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"You back, you're alright"

Tony was always making sure that everybody was okay and that breaks my heart, he deserved better.

“[Tony] has this sort of existential connection to Thanos.” - Joe Russo

“You realize this interesting parallel between Thanos and Tony. They’re both aware of something from an early point and constantly having to deal with being smarter. Thanos is a futurist as much as Tony Stark.” - Christopher Markus

Tony and Thanos appear to be two heads to the same coin. Between them, they share a lot of remarkable similarities. But what separates them is heart. Tony has compassion, while Thanos does not. 

This is emphasized in Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos hurls his adopted daughter, Gamora, off a cliff; while Tony promises his son-figure, Peter, he will catch him when he falls.

Tony wants to save the universe by safeguarding as many lives as he can, while Thanos believes saving the universe necessitates massive loss of life. They are equal, yet opposite. 

hey, remember when →  Tony wanted to spend his last birthday with Pepper in Venice (instead of having a party).

avengers + name meanings

“‘cause if we can’t protect the earth, you can be damn sure we’ll avenge it.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RDJ!

Robert Downey, Jr. vs The Giggles

ok tonight’s bullshit discourse: tony’s best outfit, objectively, is the black coat he wears in Oslo in AOU

Apologies in advance if i (spammed) liked your years old tony stark fanfics.

Congratulations for "Oppenheimer" on their 6 wins at the 96th Academy Awards 2024!!

Robert Downey Jr Academy Award Winner ✨

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in another universe we’re all better human beings and humanity is alive. 

the scene in IM2 when tony testifies to congress? and Hammer speaks? Hammer says “we live in a world of grave threats, threats that mister stark will not always be able to foresee”

and the camera cuts to Tony, shaking his head. even in IM2, the theme was building, that’s there’s a threat only tony will be able to see and nobody will believe him.

oh yeah i love reading (fan-fictions to dissociate).

— I thought you were a futurist! I am. To my core. That means I respect the future. I believe in the future. I worship at its feet.

TONY STARK + GREATEST INVENTIONS

Thanos was boosting himself to gain power of Infinity Stones. He screamed, knowing he has greater plan. He knew he would not die. It was his sole purpose. He was open to accept the power, but still went through a lot of pain, and showed it.

The Hulk was unsure of his fate, but did it for noble purpose. He was torn by power of the stones and screamed in great pain, feeling horror of power surge coursing through his veins. Agony was visible on him at all times.

Tony knew he would not survive the gauntlet. After all, he is only human. Much greater creatures took on the gauntlet and were damaged in the process. He was saving the universe. He was saving loved ones. He was saving his friends. He welcomed the great power that comes with the stones and he did not scream, he just flinched, accepting his fate. He greeted death. He took on the gauntlet not showing what it was doing to him on the inside. He was burning on the inside and it was damaging him beyond repair. His heart was giving up. He did not scream. He did not show the agonizing pain his body was going through.

Earth just lost its best defender.

IRON MAN (2008)

Tony, the futurist

Buckle in folks, I've had some thoughts and I'm about to make it ✨everyone's✨ problem.

Been thinking about Tony Stark, the futurist who saw the end of the world.

Tony, who in IM1 escapes kidnapping and torture and says, "I shouldn't be alive. Unless if was for a reason."

who, in The Avengers, has this exchange with Bruce Banner:

Tony: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a… terrible privilege. Bruce: But you can control it. Tony: Because I learned how. Bruce: It's different. Tony: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should've killed you. Bruce: So you're saying that the Hulk… the other guy… saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Saved it for what? Tony: I guess we'll find out. Bruce: You might not like that. Tony: You just might.

Right after this, Cap tells Tony, "You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."

And then Tony flies a nuke into a wormhole, tries to call his girlfriend because he thinks these are his last moments, did not go in there expecting to survive.

Although he survives, he witnesses an alien army so terrifying, so unbeatable, it gives him crippling PTSD nightmares and panic attacks, knowing they are not prepared to defend the earth.

I'm thinking about Tony who, in AOU, gets manipulated by Wanda into witnessing his worst nightmare.

Which, by the way, involves losing all of his newfound friends.

Later, he has this exchange with Nick Fury:

Tony: And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team, how could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world, too. It's because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could. Fury: The Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear. Tony: I wasn't tricked, I was shown. It wasn't a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on. Fury: You've come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn't one of them. Tony: I watched my friends die. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn't the worst part. Fury: The worst part is that you didn't.

Tony's worst fear is to survive in a world he's failed to save. He has to "do all [he] could" or else the future he's terrified of will happen and it will be his fault.

(Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a reason why Tony and Peter are so compatible as mentor and mentee.)

Tony's seen what's coming, and he's willing to do whatever it takes.

Here's the thing, though:

Tony doesn't actually want to die.

In AOU, when they're arguing about why he created Ultron, Tony says this to Cap:

"Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the 'why we fight'? So we get to go home?"

He tells Bruce that the reason they should create Ultron is to have "peace in our time."

He tells Pepper that his constant tinkering, his inability to ever, ever rest is because he needs to keep her safe from the oncoming threat.

Tony has a life he wants to protect, people he wants to keep safe. And, unlike the other Avengers, he knows exactly how impossible this will be to achieve.

Tony is the only Avenger who understands how severely outmatched they are. Maybe Thor understands the threat, but he has no ability to imagine losing.

Tony tries to get them to understand:

Tony: Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's… that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that? Steve: Together. Tony: We'll lose. Steve: Then we'll do that together, too.

Well, they do lose. And they don't do it together.

And it turns out Tony was right about everything.

He was right that he would survive to face his world that he'd failed to save.

He was right that the Avengers would not be enough.

He was right that Bruce's powers would be worthwhile someday.

And, apparently,

some people think he was right that he was only alive for this reason.

Because, obviously, the only "reason" for someone like Tony Stark to be alive is to eventually sacrifice himself, right?

A character so traumatized can only find peace in death.

Right?

No.

Stop that.

Tony Stark may have been willing to risk his life for his family, but that doesn't mean he wanted that to be his end.

Remember when this happened?

Bruce: Saved it for what? Tony: I guess we'll find out. Bruce: You might not like that. Tony: You just might.

Bruce gets to live long enough to like his ending.

Remember when this happened?

All Tony ever wanted to do was make the world a better place.

And, what about this?

You're telling me that Yinsen didn't value family above all else?

That he thought Tony should die and leave them behind?

No.

Tony Stark is a futurist.

He is the Cassandra of the MCU. He warns the others constantly of the oncoming threat that only he, apparently, can see. (Even Thanos calls him "cursed with knowledge.")

No one believes him. Alone, he tries to prepare for the threat that he has witnessed. He sits with his nightmares and tries to find a way around them, constantly.

He builds a life worth living, finds people worth protecting, just like Yinsen told him to.

To protect the future, he does all he possibly can.

Tony deserved to be part of the future too.

I’d burn hollywood to the ground if he lost to a ken

Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.