Tumblr: We need more superheroes struggling with trauma and ptsd!
Marvel: *makes Iron Man 3, an unprecedented film in the modern comic book movie genre that openly depicts a superhero struggling with trauma and ptsd, as a direct result of their hero work*
Tumblr: We didn’t consent to this!
My problem with im3 is pepper. She treats tony like his ptsd is nothing more than an incinvenience to her AND IT IS LITERALLY NEVER QUESTIONED. Pepper is still considered one of the great love interests but she literally saw tony working endless nights, building a literal army of suits, building a suit specifically designed to come to him if he is in distress, having nightmares upon nightmares, and she basically just tells him to get over it or get over her.
So, tony stark having ptsd=amazing, good job, much approved. Pepper potts giving 0 shits about it=terrible, 0/10, failure.
Tonytold Pepper about his nightmares after they had a tiff over date night. It’s right there in the first 10 minutes of the film. Every other time, he came down to tinker in his lab and the army of suits was HIDDEN under the house that no one, not even Pepper, knew about.
Pepper did not give Tony an ultimatum. Tony chose to get rid of his suits in the end because he understood they were a distraction, that there were better ways to cope with PTSD – i.e. not bottling up his feelings, like he did since Iron Man, hence the reason he opened up to Bruce.
They broke up in Civil War because Tony didn’t stop, couldn’t stop getting himself involved with the Avengers. And when he was literally at his lowest point? With a broken team, a broken best friend and an irrevocably broken friendship with Cap? She came back to him but I don’t see people ever acknowledge that.
I also don’t see people acknowledge the fact that she stayed on even when he built the new housing unit for the Bleeding Edge suit.
The only time Pepper walked away was when a suit attacked her, in her own bed, while she was trying to wake her boyfriend from a nightmare. The fact that so many people straight up ignore Pepper’s fear and hate her for not immediately coddling her boyfriend is mind blowing. It’s as if people are saying Pepper’s fears and anxieties do not matter next to Tony’s.
Also, Pepper’s job is not to constantly babysit Tony. She actually has to run a multibillion-dollar conglomerate so that Tony can continue to have the money he needs to build the suits to save the world.
^^^^
She doesn’t treat his PTSD like an inconvenience. She knows he’s effected by NYC, but she didn’t push him about it, and likely waited for him to open up on his own when he was ready. And when he finally did, she listened. Offered him support and physical comfort (the hug). And when she says the suits are “distractions” she isn’t dismissing them as his coping mechanism, but rather stating that he’s using them to ~avoid dealing with his trauma.
Also, so what if she also feels bad that he’s been neglecting her and pushing her away? That doesn’t make her terrible. It means that she cares about him and she wants to be there for him but she doesn’t want to pressure him into doing something he doesn’t want to/isn’t ready to do. But she can’t be there for him if he keeps pushing her away.
And ughhh I really hate when people treat her like she’s a heartless bitch in the nightmare scene. Like, Tony’s suit attacked her in her sleep. She was ~scared. She was angry. Tony was refusing to deal with his issues, and was, unintentionally of course, letting his coping mechanisms (obsessive suit building) to start hurting those closest to him. So yeah, of course she left the room. Had Tony’s suit not attacked her in her sleep, threatening her safety, and scaring the hell out of her, she 100% would have stayed and comforted Tony after his nightmare. She looked genuinely concerned when she was trying to wake him up before the suit attacked her.
Ugh I’m just so sick of the Pepper-bashing from some people. Tony isn’t an uwu. Stop hating on other characters for not treating him like a weak, over-sensitive uwu that can’t take of himself. He’s a grown ass man. And stop reducing their entire character to Tony’s personal nanny and nothing else.
i’m always so happy about seeing mlm feeling comfortable about publicly crushing on tom holland, bc he and the rest of the mcu spidey cast/crew have made sure they feel safe in the fanbase. like seeing tom at photo ops doing cute romantic poses with guys the same way he would with the girls, that’s so refreshing. seeing guys show up to the spidey set wearing “mentally dating tom holland” shirts and the cast takes pics of his shirt and give him thumbs up for it?? good ass shit there. it might not seem like a big deal to everyone, but it really is.
i’m getting some messages asking for “proof” of this so, here’s some con pics of tom with some male/masc fans doing romantic poses, and one of him holding up the trans pride flag:
here’s the male/masc fan wearing a “mentally dating tom holland shirt” happily posing for the cast/crew when they asked for pics of him in it, this is from remy hii’s instagram:
and here’s a question that jacob batalon and laura harrier got during the “homecoming” press tour, when doing an answertime on tumblr’s stardom blog:
and then when later asked about it in an interview jacob added this:
on top of that, “far from home” will have two trans male actors playing some of peter parker’s classmates. the mcu spider-man franchise is a safe space for lgbt+ fans.
The real reason it’s a fucking travesty Peter Parker is “straight” is that he would have a fucking field day making gay jokes. Imagine Spiderman wit mixed with millennial gay humour. He’d be unstoppable
This post is pissing people off so I’m gonna add to it:
*villain du jour flirts with Spiderman* woah! I know I swing both ways, but your way isn’t one of em
***
Intellectual™ white supremacist: and when I’m done the entire world will be one homogeneous society-
Spidey: buddy the only homo-genius here is me step off
***
Villain: *gestures to the eyesore that is the Spiderman suit* what kind of fashion is this
Spidey, a gay, knowing that all his villains commit crime in their fursuits: fucking respectable is what it is
***
Villain, talking about the plague that is vigilantes: your way of life disgusts me
Spidey, with narrowed eyes: is this homophobia or arachnophobia
That last one:
Villain: Wait. What, no, no, I meant, like my brother is, I mean I think you are a fine person, I just meant, the whole you know other thing
Spiderman: I’m going to punch you to save you from yourself
Woke: No one understands Thor’s antique, spicy asgardian memes
This of course brings up the question of what exactly asgardian memes would be, any ideas lads?
Imma just go ahead and say the tragedy of Loki of asgard is a huge meme at this point
heimdall watches you fap
[pointing at any group of 3 anythings] the warriors three
along the same lines pointing at any green animal “loki??”
if you’re straight you can’t cross the bifrost
if an uncomfortable conversation occurs you suddenly have to go home and [yourname]sleep for a hundred years
loki’s terrible overcomplicated plans
heimdall commits treason every single day and nobody has ever even thought of trying to stop him
odin’s vault is full of things that should not be kept together/anything lost (e. g. “where’s my other sock??” “odins vault probably”)
gET HELP MY BROTHER HE’S DYING (loki flies through the air)
probably the asgardian version of yeet tbh
“Carl this bag’s too heavy wtf is in th-” “YOU’RE JUST NOT WORTHY”
“Day 2737384 without sex: I’m ready to ride a horse. But like, the way Loki did.”
Breaking something any time someone says the word “another”. Like, any context at all
“there’s got to be another w-” *glass shatters off screen* “JEREMY I SWEAR TO FUCK-”
The 5edgy4u types would absolutely joke about Loki yeeting himself off the bifrost so like
*minor inconvenience* “TO THE BIFROST!”
*test goes bad* “TO THE BIFROST!”
*has to do the dishes* “TO THE- (well you get the point)
Giving each other Absolutely Ridiculous titles. (Read: “Bronn, god of that weird itch in your ear that doesn’t go away until you stick something in it”)
*violent thunder* “lmao Mood”
#Odin’sBeardChallenge where everyone tries to grow a majestic ass beard so that eventually they can scream “MY BEARD!” instead of “Odin’s beard” and if it’s Valid someone will say it back
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