"My other future..."
Tony Stark felt that his life had gone smoothly.
Ever since he met He-El, even though his own uncle, Obadiah Stane, had betrayed him and Stark Industries, there was no denying that after meeting He-El, he had basically never faced any especially difficult or painful moments.
Even when palladium poisoning left him so despondent that he wanted to die, He-El's reminder had helped him resolve that life-or-death crisis.
Moreover, driven by the pride and confidence of wanting to catch up to He-El's technology, his armor had advanced several generations ahead of the original future's. As a result, the enemies he encountered afterward had fallen before him with even greater ease. Even though Ultron's design still followed the original future, with its most fundamental command being to protect Earth, it had not tried to destroy humanity. It remained perfectly intact, continuously operating aboard the orbital station monitoring outer space.
And Pepper Potts had not faced the same dangers as in the original timeline either. Tony Stark had protected her very well.
Without He-El's appearance, Tony Stark realized that his life would have been full of twists and turns, and his wife, Pepper Potts, would have had the Extremis Virus fused into her body while he was unable to save her in time.
If Tony Stark had to choose which future was better, he felt that he would definitely choose the future with He-El in it.
Because he had seen the end of the original future: the Avengers had been utterly crushed by Thanos, completely unable to stand against him. Thanos had even accomplished his great work, wiping out half the life in the universe.
If he chose the future with He-El, then at least in the end, He-El would have enough power to stop Thanos from destroying half