I’m still trying to figure out what Natasha actually MEANT in “Cap3:
Civil War” when she exclaimed to Tony “you can’t let go of your damned
EGO for one second, can you?”
I mean – what??? I didn’t see
much evidence throughout CACW of Tony flexing his ego – far from it;
almost completely the opposite. He was consciously deferential to Ross
when he was bargaining for more time TO SAVE HIS FRIENDS from Ross’s
kill squads. He practically PLEADED with Steve, time and time again, to
see reason and sign the Accords. He did the ONLY thing he could think
of doing, before going to meet Steve and the rebels at the airport, to
SAVE Steve and the rebels if they got feisty: he brought Peter Parker to
“web ‘em up,” which is pretty much the ONLY way you can subdue a
super-powered individual without hurting them.
So that line
from Nat has always puzzled and frustrated me – she knows Tony very
well. She knows he’s in pain over Rhodey at that moment. So what in holy hell did she mean by that?? Is it just bad screenwriting? What ego did Tony ever
show in CACW?? If it’s just supporting the Accords – well, Nat did
too, and so did the wise Vision and Rhodey, so…
I’m genuinely curious.
ok here’s my personal theory:
tony asking if she was ever on his side cut too close to home for her. we know from the “would you trust me”/“i would now” scene in winter soldier that natasha is sensitive about whether the team trusts her. then we have tony, tony who is the avenger she has known longest (apart from clint) saying that she really was just a double agent, that all she really is is the worst of her. and it hurts her. it doesn’t matter that he’s hurting too, it doesn’t matter than he’s actually quite justified in feeling that way because she’s done it to him at least twice now. tony hit on the one thing that makes her lose her cool. so she lashes out. she goes for the jugular. she hits him in the place she knows he hurts the most. it’s a “oh, i’m just a double agent? well then you’re exactly the man you used to be, the man in my report, the man you’re afraid you are” moment. it’s cruel and unfair and she shouldn’t have said it but it makes sense to me. these are two people lashing out and pressing each other’s buttons because they’re hurting. natasha should have recognised how vulnerable tony was in that scene, but to do that she would have had to recognise how vulnerable she was, and that was never gonna happen
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