Tony Stark In Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

“Thanos has been inside my head for 6 years, since he sent an army to New York… and now he’s back!”

That is true strength

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Avengers 4: Infinity Gauntlet Theory

A comprehensive list of evidence Tony Stark is the one to wield the Infinity Gauntlet (since I’ve spattered this content through like 5 posts now):

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“Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?”

Tony Stark’s Iron Man suits allow him to level up to his enemies and be equally matched in power, strength, durability, endurance… He was never injected with a super-soldier serum and given super-human abilities like Steve Rogers. He was never bitten by a radioactive spider like Peter Parker. He doesn’t have any special skill-sets, acquired by years and years of professional, super-secret spy training, like Black Widow or Hawkeye. He doesn’t even have a huge, green, rage monster alter-ego like Bruce Banner. 

Nothing.  It’s his armour that gives him all of his super-powered abilities. His armour is the only thing that offers him any protection in battle. Beneath the suit, he’s just a regular human being. A civilian who made a conscious choice to don that armour ten years ago, to fight evil.  And here he is, ten years later, fighting one-on-one against the most powerful being in the universe.

With every punch,

Every hit,

Every devastating blow dealt by Thanos, Tony’s armour is gradually ripped apart, exposing the vulnerable human flesh and bone hidden underneath. 

Yet, he still fights. 

The one thing that offers his human body any protection, destroyed. But he’s not backing down. He keeps on fighting. He keeps on pushing himself. He knows it’s futile. Knows he is hopelessly outmatched in hand-to-hand physical combat against a Mad Titan with the power of four Infinity Stones. But he doesn’t stop. 

Even while fully exposed and vulnerable, Tony continues to fight. He fights with courage. With bravery. With determination. With desperation. With fear. 

He fights with his whole heart.

He fights until he physically cannot fight anymore. 

When Tony takes off that armour, or, in this case, is stripped of it, he will still fight with everything in him. He will continue to fight to the very end. 

Tony Stark is Iron Man, and he is just as much of a hero without the armour as he is with it.

Guess who redid an old yeager program picture they did 3 years ago? It was me.

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Plot twist of the season: Thanos is the surprise participant

Tony Stark + grief

I’ve been thinking a lot about Tony’s characteristics and how he shows grief/emotional distress, and I haven’t seen anyone else mention it on here so far, but I just think it’s really important and worth mentioning.

One of the best examples of this is what happens to Pepper in IM3. We first watch Tony find out that she’s being experimented on by the Mandarin - the love of his life is in extreme pain - and his reaction? 

He flinches. Like full-on grimaces and shuts his eyes and turns away. It’s not exactly the reaction you’d expect. There’s no shouting or hurling of insults. His pain manifests as denial, like he’s trying to wish it away. I have never witnessed a character embody the term “ to bottle up your emotions" so thoroughly before.  

Exhibit b. Pepper falls into the fire shortly afterwards. Tony is watching the love of his life crash to her supposed doom, and…what does he do? He stares in horror, (quiet, gut-wrenching horror) then turns his head and closes his eyes. 

It’s the same deal as exhibit A! His reaction to Pepper’s supposed death is so knee-jerk and vulnerable, but it is also entirely silent. 

Think about that. Like, think really hard about that. How many characters have you witnessed portray loss like this? Because I can’t think of a single one. 

Not many actors are talented enough to show that level of heartache and sorrow without any dialogue as well as RDJ can. 

Alright, last but not least:

Exhibit c. When Rhodey falling to the ground in CACW. 

This one is not quite the same as the other two. After Rhodes crashes, Tony sits there with him, obviously internalizing his grief and panic, breathing heavy, staring around as though he’s confused or dumbstruck that this could’ve happened - how did he let this happen?? 

The anger on his face is apparent. Anger with Cap, maybe even with Vision - almost certainly anger at himself. 

It’s a perfectly reasonable time for him to shout and hurl insults, but he is, once more, silent.

I’m probably missing some examples. 

My long-winded point is: 

When I was watching Avengers: IW for the first time, I remember I felt sort of…underwhelmed by the ending. Granted, I hadn’t watched any Marvel movies except Black Panther in a very long time, so I was super out of touch, but when Peter was turning to ash, I remember thinking that something was missing, and I remember feeling Tony’s reaction to Peter’s “death” was almost a let-down. 

Where was the theatrics? Where was the emotion? The crying and the shouting? 

But then I re-watched all the movies, and I saw how Tony grieves and experiences loss. His silence isn’t a lack of emotion. It’s just the way he is. I think traditionally we see grief and loss portrayed on the big screen in very loud, agonized, crying scenes. Heartfelt screaming, painful sobs. 

But Tony doesn’t do any of that - and it’s such a profound layer to his character, one that had to be intentional and thought-out. 

So when Peter has turned to ash and Tony just sits there quietly, it’s so reminiscent of how he acted when Pepper “died”. 

Even before that, when Tony tells Peter “you’re okay”, we got to see that same instinctive knee-jerk sense of denial once more. 

Like he wants to just will Peter’s impending doom away. 

I don’t blame him for trying. 

After all, if anyone is strong enough to will someone to not die, it’s Tony Stark. 

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