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Anyone think Tony Stark left behind one really flawed EDITH system?

posted 5 years ago by AtomicReturns (1252)
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(Spoilers)

I know a lot of it is played for comedy, but the fact that EDITH can so easily misunderstand and be activated by accident through casual conversation, makes me wonder what was up with Tony's engineering team. I've had Windows 95 systems ask me more thorough confirmation questions.

EDITH can target anyone on the planet, launch drones from space, and dig up nearly anyone's name and personal communications (and who knows what else it could do that wasn't shown in the film). I feel like EDITH should've had way more safeguards in place to prevent accidental transfers or activation.

The handing over of EDITH to Quentin Beck, by just saying his name and going "Yes", seemed way too easy. What if it misidentified someone, and there's another Quentin Beck Jr. in Prague? Was Quentin's name really Quentin, considering he was such a deceiver? What if it was accidentally given to Quentin Tarantino while he was on vacation in Europe? What then?

[–] redban (6194) 5 years ago

Agree. I think Edith should’ve sensed Mysterio’s illusion and warned Peter, given all the capabilities. But we wouldn’t have a movie otherwise

[–] SageMaster33 (876) 5 years ago

Ohh... justifying lazy writing "is tight"

[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 5 years ago

And some have argued... why even give EDITH to Peter in the first place? I know Tony deeply cared about Peter, but it certainly would’ve been wiser to give EDITH to someone like Banner.

But of course, whether it’s Peter with no EDITH or Peter with a flawless EDITH, this would have been an entirely different film. Besides, after he became close with Peter, I don’t think giving this AI system to a teenager (a hormonal, fairly irresponsible teenager but a highly intelligent teenager nonetheless) was something that would’ve made those who knew Stark go, are you kidding me? I’m sure in the end Tony felt it was something he had to do.

And sure, there were obvious flaws in EDITH. But overall, I can’t complain about them (things wouldn’t have turned out the way they did).

[–] hurricane (1960) 5 years ago

You could argue that though Bruce Banner was a brilliant scientist, handing software like this to the Incredible Hulk isn't the best idea.