What If…? writer A.C. Bradley recently addressed how many times the show has killed Tony Stark. In a conversation with EW, the Marvel scribe explained what they were thinking when making these stories surrounding Iron Man. It’s not like they went into every writing session pledging to kill Tony Stark, it just sort of happened that way. Whether it was getting drugged and assassinated during the second episode or being murdered by Killmonger later on. It’s been a rough go of things for Iron Man on the Disney+ show. (Not to be outdone, Vision is possibly going to be killed for like the fourth time this year.) Bradley stressed that one of the big perks while working on What If…? has been the ability to do things that creators aren’t allowed to do in the MCU. And when you have that kind of power, you have free reign to explore some pretty dark places. Sometimes those locales lead to a beloved Avenger meeting a bad end.
