The whole ISSUE of whether he had a right to hold those effects is a major problem with canon.
Was it a result of clearing out Howard's lab to remove any mention of SHIELD or SHIELD projects? Tony had a right to every scrap of the things which didn't qualify, REGARDLESS of Tony's age at the time.
Was the element-creation mcguffin - the CRATES of manufactured parts- a SHIELD project? If not, that's industrial espionage AGAIN, and on an enormous scale. AGAIN.
Howard's personal journal. NO. NO. NO. That was NOT Nick Fury's call. EVEN IF all Tony had done when handed the thing was to BURN IT, Nick Fury had NO RIGHT to withhold the journal.
With any ONE aspect of this kind of abuse, I really don't believe that Nick Fury actually considered Howard Stark a friend. With the cumulative problems, I wonder if Fury actually understands the definition of the word "friend". Everyone in his world seems to fall into "useful" or "irrelevant" categories pretty quickly!
I was left with the impression that SOMEONE in SHIELD, probably under Nick Fury's orders, was trying to discover what Howard's last project actually WAS, what it was meant to do, how far he'd developed the idea, et cetera. So, when they couldn't figure it out, they DIDN'T GIVE BACK the relevant items because it let other people KNOW that they'd been snooping.
That's the kind of shadow-government totalitarian BULL that sparks a revolution. Seriously. Mistreat any ONE person that badly, and the rumors become hints become news become international outcry become a revolution.
History has already shown that it can happen.
Sadly, I don't think anyone with Nick Fury's mindset would even understand the levels of risk he took, or the levels of violation he committed.
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Re: thinking
Date: 2014-04-11 11:24 pm (UTC)Was it a result of clearing out Howard's lab to remove any mention of SHIELD or SHIELD projects? Tony had a right to every scrap of the things which didn't qualify, REGARDLESS of Tony's age at the time.
Was the element-creation mcguffin - the CRATES of manufactured parts- a SHIELD project? If not, that's industrial espionage AGAIN, and on an enormous scale. AGAIN.
Howard's personal journal. NO. NO. NO. That was NOT Nick Fury's call. EVEN IF all Tony had done when handed the thing was to BURN IT, Nick Fury had NO RIGHT to withhold the journal.
With any ONE aspect of this kind of abuse, I really don't believe that Nick Fury actually considered Howard Stark a friend. With the cumulative problems, I wonder if Fury actually understands the definition of the word "friend". Everyone in his world seems to fall into "useful" or "irrelevant" categories pretty quickly!
I was left with the impression that SOMEONE in SHIELD, probably under Nick Fury's orders, was trying to discover what Howard's last project actually WAS, what it was meant to do, how far he'd developed the idea, et cetera. So, when they couldn't figure it out, they DIDN'T GIVE BACK the relevant items because it let other people KNOW that they'd been snooping.
That's the kind of shadow-government totalitarian BULL that sparks a revolution. Seriously. Mistreat any ONE person that badly, and the rumors become hints become news become international outcry become a revolution.
History has already shown that it can happen.
Sadly, I don't think anyone with Nick Fury's mindset would even understand the levels of risk he took, or the levels of violation he committed.