mcufam:

War Machine smacks into a wide, grassy field just before Iron Man
lands nearby. His helmet retracts and he pulls off War Machine’s face
plate. Rhodes’ eyes are closed and there’s blood on his face.

@capntony i have to respectfully disagree with your tags here. you’re right that it wasn’t right for tony to attack sam here, but i don’t think he really deserves to be shaded for it

in my mind this isn’t just tony being angry, this is a trauma reaction. he’s just had to relieve two of his worst traumas, watching pepper fall and falling himself, on top of watching rhodey fall and failing to catch him (just like pepper!) which has to be a whole other new trauma in itself. there’s no way tony is in a rational state of mind here and on top of that when pepper fell he still had to defend himself against killian and when he fell the avengers still needed to capture loki before he could begin to process his trauma. with tony not being rational sam, who is not to blame but who he has just been fighting, is gonna look an awful lot like those actual enemies

i think tony is pretty clearly at his emotional breaking point here and so for the rest of the film he’s teetering on the edge of a full scale breakdown. possibly the only reason he’s able to pull back at this point at all is that rhodey is still alive and needs tony. and it just goes to show how strong he is that tony manages to keep going and keep trying to do the right thing by going to the raft and then siberia

it’s some pretty neat foreshadowing imo. this scene shows us very clearly what tony’s reaction is to having to watch someone he loves get hurt (and they really hammer home how much tony loves rhodey, “give me back my rhodey” was just minutes before this) when the blame of the situation is a bit muddled. it’s a signpost to what’s gonna happen in siberia. tony is grieving and traumatised and betrayed in both situations and while neither sam nor bucky were to blame, tony wasn’t either

i don’t think tony blasting sam was right or justifiable but it’s very, very understandable and i don’t think it should be held against him

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this is the first time we actually see him in the whole movie you know. everything before this has been some level of mask or panic. the film opens with tony in full Tony Stark™️ mode giving the jericho presentation and then goes straight into the attack. even after the jump back in time it’s tony at a casino, tony sleeping with christine, tony skipping out on a award, tony dazzling reporters. it’s not until this moment right here that we actually see tony stark without any mask or pretence. that’s actually a significant way into the film, i think it’s around fifteen minutes, before we actually maybe start to understand the main character. of course that’s pretty fucking meta. it really shows how hard it is for other characters in the mcu to see tony, because it was hard for us in the beginning too. sigh this is just a really good film okay

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tonyspepper:

#pepper’s face tho

#he can’t even keep up the eye contact when he says it #like it’s so hard to admit in a serious heartfelt way that he has a weakness #because he’s spent so long trying to keep up that Tony Stark persona

that’s true but pepper looks away too. pepper looks away because she’s keenly aware that she feels the same way, but of the two of them the person most likely to lose the one thing they can’t live without isn’t tony. she also knows that tony doesn’t see himself as something to be protected and that scares the shit out of her. pepper potts lives her life assuming she’s going to be widowed, and later on in this very same film she is almost proved right

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tony-stark-is-the-universe:

A concept

Work At Home, House Husband Tony Stark falling asleep on the sofa with bubba Morgan on his chest after a day of playing with Morgan’s fav big bro Peter and Tony treating his princess by teaching her how to use the holograms.

This is what Pepper comes home to almost everyday.

All is good.

Tis a good concept.

friday slowly turns up the lights as pepper walks in. she’s already taken off her heels so she can sneak quietly towards the familiar sight on the couch

tony is passed out, his head thrown back and his mouth open and a thin trail of drool escaping from the corner of his mouth. he’s the most beautiful man in the world and he is snoring very quietly. in sleep his face is relaxed and carefree and pepper misses when he looked like that almost all the time

morgan is awake. her head is resting on the arc reactor but her dark eyes are open and blinking up at pepper. she moves one tiny hand up to her mouth and presses a finger to her lips. the message is pretty clear: daddy is sleeping, don’t wake him up

pepper smiles down at her little family. this is good, this is so incredibly good and amazingly all hers. she shrugs off her suit jacket and dumps it with her bag on an armchair. it’s a little akward climbing onto the couch and curling up against tony while not disturbing him, but pepper manages it. she lays a head on his shoulder and earns dazzling smile from morgan for her stealthiness

“hey morgan,” she says quietly, and her daughter reaches out to grasp pepper’s hand

“ssssshh,” says morgan in that incredibly loud whisper possessed only by toddlers and thor

tony is awake. he hasn’t moved but his snoring has stopped and the metal hand he made himself after losing his forearm to the infinity gauntlet has snuck round to squeeze her shoulder

pepper had been there that day, in the new armour tony had called “rescue” and she had seen him fall. she had watched him snap his fingers as the light of the arc reactor flared brilliant white and she had watched him crumple to the ground like a marionette cut from its strings. it was just as awful as all the other times he’s died, and just a wonderful when he came back

the new and permanent arc reactor, it’s energy keeping his heart beating, the metal arm, with a million hidden tricks and tools including a vibrate setting she enjoys very much, and the long thin scar dragging down his face from temple to jaw. these are the legacy of thanos, of his war and his murder and his senseless, senseless, cruelty, all turned to gold by the touch of her tony

the legacy of tony stark is quite different. the legacy of tony stark yawns and squirms slightly on her father’s chest. pepper grins

“hey, morgan,” she repeats. “how would you like to be a big sister?”

tony’s breath hitches and morgan just stares sleepily. pepper watches her fight to stay awake. it’s a battle she inevitably loses and pepper finds herself hoping it’s the harshest loss her daughter will ever suffer

tony waits until he’s sure morgan is asleep before he says anything

“i’m exhausted,” he says, eyes still closed. “you really think we can manage another one of these? or well, we know you can manage but are you sure i can? i’ve got my hands full not screwing this one up”

“tony,” murmurs pepper. “just be excited”

his eyes open and the very first time he looked at her like that it made her uncomfortable. no one should be allowed to have eyes like that, she remembers thinking. now the warmth and admiration and gratitude and love and love and love in his gaze is one her favourite sights in the entire universe

“i am excited pep,” tony says and presses a kiss to the top of her head. suddenly he lets out a low chuckle. “i can’t wait to see the kid’s face when we tell him”

pepper can’t help but laugh at that too. “do you think he’ll cry again?” she asks

“definitely,” he says. “he once teared up when i got him an everything bagel”

pepper laughs again. she presses herself tighter to tony and closes her eyes. this is good. this is so good. the three of them (soon to be four!) curled up together on the couch like this is how the world should always be. for the moment, it’s enough that it’s how the world is right now

mcufam:

#that black-eyed unbuttoned-shirt look | captain america: civil war (2016)

i love this look but WHERE ARE HIS SCARS??? hmmmm? you’re telling me the arc reactor is taken out of his chest and there’s absolutely no scarring? i call bullshit. @marvel tony’s whole deal is he’s the most vulnerable avenger without his armour LET HIM HAVE HIS SCARS YOU COWARDS

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