054. Disguise

"This was so much easier when I had a secret identity," Tony remarks.

"You had to lie all the time - which you're terrible at, you had a staff of people covering for you and robot duplicates so that you could appear in two places at once, but they went evil half the time," Pepper counters. "What part of that is easy?"

Easy was the wrong word. As Iron Man, he used to be able to escape being Tony Stark. Iron Man was a force for justice, seemingly independent from Tony's mistakes.

"I had you to cover for me," he shrugs.