Every time Tony Stark learned from his mistakes

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.

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.

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

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

"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 steroids with a salad plate" I FUCKIN LOST IT! LMFAO

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

This just shows how much the Writers actually cared about Iron Man

I love how Tony made the whole power absorption mechanic as more of a safety precaution at first, but after Thor shocked him with that bolt in Avengers 1 and accidentally powered up the suit, Tony basically said "let's make this bug into a feature" and made a conduit specifically for Thor on the suit's back

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

Another one was the addition of multiple smaller backup arc reactors on all suits after the mark 46 including the iron spider suit and subsequent war machine armours. It proved extremely useful in the event the main chest reactor is destroyed or damaged. It was another way of ensuring that the suit could continue to basic function in a fight or at least slow a fall in the case of Rhodey's incident in civil war.

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

Everyone is talking about how amazing stark is and how he was beautifully written. No one is talking about the "Lost to a guy on steroids with a salad plate"

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

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.

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

The biggest improvement he ever made to his suits was increasing the speed at which he could put them on. His first suit took so long to put on and start that Yinsen died. So each of the following suits where subsequently made easier and faster to put on. He believed he failed Yinsen, and strove to never make that mistake again.

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.

Marvel was something else back then