I was having a look at this post here when the thought dawned on me
In last night’s episode, Edwin stated that he did not want to spend his time as a disembodied voice. That’s quite the little nod to modern JARVIS and I loved it. But then, the quote was coupled with the above gif and it got me thinking. Tony was very close to Edwin, and likely the man helped raise him. Understandable. But what really struck me here is that Tony asks if JARVIS is “up”. And JARVIS replies “For You, sir, always.” My question is: why would an AI system need to sleep?
Now, let me just add something else in here. I had a theory from Season 1 of Agent Carter that Ana Jarvis was an AI. That was how Howard “saved” her from the war and that’s why we never saw her on screen. We only heard her…like modern JARVIS. In said theory (though I don’t know how the science would have worked), Ana would have died in the war – or nearly – and Stark would have “preserved” her in a way that she could only be a voice. Unfortunately, my theory was not correct (but I still think it would have been cool) and Ana is a real person.
Keeping the above in mind, take a look at this:
Note a couple of things
1) The newspaper is dated 1991. Tony Stark was born in 1970 and thus would have been 21 at the time. Old enough to be a scientific genius, capable of creating very new and revolutionary technology. 1991 would have also made Edwin Jarvis in his 70′s (given he’s a similar age to Peggy who was born in 1921).
2) Note the words circled in yellow. “The car was nearly totaled. It took the wrecking crew several hours to…” This accident was NOT pretty.
Now, it was pointed out to me here that Edwin Jarvis may have been the one driving the Starks on that tragic day. Before then I was so in denial that Edwin could ever die of anything other than natural causes, that I completely overlooked this possibility. What if it’s true? What if Jarvis was involved in the crash? But what if he didn’t die – not completely, at least…
That makes the connection back to my theory and the gif about Tony. Maybe Howard and Maria were dead on impact, but what if Edwin wasn’t? What if it was possible that Tony arrived on scene and found Edwin barely breathing. We know how much JARVIS means to Tony and that can only be a reflection of how important Edwin was in his life. And so, Tony would have done everything in his power to save him. Everything being turning him into a disembodied voice. Somehow, Edwin stayed alive long enough for Tony to transform him into technology. His physical self wasn’t salvageable, but his mind and voice were. Perhaps I am way off, but what if that’s the way Edwin Jarvis became JARVIS. And that’s why Tony is so close with his AI system, because he’s more than an AI, he’s in a sense still Edwin Jarvis, saved by Tony Stark by the only means he could.
The fact in Iron Man 3, we are shown how important Jarvis is to Tony, and then in AoU Jarvis is gone and there is no reaction. He basically stops ultron nuking the world after being Ultrons first victim.
Tony just lost his right hand man and we get nothing? No Tony/vision interaction, no scene of Tony being devastated having had to piece his pal back together, but we see him pick from a handful of other AI’s a few moment later….
