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Being an a-hole and causing the apocalypse because of careless decisions are two different things. There is more to it than "Stark is an a-hole".

Well being an a-hole is short hand for saying that Stark is a narcissist who often believes that no matter what he's the smartest guy in the room (in most cases he's right, technically). He also often believes that his idea is the best and only idea that will work. On this, he is usually wrong. But because he's arrogant, he's probably going to try and do it. And because of all of these things, he was easily manipulated to take actions that caused lots and lots of problems,

But in the end, he's also the guy that fixes them, so there's that too.

Of course, there's more too it, and we've discussed this already.

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Posted by abellsujr

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Posted on 5/4/15 at 12:46 pm to Freauxzen

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Well being an a-hole is short hand for saying that Stark is a narcissist who often believes that no matter what he's the smartest guy in the room (in most cases he's right, technically). He also often believes that his idea is the best and only idea that will work. On this, he is usually wrong. But because he's arrogant, he's probably going to try and do it. And because of all of these things, he was easily manipulated to take actions that caused lots and lots of problems,

But in the end, he's also the guy that fixes them, so there's that too.

Of course, there's more too it, and we've discussed this already.

And maybe a better way to phrase my views on Stark was to say his character took his arrogance to a whole new level. I do agree that Stark is all of the things you're describing, but I think he went further than I would have liked or expected. Of course this is before I thought about the One Ring factor.

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