Avengers: Infinity War: 5 fan theories that won’t come true
By Barlow Adams
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 25: Robert Downey Jr. attends the ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Photo Call at the Whitby Hotel on June 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)
2. Tony Stark is not the Soul Stone
The theory goes back to the line in Iron Man 2 when Howard Stark says that Tony was his “greatest creation.” What if he meant this literally? What if he dragged something else up from the ocean other than the Tesseract? Posters have shown Iron Man bathed in an odd orange light, the color thought to correspond with the mysterious–and as yet missing–Soul Stone. Could it be? Could it be?
No. It couldn’t.
Apart from stretching credulity amid a turn that would turn the centerpiece of the MCU into a sort of Pinocchio to his father’s Geppetto, this would be just plain bad, lazy writing. Hinging the survival on the universe on a throwaway line from Iron Man 2 would be not only irresponsible but disappointing from any artistic angle. Infinity War has been all about a buildup, a payoff for years of faith. Something so blatantly insipid would be nothing less than a betrayal of everything Marvel has tried to do.