It's kind of funny to look at something like this (from #141) and compare it to what just happened in the current Iron Man run. Here, Tony fights the temptation to kill -- even though he could easily overpower Hammer in an instant. Now, of course, one might argue that the cosmic power he wields in Can't-Write-Well's comics is warping Tony's mind in some way. But in my view, there is just one problem with that argument: the last time Tony was OP - i.e., when he was under the influence of Extremis - he still didn't want to kill anyone. Even when he was out of his mind hallucinating dead friends and spying on people's private phone calls, he never committed intentional murder. In fact, he even killed himself once to restrain the body count when his technology was hijacked.

Yeah, I'm still pissed. Yeah, it's probably going to take me a while to drop it.