Jet boots don’t make Iron Man an escapist fantasy, but the idea that Stark could store enough energy in his suit to fly for more than half a minute does. Similarly, the directed energy weapons ...

At first he thought that meant becoming "the next Iron Man" but he eventually realized that it simply meant to make Spider-Man the hero that Tony knew he could be, and that's exactly what he did.

However, Iron Man was not a team member until very recently ... Doctor – Strange is able to make peace with this variant of Tony as they both understand what had to happen in Endgame.