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Something interesting about Iron Man and Captain America dynamic is I feel like they become more acrimonious as they become closer. Like obviously they were colleagues and OGs but for the longest time I don't think it was a particularly...intimate relationship, if anything Iron Man and Thor were more besties. Then, after roughly two decades of publication, Cap learns Iron Man is Tony Stark (at the same time as Tigra!) but besides calling him out for dating Janet without disclosing his superhero ID, they don't interact a lot as Tony becomes indisposed/is almost exclusively based in L.A. This fight become an iconic comics moment, but he was burning a lot of bridges during the Armor Wars.

Galactic Storm was far from the first time they disagreed, but I think really where they were potentally codified as larger representations of superhero ethics (Iron Man is a very interesting character as he for the most part seems to exist outside the hero vs anti-hero dichotomy, but he was the closest the Avengers had at the time, I guess) but what was also interesting was, because Janet and Thor (Erik Masterson was Thor) at the time were not in the mix to say "This is how the Avengers do/don't operate". Really, that Thor's status would become something of an emeritus one was also a major factor in Steve and Tony's dynamic, from the New Avengers becoming their baby, to Civil War, to the MCU, etc.