sacrifice plays tony stark has been willing to make (and has made) in the mcu:
- iron man 1: commanded pepper to blow up the stark industries roof with him still on it in order to stop ironmonger, knowing it could potentially kill him as well
- avengers: flew a nuke through a wormhole into space on a suicide mission in order to destroy the chitauri armada and save the world
- iron man 3: in a deleted scene, tony took out his arc reactor to use as a defibrillator to save a young boy’s life, and went into cardiac arrest as the shrapnel crawled further and further towards his heart
- age of ultron: placed himself underneath a falling city to blow it up before it caused global destruction, knowing he may not walk away
- infinity war: begged strange not to trade the time stone away to spare his life after thanos had impaled him and was about to finish him off with the gauntlet
- endgame: wielded the infinity stones to turn thanos and his entire army to dust, knowing the price was his own life
sacrifice plays thor has been willing to make in the mcu:
- thor 1: offered his life in exchange for loki to cease his attack on the town and his newfound friends
- infinity war: risked killing himself in order to forge stormbreaker for the chance to kill thanos
- endgame: practically begged to put the gauntlet on to snap everybody back before tony stopped him because he wasn’t in any mental condition to make that choice
sacrifice plays natasha romanoff has been willing to make (and has made) in the mcu:
- aou: was willing to stay on sokovia and die with everybody she thought they wouldn’t be able to save before fury surprised them with the helicarrier
- endgame: sacrificed her own life on vormir to give the team the chance to bring everybody thanos dusted back
sacrifice plays clint barton has been willing to make in the mcu:
- aou: shielded the young boy in his arms with his own body when ultron started shooting in their direction
- endgame: was also willing to sacrifice his own life on vormir but natasha beat him to it
- endgame: could be argued that offering himself up as the guinea pig for the time travel test run was a form of a sacrifice play
sacrifice plays bruce banner has been willing to make in the mcu:
- ragnarok: changed into hulk to help thor save asgard, risking relinquishing all control to hulk, knowing he may never be able to turn back
- endgame: wielded the gauntlet to bring everybody back, at great physical cost (he didn’t even know for sure if he’d even survive it)
sacrifice plays steve rogers has been willing to make in the mcu:
- the first avenger: jumped on a (fake) grenade
- the first avenger: flew a plane into the arctic to save his country
i really don’t understand why steve is painted as the noble, self-sacrificing hero when the rest of the avengers have actually been willing to make more sacrifice plays than he has?? steve isn’t even in the top half of the list!! tony has first place with the amount of times he’s been willing to lay his life on the line to save others yet he’s often painted as selfish and egotistical. post-tfa, steve legit became all talk. in endgame, he told everybody else to do “whatever it takes” while not really putting in the same effort himself. and in the end, he just went back in time and rewarded himself with a long happy life, abandoning everybody else in the present. he got everything back, while; tony sacrificed his life and left behind a family, nat sacrificed her life for clint’s family, thor had to accept his entire family and best friends are all dead, and bruce has to live with a physical handicap and the loss of nat. honestly, don’t talk to me about how noble and morally superior captain america is because endgame proved that he kinda isn’t…
