does anybody remember that one fucking iron man armor that was fucking like. oh it’s designed to keep track of your brain patterns so that IT CAN KEEP FIGHTING even after you DIE INSIDE IT like have you all THOUGHT ABOUT HOW TONY STARK’S COMPLETELY FUCKING FINE WITH HIS FUCKING CORPSE JUST BEING DEAD WEIGHT INSIDE A SUIT SO LONG AS THE SUIT KEEPS GOING
that being said: where’s the ficlet in which somebody opens up tony’s suit after a particularly tough battle and finds out HE IS DEAD HE HAS BEEN FUCKING DEAD FOR 37 MINUTES NOW and then one of his patented Super Sad Post-Mortem Goodbye Videos ™ is projected by the helmet etc the whole deal
LISTEN…… LIST…E..N……. this is the most quality reply someone has ever left on one of my posts in my entire life, ever and i want to personally thank you for this
All this time I thought Steve was being cold, but as this post basically points out his eyes are very much alive. Chris Evans acting is so subtle that I did not notice it at first.
Steve eyes are glassy and full of remorse when Tony demands to be told the truth, and he prepares for the backlash by retreating within himself. By the time Tony punches him he is completely stoic.
This technique is something Steve probably developed during the war and perfected as the leader of The Avengers. He has to push his feelings aside.
Steve knows that the damage is done and no amount of apologies will right it. So instead he prepares himself by Tony’s reaction.
You know the most heartbreaking part of this whole sequence?
– Steve knows he has hurt Tony. He fucking knows that and it’s like he has accepted that he has no chance. No redemption. But he can’t let Tony hurt Bucky and so he fights. Not because he wanted to hurt Tony or because he was angry with Tony. But because he had to become the shield between Tony and Bucky. He literally became the shield.
So no, Steve Rogers was not abandoning Tony. He literally sent him a phone and told him to call him whenever he needed him. A man who was being hunted and should have remained incognito risked his safety just to let Tony know that he isn’t leaving him (in a highly emotionally constipated way, but he did nonetheless). The strangest part is that nobody understands these two broken men and their relationship like they do. They will go at each other’s throats but if the other is in danger, they put everything on the line for them. Tony risked being arrested himself just to help Steve. Steve risked being caught just to let Tony know that he’s still there. So all that bullcrap about them not being friends or shtick? Yeah, nope.
Stark Expo Vs Star Spangled Man with a Plan (because they’re so brilliantly different)
The difference is that Steve totally, totally wants to be anywhere but there. Someone put the scrawny kid from New York in a silly costume and shoved him out there.
Tony? Cheering crowds, good looking women, lots of media and fireworks? Bring it on! It’s still not as excessive as Tony’s own ego.
Oooh, this! They are literally polar opposites but still best friends in the comics. I need Age of Ultron to have more Steve and Tony interaction,
Actually, neither Steve nor Tony want to be there. Tony’s actually dying here, & the scene cuts away to him behind the scenes checking his vitals. However, Tony has a persona to play & he plays it remarkably well.
The Stark Expo is a façade. It’s a distraction. It’s a rouse because, again, HE’S DYING.
Essentially, he & Steve are in the same position – dancing monkey – but Tony appears to love it, but it’s a façade. He’s just as uncomfortable, if not, more so than Steve is (because HE’S DYING), but Steve’s the one that can’t school his expressions.
It’s about two very different men reacting to similar situations in different ways because of their different experiences.
Reblogging for that last bit. That’s some a++ commentary right there. The only difference between them is Tony was raised in it so he knows the song and dance and how to play a crowd from the get go.
It never fails to amaze me how often that critical part of Tony’s character gets overlooked by fandom. Maybe Tony at one point was the mask, only to have it shattered by Yinsen. Paralleled, I might add, by Steve’s show performing for Bucky’s Unit, only to find out he was MIA. It was his path to heroism as much as Yinsen’s was Tony’s. The serum didn’t make him a hero. His friendship with Bucky did. Iron Man would not exist if Yinsen hadn’t saved Tony and sacrificed his life for his escape, changing him.
But the whole point is at heart, they aren’t fundamentally different men. They may have different approaches, they may have different ways of handling things due to their different upbringing, but in many ways, they are remarkably similar.
*deep menacing accent* “How did you take down Captain America?” *matter of fact European accent replies* “We shot him in the legs because his shield is the size of a dinner plate and he is an idiot”
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