you know what I miss from the early Iron Man movies? The optimism. The joy. The ego. This isn’t saying that I think Tony is egotistical (although to a certain extent he is), I’m saying that he had that rock star image.
I mean:
the stark expo?
the Senate hearing?
Making the suit? Look at how proud he is of himself! What an accomplishment! This bitch is going places
LOOK AT HIS FACE, in any given scene of these two movies, almost all of them Tony’s got attitude, ego, a sense of hope. Hell, lets go wild, lets add in the Avengers too:
HE’S JUST SUCH A DIFFERENT PERSON.
a sink hole of human despair. They’ve taken away his theme music, his house, his rock star persona, his hope, his joy, his fluffy hair…
I do fully understand the choice to give Tony PTSD (or whatever they are now calling this) because the guy has been through so much shit. I’m not saying they couldn’t have done that. I’m saying they completely changed everything about how they present his character and I miss the Tony that was, and could have been. They stole so much light and happiness from this man and they said it was because he was recovering but they never fucking gave it back. Look at his face in that last gif. That’s a man who keeps thinking he’s found rock bottom but actually there’s farther to fall.
From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:
Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:
1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.
5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!
10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.
11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.
12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.
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Al: How to leave a table without being rude?
Roy: Eat the table
Maes: Good advice
You can only reblog this today.
Why Tony Stark Does Not Deserve The Half The Shit He Goes Through And Why Thanos Should Quiver Before He Snaps: An Introspective Argument
— a 700-slide powerpoint presentation by Stephen Strange, self-proclaimed leader of the Tony Stark Defense Squad
I finally read the The Target. For anyone not familiar with this title, it heralds back to the Officer Grayson days. Dick is setup to take the fall for some dirty cops of the Blüdhaven PD and adopts the identity The Target to clear his name name for Reasons.
I came across this gem:
That’s right. They practiced throwing guns. As confirmed by Nightwing (1996) #33:
It called to mind another gun-throwing identity of Dick Grayson’s.
Flash forward to the New 52.
That’s right, Agent 37. Was is pure coincidence Agent 8 mentioned guns and targets? Or was it an Easter Egg?
Who could forget his iconic theme song?
His fellow agents may have given him grief over his choice of gun handling, but apparently Dick had lots of practice hurling those bad boys.
Finding these references is like undercovering buried treasure to me. I get way to much pleasure from it. Has anyone else found any good links from the old to the new like this?
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Okay but it makes me so fucking mad that we dont acknowledge the fact that rhodey watches as Tony disapears?
You think he doesnt feel that? You think he doesnt worry? You think he doesnt see that punk kid he adopted during his college years and never let go of? Hes known Tony since they were KIDS.
Hes known Tony when his parents died. You think he’d welcome Cap back with open arms, after he held Tony as he cried in his arms, saying “rhodey, I dont-i cant-im 21, ill never be enough-i miss her, I never told them-”
You think that he’d just go “yeah, that’s cool,cap, you helped RUIN my best friend but we’re okay”
And you think that he doesnt see Tony and thinks “I should be there, I should HELP”
Like I dont care if you ship them or not, the fact that we so blatantly disregard how rhodey must be feeling in that scene?
He wants his fucking best friend back. He must be fucking devastated inside, but instead he cracks jokes and does what he can, instead of being torn up with worry, instead of showing it.
The thing I love about rhodey+Tony is the pure level of trust and comfortable aura they have? In age of Ultron, as soon as rhodey shows up, the tone changes entirely. Tony’s cracking jokes, hes happier, hes caring, Hhdhdhrhjrjrururh
And so yes, Steve’s lines are iconic and yes I stan, but at the same time, can we stop pretending that rhodey wouldn’t be doing anything and everything to get his fuckinf best friend back?
He watched him drive off in the desert and come back a different man. You think he doesnt think of those 3 agonizing months as soon as he sees Tony’s gone? You think he doesnt fucking love him?
You think he wasn’t thinking, “what if this is it, what if the last time we talked was the last time, what if hes gone forever?”
God. I couldn’t imagine what Rhodey must be feeling in that scene. But instead he tells jokes, and he does what he can, because that’s what Tony would want him to do.
Honestly, when I first saw this I thought it was Argus from WoW.