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- God, I sound like my dad.
- —Tony to Peter.[1]
Iron Dad is the family ship between Tony Stark and Peter Parker from the Marvel and Marvel Cinematic Universe fandoms.
Canon[]
Iron Man 2[]
Although Tony doesn't realize, they have already met during the Stark Expo in 2010. Peter visited the Stark Expo and acquired toy replicas of the Iron Man helmet and glove, including Tony Stark's autograph. During his second visit, Hammer Drones began attacking the expo, sent by Ivan Vanko, prompting Iron Man to fight them. One drone landed in front of a fearless Peter, who held his hand up in defiance. Iron Man arrived just in the nick of time and destroyed the drone, thanking Peter for his help before flying off to continue the battle, leaving Peter completely awestruck.
However, it's implied in Deadpool & Wolverine that Peter has told Tony about this incident eventually, since the toy helmet was seemingly in Tony's possession and displayed together with a photo of both of them together.
Captain America: Civil War[]
In 2016, the talent of the Spiderling caught Tony's attention. Tony made a suit for him to keep him safe and asked for his help against Captain America. Towards the end of the fight with Team Captain Peter fell down and lost his consciousness. After the battle Tony checked on him and when he noticed Peter got hurt, he sent the teen home.
Spider-Man: Homecoming[]
After the Civil War, Tony took Peter home and gave him the Spider-Man suit. Peter thought that Tony didn't listen to him and care about him. However, Tony always kept an eye on him and several times saved him. He listened to his voicemails and put a tracker in his suit to always know where Peter is. Despite all these Peter is a stubborn teenager, who wanted to prove himself so he didn't obey to Tony. Not surprisingly he screwed it up so Tony took away his suit. Without his suit he defeated the Vulture and made Tony proud. Tony offered him a place between the Avengers and the chance to live with him, but Peter refused it. At the end of the movie they said goodbye to each other, and Peter said they would see each other around.
Avengers: Infinity War[]
One year after Homecoming their relationship became much stronger. We can assume that they stayed in contact since Homecoming. Peter saved Tony in the battle of New York, then despite his best effort to rescue Dr. Strange, he was unable to retrieve him and was subsequently pulled toward the alien warship. He nearly suffocated as the ship left Earth's atmosphere but was promptly rescued by the intervention of Iron Man who summoned the Iron Spider Suit.
- “Pete, you have to let go. I'll catch you.”
- — Tony to Peter.
Despite Tony's orders to return home, he stubbornly remained on board and infiltrated the ship. After Tony found out that Peter stayed on the Ship they had a little argument, because Tony was worried about Peter. After that Peter helped Tony to save Dr. Strange, and Tony officially made Peter a member of the Avengers, making him happy. However Thanos succeeded. They watched as their allies began fading and disappearing one by one, until Peter realized that he himself was also beginning to fade.
He terrified and tearfully clutched onto Tony, as he insisted that he did not want to die. Tony stayed by him till the end and attempted to comfort his scared mentee. As Peter collapsed, he muttered a final apology to Tony for failing him before he disintegrated into nothingness.
- “I don't–I don't know what's happening. I don't–Save me, save me! I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go. Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't want to go. I don't want to go. I'm sorry.”
- — Peter to Tony.
After the unimaginable Tony sat down with his hand covered with Peter's ashes pressed against his mouth. He rocked back and forth while a teardrop streamed down his face.
Avengers: Endgame[]
Weeks after the events of Avengers: Infinity War, Tony comes back to earth after being lost in space for the past weeks. He tells Captain America that he lost Peter and gets visibly upset when he sees a picture of Peter Parker pop up among the other people who have died. He gets mad at Captain America, largely due to his grief and retires from being Iron Man.
5 years later, Tony gets contacted by the Avengers with news about the potential of a time travel machine. Tony refuses to make it due to him not wanting to lose his life with his wife and daughter. However, he changes his mind after seeing a photo of him and Peter and creates the time travel machine.
After the time traveling plan succeeded, the victims of the snap all returned back to life, still the same age as 5 years ago. On the battlefield against Thanos, Peter is happy to see Tony and rambles on. Tony doesn't say anything and just hugs Peter, surprising him before he returns it.
During the battle Tony sacrifices himself to defeat Thanos and his army. As Tony is about to die, Peter tells him they have won. He tries to elicit a response from Tony but he breaks down when Tony doesn't respond. Realising Tony is on the brink of death, Peter is struck by guilt and apologizes to him, calling Tony by his first name for the first and last time.
Spider-Man: Far From Home[]
Spider-Man: Far From Home shows Peter mourning Tony and struggling with the publics expactations of him becoming the next "Iron Man", getting panic attacks when asked questions about it.
Tony left one of his glasses behind for Peter, giving him access to his entire security network system. Tony had added a note to the glasses saying "For the next Tony Stark. I trust you." However, Peter due to his self doubts feels as though Tony didn't believe him to be ready and just gave him the glasses to pass them onto someone else. After Mysterio successfully fooled Peter into giving up the glasses, Mysterio uses an illusion of Tony Stark's grave to taunt him, telling him that maybe if he were good enough, Tony would still be alive.
Peter confides in Happy, telling him he really misses Tony and that he doesn't believe he can be Iron Man as everyone expects him to be. Happy attempts to comfort him.
- “Tony second guessed everything he did. The one thing he didn't second guess, was picking you. I don't think Tony would have done what he did, if he didn't know you were gonna be here after he was gone.”
- — Happy Hogan to Peter.
After this conversation, Peter makes up his mind to beat Mysterio and aquire the glasses back. Reminding Happy of Tony as he watches Peter create a new suit, similar to how Tony would make his Iron Man suits in his laboratory.
Fanon[]
Iron Dad is basically a familyship, but that doesn't mean in every case that Tony is Peter's dad. Mostly in the fandom they just have a father-son relationship, but they aren't relatives. Although fanfictions where Tony adopts and raises Peter are popular.
Some fans noticed that Tony put many features in Peter's suit based on his experience. For-instance, he put a chute in Peter's suit because Rhodey had fallen, he also put a heater because he had been cold when JARVIS had sent him away. This might show how Tony cared for Peter's safety and served as a father figure to him.
Many fans think it is very sad that Tony had missed Peter for five years and successfully brought him back, but didn't even get to see Peter grow up. It is also saddening that Peter once again lost his father figure.
Iron Dad is also used as a very generic tag to refer when Tony interacts and bonds with children, such as with Harley in Iron Man 3, or with Morgan (his own child). This tag has also been used when Tony bonds with Nebula or when he created Vision (MCU) and kept watching over him. Any instance where Tony acts like a good person or father figure towards much younger people, or his children, is the moment people use Iron Dad to refer to him as this parental figure.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Peter & Tony tag on AO3
- Peter/Tony tag on AO3
- Iron Man/Spider-man (Avengers films) on FanFiction.net
- Iron Man/Spider-man (Marvel comics) on FanFiction.net
- Iron Man/Spiderman (Avengers comics) on FanFiction.net
Photos[]
Variations[]
- Sciencefamily refers to the ship between Tony and Bruce Banner who have adopted Peter as their son
- Superfamily refers to the ship between Tony and Steve Rogers who have adopted Peter as their son
- Supremefamily refers to the ship between Tony and Stephen Strange who have adopted Peter as their son
References[]
- ↑ Spider-Man: Homecoming
