it is canon that tony stark will forever blame himself for ultron when in fact he was just as mentally manipulated by wanda like clint by loki or bucky by HYDRA
and the worst part is he will never know he WAS mentally manipulated. he never saw wanda mind mojo him, he’ll chalk up his vision of the avengers dead and earth about to be invaded as one of his fucked up PTSD flashbacks/hallucinations. he’ll forever think of himself as the monster who created an evil killer robot when in fact, both tony and the audience will never know if he WOULD’VE attempted to make ultron using an unknown power source if it hadn’t been for his mind being scrambled
Kill the myth of ‘doesn’t know how to work; needs babysitters to function’ Tony Stark.
Iron Man vol 1, #215 (1987)
Oh my god, I miss the 40+ years of consistent characterization of a mature, adult, workaholic Tony who had issues, but really wanted to help make the world a better place.
NOT A SLEEZY MANBABY WHO NEEDS A GIRLFRIEND-MOMMY.
Stu, let me ask you a question: how did you not realize until then that you had too many eggs? Nobody sells eggs in a big cloth-covered basket, so you must have done that yourself. That means you spent god-knows-how-long opening up twelve whole cartons of eggs, carefully placing each egg one-by-one inside a big basket, and then covering it with a big picnic cloth… and at no point- at no point- did you ever stop and think “gee, there might be TOO MANY FUCKING EGGS HERE”
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
this post is more useful than the pages of templates and formatting instructions my tutors gave me
