You fools have no idea how much money I would pay to see Bucky Barnes beat the absolute crap out of Tony Stark for telling Steve “everything special about you came out of a bottle.”

“why didn’t tony pay the avengers” tony stark is war profiteer who never stopped making weapons (ultron, edith, the helicarriers, shield weapons), is responsible for like eight different villains’ origin stories bc he’s a billionaire bourgeoisie bastard & he spent his time post snap in the middle of the woods while the planet plunged into poverty and organized crime flourished. I really think u already have ur answer.

i still can't believe t*ny st*rk told captain america that he was nothing without his father's experiments

like who tf are you without your father's money, tony?????? stfu

His arc reactor was based off his father’s tech lmao. He’s a product of his immense fortune- in terms of both finances and education.

Steve Rogers was born to an immigrant with almost nothing and made something of himself.

Tony fails to understand the character traits needed to make a real hero, which is why he is (and I believe this is the technical term) The Fucking Worst

Let me get one thing straight though… Even if Bucky didn’t have innervation in his arm (aka he couldn’t feel anything other than just pressure, ergo couldn’t feel the arm being blown off) he most definitely felt the searing hot metal that was attached to his fucking shoulder. The metal was glowing red hot where it got blown off. Like if you leave the end of a spoon over an open flame and then grab the other end you still burn the shit out of your hand. So imagine your entire shoulder/biceps is made out of metal and the end of it is so hot that it’s glowing red. You don’t think the skin and bone and muscle it’s attached to wont be burning? Like imagine hot metal touching your bones. Bone pain is literally some of the worst kind of pain you can feel and Bucky had searing hot metal attached to his bones. And beyond that it’s still burning his skin, his ligaments, and his muscles. It’s beyond just burning your hand on a hot object because the metal is integrated into his shoulder. And worst of all he can’t get the thing off. He can’t drop the hot spoon because it’s part of him.

So yeah tell me again that Bucky wasn’t in excruciating pain after that

i still can’t believe the russo brothers woke up to direct endgame and chose misogyny. like sorry what

i always talk about this primarily through the lens of steve’s character arc being ruined, but in actuality what i’m most upset about is the way it treats peggy as if she’s worthless… this is a trend that the mcu heavily relies on because it caters to a target audience of primarily cishet white men even though its audience is far more diverse than they ever acknowledge. female characters are forced into the positions of romantic interests for their male counterparts even when it doesn’t necessarily fit their arc or add to the overlying story (ex: natasha romanoff and sharon carter) and god forbid they ever include lgbtq+ rep (we have like… maybe two or three characters and their sexuality is barely referenced). 

agent carter shows peggy as not only someone who is perfectly capable of functioning without a man, but also someone who has moved on from steve despite the fact that she loved him. her life continues even after he goes into the ice; we even have a scene where she pours the sample of his blood into the water and, symbolically, lets him go. catws sees peggy in her old age, and we learn that she has children as well as a husband - not to mention the line in which she specifically indicates that she is satisfied with her life and the only thing she’s upset about is that steve didn’t get to live his. while this happened nine years prior to the events of endgame, it is clear that she is in no way extending an invitation to steve to redetermine the course of peggy’s life for her; it is not fair to undermine the accomplishments and milestones that she’s achieved in favour of providing an unnecessary romantic arc. after everything he’s endured, steve deserves to be happy and for his story to come to a fulfilling end, but that doesn’t give him permission to disregard and disrespect peggy in the process. the peggy/steve storyline fell apart long before endgame occurred, and pulling peggy back into the story just to use her as a weak plot device rather than recognizing that she is just as much a vital and well-rounded character as any of the male leads that most of the marvel movies focus on is inherently disrespectful. it suggests that women only have value in the ways that they relate to men - which is archaic and wrong, but also an incredibly common theme throughout the franchise & within mainstream media as a whole. even though this is beginning to shift, there’s still such an emphasis on women as love interests first and foremost, to the point that it’s used to define their worth. that is always prioritized above their actual personality and identity. 

peggy had a life and children and the russo brothers erased this through steve by acting as though she didn’t have value outside of her relationship with him. after so much time was spent on highlighting the fact that both of them had moved on (especially on steve and his adjustment to the future), it didn’t make sense to return to a romantic arc that was abandoned early on in the cap trilogy. i’m not saying that heterosexual relationships in media or otherwise are inherently bad!!! however, treating female characters as though they don’t deserve or shouldn’t receive the same respect as male characters even when they aren’t involved in a romantic relationship is not okay and, more importantly, leads to harmful and demeaning perspectives towards real women who have battled misogyny for centuries. i don’t care whether or not people ship steve and peggy, but i am asking that everyone take into consideration the negative light in which it portrays women and understand that regardless of the original intent, steve and peggy ending up together did enforce damaging misogynistic stereotypes and normalize the belittlement and invalidation of women across pop culture and real life alike.

in other words: endgame stole peggy’s liberty to make her own choice. it shoved an underdeveloped relationship in front of us and tried to convince us that it was peggy’s agency, that peggy was okay with her life being entirely redirected for a man she didn’t even spend a lot of time with, when the whole situation clearly existed under steve’s jurisdiction and that doesn’t sit right with me

"Tony Stark is supposed to be unlikable." I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

"They're right" they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the front row stands Stan Lee himself.

so i’m rewatching iron man 2 and i’m in the beginning with that court case, and y’know what i noticed? the man speaking in front of the jury, senator stern, is the same guy in catws jasper sitwell talks to, who later gets caught and arrested. presumably he’s doing this under hydras command, getting the iron man suit into government (and therefore HYDRA’s) hands.

i’m gonna go ahead and assume that the people who follow my blog don’t regularly rewatch the im trilogy, but stern is trying to get tony to turn over the iron man suit, tony claims that “the suit and i are one and the same, to turn over the suit is to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution, depending on what state you’re in.” tony claims that handing over his self operated unchaperoned wmd is practically slavery (!!11!) and violates his rights, he seems to abandon this ideology in civil war since it doesnt directly impact him that time, but other people have already pointed that out. whats interesting to me is that if senator stern is doing this in service of hydra, than hydra has functionally the same ideologies and goals as team iron man and the sokovia accords. just some stuff to think about🙃

Friendly reminder that Steve Rogers was 26 in The Avengers (2012) and Tony Stark was 43. 

Friendly reminder that in The Avengers Tony Stark said to Bruce “They should have left him [Steve] in the ice”, called him “Capcicle” the moment they met as a jab at a traumatic experience, told him “Everything special about you came from a bottle”, and made jabs about his costume that Steve had no control over, thus all building up to a very rocky and bad start. 

Friendly reminder that Tony Stark is a billionaire with lawyers so good, that according to Maria Hill in Agents of SHIELD nearly all agencies like the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, SHIELD itself and more can’t touch him in any way. 

Put that all together and you have a wonderfully toxic relationship with a major power imbalance, a fairly large age difference, and metal/verbal abuse from Tony’s side towards a World War 2 veteran with PTSD who has suffered major loss of everyone he knows and walks around in a world he doesn’t understand after having crashed a plane into the arctic, leading to what he thought was his own death. 

But hey, that’s just my opinion :)

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.

Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:

ALSO IMPORTANT:

SWAG

I know I’ve reblogged this before, ages ago, but it’s important enough that I’m doing it again

Sebastian’s Couch: A 3-Part Saga 

never forget how wanda, a fifteen year old girl who has every right to be angry and immature when meeting the man responsible for her parents brutal deaths, summoned enough emotional maturity as a teenager to put her revenge and anger aside and for what is really important and help save the world. when grown man and supposed genius tony stark was presented with the opportunity to get revenge on the person who killed his parents, he lost his mind and attempted double homicide.

“Ultron was made by Bruce AND Tony.” Yeah, and Bruce apologized and tried to fix his mistake. Stark doubled down about how right he was - twice - and made an Ultron/Project Insight hybrid he oh so not arrogantly named “Even Dead I’m The Hero.” But, please, continue on about how blameless Stark is.

bruce seemed kinda like...peer pressured by tony into helping create ultron. he says multiple times he thinks its a bad idea and isnt comfortable doing it. i don’t it’s bruce’s fault at all.

Also it was Tony who secretly, because he knew Bruce wouldn't approve, decided to test what the scepter could do to their project. Bruce was nothing but an add-on for Tony and without him there, Tony would still have done everything the same way, maybe even mote recklessly that with Bruce to temper him

Tony also like... actively berated Bruce for backing off and apologizing when Ultron did terrible things. He turned to him and snapped “You’re just gonna roll over and show your belly every time someone snarls?”

It’s unbelievable. He’s almost forcing Bruce to get angry at the others because they themselves created Ultron and don’t want criticism, and then snaps when Bruce doesn’t give in. Tony just keeps saying it’s a good idea, even when Bruce tries to stop him. 

Tony's whole attitude in that movie is infuriating. He knows he did something but but as soon as it's pointed out he's like "how dare you criticise me and my action that lead to this???"

She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.

Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.

Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.

Classy.

Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.

She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.

Not just that--the last few years of her life were miserable because McDonald’s was too cheap to throw away old coffee. 

Everyone should watch the documentary Hot Coffee. Starts out with a pretty thorough explanation of the McDonald's vs. Liebeck incident & case, then dives into how the idea of the ~perpetual victim who wants to sue everyone and get free money with frivolous lawsuits~ is a myth and that tort reform has made it harder for people with actual harm done to them to get compensation for it.

i’ve been laughing at this for the past five minutes

“he didn’t get jumped he got his ass whooped for starting a fight he couldn’t finish 📢”

​tony said, i threw the first punch :( ,,,bu,,t i didnt think he was gonna::;; hit me back ;(( 😖 like yeah clown? Welcome to Brooklyn

I think “yeah clown? Welcome to Brooklyn” might be my favorite comment on the Siberia scene ever.

when steve and sam were brought in after bucky’s capture they were told they were not going to get a lawyer and y’all still thought the accords were right…

t*ny st*rk was confronted by a grieving mother who put the blame of her son’s death specifically onto him and instead of reflecting and finding a way to support her and show remorse, he decided to put the blame on all of the avengers and made them feel equally as guilty and that, my friends, is a very shitty action.

Did you mean: Anyone else but Tony Stark? The guy has always needed a push. First, revenge on his captors, then Obi. Later, his palladium poisoning (I honestly dont remember what the rest of the plot was) and then the attack on Happy. Sure, he flew a bomb into space but only absolute madmen would not make the same choice in that situation. But I can accept that deed as heroic. Age of Ultron, though? Really just cleaning up his own mess. Civil War? Guild and a misplaced sense of accountability he ended up pushing onto everyone else. Infinity War? Being confronted with the literal end of the world can do that to people, but going off into space without a plan and almost no firepower was a stupid, stupid thing to do. I refuse to equate that to heroic, the Steve antis don't need more fodder. Endgame. A third of that movie revolves around trying to make Tony care enough about the world to help. Not sure what movies we watched, but they must have been very, very different.

I find it so so weird that Tonky stans think that Strok is the kind of person who would do things for the greater good.

He is a capitalist first and for most, he’s not gonna do jack shit unless it personally benefits him or lines his pocket. In the comics you see all the time how he only cares about his personal brand and making money. Peak example of this is when he called the New Warriors a “transhied brand” instead of actually giving them useful advice as a seasoned hero.

If they want a hero for hero’s sake, look no further than Captain America. He’s always been a person who’s done things because it was the right thing to do, not because of profit or personal glory. Even when he was sickly and poor, he stood up to bullies because it was the right thing to do!

Steve wasn’t chosen to be Captain America because of his money or because of his strength, he was chosen because he had compassion for people. Even when he doesn’t have personal stakes involved, Steve will stick his neck out for others because