Are Tony Stark and Reed Richards evil and stupid?

It's mostly a rhetorical question. As far as I can tell, the answer is a big ol' "yes".

So, they're not Skrulls. And the whole Civil War business seems to have been a Skrull trick to get the US superhero community to weaken itself in preparation to the Skrull invasion.

Which means instead of being a great futurist, Tony Stark is a stupid tool who fell into the Skrull trap. Reed Richards, rather than inventing the perfect system by which to predict human events, is a tool of hostile alien invaders. They let their racism and paranoia get the better of them, enabling enemy invaders in their quest for global domination.

In so doing, they've violated just about every civil right that has a name, and have acted like tyrannical asshats while repeatedly mouthing deeply stupid platitudes which, despite their deep frivolity, have been accepted by a number of comics fans seemingly without question.

I'll give you some of my favorites. After the cloned cyborg Thor murders a person, Tony Stark (who really is the main mouthpiece of these shenanigans) says that it's no different than a cop using deadly force against a criminal. Well, no, a police officer is a trained member of a law enforcement division. He isn't the untested and deeply immoral and uncontrollable cyborg cloned god that got totally out of control and started to kill people. A cop isn't anything like that at all.

Or, here's a favorite, person of mass destruction, or the comparison between superpowered people and atomic and/or nuclear weaponry. So, which one of these guys killed 110,000 people in one shot and destroyed a medium sized city? How many of them are capable of such things? Oh, almost none of them! I can only imagine the folks in Marvel's Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, burning Iron Man in effigy for comparing some of the greatest horrors known to mankind to such as Danny Rand. Yeah, it's fitting and proper to compare Iron Fist to Fat Man or Little Boy. He's well known for destroying medium sized Japanese cities and killing tens of thousands at a go . . . oh, wait, no. Or what about the Speedball, or Penance, or whatever the hell he's calling himself nowadays? Yeah, right, dangerous as a nuclear fucking weapon.

At Marvel Comics, nowadays, this is what goes for an "event". Oh, my.