I mean, look at the way Tony stands with his shoulders back and the gray collar when you know that's not what he usually was like at 21, and it hints, so much, at the role Obediah had in his life.
I dragged the parents to the movie AGAIN last night, and god those pictures just about killed me the second time around (first time round I was too busy swooning.) I know it's probably because of the comics that Tony has the bitchin' 'stache, but in the movie, it's really not all that hard to make the leap that he grew it in part because he looked up to Obie, what with him being the only father figure in the later part of his developing years. That and probably as a way to prove that he's actually an adult. Being the youngest kid in your graduating class has got to be bitch, and I'm guessing a LOT of Tony's uber-macho affectations are a direct manifestation of that, of trying to prove that he has every right to be there, not just because he's a freak child genius.
That, and man, growing up with that much attention on you, with that much expectation, does not a healthy, well adjusted super-billionaire genius make.
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I mean, look at the way Tony stands with his shoulders back and the gray collar when you know that's not what he usually was like at 21, and it hints, so much, at the role Obediah had in his life.
I dragged the parents to the movie AGAIN last night, and god those pictures just about killed me the second time around (first time round I was too busy swooning.) I know it's probably because of the comics that Tony has the bitchin' 'stache, but in the movie, it's really not all that hard to make the leap that he grew it in part because he looked up to Obie, what with him being the only father figure in the later part of his developing years. That and probably as a way to prove that he's actually an adult. Being the youngest kid in your graduating class has got to be bitch, and I'm guessing a LOT of Tony's uber-macho affectations are a direct manifestation of that, of trying to prove that he has every right to be there, not just because he's a freak child genius.
That, and man, growing up with that much attention on you, with that much expectation, does not a healthy, well adjusted super-billionaire genius make.