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[MCU] What would change if Tony did not self destruct his remaining shots after the climax of IM3?

Would their presence aiding Tony be enough to significantly change the outcomes of AoU, Civil War, or IW? Or would they have been hacked and claimed by Ultron to use against the Avengers like he did the Iron Legion?
gpt
No, all of those suits were overspecialized crap.  That was the point, Tony was consumed by anxiety and fear, and he was trying to build a suit for every contingency, but the suits were all kind of garbage because his mind wasn't in the right place (which is why they get torn the fuck up by the Extremis soldiers).  His character arc in that film is realizing his real power doesn't come from the suits, it comes from his genius and ability to come up with clever solutions on the fly.

The House Party protocol became the engine for the Iron Legion (and the EDITH Drones), but even if he hadn't blown them up, he likely would have abandoned those old suits in favor of the later nanosuit designs.