Yeah, Tony was capable of doing whatever the writers wrote him to be capable of, just like every other fictional character. And the writers wrote him doing it in a manner similar to the "programming" in Swordfish or the tech work in NCIS (or whatever show it was that had multiple people typing on one keyboard at the same time). As in difficult to tell if they had any understanding of it at all, sensationalised it for entertainment purposes, deliberately made it unlike any real programming to troll people who do understand programming, or some combination of all those.

MCU science might as well just be another school of magic. Especially when Tony's suit could shapeshift and convert between matter and energy because of some quantum mumbo jumbo. He just cast a quantum spell on it.

Also every movie had multiple impacts in that iron suit that should have been worse for him than most car crashes.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I don't really object to the premise of the character - Batman-like super genius who stacks the deck in his favor by building a bunch of cool gadgets to get him out of tight spots. But I agree, its far more fun to see a character like Tony run up against the limits of his gadgetry than to hand him the Super Science "I Win Button" and wait until the last five minutes of the show to press it.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, it's decent entertainment. It's just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there's no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.

Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 5 hours ago

A sufficiently advanced technology even