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A gal who is very passionate about a red-and-gold-armor-wearing hero. Call me Kay (or K, whichever)
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alright so i finally finished reading the cantwell run

and yeah I knew I wasn't going to love it going in. But I tried to give it a fair shot! I actively tried to find things I could like about it. I appreciate someone wanting to write a character-driven Iron Man story instead of just coming up with the most insane plot possible, I appreciate the focus on trauma and addiction. There are some moments I liked. I actually liked the last arc, and the special final issue as well.

But ultimately I'm just so tired.

I don't even know how much I actually liked the last arc or if it was just better enough than what came before it that I found it relieving. Like. I'm just tired.

Maybe the problem is me! Maybe the problem is me and I'm insisting on holding on to a version of the character that hasn't existed in 25-30 years and I just need to let it go. Maybe this is an incredible run of Iron Man because this just is who Tony Stark is now and I need to let go. I feel like I'm going insane when I read Iron Man comics because I'm like.........you're writing a critique on a version of the character that isn't even!!!!!!!! him!!!!!!! that isn't even him!!!!!!!!!! but it's been!!!!!! IT'S BEEN DECADES SO WHO IS HE ANYMORE I GUESS!!!! this is maybe a fascinating character deconstruction and reconstruction. maybe it is! but who is that you're deconstructing. who even is that. it's a frankenstein's monster amalgamation of every new notion of tony stark that's been thrown at the wall and happened to stick over the last 20-whatever years i'm just so tired

how many times do we need to tell stories that are like "OH NO tony stark's EGO is making him WREAK HAVOC ON EVERYONE" how many times do we need to give him a god complex and make it about his ego. how many times do his good intentions and his good heart need to be undermined. why is it always about arrogance, about how much of a jerk he is to his friends. I was trying my best for a good portion of the run but dear god did he lose me at the iron god arc. always trying to write the next big ginormous memorable iron man villain or wild plot point.

tony stark's employees were loyal to him because he was kind to them, you know. he knew them by name. tony stark valued being on the ground, helping people from beside them and not always from some ivory tower. tony stark desired sweet and meaningful connections with other people, lovers or friends or those he could help or anyone. tony stark was like. boy-scoutish in how good he was. tony stark drew a heart on a frosted window and softly lamented to himself "if I only had a heart." tony stark was carol danvers' sponsor when she was recovering from alcoholism.

don't get me wrong, he's one messy dude. his struggles with addiction, his obsession with work, his self-hatred and self-doubt, there's so much that gets in his way. But does a broken heart make him predisposed to being.....bad?

It feels like Civil War is just an unshakeable shadow at this point.

It feels like a few things. 1. the shift in tone of his series in the 2000s that took a turn for the sleek and gritty, 2. the, quite frankly, character assassination of Civil War that was so potent that comic writers never stopped associating tony stark with god complexes and villainy and 3. needing to create synergy with the mcu but mainly doing that based on the surface aspects of mcu tony

leaving us with this version of tony 15, 20 years later who is. like. a copy of a copy of a copy.

and we get story after story of, like, this critique on how arrogant he is or how he can't get his ego in check enough to not play god and I won't say his stories are always unsympathetic to him but it's been a heck of a long time since I've read an Iron Man run that feels like it truly, genuinely has love for Tony Stark. Or even tries to understand him beyond the copy of a copy of a copy that developed in the 2000s-2010s.

Why does his broken heart always have to lead him toward being harmful? Why is it always tony stark makes a bad decision even though it may have started with good intentions and needs to learn his lesson? Why doesn't his broken heart ever lead him toward being soft? Why doesn't it ever lead him toward simple love and kindness? It did once. Tony Stark was soft once, he actually was.

I'm just tired dude

#marvel comics you cannot gaslight me i KNOW who tony stark is#*clutches my buseik and chen omnibus* marvel comics you CANNOT gaslight me#iron man#iron man comics#kay's comic conversations#616 tony stark#but I actually did quite like issue 650 i'm even considering finding it in print#there was just so much that made my eyes roll all the way back into my head before that point that it could only do so much#it's been a really long time since a comic run has dealt me this much psychic damage. or maybe just brain damage
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every time i get here i start SPIRALLING rhodey might've died if he'd ridden with tony but also ALSO oh my god, rhodey was back there watching the whole fucking thing happen and then was thinking tony might be DEAD for THREE MONTHS his BEST FRIEND he looked for him for THREE MONTHS rhodey i will CRY

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#there are always reasons to be insane about im1#iron man#iron man 2008#james rhodes
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do y’all have some iron man comic recs. I just need SOMETHING. I’ve already read every solo series issue from 1992-2020 and…..I wanna say Fatal Frontier as well and Demon in a Bottle and then like the civil wars or whatever but we don’t need to talk about those.

IRON MAN NATION PLEASE SHOW UP FOR ME do you have any hidden gems or favorite classic arcs that I should seek out. please help

#iron man#616 tony stark#tony stark#marvel comics#comic recs
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raccooncati asked:

Wish they were more drawings with Pepperony and their baby. (PS: You're a very talented artist)

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hopefulcanary answered:

Thank you, @raccooncati ! And welllll, she’s not strictly a baby anymore, but lbr, she’s still Pepper and Tony’s baby and i’m gonna just be grossly emotional over here weh…

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Too Much Excitement 😪

#OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS#tony stark#morgan stark#iron man#iron family#ironfam#mcu#tony stark art
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been thinking about tony stark a lot lately and like. what a concept. literally what a concept. like. this man is, conceptually, a literal walking broken heart. like he actually physically IS a broken heart metaphor. like who else is doing it like this

who else is doing it like this. this is content right here. dramatically drawing a heart on the glass thinking “if I only had a heart” literally shut up who else is doing it like this

like his flair for being dramatic and romantic and poetic. what a concept. who else is doing it like this

like that is just the essence of tony stark as a person. i am so obsessed with him. look at him with his little shakespearean imagery moment. “splendid metal skin I’ve created” “frail thing of flesh” like who are you. i’m obsessed with you. sad little man with the incredibly on the nose metaphors about sadness and putting on masks and identity crises that are literally baked into your origin story & you as a concept. that’s fantastic. that’s just fantastic. no one is doing it like him

#tony stark#616 tony stark#iron man
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“(In Iron Man) there are no civil wars fought, no city takeovers and hostage threats, no galactic beings intent on destroying the planet. There is only a moneyed megalomaniac who gets shocked into becoming a better person after confronting the ugly consequences of his arms manufacturing business face to face.

… (In) a universe that’s come to include a pantheon of gods, sorcery, and green-skinned rage monsters, powered armor feels pretty down to earth. After all, beneath it, there’s only a man.

That’s another thing that makes Tony Stark, and Iron Man, essential to the post-2010s superhero boom. Stark isn’t quite relatable, per se — few among us can truly relate to a guy with bottomless resources and Robert Downey Jr.’s good looks — but he is, at the core, a human on the quest for humility. Stark is the template for a number of characters brought to screens large and small since Iron Man’s release 10 years ago … After Iron Man, projects centered on swaggering ladykillers with too much money became their own sub-niche in the superhero genre …

That’s not to say Iron Man invented the modern superhero. But it did invent the modern superhero movie as we know it. Taken together, the film was a watershed: It opened the door to a new kind of superhero, and spawned a collection of interconnected films for those heroes to appear in.

So it turns out Tony Stark has a superpower after all: He can bring together heroes from across nations and even galaxies, by doing nothing more than rejecting his industrialist ways.”

– THE WEEK: Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade.

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On this day ten years ago – May 2, 2008 – Iron Man was released and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born.

#OH THE FACTS SPOKEN#iron man#iron man 2008
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thinkin about how tony stark’s mansion was all circles and rounded lines and soft curves like nothing sharp or rectangular it was entirely soft and round and also how the interior design was devoid of real personality because all personal touches would be seen only in the shop in the basement away from where everyone could see. whew

#MALIBU MANSION SYMBOLOGY BABEEYYY#the malibu house lives in my head rent free#yes I did just watch iron man for the millionth time bye#tony stark#iron man#mcu
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“Up until now, time had lost meaning to Stark because life had lost meaning. Now it was different: Time continued to mean nothing to Stark, but it wasn’t because of a sense of hopelessness. It was for the same reason it usually happened: He was in the throes of creativity.
Tony Stark was perfectly capable of getting up first thing in the morning, heading down to his work shop, and working until he finally noticed the hunger pangs in his stomach screaming at him. Taking a break, he would head to the kitchen to grab some breakfast only to discover that it was dinnertime.
That same focus of energy and effort was present now.”

-Iron Man Movie Novelization | Gif Series

#looks like I’ll have to pick up the novelization then#tony stark#iron man
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in tonight’s episode of learning new things to cry about tony, we learn that tony discovered weaponised repulsors by accident while he was destroying his own reflection

it’s very fascinating that the title of the merchant of death never really left tony even after he stopped selling weapons, because he was still making them, and he was actually putting himself closer to his own weapons because the weaponised suits carried a lot of cutting edge artillery.

it highlights the contradiction between the weapons manufacturer tony stark and the superhero iron man, but there’s just something so powerful and full circle that tony’s journey as iron man, flying out to gulmira on his first combat mission, started out with him realising that this repulsor he made for the sake of good could be weaponised.

and eventually he has to learn to balance those two sides of the sword he’s made.

all the weapons he’s built that’s killed millions, all the billions of lives he’s saved with his repulsors. his history of blood and his legacy of a heart of gold. two sides of a sword, between protection and destruction, between redemption and damnation.

the universe in balance.

iron man starts with tony shattering his own reflection. when tony snaps that gauntlet at the last moment, the entire universe running in his veins, iron man ends with tony accepting who he is.

and i am iron man.

weapons and all. blood and all. strength and all.

#that scene from im1 lives in my head rent free and it’s not leaving any time soon#tony stark#iron man
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Can we just think about Tony Stark, with his stupidly smart brain that works so fast and is so far ahead of the rest of the world.

Like. What must that be like to live with?

To have numbers, constantly, numbers and equations and calculations running through his mind, all hours of all day and all night. The curvature of a smile or the angle of an employee’s handwriting or the trajectory of a ball some kid is throwing on the other side of the street. 

Everything- worked out in split seconds, then moving on to new questions, new statistics, over and over and over and over- never stopping, neverending streams of data worked from his own mind. 

They call him the futurist, they call him innovative, but it’s not that. His mind is just wired completely differently to the rest of the world. He takes chaos and manipulates it into scientific order, he cuts the wire because that is the logical choice, he works and he works and he works because if he stops, if he lets go of the reins just for a second, the numbers and the statistics and the equations and the calculations-

They’ll drown him.

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#tony stark#iron man#iron man volume 3
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