Poor gabby_silang. She's going to come on the Internet and find fourteen million comments between us about the symbolic import of Tony Stark's facial hair selection. AND we'll be fired! For totally sucking at this whole work thing!
Tony doesn't yet realize people are capable of feeling just as strongly about a stance completely opposite to his
That would probably make his head explode. No, seriously, it would. I don't think his moral education has prepared him for that at all, and if anything, having Obediah as his first real battle as Iron Man is only going to make it harder for him to think of people who disagree with him as being legitimate. I mean, dude, Obediah was pretty much a Tony Stark Soul Destroyer Special. If you want to make sure a dude sees stuff in black-and-white, with-me-against-me, it's hard to think of a first confrontation that'll do it more than something where the villain is not only out to kill the guy and people he loves pregent what he wants to do, but he's even fucking with Stark's sense of identity.
really think that's what sets Iron Man apart from most other superhero movies aside from X-Men, the characters feel like they have actual interiority
Oh, I'm willing to say that Iron Man blows every single other superhero movie, ever, out of the water when it comes to interioricity. I love Singer's X-men with a deep and true passion and furious passion, but even Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan end up being the sum of their superhero spandex.
And I don't even like Gwyneth Paltrow.
OH LOOK, gabby_silang just showed up to spank us for littering all over her inbox.
Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Tony doesn't yet realize people are capable of feeling just as strongly about a stance completely opposite to his
That would probably make his head explode. No, seriously, it would. I don't think his moral education has prepared him for that at all, and if anything, having Obediah as his first real battle as Iron Man is only going to make it harder for him to think of people who disagree with him as being legitimate. I mean, dude, Obediah was pretty much a Tony Stark Soul Destroyer Special. If you want to make sure a dude sees stuff in black-and-white, with-me-against-me, it's hard to think of a first confrontation that'll do it more than something where the villain is not only out to kill the guy and people he loves pregent what he wants to do, but he's even fucking with Stark's sense of identity.
really think that's what sets Iron Man apart from most other superhero movies aside from X-Men, the characters feel like they have actual interiority
Oh, I'm willing to say that Iron Man blows every single other superhero movie, ever, out of the water when it comes to interioricity. I love Singer's X-men with a deep and true passion and furious passion, but even Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan end up being the sum of their superhero spandex.
And I don't even like Gwyneth Paltrow.
OH LOOK,