viudanegraaa:

Oh my Goddddd I just learned that one of the alternate opening scenes for IM3 was going to be baby Tony trying to cheer up Maria after a fight with Howard.

there’s no question we were robbed here (with this and the striptease credits why do you hate your fans marvel hmmm) but tbh i understand why they cut it. im3 doesn’t really focus on tony’s relationship with his parents. no, the film this scene should have been in is iron man 2 for a few reasons:

-“stark men are made of iron”. this would be an excellent way to show how howard gave tony the means to save himself with the new element, but also that howard’s parenting is the reason tony deals with dying in such a self-destructive manner. also baby tony parroting that to maria as he’s trying to comfort her is exactly my preferred brand of heartbreaking

-the parallels between ivan vanko’s “vodka soaked rage” and howard’s similarly alcohol-fuelled abuse would be better highlighted

-not really relevant to the plot of im2 but we’d get to see maria before civil war and “he killed my mom” would have that much more impact

-the argument could have been about tony and not getting him involved with SHIELD. this would then explain how tony never knew howard was one of its founders

anyway yeah this is just my take. i do really wish we’d got this scene, but imo i it should have been in im2 not im3

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i don’t think it had really hit me before but tony is still all cut up and bruised in this scene, yet he’s already got a working prototype for rhodey’s braces. like, holy shit has he slept at all since siberia???

god, he probably has a million things to take care of but the first thing he’s done is try and get rhodey walking again. that’s love bitches 

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mickmercury:

an incomplete list of iconique Sam Vimes Moments™:

  • arresting a dragon
  • running through the streets of ankh-morpork naked
  • running through the woods of uberwald naked and fighting off werewolves with his bare fucking hands
  • telling the ancient personification of darkness and vengeance to fuck off

  • “Well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

  • arresting an entire war
  • the ginger beer trick
  • reluctantly acquiring yet more titles, being embarassed
  • responds to being told the watch can’t interfere with the aforementioned war by handing in his badge and raising a militia
  • just no fucking clue how boats work
  • That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! Cow!!!!!
  • giving up all hope of returning to a future with his wife and child to stay in the past and fight in a revolution he knows he can’t win because failing to try to help people is utterly antithetical to the fundamental state of being Sam Vimes
  • “when the shouting started she knew Sam was alive and well, because only Sam made people that angry”
  • if anyone’s setting fire to this city it’s going to be me (ankh-morpork has burned down at least twice already at this point)
  • arresting fucking Havelock Vetinari

  • “I’ll teach him to walk! I’m good at teaching people to walk!”

  • getting annoyed at the idea that the assassins are no longer willing to accept any amount of money to kill him
  • defusing a riot with a cigar and a mug of cocoa
  • throwing fucking Havelock Vetinari over his shoulder
  • all of the international incidents because he’s fundamentally incapable of not being salty to The Man
  • despite being The Man
  • telling Vetinari to shut up
  • Vetinari shutting up when Vimes told him to
  • stopping all of ankh-morpork’s traffic because reading to his son before bed is infinitely more important
  • getting obscenely rich, hating all of it except the bubble baths
  • “Who are you, pray?” “The law, you sons of bitches!”

  • “How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it, and you can’t give them anything. Do you understand?”

  • arresting himself
  • every single fucking noir and western and cop movie one-liner
  • having so many near-death experiences that Death calls them “near-Vimes experiences” and brings a book along
  • fistfight on a ship being hit by a river tidal wave in the middle of a storm
  • “a watchman is a civilian you inbred streak of piss”
  • gleefully pointing out to the assassins that he does in fact technically own the place
  • ordering rebels to take down their barricades and rebuild them properly