#i just made marvel a lot more grimdark and i'm not sorry

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For the title meme, with Marvel? "Not All That Glitters Is Molybdenum-Titanium Alloys"

This would be a post-Thor AU where Tony gets his hands on the shattered remnants of the Destroyer armor and uses the alien tech as a springboard to creating a version of Extremis that’s a lot closer to the comics.  This causes the super!arms race to speed up to the point that mass human trials are underway by the time IM3 rolls around.  Instead of people exploding here and there, the 5-6 groups that are working to make the best human weapons are partnering with corporations and unscrupulous financial backers to get variations of their products put into everyday household items so they can test them on a wide swathe of the population.

This means that a multitude of unsuspecting people are suddenly finding themselves Inhuman, or enhanced by nanos, or mutated, and they have no idea how to control themselves or what to do now, but changed is better than dead, and make no mistake - a lot of people are dead.

Now SHIELD, Hydra, the 10 Rings, and a whole host of groups are in a brand new race to get to these people first.  Meanwhile SHIELD is ALSO trying to stop more products from getting to people and the world’s governments are trying to keep the hysteria down to a minimum in the wake of so many mass outbreaks of “food borne illnesses” and/or whatever cover-up they’re trying to push.

It’s not quite the end of the world, but it’s the end of the world as we know it.