Elon Musk Is Not Tony Stark — He’s Obadiah Stane | Inkican

I feel bad for saying this, because like many of you, I wanted to believe that Elon Musk really was transforming himself into the real-life Tony Stark. Sadly, the past few years of Musk-ness have left me with no alternative conclusion: Elon Musk Is Not Tony Stark — He’s Obadiah Stane. Buckle up as I begin to eat some long-overdue crow.

Look, I’m not the only one who wanted to believe. Musk’s potential has been the topic of discussion for years now, and it’s only in the past eighteen months that we’ve started to see the mess behind the mask. In a world of difficult problems with no easy answers, we wanted to believe that Musk had an answer for all of us. Now that we know more about his intentions, we need to back away from the idea that Tony Stark is the ideal Musk is shooting for. Look no further than the Youtube stars lining up to dunk on the failed ‘Elon Musk is a real Tony Stark’ story trope:

In fact, Musk is looking for like Obadiah Stane. Who is that?

If you look up Stane in the marvel-movies.fandom wiki, you quickly remember that Obadiah Stane was the business partner and eventual enemy of Tony Stark. When Tony decides to stop producing weapons at Stark Industries, Obadiah retaliates by building his own iron suit. Looking further into Stane as a character, you start to see clear parallels between Stane and Musk:

“Obadiah was treacherous, intelligent, callous, sociopathic and extremely manipulative. He was capable of feigning…