Oh, I absolutely loved that the movie didn't follow the usual road and had Pepper realising (or rather, be aware all the time, because I think she knew that before and after) that this would just end badly. But every other story written about Pepper, if Tony is in it, seems to reverse that, which I think is a pity because movieverse Pepper was such a refreshing change from the way female roles were written in comicbook movies; she didn't get captured by the villain so the hero could rescue her at the climax of the movie, she used her wits and the agency best equipped to go after the villain, and despite being attracted and being fond of him, she didn't fall into Tony's arms at the end of the movie. (And we didn't get a scene where Tony nobly decides to renounce her for her own good, either, that other annoying cliche of superhero m/f relationships.)