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tony stark spent his entire adult life under the guidance of someone who not only would (and did) try to have him killed, but was also fine with him not dying quickly and being tortured for three whole months if it meant he would bring home a single new piece of technology

tony came back home from captivity and sat down in front of dozens of reporters and turned to this man, specifically, to tell him that it was really good to see him again BOY i’m very fucked up over this like there was a post-captivity period there where tony didn’t know stane had screwed him over and this guy was there wrapping his arm around tony’s shoulders and sitting on his couch and playing his piano and publicly speaking on his behalf!! that is a LOT

#tony stark #mcu #love him sooo bad

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#im back on my bullshit #ironstrange #mcu #marvel

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Captain Marvel #28 (2019)

#he is so PRETTY #stephen strange #marvel

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I feel that we as a fandom are not being sufficiently appreciative of Tony’s explanation of the fight with Ebony Maw being “He’s from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a wizard.”

#not a team player my literal ass #missing tony hours #tones #marvel #mcu

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throwback 🤖

#MY HEART IS BURSTING #iron husbands #rhodeytony #marvel

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fucked up that tony is dead for many reasons but us never finding out what nicknames he would've come up with for j*hn w*lker is right up there

#marvel #tfatws #tony: pack it up teacher from glee ! #idk what his name is. i have never seen glee #tony: lmao who let carl from pixar's up in here

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Countdown to Spider-Man: Far From Home [13 days to go] 

“[Tony] wraps the people he loves the most in armor to protect and empower them. He may not have succeeded in creating a suit of armor around the world, but he certainly does for the people closest to him…” -  u/hongyeye

#oh. okay. we're crying today. #marvel #ironfam

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yeah we know pre-civil war tony never has his shit together and rhodey, pepper, happy, and jarvis are holding like 80% of his life together but also he's the kind of person that calls his friends at 3am like "hey I'm at walmart do you guys need anything"

#im gonna go off the shits this is exactly what he's like #tones #ironfam

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my best OC is Brad Wayne, Bruce’s illegitimate biological child via a totally normal woman he had a fling with when he was younger and didn’t stay in touch with

Brad grew up a totally normal kid, went to college, joined a frat, and decided to get in touch with Bruce, who now has an awkward situation on his hands

now the other Batkids have to deal with fucking Brad Wayne, whose normalacy is absolutely insufferable... he tells Dick to try yoga and suggests that Tim will sleep better if he gets more exercise... Bruce goes out of town and Brad decides it’s time to throw a house party with his frat friends

he’s so good

#this is the best oc ever thank u for him <3 #dceu

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Consider - In the style of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, DUM-E watches his creator write out all these letters to the boys he loves, only to hide them away in a small metal box under his bed. 

And while DUM-E absolutely loves all the friday nights Tony turns on a movie for the two of them, especially when Tony makes an extra bowl of popcorn for DUM-E to throw at the screen, thanks to JARVIS, DUM-E knows that Tony needs to spend more time with friends.

DUM-E gets the idea after watching Tony sniffle into a giant glob of tissues after they watched Darcy confess in Pride and Prejudice. DUM-E knows! DUM-E will help Tony!

DUM-E waits until Tony leaves for class (JARVIS with him) before he makes his move, carefully sliding the box of letters DUM-E remembers watching Tony write. A letter for his best friend Rhodey, a letter for his next door neighbour Steve, a letter to the popular boy Bucky, a letter to his science camp friend Bruce, and one to his boarding school friend T’Challa. 

DUM-E carefully places each stamp onto the envelopes, knocking over the plant in the corner to dip the stamps in water. DUM-E beeps; they’re all a bit wet, but these will help Tony be less sad!

DUM-E waits for someone to push the door open before making a break for the mailbox on the corner of the street, opening the slot and wheeling around after a successful delivery. 

#im gonna throw up #this is so cute #marvel #tones

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Russos about Endgame: “It’s surprising that Tony is the one to make the sacrifice play in a lot of ways you would expect Cap to.”

Sacrifice Plays made by Tony in The Avengers: *Flew a nuke through the wormhole into space to save the world from an alien invasion, not expecting to make it back out alive*

Sacrifice Plays made by Steve in The Avengers:  ?

Sacrifice Plays made by Tony in Age of Ultron: *Got underneath a falling city to blow it up before it hit Earth and caused global destruction, knowing he may not walk away from it (with Thor on top, also risking his own life)*

Sacrifice Plays made by Steve in Age of Ultron: ??

Sacrifice Plays made by Tony in Infinity War: *Willingly flew into space to fight Thanos on Titan, fought until Thanos stabbed him through the chest with his own sword, and then begged Strange to let Thanos kill him off instead of bargaining for his life with the Time Stone*

Sacrifice Plays made by Steve in Infinity War: ???

Sacrifice Plays made by Tony in Endgame: *Wielded all six Infinity Stones to snap Thanos and his army out of existence, saving the entire universe, knowing the cost would be his own life*

Sacrifice Plays made by Steve in Endgame: ????

Me: The only surprising thing about it is that we all thought it was finally Steve’s turn to attempt a sacrifice play in an Avengers film, since Tony had been the only Avenger to make a sacrifice play in all three of the previous instalments. But, just as every other Avengers film Steve’s been in, he didn’t. Shocking. 

#did anyone try the chicken? i thought the chicken was marvellous #tones #not steve friendly #mcu #marvel #tony stark defense squad

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Bartender: thanks for stopping that bar fight, spiderman. Can I get you a drink? It’s on the house

Peter: thank you, but I can’t

Bartender: why not

Peter:

Bartender:

Peter, trying not to give his age away: I’m pregnant

#THIS POST #fave #marvel

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tony stark and sharon carter practically grew up together and that’s the hill i’ll die on

#yes :) #peggy is tony's godmother and sharon is like his sister and i will fight for this hc #why does steve get monopoly over the carters #ironfam

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by 十万辐射

#love this #ironstrange

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picture me rushing to get out one last mcu fanart before the russos destroy the entire franchise and somehow make it even more of an embarrassment

original post by @peterssquill:

#ALDFJLKSDJFLKSKLSJLK #mcu #marvel #thor

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“Sir, I’m gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”

#HE 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 #loml #marvel #tones

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“no trust—liar.”

what people just don’t GET about the “no trust, liar” scene is that steve did nothing to keep the team together in civil war. this isn’t me hating on steve, or saying that the accords were good, or (god forbid) dredging up any of the old cw discourse. but the thing is, steve did not want to compromise in civil war (he had his reasons, etc. etc. this isn’t about the accords and i never wanna talk about those again). steve rejected compromise, steve rejected olive branches, he rejected meeting in the middle. steve didn’t see a way to keep the team together without these, so he let the team fall apart. because that’s steve – committed to his ideals (and his loved ones, as bucky was an important motivation in civil war), hell or high water. one of tony’s crucial motivations in civil war, by contrast, was expressly to keep the team together: “i’m trying to keep you from tearing the avengers apart!” “i’m doing what has to be done to stave off something worse.” “we need you, cap.” 

there’s a reason for this, and the reason is that pivotal scene in age of ultron. “how were you planning on beating that?” “together.” and then, later, tony agrees: “like the old man said – together.” tony rejects the idea of ultron after it failed and blew up spectacularly in his face, and he accepts steve’s alternative plan: we will deal with the threat of extraterrestrial calamity (that tony saw coming for miles) together, as a team. the avengers is all we have to do that. that’s why tony is desperate in civil war to keep the team together. there is no more ultron, there is no more anything except them, to defend the earth against thanos [tony doesn’t know the name at this stage, but he knows the concept – existential threat to humanity from outer space]. tony rejects his own ideology, of ultron, because of the havoc it wrought, and accepts steve’s. “together.” he relies on this, because it’s all he has left. he relies on the fact that steve believes him, understands him, and understands what is coming – and he accepts steve’s way of doing it after his own was a catastrophic failure. “like the old man said – together.” tony listens – doesn’t try anymore to win the war before it starts, doesn’t try to end the team, doesn’t pursue any ultron-like projects, but holds onto the fact that being together is all that they will have when calamity comes.

then civil war happens. tony is clinging to “together” like a lifeline (because it is, to him) and steve seemingly forgets about it, or at least prioritizes the more immediate concerns he has over the concerns raised by tony in age of ultron. no more avengers is fine with him given the circumstances that the accords put him in. meanwhile, tony is desperate for the avengers to not be torn apart. you can say that he was misguided in his attempts, and he could have done more (i wouldn’t probably agree with you, but that’s a whole other thing), or he could have done differently, or he shouldn’t have signed, and this that and the third – but, regardless, there is no questioning one of his baseline motivations: the avengers need to stay together. by contrast, steve seems to have forgotten altogether about tony’s concerns re: extraterrestrial calamity in age of ultron – or he has re-prioritized, where tony has not. natasha also articulates this point, directly to steve: “staying together is more important than how we stay together,” which is a thesis steve explicitly rejects in this scene. say what you want about the two sides, but there was one party much more interested in keeping the team together than another, and that’s just a fact.

then infinity war happens – then, they lose. they weren’t together, and they lost. THIS is what steve lied about. the “liar” obviously has to do with their last scene together in cw, when tony finds out that steve lied to him about his parents for some time, but this is also obviously one of the connotations of “liar.” you said we would fight it off together, and you weren’t there. liar. this is why tony brings up his “vision” of calamity in the no-trust-liar scene, because steve either didn’t believe him or didn’t care to take it seriously enough, in tony’s view. he didn’t try to stay together, didn’t accept the olive branches and compromises, and then they were apart, and they lost everything. sure, tony could have tried mending fences (though, i don’t blame him for not trying), just as steve could have – but what tony is saying, ultimately and not exactly incorrectly, is that the reason they were not together – the reason that they were split in the first place – when thanos came was because of steve. steve didn’t listen, steve didn’t trust tony, steve didn’t heed the warning, steve didn’t stay together when that was all that they could do to stop what tony saw coming. again, this isn’t me saying steve was definitively wrong and tony was definitively right in civil war (that’s another whole post, again), but only that steve did not care as much about the team staying together, and that’s why tony has no trust. that’s why he blames steve.

and, for everyone saying he could have called steve…he did. or, nearly did, until thanos’s crew showed up literally at his doorstep. he’s the one who said steve rogers would know where vision is, he had the phone with him and was prepared to call almost as soon as he found out what was coming from bruce. just because he didn’t make the call in the end doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have, because everything in that scene in infinity war suggests that he would have had he not had to immediately prioritize the safety of civilians against the black order.

but that’s even beside the point. the point is, in age of ultron, tony thought steve listened and understood and trusted what his fear of the future was, and steve proved in civil war that he didn’t. then that exact fear came to pass in the most terrible way possible, and tony was exhausted, malnourished, ill, and horribly traumatized, and here was steve trying futilely to fix it after the fact, when it had been festering in tony’s mind for six years and he had tried so hard to prevent it, all within steve’s parameters, “together,” without “trying to win the war before it starts.” sure, maybe you could say tony had some blame in what he is accusing steve of in the scene, since he did not try to mend fences earlier, but he tried everything to stop the team from splitting back in 2016. and even if you think he is partly to blame, that doesn’t mean his anger and anguish is unwarranted, because it is so not. 

#yeah..... yeah...... #truly hate cw for this actually