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cinematik:

ok not to post a whole ass thinkpiece but. marvel is really obviously behind the times with having tony stark be the “heart” of the avengers because his kind of “fuck it, i’ll do what i want” style of masculinity is just. outdated at this point. like i definitely think as a culture in 2008 we were more open to reading that as fun and endearing, but over the past 10 years (and the last 2 or 3 in particular) that douchey-but-in-a-cool-way masculinity has really started to show itself as toxic in so many ways….

anyway. i think that if marvel let their writers have time to get closer with characters and somehow incentivized good storytelling we probably would have seen tony either a) pass the torch of true leadership to another avenger a while ago or b) grow more as a character and become a different kind of leader himself

tldr my hypothesis is that tony stark is becoming unpopular and stale not only because marvel films have less than stellar character dev, but because his kind of “rich douche who does whatever he wants with style” masculinity has ceased to be charming in our cultural climate

#and tchalla and peter’s kindness is the new heart of the marvel universe

^^^^^^^^^^^

Thor’s too. Thor’s immediate gentleness, willingness to learn, his open hearted way of loving, his big arms

“Think about where we are now, with this very vapid, unintelligent president and our world is crackling on the edges because of that,” Cole said when asked about superhero values, IndieWire reported. “Think back to Tony Stark, him being douchey and being okay. If that character, Stark, was created in a movie today, I wonder if the response would be like, ‘Oh, it’s cool that he’s douchey and disrespectful to women … That’s fine.’ I think we’re at a different place. I think it’s a better place.”

The Stark/Iron Man character was introduced in 2008’s “Iron Man” to critical and commercial success, but a lot has changed since then. Political tension has been high during Trump’s presidency, and the emergence of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements has had an effect on Hollywood. In “Iron Man,” Stark is introduced as a wise-cracking womanizer. By contrast, Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, is surrounded by a female army, commanded by Okoye, played by Danai Gurira.