The MCU establishes Tony Stark's death as linked to Doctor Doom, and then things begin to feel less and less like a timeline ...

Multiple comic versions of Doctor Doom offer flexibility for MCU adaptation. One storyline involving Reed Richards becoming Doctor Doom presents a believable route for Tony Stark's transformation.

Though Riri and Tony never crossed paths in the MCU, their comic book history tells a different story. In the comics, Riri is a prodigy attending MIT who constructs her own Iron Man-style armor ...