Tony Stark is the most selfless and caring man ever - THREAD
He cares so much about everyone, he remembers little details about everyone, he always takes care of them, helps them and protects them. He always puts others before him, always make sure they're okay, don't feel bad. And he always does everything to keep everyone safe and happy.
• When he was a kid, he saw that his mother was sad, and he makes a lantern with fireflies to cheer her up and make her smile again. (Iron Man 3 audio commentary)
• He named JARVIS after Edwin Jarvis, the man who was there for him when his father wasn't, who comfort him.. because he miss him. And made FRIDAY who recalls him Pepper.
IRON MAN
• When his car is attacked in Iron Man, he got out and helps Rhodey. (Deleted scene)
• When he has been captured by terrorists, the first thing he notices, is that they have his weapons and can hurt innocent people with them.
"Those are my guns. How did they get my guns?"
• Then, he'd rather be tortured and die than do what they want.
• The first thing he does when he returns to the US after months of capture, instead of taking medical care, is to hold a press conference to publicly announce that he shut down Stark Industries &that he will no longer make weapons. It was more important to him than his own health.
• Even if everyone around him, Pepper, Rhodey, Obadiah, the press.. tells him it's a bad idea, he doesn't change his mind.
"Obie, I just, I don't want a body count to be our only legacy."
• The first thing he does is to build an armor (on his private server, so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands). And he risks his life without hesitation to destroy the weapons and protect people.
"I don't want this winding up in the wrong hands. Maybe in mine, it can actually do some good"
• He literally says he'd rather die than not do that.
• He sacrifices himself on the roof of Stark Industries to stop Obadiah and prevent him from having the suit.
• And even after Stane betrayal, Tony still try to save him in the end. (Deleted Scene)
IRON MAN 2
• He risks his life to save dogs. (Iron Man 2 comics)
• He's dying, so he gives his company to Pepper, his collections to kids. And he organizes the Stark Expo, to help science one last time. He let Rhodey take his suit so that he can take over.
"Please, it's not about me. It's not about you. It's not even about us. It's about legacy. It's about what we choose to leave behind for future generations."
• He did everything to ensure that his suits remained his property and that it didn't fall into the wrong hands, even if no one understood him.
• The repeated use of the suit killed him faster but he continued to save people.
• He goes to save everyone at the Stark Expo with a new arc reactor, without having done a test, and not caring about the danger for him, to get there faster.
"We are unclear as to the effects.." "I don't want to hear it Jarvis."
AVENGERS
• He was refused for the Avengers but became a consultant for SHIELD and when they needed him, he helped them.
• He cares about the environment. He invented a self sustainable clean energy source.
• When he has to work for the SHIELD, he hacks it, to check who he works for, what their purpose is, and make sure he doesn't help the wrong people. He no longer trusts anyone and check all the time, who he's going to work with.
• He offers Coulson a ride to see his wife. He remembers that she's a cellist from what Pepper said when he came to see them in the Tower.
• When they meet, Tony is the only one who treat Banner like a man and not a monster when everyone else did. And says he'll do anything to help him.
• He saves everyone and sacrifices himself again, by sending the missile into the wormhole, without hesitation.
• The first thing he does after the battle of New York is to transform his tower into an Avengers Tower, with personalized floors for each of them, to gave them a home and a family.
• Then he creates organizations, like Damage Control and the Stark Relief Foundation, to collect the damage of their fight, to protect people, that they are not in danger and that the technology doesn't fall into the wrongs hands. And he helps to repair.
• Tony treats the Avengers like his family, he creates them new suits and new tech, and everything they might need. He always looked after them, he always did everything to protect them and keep them all safe and happy.
• He has ptsd, anxiety attack, insomnia, nightmares.. He knows that something is going to happen, that they are not strong enough, he's afraid that he cannot protect the Earth and the people he loves. He builds a lot of suits in a few months, with hardly any sleep, to protect everyone.
• When he has to destroy a building in a battle he buys it before. He always takes responsability for everything and everyone, The Avenges, his company.. Even if nothing is his fault. He repairs the damage and pays for everything. He always defend the Avengers publicy..
IRON MAN 3
• He takes care of them, protects them..
• His robots are his family. He loves them so much, he know they love him, will never criticize him, hurt him, judge him or betray him.. like Obadiah. He created them at 16 &never upgrade them since. He's known them for so long, he treats them as human beings. They're like his kids.
He made socks for Dum-e and U, and personalized one for Jarvis, with his and Pepper's for Christmas.
• And he goes to take them back in the ruins of his house.
• He absolutly wants to help Rhodey with the Mandarin.
• When his house exploded, he sent the armor to Pepper, she's his priority. And then, he asks her not to take care of him and to go save Maya.
• Even long before he became Iron Man, when he meets Maya, he asks to see her research. He figured out the extremis formula, and solve her problem, because he saw in her someone who wanted to help and protect people. And he wanted to help her do that.
• He gave gifts to Pepper. Like a giant stuffed bunny for Christmas. A sharpnell necklace from his heart.. And it's really important to him that Pepper enjoys the gifts.
• He's always so nice with his fans, like with Gary. He spends time with them.
• He makes personalized autographs for the children, with lines and the child's name. He jokes with them..
• He keeps the drawings and fanmail and reads them with Pepper.
• He watches over Happy when he's in a coma. He knows Happy's favorite show is Downton Abbey and he asks the nurse to put it in the tv.
• He immediatly understands that Harley is being bullied at school and gives him something to help him.
• He didn't hesitate for one second to remove his arc reactor, he suffers, electrocutes himself several times, and knows he risks to die doing so, to save that boy who was bullied Harley. (Deleted Scene)
• When he fights he always tries to keep the bad guys away to protect the people around him. He makes Ellen to follow him inside to get her off the street. He evacuated the airport before intervening in CW. And evacuated the street in IW..
• Even when he is captured and hung up on a bed at gunpoint, he cares about Harley's little sister's watch.
"Careful there, it's a limited edition!"
• He offers lots of gifts to Harley to thank him, a robot, a car, a new potato gun, and he even bought a new limited edition watch for his sister.
• He always calls Pepper by pet names. And give everyone nicknames.
• He prepares a dinner on the plane for Pepper, buys her strawberries when he comes to see her (and gives his watch to buy them)
• After the fall of the SHIELD he hired Maria and would hire Coulson in the second.
"You know Stark would take you on a heartbeat" (Maria Hill to Coulson)
AVENGERS 2
• He created Iron Legion to protect civilians and avoid collateral damage.
• He's just been attacked by Wanda and has just seen his biggest fear, all his friends dead. But the first thing he thinks about on the trip home is taking care of Clint.
• He prepares smoothies for the team after the missions.
• Tony knows that something will happen since 2012, he's haunted and always afraid that he won't be able to protect everyone. Wanda manipulates him and shows him all his dead friends and Earth under attack. He wants to stop that vision from coming true, so he creates Ultron and Vision.
• Plus, his biggest fear is the most selfless of all. It's about others.
• He offers Clint to fly the Quinjet so he can rest.
• Then, he helps the Barton family by cutting logs and going to fix their tractor.
• He always think he didn't do enough, and says that if the Avengers die, he'd rather die with them.
• He finds the solution and sacrifices himself in Sokovia, by going under the flying city and blowing it up.
• He creates a new facility for the Avengers from a Stark Industries facility.
• He asks Steve is he's okay before he leaves. He wants to make sure that he's fine and comfortable.
CIVIL WAR
• He gives scholarships to students to help them.
• Tony listens to the 117 countries, he chose to sign the Accords to prevent collateral damage and protect people. Even is he doesn't like Ross, he compromised for the good of others, that's all that matters to him.
• He protects Wanda so she wouldn't be blamed, bc he knows how it feels.. And he made her stay with Vision bc he knows she loves him. And to save her from jail. He talks to Steve and does everything to avoid the fight. He saved him from jail too and offers medical help for Bucky.
• He proposes to amend the Acords to make them suitable for everyone. He does everything to keep the Avengers together, keep everyone safe. He asked Ross to go see Steve at the airport instead of his men, hoping to avoid the fight.
• During the battle he asks Peter to step aside. He does everything not to hurt them, even at the end with Steve he doesn't shoot him when he could.
• Natasha and Clint blame him, but he warn her that they will come to arrest her. Everyone has betrayed him, and blamed him. Rhodey is injured, and his arm hurts. But he goes to help Steve.
HOMECOMING
• Even after Steve's betrayal and his lie about his parent's death. Even if they always only criticized him, blamed him for everything, and abandoned him, he keeps making things to protect them. He's so caring. He does everything for the Avengers to be prepared.
• He creates a new Iron Legion.
• The first thing he does after he gets back to Siberia, after all the trauma, is to take Peter home. He reassures him by telling him that he too would make films in his place, jokes with him, sends a message to his aunt saying he's proud of him..
• He does everything to protect him, gives him a suit with everything he might need, watches over him, protects him.. He's always ready to save him. He support him. He wants him to continue his studies (and he offers to take him to MIT) and stay away from danger.. He sees him as a son.
"You just.. don't do anything I would do."
"Look, forget the flying vulture guy. Please.."
"Stay close to the ground. Can't you just be a friendly neighborhood Spiderman?"
• He puts a parachute in his suit because he saw Pepper and Rhodey almost die falling.
• He puts a heater in his suit so that Peter is not to suffer the cold as it happened to him.
• He puts a tracker because he knows what it's like to be lost.
• He puts the baby-monitor protocol to be able to watch over him and act if something goes wrong.
• And an AI to help and support him.
• He takes care of Peter, he often asks Happy how Peter is. He message him and listens to the audio messages he leaves him.
• He mentors him, he wants to teach him to take responsability for his actions. He doesn't want Peter to have to live with deaths on his conscience. People always blame him and he doesn't want Peter to suffer like he did. And he wants Peter to know that he can be a hero without the suit.
• He invites Peter to his parties, gives him a car.. (SuperBowl and Audi commercial)
• He has never received love and support from his dad, and he doesn't want Peter and Harley to live the suffering he went through, so he congratulates them, supports them and protects them, does everything to make them feel good and loved HE'S SO PURE
• He's so selfless, he blames himself for everything and always feels like he's not doing enough, when he's the one who does the most for everyone.
"After everything that's happened, how can I not feel guilty? I got distracted. Didn't focus on the real threat that's coming." (Avengers 2 comic)
INFINITY WAR
• He takes care of Happy. He's asking Peter not to bother him too much. And he tries to help him find someone.. (Deleted Scene)
• He did everything to be ready to face Thanos and protect everyone. He created equipment for them, even if they didn't even listen to him.
• He's constantly fearing an attack so he carries Steve's phone everywhere with him, even while he's jogging.
• He created an arc reactor with nanotech
• That he was ready to implant himself under his skin. (Art of Infinity War book)
• He worries about Bruce when he sees him after all this time, and sees that he looks scared.
• He finds out that his biggest fear is coming. And when aliens are coming in the street, it's Tony, the human of the four, who goes first and opens the door. He's so brave and so strong.
• When Tony goes outside to see what's going on and a woman falls in front of him, he stops to pick her up and make sure she's okay, and then asks Banner and Wong to help people who crashed their cars I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING he's so precious omg
• When Bruce can't transform himself, Tony reassures him, and tells him that it's okay so he doesn't feel bad, and asks for others to protect him.
"It's okay, hey, stand down. (To Bruce) Keep an eye on him. Thank you. (To Wong)
• Immediately when he sees that something is wrong with Strange, he worries about him, helps him, he tells him what he himself needs to hear when he has an anxiety attack, he holds him, comforts him..
"Strange! You all right? (Holding him) You're back. You're all right."
• He sees that Quill is not well and tries to calm him down.
• He wanted a family with Pepper. But Thanos arrive and he goes into space, that terrifies him. Alone, to face his biggest fear, what is in his head for 6 years. Who caused him nightmares and anxiety attacks, without hesitation. And he wants to face him in space so he can keep the danger away from Earth and his friends.
• He faces Thanos alone with his bare hands and manage to make him bleed. He wants to sacrifice himself, he begs Strange not to save him to protect others and is disappointed that Strange saved him.
ENDGAME
• He wants to name Morgan after Pepper's uncle, it's so cute, and he gets along well with his in-laws.
• He has a picture of him and Pepper in their room in Malibu, and in the Tower. He also has lots of pictures of them in his new house, and a picture with Peter. He also had picture of him and his father in his garage.
• HE'S THE BEST FATHER EVER. Howard was never there for Tony. He made him suffer. Tony spent his childhood seeing his father who just compared him and made him feel bad. He raised him in anger and pain when Tony raised Morgan with just so much support and so much love.
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And after all of that he can't be happy? They have always only made him suffer since his birth, they never stop hurting him, without a break. And now, when he wanted to live, when he could have FINALLY be happy, they killed him? He'll never see his daughter grow up? When he want to stay with his family they call him selfish? He's been through so so SO much and he's AGAIN the one who has to lose everything?
He's always the one who SUFFER the most, but he's always ready to fight, risk his life for anyone. He always puts other before him, always sacrificed EVERYTHING for others, his time, health, happiness, and literally his life in every movies.
And without receiving anything in return other than PAIN and suffering. He deserved all the happiness in the world. He deserved to live a peaceful happy life, surrounded his loved ones. He deserved people to care about him as he has always done for them.
And after all this, the directors and writers of endgame DARED TO SAY that Tony was selfish, that the most important thing for him was himself, that he wasn't the type to sacrifice himself and that it was "surprising" that he does?? Tony was never "selfish" or "a douchebag" like they said.
Tony didn't have to die to be a hero!!
He's a hero, and SO MUCH MORE. He has ALWAYS been the most selfless, kind, caring, man with the biggest heart ever. Ready to do everything to help & protect the world, improve science, people's well-being. Tony Stark is so much more than just his suit.
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