Iron Man, Winter Soldier and Agent Carter: Your moment of fridge horror

[jeriendhal]

Okay, the new MCU series Agent Carter confirms what was largely fanon before, the idea that Tony's JARVIS AI was based off his memories of the very human Jarvis the butler employed by Howard Stark. While there are other computers capable of understanding colloquial speech (most notably Fury's SUV in Winter Soldier), none of them seem capable of the snark, concern and capability of independent action that JARVIS possesses.

We also know thanks to Winter Soldier that by the 70's, SHIELD possessed the capability to digital scan a human brain and upload it to a computer mainframe farm (and presumably fit a on thumb drive with 21st century StarkTech). By that time the 30 or 40 year old flesh and blood Jarvis would be in his 60's or 70's and getting quite old by mid-20th century standards. And at that time Tony was entering his teens and being painfully ignored by Howard.

Combine teenage angst with perhaps an elderly man's desperation not to die, and Tony's ability to create a sentient AI in the first Iron Man film doesn't become so far-fetched.

Comments

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

oh, oh dear.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

It gets worse when you consider one of the leaked plot points of Age of Ultron is that

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...Tony used a scan of his own brain to create the Ultron AI. If he were pressed for time and used an old scan he made of himself as a teenager (because he wouldn't try anything on Jarvis he hadn't tested on himself) you get Tony without his post-Gulmira conscience but with a load of Daddy Issues....