It is both totally believable and totally hilarious that in, let's say ten years' time or so, Tony will be Director of SHIELD. And his big crazy brain and his proto-soul as I think quigonejinn put it elsewhere, will have all that and a bag of HELICARRIER aimed at everything he thinks is wrong with the world. Oh fuck, Tony. It's not him who's lucky he has Pepper. It's the rest of the world who should thank GOD he has her.
It's terrifying the thought of that kind of guy with that sort of weaponry trying to prove to the world that he's good by blowing shit up.
ESPECIALLY terrifying because Tony is the kind of person who will never believe anyone really actually likes him. Just that maybe they like the version they've seen on tv, or on the cover of a magazine, or the guy they read about in Forbes, or maybe they like his haircut or the line of his suit, maybe they like his way with the ladies, maybe women like him when he's naked or when they're naked on his expensive sheets, on the hood of his expensive cars, spread out on his expensive carpets, but nobody really likes him. He'll think that, and then have no idea who the guy he really wants them to like is. What he's like. So he'll try to build it. Again.
You are totally right about girl geniuses. I think. Off the top of my head. Also, at WisCon, I was on this Buffy panel and realized the other thing that both the big two don't have is a superheroine with a kickass origin story. I mean, big blockbucker superhero movie, and big bestselling books are all about a hero and their origin story and how awesome it is. But the ladies, we are lacking in that. Therefore I plan to come up with one or two. This idea is TM me, no stealing.
Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
It's terrifying the thought of that kind of guy with that sort of weaponry trying to prove to the world that he's good by blowing shit up.
ESPECIALLY terrifying because Tony is the kind of person who will never believe anyone really actually likes him. Just that maybe they like the version they've seen on tv, or on the cover of a magazine, or the guy they read about in Forbes, or maybe they like his haircut or the line of his suit, maybe they like his way with the ladies, maybe women like him when he's naked or when they're naked on his expensive sheets, on the hood of his expensive cars, spread out on his expensive carpets, but nobody really likes him. He'll think that, and then have no idea who the guy he really wants them to like is. What he's like. So he'll try to build it. Again.
You are totally right about girl geniuses. I think. Off the top of my head. Also, at WisCon, I was on this Buffy panel and realized the other thing that both the big two don't have is a superheroine with a kickass origin story. I mean, big blockbucker superhero movie, and big bestselling books are all about a hero and their origin story and how awesome it is. But the ladies, we are lacking in that. Therefore I plan to come up with one or two. This idea is TM me, no stealing.