My favourite thing about the EW Interview with Robert is that, when he’s talking about Tony, half the time he’s talking about him and Pepper.
Interviewer: If the suits do the heavy lifting without him, what’s Tony’s role?
RDJ: highkey dropping hints that Tony wants to be a dad
Interviewer: His personal life was put aside in recent movies.
RDJ: Hey but now “he and Pepper have kind of locked it up.”
Interviewer: I didn’t think Infinity War would focus on something that specific, given how many stories it has to juggle.
Robert ‘do not dismiss my fictional wife’ Downey Jr:
“Pepper remains the heart of the Iron Man story.”
friendly reminder that bruce banner will be helpless to watch through the hulk’s eyes as his best friend is murdered.
“Hulk please i need to talk to him”
“no Banner not safe”
“i know its not safe but he’s dy- Hulk he’s dying he needs me”
“Hulk keep Tony safe”
“No! He’s dying look his light its off”
“Hulk yell. Like last time”
“It’s not like last time Tony’s really dying”
and that someone, most likely Thor, will have to literally pull Hulk away from Tony’s lifeless body as he roars and roars and roars and doesn’t understand why Tony won’t wake up
I love how our media reacts to Pepper and Tony’s engagement, like they’re actual real life celebrity couple,
imagine actually living in the mcu lmao it’s gonna be like the royal wedding, the engagement of the century and it’s probably gonna be all you’ll hear about for the next few weeks
Step forward Reddit (once more) and user BigDabed to be specific, who has theorised that the mysterious element Tony Stark created in Iron Man 2 with the assistance of his father’s hidden instructions was, in fact, a synthesised Vibranium.
According to that theory, Stark knew about the element on account of the small amount he had to make Cap’s prototype shield. He would, in fact, have been intimately familiar with the material to be able to develop it into a shield, so he must have studied it at the most complex level. He simply didn’t have the means to turn that knowledge into practical applications, so he stowed the information away until it could be used.
If that’s the case, it would form a link between Wakanda and Iron Man, but also between the mysterious country and Captain America.
The theory suggests that Cap’s super soldier serum - which Stark helped work on - was also developed using Vibranium. That can be the only way the serum has the same properties as the Wakandan Heart Shaped Herb: “increased speed, strength, and reaction time. Howard Stark probably used Vibranium in the serum, and this is why no one else has successfully able to replicate it, since Stark was the only one with access to it.”
And further, the theory states that Stark’s secret element is a version of Vibranium, which explains why Stark is resistent to the Mind Stone’s powers when Loki attempts to control him in The Avengers. The element could be the only thing capable of resisting that sort of power as well as a blow from Mjolnir.
It also explains how Thor can supercharge Stark’s arc reactor in The Avengers:
“Normal batteries can’t just magically hold 400% power capacity. The only element we’ve seen that can convert being struck into energy is vibranium (as seen in Black Panther). Stark is able to absorb Thor’s lightning and redirect it right back at him.”
That all fits, and it’s the kind of wide-spanning idea that would point back to an Infinity Stone being behind Vibranium (and by extension, Stark’s element). And having the same power behind three characters as prominent as Iron Man, Captain America (and Bucky) and Black Panther would be a great way to add more importance to Soul Stone.
IMO This soul stone theory makes more sense than the one saying tony is the soul stone created by howard lol
