steve: tony, i’m gonna need you to focus-
this one single exchange in endgame is literally everything.
tony saw this coming. he warned the team that another alien threat was imminent. inevitable. but they all dismissed him - steve dismissed him.
the team didn’t think they needed to be prepared or have preventative measures in place; they’ll fight threats as they come and they’ll do it together. tony had warned them that that wasn’t enough; that they would lose. and steve was okay with that; “we will lose together.”
tony said he wanted to end the fight so that they could all go home and steve said that every time someone tries to stop a war before it starts innocent people die.
and then, the avengers were divided. steve left and so did the rest. they were no longer together like steve promised tony they would be.
only tony remained an official avenger.
only tony took the responsibility and weight of the entire world on his shoulders.
only tony was desperately preparing for a war that he alone knew was coming.
and then the war came, just as he predicted.
and they lost, just as he said.
on an alien planet billions of miles away from earth - away from the team, away from steve - tony watched helplessly as his son-figure, a wizard, and the guardians all turned to dust around him, leaving him alone with a blue alien stranger.
and with zero promise of rescue, tony had accepted that his resting place would be amongst the stars. he closed his eyes and he was finally ready to rest.
but fate had other plans for him.
he’s not allowed to rest; not yet.
and so tony is brought home. reunited with the team who left him.
and here is steve, the man who once told tony that he was okay with losing, now refusing to accept that he lost.
for years, tony had said they needed a plan, but now, after they’ve already lost, is when steve wants to use it.
now is when steve needs tony to focus. now is when steve needs tony to come up with a plan. now, not before. now, after the work is already done.
“tony i need you” “and i needed you”
that’s exactly the thing, and tony pointed it out.
“they do their best work after the fact.” steve only ever looked back, after something has already happened. he did the work of an a-venger. tony was looking forward. he saw what was coming and wanted to stop it before it was too late. he was doing the work of a pre-venger.
that’s the fundamental difference between the two of them.
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