So I’m rewatching IW before Endgame, and I noticed some Irondad moments that I missed before:
In that first fight scene in the park in NYC, Peter and Tony move around each other so seamlessly, alternating between blows and playing off of each other’s attacks with such familiarity that you cannot tell me they haven’t done this before–and clearly often enough that it’s almost second nature
Like, they don’t even have to talk while they’re fighting, they just read off of each other and I love it so much
And speaking of talking–when Peter gets beamed up, he calls out for Tony to help him… he’s already on his comms system. Their suits are pre-programmed to communicate with each other and this is a little thing yes but it means, again, that they’ve done this before
Also, can we just talk about how Peter gets tossed around in the park and Tony doesn’t overreact (and it’s obviously not because he doesn’t care, look at how quick he sends him home on the ship), but just imagine how many missions it took for Tony to not come running to Peter’s aid any time he so much as got a bruise
And, when Peter’s getting pulled into space… Tony is so calm
Again, it’s not because he doesn’t care or because he isn’t freaking out (I’m positive he’s freaking out), but it’s such a small detail and shows how far Tony’s parental instincts have come–he’s staying calm for Peter, downplaying the situation so Peter doesn’t freak out and panic
Also Tony calling Peter “Pete” always makes me smile because it’s just so cute
And lastly, when they’re talking on the ship, these two know what the other one is going to say before they say it… they’re bantering
All I’m saying is we’ve come so far from SMHC and if I don’t get more irondad I might actually kill someone
Somewhere out there Ho Yinsen is turning to Tony Stark and saying, “you didn’t waste a single second”.
Ok but now I have this image in my head of Tony in some kind of afterlife, like his own personal heaven. It looks like his lab, not any specific one, rather it’s made up of all the best and favorite tools, parts and pieces from workshops throughout his life. He’s sitting at a table working with a small device, nothing really important just something keeping his hands busy, when he calls out “JARVIS pull up the Life-streams”.
“Any preference for this particular viewing sir.”
“Just the family this time J,” Tony replies as a number of glowing blue screens appear in front of him, “wife and kids.” Pepper and Morgan Stark, Peter Parker and Harley Keener come into focus a moment later. He spends his time relaxing like that, watching over them as he tinkers.
Footsteps approaching from behind pulls some of his focus several hours later, he doesn’t turn around, keeps his eyes on Morgan, Harley and Peter working together on an as of yet unidentifiable lego set. Visitors aren’t exactly rare but they’re not all that common either and Tony never knows quite what to say to the people who have come to see him.
“So this is the legacy of the great Tony Stark.” Familiar words said in a tone vastly diffierent to how they were once spoken startles him enough to look at the figure that draws up next to him. Ho Yinsen settles beside him peering curiously at the screens acting as windows to the lives of his loved ones. Struggling to come up with something to say to the man who gave him his second chance at life he turns back to the screens and focuses on Pepper, she’s having lunch with Happy he notices either talking about SI or reminiscing about him with the amount his name keeps coming up. “How’s the family?”, comes out before he really thinks about it. An amused huff is his immediate answer as Yinsen leans back to take in the rest of his surroundings.
“They are well Stark, enjoying the time we now have together”.
Silence falls between them for several beats before Tony swallows down the anxiety he can feel threatening to rise, “so, how’d I do?”
Ho Yinsen finally turns to face Tony Stark and says, “you didn’t waste a single second “.
Literal text (notice the naked man in Tony’s bed):
A male (!) villain insinuating Tony can’t resist him (because of his “playboy” reputation, which is a big “hmm”):
This speaks for itself:
Tony waxes poetic about Steve’s attractiveness:
Actually Tony calls Steve handsome a lot; it’s kind of a thing:
Oh and that time Namor called out Tony for sleeping with Madame Masque (after Tony said she looked like Doctor Doom) and Tony trying to swerve the convo:
That time the media was openly suspecting Tony Stark was HIV positive (this is from a comic in 1992 when AIDs was still thought of as a disease that primarily afflicted gay/bisexual men):
… Just saying, the subtext (and even the text) has been there for a long-ass time. Tony’s dating profile being set to woman and men was just more evidence on top of the pile.
Tony is so obviously bi, T’Challa knew.
Even the evilness of Victor Von Doom isn’t enough to keep tony from acknowledging how handsome he is.
More of Tony swooning over Doom (added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch in the replies but i wanted to keep the ones above too).
Also added by @i-gotta-go-good-day-bitch, implications Tony and Rhodey were/are more than friends:
And I forgot to add this classic. A gutter note during the development of Iron Man vol 3 implied Tiberius and Tony had slept together (given their relationship was very much portrayed like them having been exes, this isn’t a shocker). (Link to @whatjanesays‘s blog who originally posted these images)
“better roll” meaning “roll around the hay” (so saying sexual partner). The “Ru” here is talking about Rumiko Fujikawa (who, while broken up with Tony, slept with Tiberius).
“I miss when comics weren’t political!!” the dudebros whine, apparently unaware that manly-man playboy Tony Stark has been canonically bisexual since THE 80S, a time when the majority of Americans were still quite homophobic.
