“Jarvis, initialize sequence. What do we got here?”
(via rdjinspiringlybeautiful)
These three scenes display Tony’s emotional depth and inner strength so beautifully. He comes out from that cave with his mouth tasting of suffocation and drowning and death. He is metaphorically slapped in the face by the sight of his own weapons and then realizes that no matter what he does, they will never free him.
He has a moment of inner terror and panic at the fact he is alone, far from home and those he loves and who love him and let’s the hopelessness of the absolute certainty that he will die before the week is out engulf him. He acknowledges that either the terrorists will become frustrated and murder him or the shrapnel from his own design will work into his heart and kill him.
Then he does what Tony does best. He denies himself. He refuses to let himself accept the inevitability of the situation. He flat out proves to himself that he is no-ones bitch, swallows his fear and fixes his situation. He will never back down, he will always look for another option and if there are only two, he will invent that third one. because he is Tony Stark and if he learned anything from his father, it is that if he’s knocked on his ass, then, damn it, Tony had better get up and do it bigger and better next time.
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I guess most of u people watched Iron Man 3 already? In the next few days I’m going to spam all of u with my Iron man fanarts! ;D
im3 overdue reaction post :^D
Hellu, I was asked by a few people for my opinions of Iron Man 3.
I really liked it! So my opinions are pretty generic at this point in time.
SPOILER ALERT! :V
Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s appearance matter a lot. Not all men buy into this, of course, but many do. Some seem incapable of entertaining the notion that not everything women do with their appearance is for men to look at. This is why men’s response to women discussing stifling beauty norms is so often something like “But I actually like small boobs!” and “But I actually like my women on the heavier side, if you know what I mean!” They don’t realize that their individual opinion on women’s appearance doesn’t matter in this context, and that while it might be reassuring for some women to know that there are indeed men who find them fuckable, that’s not the point of the discussion.
Women, too, have been socialized to believe that the ultimate arbiters of their appearance are men, that anything they do with their appearance is or should be “for men.” That’s why women’s magazines trip over themselves to offer up advice on “what he wants to see you wearing” and “what men think of these current fashion trends” and “wow him with these new hairstyles.” While women can and do judge each other’s appearance harshly, many of us grew up being told by mothers, sisters, and female strangers that we’ll never “get a man” or “keep a man” unless we do X or lose some fat from Y, unless we moisturize//trim/shave/push up/hide/show/”flatter”/paint/dye/exfoliate/pierce/surgically alter this or that.
That’s also why when a woman wears revealing clothes, it’s okay, in our society, to assume that she’s “looking for attention” or that she’s a slut and wants to sleep with a bunch of guys. Because why else would a woman wear revealing clothes if not for the benefit of men and to communicate her sexual availability to them, right? It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that it’s hot out or it’s more comfortable or she likes how she looks in it or everything else is in the laundry or she wants to get a tan or maybe she likes women and wants attention from them, not from men?
The result of all this is that many men, even kind and well-meaning men, believe, however subconsciously, that women’s bodies are for them. They are for them to look at, for them to pass judgment on, for them to bless with a compliment if they deign to do so. They are not for women to enjoy, take pride in, love, accept, explore, show off, or hide as they please. They are for men and their pleasure.
Major, major spoilers ahead:
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Paraphrasing Tony at the end of Iron Man 3 here:
“You can take away my toys, my suits, my gadgets. I’m still Tony Stark but…I’m a different man now. I am Iron Man”
This made no sense to me when I saw Iron Man 3 for the first time yesterday and I was still too pissed off that he destroyed the suits and yanked out the arc so (seemingly) unthinkingly to process it. However, I saw the movie again today and this time, that final monologue from Tony and especially how Robert delivered it and the way he emphasized certain points suddenly made sense..It confused me the first time. How can he trash the suits, remove the arc, be a ‘different’ man and then in the same breath claim he is Iron Man? Plus, look at the hole in his chest in the first gif. Even if he removes the shrapnel, he still has a six inch cavern plus rearranged organs in his chest, how would he heal that? And if it is all done with electro magnets then why didn’t he use them in IM2 when he was dying?
Simple. In the MCU, Tony developed the Extremis code not Maya. Tony has an edetic memory. He saw the formula he originally created in the Bren hotel room when Maya flashed it at him right before Mandarin shot her. He would have no problem reconstructing it. He told Pepper he would’fix’ her. So the answer how can he be a new man and still be Iron Man is simple…..because he is.
Tony at some point between the final shot on the oil rig and us seeing him have the shrapnel and arc removed, reconfigured and injected himself with the Extremis code. The implants we see him injecting himself with earlier in the movie would serve as the ports for the bleeding edge armor. Ergo he is a new man. He is updated and reconfigured and he literally is Iron Man because the armor is now embedded in his bones. He no longer needs the suits and the code would rewrite his body to heal it completely.
If Avengers doesn’t open with the bleeding edge pouring out of Tony’s ear and revealing that Tony has Extremis I will be extremely extremely surprised.
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