Being held in captivity, Stark was shocked and disgusted to learn that Maya Hansen was working for A.I.M.; she had used the formula he had written down in a drunken daze after their night together to better stabilize Extremis but she needed money so she joined Killian. Although having forgotten all about the drunken equation he had given her, Stark refused to help her further understand the formula he gave her and expressed his disgust over her losing her soul, as he remembered her as a good psychologist and a woman who had a sense of right and wrong, and tried to appeal to what remained of Hansen's humanity to make her help him escape.
Their conversation was interrupted when Aldrich Killian arrived and explained the reasons behind A.I.M. and how he was grateful to Stark for teaching him that he needed to rule the chaos from behind the scenes. Explaining that he was grateful to Stark for leaving him behind in Switzerland as it gave him a sense of desperation which changed his life, Killian went on to discuss Trevor Slattery's role, acknowledging Slattery's over the top personality.
Killian compared Slattery's Mandarin performance to him creating a terrorist like Osama Bin Laden or a Muammar Gaddafi to blame his failures on. Noting his desire for Stark to suffer desperation, Killian revealed he had captured Pepper Potts and was currently infecting her with Extremis; with Potts' life now in danger of ending up like the failures, Stark would be forced to help improve Extremis for her sake, with Killian noting how much pain Potts was currently in.
While Stark struggled to look at the video feed of Potts' suffering, Killian cruelly mocked him by noting how Potts was now at risk of exploding and offering to pay him for helping them. When Hansen tried to help him by threatening to kill herself to deprive Killian of one of his chief researchers, Stark watched in horror and sadness as Killian casually murder her without any remorse. As Killian left, Stark angrily called him a maniac for killing Hansen while Killian claimed to be a visionary.
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The Story of Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
ActionThis story tells the entire life of Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how he became Iron Man and joined the Avengers and became their leader alongside Captain America. My 2nd favourite MCU superhero and Avenger.
