Thread:BEJT/@comment-27496405-20170830154244/@comment-26838855-20171112181558

Gerisama wrote: I was rewatching Iron Man 3,  and in the post-credit scene with Bruce, Tony mentions that he 14 years old in 1983(implying that he was born in 1969), which kinda retcons  the birth-year of Tony we had in his SHIELD files.

However, as we know his SHIELD files says he was born in 1970, also other evidance is that we know his parents died in 1991 dec 16, and he became the CEO after their death at the age of 21, meaning  his birth year cant be before 1970.

It's interesting to see that the MCU had mistakes like the 8years befoe in homecoming, much earlier, but somehow I never  found this little counituity mistake before.

It's clear that the 1970 is the more correct solution, I just wanted to share this piece of info with you guys. Yeah, it's dumb. I addressed that early in my blog and think it might be a possible reason for part of the problems. If they are abiding by that, it means Tony has to have been born in the final days of 1969, to be "14" in 1983, and yet 21 when he takes over Stark Industries - which they must have placed like a week after his parents' deaths, days before his 22nd birthday, instead of in 1992 as his file suggests. This would then be why they seem to have squished Iron Man 2 into the same year as Iron Man - wanting his birthday to be in December, rather than May, and therefore with it 6 months after Iron Man, having to be in the same calendar year.

The thing is, the overwhelming evidence places the events of Iron Man 2 in May, and the May 29, 1970 date lines up pretty much perfectly with everything else except this slip-up. I've addressed that in the blog I think. Plus the file says he took over the company in 1992, which would also discount the 1983 line (which, granted, would take precedence, except it's vastly overruled).

Ughhh. I just wonder why people don't want to take good care with this stuff.