>>112551226To be fair, he was way more supportive and kind (but kind of strict) to Peter, unlike his own father who (in comic material) was an absentee, drank, trashed things his son made then tanked the company so hard Tony had to drop the degree he was working on and work to set it right before Howard and Maria even died.
Tony left the young people he mentored and his own kid with warm memories. And also control of a satellite defence system, for some reason.