When Do Limited Options Become Stifling?

[icefractal]

I think there's also a distinction between "normal human" and "average/normal person".

Tony Stark is a "normal human", in the sense that he's biologically/physically within normal human parameters, and doesn't have any inherent abilities outside the unmodified human range (yes, he's a genius, but not beyond what other genius characters in the setting are).

However, being extremely rich, a genius, having all kinds of advanced technology that the population at large has no access to (and being able to build more), having gone to other planets and dimensions, etc, etc - he's very much not "normal" in the sense of "just some normal dude".