Tony stans: I mean I'm with you guys in theory, but you often get carried away. Yes, Tony deserves far more love and gratitude than he's given on-screen; but there's a fine line between love and smothering.
Tony is not a delicate glass baby deer. Tony's feelings were not hurt when Nat wrote "textbook narcissism." Tony didn't care when Thor lifted him up by his goatee. Nat was guilting Tony into joining the Avengers by speaking his first language--snark. And Thor throttling Tony while Tony casually said "use your words buddy" was funny.
Steve Rogers is also not a real dude. This is fiction. So stop freaking out over Stony or DomesticAvengers. Some people cope with a badly written "hero" by writing him as a villain, and other people do it by fixing his writing so he actually acts like a hero. Someone wants to make Steve Rogers likable again, let them.
And for the love of Thor's thunderous balls, stop painting Loki as Tony's saintly guardian angel against villain!Wanda Maximoff. I shouldn't have to explain the irony of this. (Exception: if it's part of a fanfic that believably develops Loki and Wanda into these roles.)
In short: tone it down. Tony Stark himself is the last person who'd want to be babied like this.
Steve Rogers stans: Get help. Literally.
No, not all of you. But those of you painting Tony as a villain for his reaction to that video (especially if you've used the phrase "grainy old video"). Those of you who think always being "right" makes a well written character and a great role model. Who think being a "hero" means always looking for a fight. And that anything you don't like to hear is "abuse" or "evil."
I've seen crazy fans in all different fandoms, but never anywhere else have I seen people act like this except among MCU Steve Rogers stans. This is the only character whose fans I have blocked because I genuinely felt they had legitimate mental health issues, that I might worsen by continuing to argue with them.
Never mind the pigs who project all of Steve's flaws onto Carole Danvers, call her a "Mary Sue," and then unironically praise Captain America for "always being right."
Caption Marvel stans: Well uh, I guess you exist, and you probably accuse everyone who isn't crazy about her character of being "sexist," and I guess I should scold you for it....but I can't cuz I don't care.
Carol Danvers has surpassed Tony Stark in getting unfairly trashed by delusional haters, with the added dimension of blatant sexism, her fans have every right to be paranoid. So I say, stan away, carry on, as you were, etc.
Loki stans: Your fave is a villain. Literally. Literally literally. As in, his literary purpose in this fictional narrative is to serve as one of it's villains.
I haven't actually run across too many Loki stans. But like any suave, hot villain, he has fangirls trying to paint him as a pure victim, and it's a bit disconcerting.
You know, you can love a character without defending everything he does. You're even allowed to love a villain. Because you know, these are fictional characters.
If you love Loki because he's pretty and looks so sad, that's fine. But I'm pretty sure we're supposed to love him for being a hammy, and arguably complex, antagonist. And many of us do.
Bucky Stans: You...well you don't actually exist. "Bucky stans" are really just Steve stans who ship Stucky, or Steve haters who stan/mourn Bucky's potential as a character. (I'm the second one.)
But none us us can pretend to give two farts about the Bucky Barnes of literal onscreen canon, so far at least. Movie-canon Bucky never stands up to Steve post-Winter Soldier, and never makes out with him either.
Wanda stans: Like Bucky, she doesn't have her own real stanbase.
She has fans to be sure; I'm one of them.
But the ones acting crazy, painting her as a helpless victim of the evil Tony Stark? Steve stans. Their blatant disregard for the most basic things about her character ("...and yet she never blamed Tony for anything!" Yes, I have seen that.) reveal how little they know or care about Wanda. If "Civil Fart" had made her "Tonky's" token girl instead of Steve's, the same people now babying her would be digging up all her past crimes like nifflers in a jewelry store.
Vision: I... don't have anything one way or the other to say. I've never seen Vision stans acting in any negative fashion, now that I think of it. I do suspect some are secretly just Tony stans, who if not for "Civil War" would surely realize how dull Vision truly is. But either way, I have nothing to fault them for. I do find it odd and random to see people gushing over this walking pancreas and freaking over Wanda sending him halfway to Australia; but Vision all in all has a very benign fanbase, far as I can tell.
If the Grape Diet Data is you "baby" and you'll fight to the death for him, I don't understand it, but that's cool.
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