Why Iron Man Didn’t Fight Thanos With EDITH In Avengers: Endgame

in avengers end game our favorite heroes pulled out all the stops and gave it their all to bring down the mad titan well except for tony stark yes he did make the ultimate sacrifice to save the day but it's possible that that wouldn't have been necessary if he didn't squirrel away a fantastical piece of tech instead of using it in this battle of royal we saw many heroes re-emerge after being dusted but where was perhaps the mightiest avenger of them all edith we were first introduced to edith in the movie spider-man far from home which was our first look at the mcu post avengers end game it was a weird world without the beloved hero tony stark but iron man did leave behind a legacy in the form of peter parker and a spiffy pair of sunglasses hello peter i am edith tony stark's augmented reality security and defense system you know somebody i can't remember who it exactly was once said remember with great power comes great responsibility clearly peter parker needs to work on being more responsible because almost as soon as he got those glasses on he nearly annihilated an entire bus full of his classmates yeesh edith is well i'll let her introduce herself even dead i'm the hero tony loved his acronyms she is an augmented reality in defense system designed by tony stark that can access the stark industry's global satellite network basically she's a super handy ai that can order a massive amount of drones to descend at any time which would be handy as long as nobody willingly hands them over to a villain but who would do something as silly as that while peter definitely experienced a bit of a learning curve with edith its creator tony stark would have been able to wield the glasses a lot more effectively so the question now is why didn't he it seemed safe to assume that tony created edith at some point during avengers end game likely during the five-year time jump he seemed pretty busy with figuring out time travel once he reunited with the avengers and we know he was inventing during his downtime since he made a suit for pepper potts so if he had edith before the final showdown with thanos why didn't the glasses ever come into play this was the big battle and tony clearly knew that going into it since he already prepared a hologram to be played of himself in case he didn't make it man that guy loves having the last word one obvious answer to why didn't tony use edith during end game is because they wanted to use it as a plot device in far from home instead but instead of getting meta about it let's take a look at some in-universe explanations for why things worked out this way because they're a lot more convincing than you might think in spider-man far from home mysterio was able to use edith to order a massive drone strike which caused a ton of damage and chaos that our friendly neighborhood spider-man had to deal with it wasn't that easy and taking down the drones one by one wasn't really an option peter had to track down the source and get back the glasses in order to put a stop to the chaos and he didn't escape from his adventure unscathed believe me i'm not saying that edith isn't powerful by any means but i am going to say that it probably wouldn't have been the game changer many people think it could have been an end game even though he's greatly powered down compared to his comic book counterpart thanos was still one of the most powerful characters in the entire mcu we've seen heroes like the incredible hulk and thor go up against him one on one and still fail to bring him down even when he didn't have all the infinity stones at his disposal when 2014 thanos showed up during end game and the avengers were forced to stand against him it wasn't exactly an easy battle despite the fact that the heroes had strength and numbers on their side thanos is just that strong so much so that bringing the full might of edith down upon him might not have done that much after all spider-man was able to defeat mysterio who had both edith and his own illusions on his side so it doesn't seem crazy to suggest that thanos could have conquered the drones if they were brought out things got a lot more complex in this fight when allies of both thanos and the avengers started showing up it was an all-out brawl and things got kinda complicated it was a seemingly endless expanse of warriors fighting for their lives our heroes were playing hot potato with the infinity gauntlet and things started looking awfully grim for the good guys you might be thinking this would have been the perfect time for a massive influx of drones but there's one big reason i think that would have ended badly and we already saw it happen and far from home you're in the strike zone the chance of getting hit fire all the drones now yeah friendly fire's a thing and i don't like the odds of our heroes sustaining serious injuries thanks to an army of drones blasting everything even if tony was able to command the drones to only fire on enemies accidents have been known to happen and if he has to sit around micromanaging drones then he can't go all out in his ironman suit and that doesn't seem like a very good trade-off even someone as brilliant as tony stark has limits to how much they can multitask and a drone fleet could have distracted him oh and if you want irrefutable proof that iron man using edith wouldn't have helped defeat thanos don't worry i got some how many we win one this little part from infinity war right here dr strange looked at over 14 million possible futures and i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess tony tried to use edith in at least one of them and yet doctor strange said one and not just one unless you integrate an ai with a pair of cool shades and fly around a bunch of drones if tony did use edith best case scenario he could have made the fight a little bit easier on his allies worst case scenario he could have accidentally injured someone on his side or worse now we know all of this because we're clearly brilliant but tony didn't know this going into the final battle so we still need to think about why tony didn't try to utilize edith at any point during endgame and i think this could have something to do with the time period in which he created the glasses as i mentioned earlier i believe tony designed these during the time skip and end game which was a point when tony felt more alone than ever during captain america civil war the avengers fractured and tony and steve rogers didn't exactly part on good terms and if you thought that was bad well things were a little tense at the beginning of end game as well no trust fire during age of ultron we learned tony was terrified after the battle of new york revealed that there were enemies he wasn't strong enough to defeat on his own captain america assured him that they could defeat anything together and then they all worked together to bring down ultron which seemingly proved his point tony knows the power of having backup and after living through civil war and the decimation he felt like he didn't have any which likely led to the creation of edith a kind of artificial backup teammate but eventually the team got back together with a plan to put things right and tony and steve put the past behind them if tony created edith to compensate for missing the other avengers then it explains why he didn't need it anymore at this point however he did leave them behind for peter parker to be given to him if tony was no longer around and it was peter who needed backup after all we all know tony's always been good at being there for peter even if he wasn't actually there thank god this place has wi-fi or you would be toast right now even before edith tony had the power to unleash remote controlled iron man suits whenever he wanted to and they were incredibly effective i mean they couldn't do anything but they were pretty close you want to just kiss it on the facial slit after iron man 3 tony cooled it with his army of super suits but clearly kept a few around just for checking up on peter parker at the very least so he has had the option to have remote weapons fight for him but he's chosen not to utilize them in most cases one reason for this could very well be the fact that he struggles to step away from the suit and more so than that the feeling of personal responsibility he has when he sees trouble because as we all know that's what heroes do tony's not someone who lets other people fight his fights even if it means risking his life and this could have something to do with one of his biggest instances of character development in the mcu another factor which may have impacted his decision to leave edith behind could be traced back to the very first iron man movie i know it seems like just yesterday tony was putting on a super suit for the very first time he learned several important lessons during that movie and one of them was that weapons can hurt people even if they are also really profitable hey the guy's come a long way since then his company stark industries created dangerous technology which was then sold and used to hurt people something tony found a lot harder to justify when he was one of those people after jensen sacrificed himself for tony in that cave our hero decided to make some major life changes don't waste your life he shut down the weapons division and started taking justice into his own hands sitting back and letting other people or projectiles do all the work isn't tony's style and even when he does send up remote controlled suits he's the one controlling them he wouldn't have been able to devote the necessary brainpower to commanding the drones and fighting thanos on his own and given what we know about his character there's no doubt in my mind which choice he would make captain america once doubted that tony was the type of person to get his hands dirty but he's been proven wrong many times over at this point we can't see the future but doctor strange sure as heck can and based on what we saw transpire between him and tony it seems like the edith glasses wouldn't have helped defeat thanos in any kind of meaningful way either that or tony really really misinterpreted strange's hand signal and he was just telling him to put his shades on because his future was going to be so darn bright but somehow i don't think that's the case even though peter really goofed up his trial run of those glasses he'll still likely be able to put them to good use at some point in the future now that he knows how not to stick drones on his classmates well do you think having access to edith would have changed end game for the better or was it smart to leave the big reveal until far from home tell us all about what you think in the comment section down below and then click on that subscribe button for more new videos from us here at cbr thanks for watching and we'll see you again next time

Channel: CBR

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Keywords: Tony Stark, Iron Man, Avengers Endgame, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Infinity War, Doctor Strange, EDITH glasses, Spider-Man Homecoming, Far From Home, Quentin Beck, Peter Parker, Mad Titan Thanos, summon drones, villain Mysterio, CBR

Id: Oak9qtrqOZw

Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020