• Unfriendly reminder that Wanda Maximoff MANIPULATED a man suffering from SEVERE PTSD into doing something horrible which HE was blamed for while NO ONE on his “team” defended him.
• Unfriendly reminder that Steve Rogers knew about the MURDER of Tony Stark’s parents and withheld the information.
• Unfriendly reminder that Steve did this and had the nerve to chastise Tony about KEEPING FUCKING SECRETS.
• Unfriendly reminder that Steve thought he knew better than 117 COUNTRIES, and decided to do what the fuck he wanted.
• Unfriendly reminder that Tony tried to COMPROMISE with Steve and he couldn’t meet him in the middle.
• Unfriendly reminder that his “team” couldn’t trust him even after he had literally risked his life for them TWICE.
• Unfriendly reminder that Natasha BETRAYED Tony even after she called in the Black Panther whom she knew would attack Bucky whereas Tony only called for backup that he knew wouldn’t react violently unless it was needed.
• Unfriendly reminder that people say that Tony (again, a man who suffers from SEVERE PTSD) overreacted after watching the man standing next to him (who is absolutely a victim, but his hands still committed those crimes) MURDER his parents in cold blood, and a man that he considered his friend KNEW about it to protect HIMSELF and his friend.
• Unfriendly reminder that all Tony got after the War was a SHIT TON of problems with the government and a CONDESCENDING letter from the same man who hurt him incredibly both physically and emotionally basically telling him “i’m sorry that you don’t understand that I was right”.
• Unfriendly reminder that Tony was BLAMED for the paralysis his BEST FRIEND now suffers by a man whom Tony had done A LOT for.
• Unfriendly reminded that Tony fucking Stark is treated so horribly in this fandom and he doesn’t deserve it.
* Unfriendly reminder that Steve Rogers quite possibly has PTSD himself after being involved in so many war conflicts.
* Unfriendly reminder that Steve Rogers lost Peggy Carter, one of the one people left from previous time, one of the only people who Steve can relate to, died while he was dealing with a huge amount of pressure.
* Unfriendly reminder that Steve Rogers put his faith in an organisation to see it crumble under the very organisation he loathes.
* Unfriendly reminder that Steve Rogers has probably lost his faith to governments and actually questions the Sokovia Accords, rightly so.
* Unfriendly reminder that Bucky Barnes ISN’T a villain but a victim to brainwashing.
* Unfriendly reminder that Bucky Barnes is Steve’s best friend (together with Sam) and the only person left from previous times, times where Steve wasn’t Captain America but just a tiny kid from Brooklyn.
* Unfriendly reminder that Bucky Barnes didn’t want any share in this conflict and hid away for years.
* Unfriendly reminder that Bucky Barnes was wrongfully accused of bombing the UN meeting based of weak evidence (no one thought of prosthetics? Really?) and Tony Stark blamed him as well.
* Unfriendly reminder that Bucky Barnes was VIOLATED and very UNWILLINGLY activated as the Winter Soldier, something he can’t help.
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark put Wanda under house arrest because of an ACCIDENT and countered Steve’s protests with a weak-ass argument about her not being an American citizen (do you really think you can play by the ordinary rules there?).
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark recruited Peter Parker, a KID, onto his side in a conflict he didn’t need to be involved in.
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark told Steve that his judgement was errored but his was apparently fine, even though he first latched onto the Sokovia Accords because of personal guilt.
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark blames Steve for tearing the Avengers apart but doesn’t even say anything about his own involvement as he was the first signed the records, knowing the team was split up about it.
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark DOESN’T actually seek an alternative with Steve as you can’t really that easily change parts of a SIGNED agreement.
* Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark shot Sam after Rhodes got shot by VISION, a fellow teammate, after Sam justifiably dodged and even dove down to Rhodes and Tony and apologised.
Listen, it’s right that Tony gets too much flack but that doesn’t justify bashing Team Cap, especially Steve, Bucky and Wanda. They’ve been through a lot of shit too.
Unfriendly reminder that Tony Stark was working on Ultron behind his teammates backs LONG before Wanda entered the picture.
Unfriendly reminder that she didn’t actually manipulate him at all, she merely looked at his worst fear – that he would be responsible for the destruction of the world – and let him walk away with Loki’s scepter, knowing that his ambition and secrecy would cause his own demise
Unfriendly reminder that Wanda also has severe PTSD, as do most of the rest of the Avengers
Unfriendly reminder that her PTSD was caused when Stark weapons were used to kill her parents in front of her when she was ten – weapons that Tony was ultimately responsible for the sale of, as CEO of his company
Unfriendly reminder that the only thing Steve knew about the death of Tony’s parents was seeing a newspaper clip about their death in a montage of other images while Zola mentioned that “when history didn’t cooperate, history was changed” – information that was released to the public at the end of TWS and that Tony had full access to at any time
Unfriendly reminder that this was also the first time Steve heard anything about how his friend Howard Stark died, and he has no idea what Tony does or doesn’t know about the circumstances surrounding the death of his parents
Unfriendly reminder that the previous few secrets that Tony withheld from the team wound up with Ultron killing hundreds of people and trying to blow up the planet, Wanda being imprisoned at the compound and having her agency and her choice about whether or not to sign the Accords taken away from her, and having the Accords sprung on the team with less than three days for them to critically read a 500-page legal document and come to a decision on whether it was going to be more help or harm
Unfriendly reminder that not all the countries in the U.N. necessarily agreed to the Accords
Unfriendly reminder that Steve’s main objections to the Accords were that they weren’t doing anything to prevent civilian casualties, merely shifting the blame when they happened, and that the U.N. (who were recently outed as having been thoroughly infested with HYDRA and were the same group who tried to solve the alien invasion I New York by sending a nuke at the city) had agendas that weren’t necessarily in line with protecting innocents from all countries
Unfriendly reminder that Tony actually lied to Steve about being able to help Bucky if Steve signed the Accords, knowing full well that Bucky would be interrogated then sent back with T’Challa for execution regardless of whether Steve signed or not
Unfriendly reminder that when Steve tried to warn Tony about the super soldiers that Zemo was about to release, Tony brushed him off and gave Peter the order to attack instead
Unfriendly reminder that Tony intentionally revealed the existence of Laura Barton and her three children to a room full of men looking for something to hold over the rogue Avenger’s heads
Unfriendly reminder that Tony went after his supposed teammates at the airport with LIVE EXPLOSIVES, well aware that they were not wearing any kind of armor AND that they would all be pulling their punches for his team
Unfriendly reminder that Natasha was one of the only people whose priority in this move was keeping her team together, the method be damned. Everyone else was either focused on first stopping Zemo and the super soldiers, or on bringing Steve and Bucky to justice
Unfriendly reminder that Natasha actually endangered herself to stop T’Challa and let Steve escape when she saw that he and Tony were going too far with trying to bring them in
Unfriendly reminder that Tony specifically says in Spiderman: Homecoming that he brought Peter because he knew that Steve wouldn’t fight as hard to stop a kid – essentially using him as a meat shield
Unfriendly reminder that Tony blackmailed and bribed Peter into coming to the fight despite Peter telling him “no” multiple times
Unfriendly reminder that Tony legally kidnapped Peter from his guardian to bring him to Germany
Unfriendly reminder that Steve and Bucky were close friends with Howard, and that Siberia was the first time that they had truly seen what happened to their friend, whereas Tony vocally and repeatedly states how much he hates his father and doesn’t care what happened to him
Unfriendly reminder that Steve didn’t know that Bucky was involved until just then, and Tony specifically says that he doesn’t care
Unfriendly reminder that Tony broke the very Accords he signed – multiple times – but was never reprimanded for it and went back to his tower to sulk, while his teammates who broke it were all imprisoned indefinitely without trial and kept in conditions that violate half of the Geneva Convention’s rules on humane prisoner treatment
Unfriendly reminder that Steve’s letter was meant as an olive branch to Tony – if he ever needed help, Steve would be there – and put himself at great risk to give Tony that option
Unfriendly reminder that this letter was sent to a man that had done nothing but harass Steve since the two met, has mocked and belittled his trauma and suffering, had gone after all the people who Steve holds dear in one form or another, has betrayed Steve and taken actions that severely affected him behind his back, and has made no secret of how much he hates Steve
Unfriendly reminder that Tony was never blamed for Rhody’s injury, and in fact he held Sam responsible despite the fact that it was Vision’s shot that took him out of the sky – a fact that is later pinned on Wanda for being “a distraction”
Unfriendly reminder that Tony only gets this much critical review by the fan base because his stans feel the need to make posts like this that bash every other character with no regard to movie canon and hold Tony up as the paragon of flawless innocence in comparison, while completely ignoring all of the character flaws that keep him from being a Gary Stu
Unfriendly reminder that more of us might even view him as a tragically flawed character if you all didn’t insist on shoving crap like this down our throats
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