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oh my god, that was really violent
#HSE TOOK THE FINAL BATTLE #SHE TOOK IT AND BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA IT#YOU THINK TONY STARK SAVED THE DAY? HE DID NOT#IN HIS OWN MOVIE HE WAS NOT THE ONE TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY#HIS GIRLFRIEND KICKED THE MANDARIN’S ASS #AND IF YOU DO NOT THINK#THAT A WOMAN STEALING THE END FROM THE HERO #IS A GREAT THING#GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY FACE #PEPPER POTTS FOR PRESIDENT#TONY STARK TO AWKWARDLY STARE AT HER IN AWE AND WITH A STRANGE BONER#sorry i got carried away (via starksexual)
BUT NO SERIOUSLY CAN WE TALK FOREVER ABOUT HOW SHE STOLE THE ENDING. Because as soon as you get the idea that she’s alive, you think “oh, she’s going to come in at the last second and land a few punches and give Tony – the hero – enough time to get back on his feet and finish the battle, while she cheers from the side lines.” Just. Like. Every. Other. Movie. And then she FINISHES THE BATTLE. SHE KILLS HIM.
#also can we talk about how one man in that movie treated Pepper as an Object#as a prize to be won#as a lure for Tony Stark#what happened to that man I wonder?#PEPPER POTTS FUCKING KILLED HIM#PEPPER POTTS IS A GODDESS
Now can we talk about how in the first movie pepper also defeats the final baddie? And how in the second movie she has arrested the one bad guy who didn’t kill himself? Can we talk about how Tony has never actually killed or captured the main bad guy in his own movies?
The closest he gets is Avengers. Because he kills a bunch of Chitauri with a missile. And then the Avengers all get together and capture Loki. You know why? Because Pepper was on a plane somewhere far away. Otherwise she would have done it. I swear.
And at the beginning of Avengers, Tony was all wanting her to stay the night. And she’s just like: Dude, you gotta handle this for a change. I’ll hold your flower.
Could we also talk about how not only unsurprised, unphased, and un-emasculated by this Tony is, but also how he probably gets a metaphorical boner for her when she does it?
Tony is 100% here for his rad as hell BAMF girlfriend and will cheer her on to the very end.
metaphorical? that’s a physical boner for his scary bamf girlfriend
Tony Stark has a pair of sunglasses for every occasion you can think of and I think that’s fantastic.
i… don’t. i do not think it is fantastic at all because tony’s sunglasses are so tied into his persona, what i always call The Mask™️. tony’s sunglasses are so often used as a shield for when he’s Not Okay that the fact they’re so ever-present that he has a pair for every outfit and occasion is just… rough, emotionally. like, i love fashionista!tony as much as the next person but every time i see him wearing sunglasses i think “what is he hiding?”. there’s a moment in civil war after tony and steve argue and steve storms off where tony is left alone and he just looks so defeated. then he puts on his sunglasses and you can SEE him building up his layers of emotional armour. i love that scene even though it hurts because it really explicitly shows how much of tony’s interactions are performed. how much he‘s bullshitting everyone into believing he’s fine and how the sunglasses are a tool tony uses to do that. they’re not always a defense but they are more often than not, and they always have the potential to be. tony stark’s sunglasses make me feel a lot of emotions
i’m sorry i took your post and made it sad, i just think about this Often and never get to talk about it
❝This is the key to the future. I’m limited by the technology of my time, but one day you’ll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world. What is, and always will be, my greatest creation… is ‘you’❞.
Howard Stark: Iron Man 2
this scene is so great but honestly, from the bottom of my heart, fuck howard. he doesn’t get to take credit for the man tony became. tony is iron man in spite of howard not because of him and that’s that on that
There are two sides to every story. Harry and Ginny tell one hundred about how the proposal went because “let me taste another bean” isn’t exactly the “yes” people expect to hear.
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Please let me talk to you about Tony and Maria and music.
Let me talk to you about Maria sitting with six year old Tony in front of the piano for the first time when he’s 6 years old and Howard has just snapped and started yelling at him for the first time, his little legs dangling from the edge of the seat, following Maria’s fingers with intent focus as she plays Clare de Lune.
Imagine him clumsily retracing the notes over the keyboard after she’s finished.
Imagine them spending hours on end inside the music room while Maria talks to him about music history, how she talks to him about Verdi and Puccini and other Italian composers but he ends up developing a special thing for Russian composers, and it’s maybe something about the rage he can hear in the strong notes of Stravinsky and Mussorgsky.
Imagine him falling in love with music and dreaming as a young child, dreaming of pursuing a career as a composer, though he soon learns that dream’s never going to come true because his future has already been chosen for him and he has no way of escaping. Imagine him as a 13 year old seriously considering running away from home to become a musician.
Imagine him playing angry Rachmaninov every time he has a fight with Howard.
Let me tell you how after his parents die, just coming back home from the funeral, he thinks about going into Howard’s study and trashing the place, but instead finds himself in the music room and he’s now somehow playing Clare de Lune. And this is the thing he can remember Maria by, because he has so many things he will always have to remember his father for, everything has got his name plastered on it –the company, the house, his very own person, his own fucking reflection in the mirror– but he’s playing the soft melancholic melody that started it all and he realizes this is so much bigger than any other thing Howard could have left him, that he can play the piano and have something that’s hers (and of course he’s also got her heart and compassion, but that’s not something he’s willing to admit to himself at this point in his life), and he smiles.
Let me tell you how whenever numbers and equations and blueprints clog up inside his brain he stands from his workbench and goes sit in front of the electric piano he’s got inside the workshop and starts playing and all the math falls into order.
Let me tell you about the time Steve found some crumpled music sheets at the bottom of a forgotten cardboard box in the basement and found a symphony scribbled in Tony’s frantic handwriting.
Let me tell you how he goes and gathers a full orchestra and has it played for him on the 20th Anniversary of the Maria Stark Foundation as a charity event and Tony listens to his own composition played for him and breaks down crying for the first time since he was a kid.
I have to go sit down.
❤️
me: laughing/sobbing hysterically while clutching my composer!tony au
somethingjustsouthofbrilliance:
Stark Expo Vs Star Spangled Man with a Plan (because they’re so brilliantly different)
The difference is that Steve totally, totally wants to be anywhere but there. Someone put the scrawny kid from New York in a silly costume and shoved him out there.
Tony? Cheering crowds, good looking women, lots of media and fireworks? Bring it on! It’s still not as excessive as Tony’s own ego.
Oooh, this! They are literally polar opposites but still best friends in the comics. I need Age of Ultron to have more Steve and Tony interaction,
Actually, neither Steve nor Tony want to be there. Tony’s actually dying here, & the scene cuts away to him behind the scenes checking his vitals. However, Tony has a persona to play & he plays it remarkably well.
The Stark Expo is a façade. It’s a distraction. It’s a rouse because, again, HE’S DYING.
Essentially, he & Steve are in the same position – dancing monkey – but Tony appears to love it, but it’s a façade. He’s just as uncomfortable, if not, more so than Steve is (because HE’S DYING), but Steve’s the one that can’t school his expressions.
It’s about two very different men reacting to similar situations in different ways because of their different experiences.
Reblogging for that last bit. That’s some a++ commentary right there. The only difference between them is Tony was raised in it so he knows the song and dance and how to play a crowd from the get go.
It never fails to amaze me how often that critical part of Tony’s character gets overlooked by fandom. Maybe Tony at one point was the mask, only to have it shattered by Yinsen. Paralleled, I might add, by Steve’s show performing for Bucky’s Unit, only to find out he was MIA. It was his path to heroism as much as Yinsen’s was Tony’s. The serum didn’t make him a hero. His friendship with Bucky did. Iron Man would not exist if Yinsen hadn’t saved Tony and sacrificed his life for his escape, changing him.
But the whole point is at heart, they aren’t fundamentally different men. They may have different approaches, they may have different ways of handling things due to their different upbringing, but in many ways, they are remarkably similar.
People still don’t see past the Tony Stark we were introduced to in the first twenty minutes of IM1, even after we’ve seen multiple examples of self-loathing on Tony’s part even in that movie. Tony doesn’t love this kind of attention; he never has. He’s just gotten ridiculously good at giving the public what they want to see, but by CW he’s reached a point where he can’t even fake that anymore.
#THAT! LAST! COMMENT! #absolutely NAILS the reason why i appreciate the detail that after his MIT presentation #tony is so fucking ready to avoid people and leave#the presentation itself is so honest compared to that of IM2 #and such a good callback to directly-post-captivity IM1 tony #who set foot on American soil and called for a press conference #and asked everybody to sit down #publicly told stane that it was really good to see him #and then confessed to a group of reporters and photographers #that he NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE TO HIS DAD #like tony’s been feeling this need to be a real person since IM1 #(there’s a deleted dubai sequence that is so entirely heartbreaking where he has pepper prepare one of those Tony Stark Parties in dubai #bc he planned to use that as an alibi so he could fly off to gulmira #so he has to make the rounds and be seen at the party ~picking up women to have sex with and stuff; and it’s gut-wrenching to watch #post-afghanistan tony trying to pull off the pre-afghanistan partyboy persona like #he LITERALLY WHIMPERS AT ONE POINT and has an ENTIRE MONOLOGUE ABOUT REPUTATION which he delivers while women are following him to the #bedroom taking off his sunglasses and all; like he’s even trying to tell them about how ‘HE HAS NEVER BEEN COMFORTABLE WITH HIS REPUTATION’ #[actual quote] and the painful af irony is that the girls turn it into sexual innuendo ‘aw now what are we going to do about that’. #he’s talking about how easy it is to get a reputation and how hard it is to lose it and his image is so tangled up in it that the girls make #it about sex – go youtube this IMMEDIATELY) #it is actually a crime that the iron man franchise didn’t bring tony’s public behavior full circle by including a public presentation thing #like that from cap 3 – he’s still funny he’s sophisticated he knows how to engage an audience #but he’s also an academic; he’s a business leader; he’s openly generous and he’s not there for the adulation #as evidenced by his avoidant behavior directly after the presentation. holy fuck just kill the idea that tony stark #EVER enjoyed being the man he publicly pretended to be before captivity #and when he was ISOLATING HIMSELF AND LITERALLY DYING IN AN ARC THATS A REFERENCE TO TONY STARK’S #EXPLICIT POST-IRON MAN STRUGGLE WITH ADDICTION AND SELF-DESTRUCTION IN THE COMICS #HOLY SHIT GUYS COME ON #I FEEL THIS SO FUCKING STRONGLY MY GOD IT IS THE ENTIRE LITERAL POINT OF THIS CHARACTER CONCEPT LIKE HE WEARS ARMORS!!!!!! HE WEARS ARMORS (knightinironarmor strikes again)
Reblogging for those last comments. Because how can you still, after all the movies, NOT see the mask Tony wears in public?
Those tags are so true. The whole Dubai party scene was basically showcasing how uncomfortable Tony was in these social situations. He does whimper like he’s panicking on the inside at one point (ugh). And then when he’s basically handed these two women to have sex with, he goes on about how not really okay with it he is as he escorts them off to “have sex” (he never actually does have sex with them):
Tony: “Honestly, I am not entirely comfortable with this. And I never have been. You know how easy it is to get a reputation and how hard it is to lose? And I’m not playing victim, I’m not complaining, it’s just… something that has occurred over time–”
Woman: “Oh you poor thing.”
Tony: “–and I bare the brunt of it.”
Woman: “What are we going to do about that?”
Tony [to another woman on the side]: “Say, would you mind joining us briefly?” [back to topic] “People have limiting beliefs [trails off]”
[The three women collapse onto a bed, while Tony puts his things away]
Tony:
[taking off his jacket]
“Oh, and as luck would have it. Nothing’s perfect.” [picks up champagne] “They forgot the glasses.” [Takes off tie.] “I’ll… be right back.“
Women: [upset] "Awww.”
Tony: “Why don’t you guys get started without me?”
Woman: “Kinky.” [laughing]
[Tony gets outta there as fast as he can and takes off in his Iron Man suit]
Tony used the party as a cover for his activities in Gulmira, but then it was nothing but a big painful reminder of who Tony used to be and the reputation he has and the “suit” he has to carry with him all the time.
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