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The only reason he wasn't tying maidens to railway tracks is that his company uses maglev and he isn't allowed to know maidens. It's incredibly off-putting when a character starts being an idiot because the story requires it. Especially since Stark could easily have succeeded without any violence.

How the Movie Will Fix It:

Age of Ultron trailers are already hinting at a Tony who's taking things too far, one who's prepared to enact sweeping surveillance and extreme force entirely on his own say so. And movie Captain America really is the incarnation of the ideals of liberty. Cap was working for S.H.I.E.L.D., his only reference point in a world which had left him behind, and the second he realized they were assholes, he burned them to the ground. He'll have no problem taking down Tony.

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More importantly, the franchise needs Stark to turn evil. Or do something. He's been coasting on Incredibly Privileged Douchebag With No Downside for far too long. In the second movie, they made him an alcoholic and gave him a fatal disease, and all it did was make him stagger while people loved him at a party. Age of Ultron is about to reveal why letting one person do whatever they want is actually a bad idea. Then he'll have a real motivation to try to fix it in the Civil War -- and a real belief that the big picture are more important than individuals like himself or Cap.