"You're really not seeing it, are you?" David asks, completely mystified. How can Beck not see it when he puts it out so plainly? But David definitely notices one thing different... Tony realized the problems when the mirror was held up to him, hadn't he? And he never would have been this furious at another person for pointing out his flaws, would he?

"So he's you, but he hurt your feelings. You wanted him to hold you up, but he couldn't, because that isn't who Stark is. But the rest of it? You're like him. And playing with lives just as surely as he did before he turned his company away from the arms market. What in the world did he even do to belittle your work in public?"