Drunk!Tony throws his accomplishments in Pepper's face when she dares point out that maybe one man with a shiny suit can't solve the entire mid-east crisis alone
OH MY EFFING GOD. I can see this so vividly. And he ends up SPITTING and then he's printing off his own Wikipedia page and leaving it on her desk, and goes from, like the Apogee to how many jager bombs he can do in five minutes and how long he can go without sleep because to him that actually DOES mean that he should be able to save the world. Why not? There hasn't been something he couldn't do before.
Okay, taking that into account, I cannot see how movieverse Tony is not dead within at least three years after Iron Man.
Tony ends up being the real deal, screwing up the plan, and forcing Obie's hand.
And isn't it so telling how Obi (I spell it like the Kenobi, yes) totally didn't see that coming? I love his manner in the scene just after Tony's returning press conference, and arm slung over his shoulder, talking to him like a kid, and you can see Tony take on that role of the kid who'll let himself be herded, just stepping into that easily, letting Obi take care of things even though he feel so strongly about this one thing, still Obi's got that pull over him.
but just by being around Tony long enough makes people come to hate him enough to want to/try to kill him
I don't think we (WE THE INNER IM FANDOM CABAL) have even begun to touch on how unimaginably furious he must be, deep, steaming down there. A teenage kind of anger when you realize the world isn't the way you thought it was, that you can't have everything, that you have to get a job, that your parents aren't rich, that they're flawed and sometimes awful, that you yourself can and have hurt people, that other people hurt you for no good reason and the universe doesn't care. Everything was a lie and he's got to be so, so, deep down pissed.
And now he has a big metal suit with rockets on it.
Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
OH MY EFFING GOD. I can see this so vividly. And he ends up SPITTING and then he's printing off his own Wikipedia page and leaving it on her desk, and goes from, like the Apogee to how many jager bombs he can do in five minutes and how long he can go without sleep because to him that actually DOES mean that he should be able to save the world. Why not? There hasn't been something he couldn't do before.
Okay, taking that into account, I cannot see how movieverse Tony is not dead within at least three years after Iron Man.
Tony ends up being the real deal, screwing up the plan, and forcing Obie's hand.
And isn't it so telling how Obi (I spell it like the Kenobi, yes) totally didn't see that coming? I love his manner in the scene just after Tony's returning press conference, and arm slung over his shoulder, talking to him like a kid, and you can see Tony take on that role of the kid who'll let himself be herded, just stepping into that easily, letting Obi take care of things even though he feel so strongly about this one thing, still Obi's got that pull over him.
but just by being around Tony long enough makes people come to hate him enough to want to/try to kill him
I don't think we (WE THE INNER IM FANDOM CABAL) have even begun to touch on how unimaginably furious he must be, deep, steaming down there. A teenage kind of anger when you realize the world isn't the way you thought it was, that you can't have everything, that you have to get a job, that your parents aren't rich, that they're flawed and sometimes awful, that you yourself can and have hurt people, that other people hurt you for no good reason and the universe doesn't care. Everything was a lie and he's got to be so, so, deep down pissed.
And now he has a big metal suit with rockets on it.