“Not their first mistake. I would judge that to be ‘Prince Xavin will be his father writ small’.” It was often wrong to judge this Tony Stark by the one she knew of from her Earth, but surely some things were congruent. “I... imagine that many of your enemies made similar early mistakes.” The Howard Stark of her Earth, to her limited knowledge, had taken what amounted to the easy path, the simple service of war. This Tony, by the evidence, right or wrong, chose harder paths.