What if?

Tony Stark as Richie Rich, which I liked better in the comic books, but you have to admit the movie has some parallels. Except for the loving and supportive mom and dad. The gang of kids could be the Avengers! 

This reminds me of something I started and never finished, a fic called The Scavengers. It stars Tony as a child who was kidnapped, and then when his father refuses to pay the ransom, his kidnappers leave him in a big technological dumping ground where he survives as a scavenger, meets Thor the blacksmith and his slimy brother Loki, and Nick Fury's the head honcho of a gang with Clint and Natasha, and... I lost momentum. 

Anyway, what it all boils down to is that I love Tony Stark. I love the angst-fics and the robot-fics, the slash and the heartwarming gen/het, Tony as a kid fics, Tony as Darcy's dad fics, Tony as a villain fics... you name it. Except. I can't seem to get into Tony/Loki fics and Tony/Bruce Banner fics. I love Redeemed!Loki, but the pairing is just meh. And Bruce Banner is just not that interesting to me. Maybe because the Hulk movie was the one movie I didn't watch. 

*Goes back to reading the Tony fic that started this thread of thought.*