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** Regarding his signature invention; he constantly has to struggle between the potential good of releasing or mass-producing his [[Iron Man]] suit and all the related technological advancements behind it for the good of the world, with the potential harm it would do if all the supervillains out in the world reverse-engineered it and turned it on its head. Several [[What If]] stories have dealt with the trade-off and it rarely is as much of a [[Hand Wave]] as with most heroes capable of producing such revolutionary inventions.
** He also has a healing ray machine that successfully regenerated [[Nick Fury]] after almost being blown apart to a basic cellular level. Tony Stark hasn't even released a watered-down version of the healing ray machine (face it, a machine like that would probably be exorbitantly expensive) to the public.
** Tony has also made attempts that were unsuccessful due to things not his own fault. For example, he once tried to build a huge, highly-advanced space station with his own money and then donate it to the world to jumpstart private private space industry. AIM then infected it with a bio-weapon that kept anybody from ever using it. Tony's also made several attempts to invent various forms of clean energy and sell them. Either it turns out they didn't work as well in practice as they did in the lab, supervillains blew them up and publicly discredited the technologies, or Tony finds out the technology can be too easily abused to make weapons and has to retract it. The writers really like frustrating Tony whenever he tries to do something besides blast supervillains with repulsors, its annoying.
* The graphic novel ''The Death of [[Captain Mar-Vell]]'' hung a lampshade on this by claiming that every (mortal) sentient race has a disease similar to cancer, and many of the races had already found a cure for their race's version of the disease. Furthermore, when Rick Jones appeals to the superheroes who are scientists and doctors to find a cure for Mar-Vell's cancer, they find themselves uncomfortably realizing they could have made this kind of effort beforehand for others.
* The fictional African nation of Wakanda is, due to a surreptitious abundance of [[Unobtainium]] as a natural resource, a first world nation. This does not extend to any other part of Africa we see, though this is probably why writers don't show it very much, although to their credit from fairly early on they attempted to justify it by having the Wakandans have a policy of isolation that goes back centuries. Furthermore, the Wakandans have also cured cancer but are holding out on the rest of the world; when Mar-Vell was dying of cancer, the Wakandan King was there and said he could do nothing. Sorry, Mar-Vell!
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