Variant or Variants of the MCU?

Chapter 7: Natasha and Bobbi

Pepper: the Expo is a gigantic waste of time.

Wade was just working on improvements to his Medi-Gun while Tony and Pepper "argued".

Tony; I need you to wear a surgical mask until you're feeling better and get Wade to check it's nothing serious. Is that okay?

Pepper: that's rude.

Tony: there's nothing more important to me than Wade and the Expo. They're my primary points of concern. I don't know why you're...

Pepper: the Expo is your ego gone crazy.

Tony: <grabs a poster of IronMan> wow. Look at that. That's modern art. That's going up.

Pepper: oh, you've got to be kidding.

Tony: I'm gonna put this up right now.

Pepper: this is vital. Stark is in complete disarray. You understand that?

Tony: no. Our stocks have never been higher.

Pepper: yes, from a managerial standpoint.

Tony; look, it's messy then let's double back. Let me give you an example. Let's move on to another subject.

Pepper; oh, no, no, no, no. You are not taking down the Barnett Newman and hanging that up!

Tony: I'm not taking it down. I'm just replacing it with this. <does that>

Pepper: my point is, we have already awarded contracts to the wind farm people.

Tony; don't say "wind farm." I'm already feeling gassy.

Pepper: and to the plastic plantation tree, which was your idea by the way. Those people are on payroll...

Tony; everything was my idea.

Pepper; and you won't make a decision.

Tony: I don't care about the liberal agenda anymore. It's boring. Boring. I'm giving you a boring alert. You do it.

Pepper: I do what?

Tony: excellent idea. I just figured this out. You run the company.

Wade looks over when he said that.

Pepper: yeah, I'm trying to run the company.

Tony; Pepper, I need you to run the company. Stop trying to do it and do it.

Pepper: you will not give me the information...

Wade got enough of the bickering as he grabs an air horn and makes it sound getting their attention.

Wade; finally! Pepper, he is trying to make you CEO!

Tony; exactly, why won't you let me?

Pepper: have you been drinking?

Tony: Chlorophyll. Wade's orders. I hereby irrevocably appoint you chairman and CEO of Stark Industries, effective immediately. Yeah, done deal. Okay?

Wade walked over and helped Pepper to sit down.

Tony: I've actually given this a fair amount of thought, believe it or not. Doing a bit of headhunting, so to speak, trying to figure out who a worthy successor would be since Wade has no interest on running a company. And then I realized... <opens a bottle of champagne> it's you. It's always been you. I thought there'd be a legal issue, but actually I'm capable of appointing my successor. I changed Wade from it. Now my successor being you. <hands her a glass> congratulations?

Wade: congrats.

Tony: take it, just take it.

Pepper: I don't know what to think.