but I am now going to RAVE about one of my most favourite scenes in marvel cinematic universe and yeah that’s right
its the destruction of tony’s Malibu house scene.
Lets start off with the fact that i am an architect with a degree, and I find Tony’s house completely DELIGHTFUL.
I love it. Both interior and exterior of it are lovely. I absolutely adore open and spacious living room, home-ness of tony’s lab&garage, and gorgeous open view bedroom. Delightful.
Also give me a second to SCREAM about that lovely detail – Christmas stockings.
I can’t grab a single shot where you can see all of them clearly, but there’s actually 5 stockings. Two big red ones – Tony and Pepper – big green one – Jarvis – and two smaller ones, one of which got ‘U’ on it, so I am assuming the other one must be Dum-E and I HONESTLY CAN NOT HOLD THE FEELS. I saw people mentioning Jarvis stocking because you can clearly see it but BABY BOTS GOT THEM TOO, HOW BEYOND PRECIOUS IS THAT. I am crying over here, i’m not okay.
Now, the scene of this beautiful house going down must be heartbreaking and not fun, but all that content honestly:
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.
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?
Pepper Potts – More Than A Love Interest Statistics shows Pepper Potts is remarkable and has killed 11% of main villains in MCU x but she’s constantly discredited because she’s a civilian, got brushed off as ‘just a love interest’ because she’s also romantically involved with the hero. A female character in action movies can be a non combatant, she can be in love, she can be feminine, and still be remarkable and should be acknowledged as such because there’s nothing wrong with being feminine and in love in the first place.
Let’s talk
about this line. In Avengers, Steve tells Tony he wouldn’t “lay down on a wire” to let somebody else crawl over him. In
other words, he accuses him of not being able to sacrifice himself (btw what
kind of insult is that, Steve?? It’s not something to accuse somebody of?? But that’s
a different subject). We all know it’s not true, as Tony himself proved many
times. Carrying the nuke through the wormhole is probably the clearest evidence
of that – and a direct contradiction of Steve’s accusation. Maybe the dialogue
itself was put there just to emphasize Tony’s sacrifice later in the movie. To
me, though, it’s something more. “I think I would just cut the wire.” It’s Tony’s
way of looking at problems.
It’s what he did in Iron Man 3 when Rhodey said “We gotta make a decision. We
can either save the president, or
Pepper. We can’t do both.” The choice was to save someone very important to
Tony or someone very important to the country. Which option did he choose? Both. He sent a remote suit to the
president’s plane, all the while being on a boat, heading towards Pepper’s
direction. He cut the wire.
It’s what he did when one of
those living-bomb-guys caught Harley. Tony could either give the man the
information he wanted or sacrifice the boy. Which option did he choose? Neither. He gave Harley a hint to use
that anti-bullies device which helped him escape. He cut the wire.
It’s exactly what he did when he
created the first suit in that cave! He could either build a weapon for the
terrorists or die. What option did he choose? Neither. He used his brilliant mind to escape. He cut the wire.
Heck, even Tony’s response to
Steve’s insult is cutting the wire in a way. Steve probably didn’t even expect
a response at all. I mean, neither “no, I would do that” or “you’re right, I wouldn’t”
was a good thing to say in that moment. Without hesitation, Tony chose a third option.
Of
course, when he cannot find
his own solution, when he is unable to cut the wire, he is more than ready to
lay down on it. We’ve seen that, I’ve already mentioned it. The point is, the
sacrifice is not always necessary and he knows it. Presented with a choice to
save someone and save himself, he’d rather find a way for them all to survive.
Laying down on the wire may be noble, but cutting it is just freaking smart. He
uses his mind, his technology, to create a third option when there are only two.
His mind is his superpower.
It’s
not really surprising,
then, that he worked so hard to create Ultron. Can you see? The world ending,
all of them dying? Steve had a simple solution: we’ll lose together. Well,
thank you, Captain, I’d rather not. Tony didn’t agree to just sit there and let
that happen. He used his brilliant mind, his superpower, to try to protect the Earth and everybody he loved.
This time, like we all know, it didn’t turn out well. But I hope you see the
pattern here.
The
guy just won’t give up. Bless
his
heart.
Reblogging again because it’s so true and so good
Of course, “cut the wire” is meant to evoke the expression “cut the Gordian knot”: to solve an apparently unsolvable problem by getting around it (which is what Alexander the Great did, according the legend: he cut through the knot with his sword rather than attempting to untie it). I like the implied comparison between Tony and Alexander the Great 🙂
Sometimes a family is you, an airforce colonel, the CEO of your company, your driver/forehead of security, spiderman, and some kid from Tennessee you accidentally adopted when you broke into his garage.
Loki is the Philosopher King 