OKAY OKAY LET ME TRY TO CONJURE UP ALL OF MY RAGE AND FURY BEHIND A FUCKING READ MORE INSTEAD OF SCARING EVERYONE WHO HASN'T SEEN THE MOVIE
people who will like/liked this ending:
pepperony shippers
pepper stans
people who do not care about Tony being a superhero
WELL, GUESS WHAT??????????????????????????????????
I HATE PEPPERONY
I HATE PEPPER
I DO CARE ABOUT TONY AS A SUPER-FUCKING-HERO
SO HOW WOULD I POSSIBLY LIKE THIS FUCKING ENDING??????????
as a shipper, a fan, and a fangirl!
because hey, he did it all for pepper. FOR HER. NOT HIM, HER. Because she always whined and bitched about iron man/the suits and in the end, he almost lost her and he thought SHE was more important than, i don't know, HIS ENTIRE HISTORY????
pepper is not worth all of that shit, NO.
she is a good friend and worker and nanny/mother/whatever bullshit, but i fucking refuse to see her as a girlfriend/wife.
he blew his fucking suits. at that point, i thought "okay, he's getting rid of them so he can have only ONE and not all of those fucking army of iron men" but thEN IT GOT WORSE
HE HAD A SURGERY TO TAKE OFF THE SHRAPNEL IN HIS CHEST
JUST... TONY. TONY.
YOU COULD'VE DONE THAT YEARS AGO, IF THAT WAS THE CASE.
IF THIS WAS REALLY ABOUT YOU, AND NOT HER, YOU WOULD'VE GONE INTO SURGERY AS SOON AS YOU CAME BACK HOME IN IRON MAN 1.
YOU WOULD'VE GONE INTO SURGERY TO TAKE OFF THE ARC REACTOR/SHRAPNEL AND THROW THE IDEA OF IRON MAN, THROW THE DRAFT OF MARK I (AND EVERYTHING THAT WOULD COME LATER) INTO THE TRASH AND NEVER SPEAK OF AFGHANISTAN AGAIN.
BUT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING SELFISH TO DO, WOULDN'T IT? MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS (INNOCENT PEOPLE) DIED BECAUSE OF HIS WEAPONS, THE WEAPONS HE CREATED TO PROTECT THEM.
YINSEN GAVE HIS LIFE SO TONY COULD ESCAPE THAT NIGHTMARE. YINSEN GAVE HIM LIFE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. SO HOW COULD HE JUST THROW ALL OF THAT AWAY?
OKAY FINE, HE SAID IN THE FIRST IRON MAN MOVIE THAT HE'S NOT NOSTALGIC AND THAT PEPPER COULD THROW THE FIRST ARC REACTOR AWAY, BUT THAT WAS DIFFERENT. HE HAD ANOTHER ARC REACTOR IN HIS CHEST, AND THIS WAY HE'D ALWAYS BE REMINDED OF WHY HE IS STILL ALIVE AND WHO HELPED HIM DO THAT AND WHAT HE HAS TO DO TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE.
TONY WAS (YET AGAIN) SUFFERING FROM PTSD IN IM3. I MEAN, UNTIL THE AVENGERS, ALL HE HAS EVER FOUGHT WERE HUMANS. THEN OUT OF NOWHERE THERE ARE ALIENS (AN ARMY OF ALIENS, AT THAT) AND A REALLY ATTRACTIVE GOD (WHO IS ALSO AN ALIEN, IN TONY'S EYES) AND THEY'RE TRYING TO CONQUER FUCKING EARTH SO... REALLY, HE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR IT.
WHICH IS WHY HE BUILT ALL OF THOSE FUCKING SUITS. HE WANTED TO BE READY FOR EVERYTHING, NO MATTER WHAT.
BY BLOWING THE SUITS UP, HE'S DEFENSELESS. THANOS COULD DECIDE TO ATTACK RIGHT FUCKING NOW AND THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WOULD ATTEND TO THE FIGHT WOULD BE THE HULK, CAPTAIN AMERICA, BLACK WIDOW AND HAWKEYE. BECAUSE HEY, THOR IS BUSY FIGHTING HIS OWN DEMONS.
OH, SPEAKING ABOUT THE HULK? DO YOU GUYS FUCKING REMEMBER AVENGERS? (OF COURSE YOU FUCKING DO, THIS IS TUMBLR)
SINCE I CAN'T FIND A GOOD VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, HERE'S THE QUOTE:
Tony Stark: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart.
[Stark points at the mini-arc reactor in his chest]
Tony Stark: This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a... terrible privilege.
Bruce Banner: But you can control it.
Tony Stark: Because I learned how.
Bruce Banner: It's different.
[Banner tries to read the computer screen, but Stark slides the data aside with his finger so the two can see face-to-face]
Tony Stark: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should have killed you.
Bruce Banner: So you're saying that the Hulk... the other guy... saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Save it for what?
Tony Stark: I guess we'll find out.
HE GAVE BRUCE THIS MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH (WHICH WAS TERRIBLY IMPORTANT FOR THEIR IMMINENT FRIENDSHIP)
JUST TO DISREGARD ALL OF IT IN IRON MAN 3?????
UP UNTIL IRON MAN 3, HE WAS SURE OF HIMSELF AND WHAT HE HAD TO DO. HE ALMOST SACRIFICED HIMSELF COUNTLESS TIMES (THE MOST RECENT, THROWING A NUKE IN THE CHITAURI BASE AND ALMOST NOT COMING BACK TO TELL THE STORY) BECAUSE OF WHAT HE THINKS (OR AT LEAST THOUGHT) TO BE THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
BY THROWING THE ARC REACTOR INTO A CLIFF (OF WHERE USED TO BE HIS MALIBU DREAMHOUSE *SOBS*), HE THREW AWAY HIS HISTORY, WHAT HE BELIEVED ON.
HE SAID HE DIDN'T NEED ALL OF THAT TO REMIND HIM THAT HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE IRON MAN. BUT TONY... I SINCERELY DISAGREE WITH YOU.
I'M BACK INTO THE THREAT DISCUSSION: WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS (AND IT WILL HAPPEN), WHAT WILL YOU DO?
SIT BY WITH PEPPER AND WATCH EVERYTHING UNFOLD KNOWING YOU COULD'VE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT? THAT YOU COULD BE HELPING?
YOU'RE MORE THAN THAT, TONY. THIS IS SOMETHING SELFISH TO DO. EXCEPT YOU'RE NOT EVEN DOING THIS FOR YOURSELF, YOU'RE DOING THIS BECAUSE OF A STUPID WOMAN.
I JUST
I HAD SOOOOOO MANY MORE POINTS TO COMMENT (AND ALL OF THIS IS STRICTLY ABOUT THE END LOL) BUT I JUST... CAN'T EVEN.
IF YOU ASK ME HOW I WISH IT WOULD'VE ENDED, I DON'T KNOW, I GOT A FEW IDEAS:
WITH PEPPER DEAD;
OR
PEPPERONY BROKEN UP;
OR
SOMETHING ELSE, NOT THAT GOD-AWFUL ENDING.