Vision has no hair anywhere on his body–no armpit hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. No fingernails. His skin tastes like metal. Sometimes, he forgets to breathe for minutes or hours at a time.
Captain Marvel smells like burning. When you touch her, your hand comes away cold because she’s absorbed your body heat. If she gets cut, she bleeds light. She can tell you what the inside of an explosion feels like.
Bruce Banner vomits after de-hulking. His skin is always red and peeling. He looks sick, like he has a fever, and he ingests more medication than actual food. There are blisters on his lips.
Tony Stark has a huge, sunken scar on his sternum where the arc reactor was removed and his chest aches each time he takes a breath. He has callouses in odd places–so does the whole team, really–and there is a permanent bald spot on the back of his head where it has been cut open every time he gets thrown around in his suit.
Spider-Man sometimes forgets which way is up–if you put him in a room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling, he couldn’t tell you which is which. His hands and feet are prickly to the touch, even through his costume. He is very nearsighted.
The Scarlet Witch has no sense of boundaries; if you can’t tell she’s spying on your thoughts, why should she stop? She doesn’t do it out of any malicious intent, just out of curiosity and convenience. She never loses arguments.
Thor speaks about events that happened thousands of years ago as if they were last week. Cats arch their backs and stare at him. Something about him–his eyes, or his skin, or the way he moves–seems slightly off, like he doesn’t belong on Earth at all.
oh wait wow what did you say? “i’m so jealous that tony is hands down the mcu character with the most prominent onscreen interactions with kids, arguably beating even mcu characters who are canonical fathers, that i saw a positive post about tony + young people and decided to come pester you personally over it?” or was it “i’m really pressed that the iron man franchise has “future generations” as a running theme so i’m here to make something toxic out of it?“ maybe it was “i’m super duper fine with all levels of superhero nonsense except when the young/teenage sidekick genre conventions apply to tony and the kids he meets?”
tbh i can’t really hear you over “tony was the single avenger ever prompted into significant long-lasting action over the death of a young man that he didn’t even know personally” and “tony and pepper are the single mcu characters shown dedicating some of their non-superhero life to addressing problems ailing the current generation of knowledge-hungry, underfunded young adults”
so yeah maybe catch me later when i’m not watching tony stark specifically giving attention to a kid wearing an iron man helmet when dozens of people are trying to catch his eye, tony stark happily interrupting his lunch to sign kids’ drawings, tony stark keeping fan mail from kids at random places in his house, tony stark recognizing and not ignoring the fact that a kid he’s just met is being bullied, tony stark somehow finding the time in his “save the world” agenda to get candy for that kid, tony stark wearing a little girl’s plastic dora watch and then buying her a new one when terrorists break it idk…. i’m too busy for your shit right now
I’ve watched this piece countless times now. I’ve slowed it down. Sped it up. Paused it. Screengrabbed and expanded it and I still think what I thought on my first watch. My gut tells me that this isn’t Tony in the suit.
It isn’t just the body type (hips too narrow/gait of walk off/and man, that really does not look like Downey’s ass). It’s the left hand.
By now Tony has been Iron Man for ten plus years. The raising of his hand to fire the repuslor is beyond automatic. It is bone deep. It is muscle memory. The armor is part of him. He literally does it in his sleep in IM3. There is no way that Tony Stark, the man who fought Thor, who took on two super soldiers at once without even a second thought is going to suddenly forget how to plant his feet and raise his hand. Tony Stark never backed down from a fight in his life. Even as they were torturing him in the cave he remained defiant and fought back.
Tony isn’t the only person on that planet Peter (parker) is up there with him.
And if that is Tony in that shot, then Marvel threw character out the window and fucked up big time.
But I honestly, truly think that isn’t Tony in that armor.
YEs, I thought the same thing. That little mannerism, the slight lifting of the hand to block, not attack, is so Peter Parker. I just… I can’t.
And isn’t Peter hurt in the trailer, apologizing to Tony? Did Peter steal his suit for some reason?
Like Patroclus donning Achilles armor and going to face Hektor-I also see Peter here, no way is that Tony moving his hand/arm like that, standing moving like that in the suit.
I don’t see much discussion about Fury’s conversation with Tony in Age of Ultron, which I think cements Fury as the closest thing to a positive father figure in Tony’s life. After Fury chews him out for inventing Ultron, he tries to pull Tony out of the lowest point in the movie. So Tony pours all of his regret and fears into the last sympathizing ear left in what I think is a very vulnerable and well-done scene for Tony’s character arc.
Tony:You’re not the director of me. Fury: I’m not the director of anybody. I’m just an old man who cares very much about you. Tony:And I’m the man who killed the Avengers.
Tony: I saw it. I didn’t tell the team. How could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world too. Because of me. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t do all I could.
Fury: The Maximoff girl, she’s working you, Stark. Playing on your fear. Tony: I wasn’t tricked, I was shown. Wasn’t a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on.
Fury: You come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn’t one of them. Tony: I watched my friends die. You’d think that’d be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. It wasn’t the worst part. Fury: The worst part is that you didn’t.
Fury understands who Tony truly is. He knows where to cut through the evasive bullshit and get to the meat of Tony’s insecurities and foibles, but not to cut him down – to raise him back up. And most of all, he’s an old man that cares very much about him.
Loki is the Philosopher King 