[Perhaps less insight about Buttercup, but it was always helpful to understand Peter better. And really, did it matter if Peter understood Tony? That wasn't how these things were supposed to go, after all. He was the child and in need of protection, not Tony.]

I'm hoping that if she sees how I treat other people she'll see who I am and that I can be trusted to keep my word. She's seen what I do to you when I get angry and it's not hit you. I'm hoping.. I don't know.

Speaking of which, you know there are places in our world where it's not common place that hitting a child or disciplining them harshly would result in prison. That's something we've taken for granted in America and something us Avengers are trying to fix.