he fails; in Endgame he only steals the stones.

Always loved how smart any AI made by Tony was. Even Friday was, 5:40 when antman was inside his suit, tony just goes "Friday!?", all panicked. Friday is smart enough to recognize that, figure out why he is distressed, and then come up with her own solution and apply it since tony was too panicked to think on the fly. Imagine if ChatGPT was that smart...

I like how as soon as tony realised rhodes wasn’t pulling out of the fall he was in, he turned around and went full blast towards him to try and catch him

You gotta love how most mistakes he learnt from were added to Peter’s suit. He wants Peter to be better than himself.

Back when character development was a crucial point of the plot. Tony was a genius, and geniuses don't tolerate failures.

Quick Correction: No. 4 isn't a mistake, his suit was always space compatible, he just ran out of power. In the whole fight he kept saying JARVIS to save power, and when he was taking missile to the space he told JARVIS to use all the power the suit had. It hwasn't space condition problem.

This is why he’ll always be one of my favourite superheroes, he always learns from his mistakes and adapts to the situations