Tony being a legit metaphor for a Phoenix. (Death/Rebirth a constant theme in his story; his suit is comprised of red/gold – the colors of the Phoenix; Extremis being a Phoenix-inspired virus tied to Tony’s story; Tony himself even calls himself a Phoenix in Iron Man 2…)
The dead turned to “ash” at the end of A:IW. (And Phoenixes rise from ashes, which makes a pretty clear connection given they’re bound to rise from the ashes…)
Tony getting stabbed in the side by Thanos during his mock “Death Scene” a la Christ. (So that’s “Savior” imagery coupled with “resurrection” imagery.)
Thanos singling Tony out in A:IW, going so far as to compare himself to Tony by saying they’re both “cursed with knowledge.”
Strange sacrificing one of the Infinity Stones for Tony’s life in A:IW because he saw into the future and knew Tony was integral to the “endgame” (a word which Tony himself used in AoU to describe the imminent alien arrival aka Thanos). Like… Tony was more valuable than half the universe. Than what Strange vowed he’d protect at all costs.
… I dunno guys. I think the writers are trying to tell us something. Something like… Tony’s gonna be the one to fix this, perhaps? (Gimme that Tony reversing the *snap* with the Infinity Gauntlet pease.)
nothing is more frustrating than when someone requests the same thing from you, over and over, and you’ve already repeatedly told them what is and isn’t possible.
like, are you fucking dense? this is an email exchange. scroll down and reread and stop wasting my time.
let’s destroy this idea that tony is a helpless, sullen adult who can’t function properly without the avengers around him 24/7 and instead recognize that tony fucking stark, tony “i built a suit in a cave full of scraps” stark, tony “i figured out how to keep myself alive despite months of palladium poisoning” stark, tony “i took a nuke into a wormhole regardless of the aftermath” stark, etc etc etc, would pick himself up, brush off the dirt and betrayal, and keep moving forward because he’s a god damn futurist and recognizes that wallowing in self-pity only holds him back
steve: leaves a hoodie lying around — tony: Its Free Real Estate
bold of you to assume tony would wait for steve to leave it lying around
steve will be lying on his back in the couch swiping through a tablet and tony will stumble into the living room, flop on top of him, and shove his head under steve’s hoodie and practically fall asleep there dead and when steve tries to fight him off tony just blows raspberries into his stomach
“why are you like this,” steve says. tony says steve should have asked himself that before he married him
In Infinity War, Rocket calls the rest of the Guardians morons and later Thor is all, *earnestly* “Farewell and good luck, morons!” like he doesn’t know it’s an insult and guys, he lived on Earth with Tony Stark for two years. He knows what a moron is. That fluffy ball of sunshine just felt like being a little shit. And I now headcanon that Thor probably does this kind of thing a lot bc he gets a kick out of it.
It starts out bc he finds a lil kitty curled up on the hood of his car.
He has no idea how or why it got there. But it’s… it’s tiny, and it’s black as night and curled in on itself like a lump of dark matter against the striking red of his Ferrari. He cocks his head and scritches the top of its teeny little head, and when the kitty wakes up, he realises that it’s holding its leg all funny. The poor thing is obviously a stray, and there’s something wrong with its back paw.
Pepper is going to kill him for being late to that meeting, but come on- this kitten obviously needs his help.
So he heads in the complete opposite direction of the meeting rooms he was supposed to be driving to, and instead goes to the nearest vet, the little kitten curling back up, this time in his lap. He makes sure not to move around too much, so as not to hurt it more. Unfortunately, however, when the vet looks her over, he tells Tony solemnly that the leg is too badly damaged to heal on its own, and if they wanted to help her they’d either have to amputate or just put her to sleep.
Tony checks his watch. He’s already thirty minutes late- might as well go the whole way and just miss the meeting entirely.
The kitten stays over at the vets whilst Tony throws a load of money at the person he’d been speaking to and tells him to do the best job he can with the operation, and when he goes home, he instantly claps his hands and signals for JARVIS to start a new database.
JARVIS makes a wry comment at the ‘Stark Beans’ decision, but fuck him, Tony thinks it is absolutely fitting.
It takes him six hours to come up with the perfect design. It’s tiny and barely even uses any materials at all, but it’s flexible and lightweight and the kitty is hardly even going to notice the difference when it’s on. He puts a small rubber paw on the end- soft and durable, and fit like the real thing, and on the back of it he stamps the smallest little StarkIndustries logo on it he’s ever created.
And thus, Stark Beans™
are born.
He saves the project and sends it off to Pepper, telling her that he’s terribly sorry, but this needs to take priority now, I’m going to save all the cats in the world with this. And then once that’s done, he gets in the car and drives back to the vets.
Needless to say, it’s an instant success.
The Stark Beans™
are put into practise almost immediately. They fast become the best thing on the market. Tony expands a little, making some for the canine counterparts too (Stark Paws™), and suddenly he has a whole market of prosthetic limbs for disabled pets. His favourite part is seeing the little boys and girls that end up running up to him, toothy smiles and sunlit eyes and fists with pictures of their puppy’s new leg and their cat’s new paw. They’re so happy. He made them happy in the space of an afternoon, because of the little kitten who sat herself on his hood and took a nap.
Of course, he keeps her. She came home with him as soon as the new limb was fitted. She was like the tiniest shadow in the galaxy; the only thing that gave away her position in the darkness was the single white paw of her Stark Bean™.
Fittingly, he named her nebula. (Well- technically her name was Horsehead, due to the fact that it was the most famous dark nebula he could think of and at the time he’d thought it was hilarious- but Pepper had quickly put a halt to him yelling out ‘HORSEHEAD NO!’ In the middle of the office when everyone else was working.)
So yes. Nebula. Excellent model for his tech. Even better lab partner. But the best part about her was definitely her little purr when he scratched under her chin
Talking with @ruffaled, I think there’s something to be said about Tony Stark being a metaphor for the Phoenix.
With Death/Rebirth being a primary dichotomy upon which his narrative hangs, let’s examine…
Iron Man: Tony very nearly dies in Afghanistan. He is “reborn” as “Iron Man” – a hero in a suit of armor, which he later paints “hot rod red” and gold – the colors of the phoenix.
(It’s worth noting the Phoenix, according to lore, burns itself to arise from the ashes – which is interesting given Tony has a penchant for being the cause of his own destruction.)
Iron Man 2: Tony is slowly dying from palladium poisoning, which is caused from the miniature arc reactor he has placed in his chest. He only survives due to figuring out clues left behind by his father, Howard Stark.
The Avengers: Tony very nearly dies when taking a nuclear warhead through a wormhole spiraling above New York City. The sequence where Tony closes his eyes and falls back to Earth is reminiscent of a legitimate Death Scene™
in a film. It’s only by happenstance he survives, resurrected by Hulk roaring.
Iron Man 3: In this one, it’s interesting that Pepper literally fits Phoenix motif. She burns alive and is resurrected – and it’s Pepper who saves Tony from nearly being killed. This was possible through work Tony did on the Extremis virus almost 13 years ago. (I mean, damn, on a broader level the entire Extremis virus is a literal Phoenix metaphor; all the victims burst into flames and are capable of cellular regeneration).
– and he is very nearly killed in a dramatic sequence where he’s stabbed in the side by a piece of his own suit (again, a Phoenix burns itself). In every way that this scene was filmed, it was meant to play as a legitimate Death Scene™
. The music, Tony’s solemn acceptance, the framing was a deliberate throwback to Tony’s first movie and another near-death experience (when Obadiah removed the arc reactor from Tony’s chest). The only reason Tony didn’t die is because Strange saved his life by sacrificing the one thing he vowed to protect: the time stone. In a way, this was Tony’s “resurrection.”
Furthermore, Tony being stabbed in the side is reminiscent of Christ. One of Christ’s wounds during the crucifixion was being pierced in the side. Christ, like the Phoenix, is also representative of this idea of rebirth/resurrection (as he died and was born again).
Tony is the man who reinvents himself. He dies, he is reborn, he becomes stronger. And, like the Phoenix, he is immortal.
This also makes me believe we will see Tony eventually go from being a manufacturer of Death (as his story began) to being a bringer of Life.
You ever wonder why Karen has an instant kill mode like what the fuck tony
well, i’ve always thought of tony as a bit overprotective of peter and i think he had all those hundreds of modes in peter’s suit because he wanted to make sure he had everything he could possibly need, just in case. tbh tony reminds me of mrs. potato head from toy story lmao
you know what’s misleading is naming a restaurant frites, but fries only come as a side and you have nothing fancier than regular fries served with mayo.
Imagine Tony using B.A.R.F. so the other Avengers finally understand why he has been so manic for the past six years. If he brought to virtual life what horrors he saw when he went through the wormhole. If he showed them, in frightening 360° technicolor, the cold vision Wanda sparked in his mind.
Iron Man 1: a weapon of his own creation is blown up in his face, piercing his chest with shrapnel
Iron Man 2: the very thing keeping him alive is also killing him
Age Of Ultron: creates ultron to protect the world, almost destroys it instead
Civil War: tries his hardest to keep the team together, ends up tearing them apart instead
no matter what he does or how hard he tries, or how good his intentions are, nothing ever works out for him.
When the title of Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: Homecoming was first announced, Marvel fans everywhere smirked a little bit. After all, while part of the title is referencing the fact that the film features a homecoming dance, it was also a clear nod to the fact that the hero was finally getting his own Marvel Cinematic Universe feature. Because of this, we’ve been mulling over the sequel title, Spider-Man: Far From Home, since it was announced yesterday… and now Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has confirmed that there are, in fact, multiple meanings:
[It’s] similar [to Spider-Man: Homecoming]. I won’t say what the meanings are, but we enjoy that title because, like Homecoming, it is full of alternate meaning. And we liked continuing the ‘Home’ thing, with the little Spidey symbol in the ‘Home.‘
“Karen, I’ve a feeling we’re not in our universe anymore.”
Spider-Man: Far From Home – a Marvel-style remake of the classic, The Wizard of Oz, where this film actually takes place in between IW and A4.
The film opens with Peter in his Iron Spider suit, alone in an alternate universe. Presumably the soul world. There, he sees Thanos’ dead-ish body, with the last iteration of the Infinity Gauntlet that Peter had seen (with all the stones except for the Mind Stone).
Thanos traded a soul for a soul, but what he didn’t know is parts of his own soul was trapped in the stone as well. We see his body start to twitch, and Peter’s starting to get scared, but little Gamora appears to help, and suddenly Peter’s wearing the gauntlet.
Thanos wakes up, he sees the gauntlet. He wants it back, but you can only get the gauntlet off the current wearer if they’re dead (or dead-ish, idk). Peter runs.
Along the way, Peter finds all the characters he was with on Titan who were also dusted. Quill, Mantis, Drax, Strange. They all help him escape from Thanos who’s trying to kill Peter to get the gauntlet back.
The whole time, they keep telling him to use the gauntlet, but Peter’s seen what it can do and he’s afraid of that much power. Eventually, when it seems like he’s been cornered and he’s about to die, Gamora appears again and convinces Peter to use the gauntlet. It has the reality stone. The space stone. The time stone. It’s all he needs to go home.
So he closes his eyes and wishes, and then he’s waking up back on Earth, surrounded by the Avengers after they’ve beaten Thanos in their own timeline and reality. Peter’s convinced what happened to him was all a dream, but we all know it wasn’t.
What would the original musical score include? “Over the Bifrost”? “Ding, Dong, Everyone is Dead”? 🎶
i'm gonna need marvel to hire you as screenwriter or producer lol
LMAAOOOO if only.
But listen, they can hire me to do anything as long as they pay me more than what I’m making now, which I’m sure they can afford. I can even work remotely. @ Marvel where should I send my resume and portfolio??
“Karen, I’ve a feeling we’re not in our universe anymore.”
Spider-Man: Far From Home – a Marvel-style remake of the classic, The Wizard of Oz, where this film actually takes place in between IW and A4.
The film opens with Peter in his Iron Spider suit, alone in an alternate universe. Presumably the soul world. There, he sees Thanos’ dead-ish body, with the last iteration of the Infinity Gauntlet that Peter had seen (with all the stones except for the Mind Stone).
Thanos traded a soul for a soul, but what he didn’t know is parts of his own soul was trapped in the stone as well. We see his body start to twitch, and Peter’s starting to get scared, but little Gamora appears to help, and suddenly Peter’s wearing the gauntlet.
Thanos wakes up, he sees the gauntlet. He wants it back, but you can only get the gauntlet off the current wearer if they’re dead (or dead-ish, idk). Peter runs.
Along the way, Peter finds all the characters he was with on Titan who were also dusted. Quill, Mantis, Drax, Strange. They all help him escape from Thanos who’s trying to kill Peter to get the gauntlet back.
The whole time, they keep telling him to use the gauntlet, but Peter’s seen what it can do and he’s afraid of that much power. Eventually, when it seems like he’s been cornered and he’s about to die, Gamora appears again and convinces Peter to use the gauntlet. It has the reality stone. The space stone. The time stone. It’s all he needs to go home.
So he closes his eyes and wishes, and then he’s waking up back on Earth, surrounded by the Avengers after they’ve beaten Thanos in their own timeline and reality. Peter’s convinced what happened to him was all a dream, but we all know it wasn’t.
What would the original musical score include? “Over the Bifrost”? “Ding, Dong, Everyone is Dead”? 🎶
