Wait: you mean to tell me that OG Tony Stark was in the weapons business for potentially noble reasons? Gosh, who would've thought! In the modern era, sadly, every writer just assumes that Tony was a flat-out egotistical bastard who participated in the military-industrial complex to serve his own selfish ends. But that's not how he was initially perceived by his creator! Initially, Tony was envisioned as a far more complex character.

So there we are: yet more documentary proof that there was a significant shift in how Tony was interpreted and portrayed around the turn of the 21st century.