“Tony Stark is a walking bank bailout. His bad means everyone else pays, and he’s still in charge.”
Deep-DEEP feels for this thread. Been an Iron Man stan since the late ‘70’s. HATED where the MU went with him during the original Civil War, was NOT digging’ the ‘Illuminati’ deal in ‘World War Hulk’ and the whole ‘Extrimis’ Armor/not Armor/Intelligent/extradimmensiinal/whatever-the-fuck-it-was, thing. And the glittery shine of seeing a Live-Action Iron Man on a movie screen, brought to us by MCU? That wore off pretty quick. IM’s gone from a character with ingenuity, fallibility, and a genuine desire to do good, to a character I REALLY wanna see get his ass handed to him by Thanos. I mean, at this point? Just kill Tony Stark already. No clones, no ‘It was REALLY a Life Model Decoy’, no alternate-timeLine/Reality replacements. Dead. Maybe, put some REAL effort into starting over from scratch with Riri Williams…
This is the fourth time Ive seen this or had it sent to me. And Ive avoided reblogging for a couple reasons. But sometimes you gotta talk about whats wrong. And Tony’s behavior is a major problem.
I’m prepping for IW and I’m honestly just so sad that I cannot bring myself to watch Homecoming a second time. I want to, because everything else about it is so so wonderful. But Tony’s “parenting style” reminds me and reminds friends of mine of painful family of origin abuse that we just shouldnt have to sit through from a “hero” in a goddamn superhero movie tbh.
Im seeing more and more people on multiple platforms done with MCU Tony. The consistency of the character’s faults across multiple directors, the realism in his narcissism and its integration into dynamic plots makes me think that the actor is driving a lot of this, and that there isnt much room to shape him differently. I hope the MCU understands they need to wrap him up and move on.
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