notcaycepollard:queerlaurabarton:mifletset:teamtonystank:Example of the clash between people’s
notcaycepollard:queerlaurabarton:mifletset:teamtonystank:Example of the clash between people’s external reads on Tony vs. The Truth. (huge thank you to @knightinironarmor for inspiring this gifset)No. Not really. Tony is really good at saying - and even meaning - the right things. The question is - do his actions in the real world bear out his words? sometimes, yes. But not always.But Tony never seems to internalize the fact that he is sometimes wrong. He never takes it into account when making plans. In hindsight - sure, he’ll apologize and try to make right. He’s a good man. But he’ll go charging off into the next threat, blithely certain that he is absolutely correct and moreover incapable of being wrong…even though he has been proven so, time and time again.Like if Tony ACTUALLY took responsibility for himself he’d have locked himself up in the tower like he did to Wanda for an accident but it’s totally fine for HIM to still be flying around free although he’s done far more damage with far more forethought & control. He would have either released the team (we see that he hasn’t even what is likely WEEKS later based on Rhodey’s recovery) or gone through the proper channels to go help Steve & Bucky once he realized that the team wasn’t opposing the Accords but trying to protect an innocent man and stop a villain from unleashing assasins on the world (they “retired” rather than sign the accords & Clint & Steve objected to Wanda’s treatment but that was ultimately what they fought over) but instead once again the rules don’t apply to him when he flies off into a sovereign nation doing EXACTLY what he just arrested Sam for. HE doesn’t have to through the UN but they do? Either he believes in accountability for everyone including himself or not at all and he clearly never includes himself. He’s a hypocrite- this character growth would be mostly true for IM3 when he FINALLY seems to make a full realization about taking responsibility and how that might mean stepping back sometimes but that’s ruined by AoU and CACW when they turned what should have been the end of a good character arc into a temporary piece of a cycle of egotism and entitlement where he’ll take responsibility and think before he makes decisions… until this one time when he’s SURE he’s right b/c he’s a genius and knows everything because there are no lasting consequences for his behavior. It’s frustrating bc I used to like Tony but at this point I find him almost completely unlikable. Sam is right while Tony does at time give lip service to and maybe even sometimes believes in taking responsibility… ultimately he always does the same thing and gets people hurt/killed. Placing Sam as ~being wrong about Tony~ makes me really uncomfortable because for the 2-3+years he’s known him Tony has never shown up for responsibility - he literally says “That was never my life” when reminded of his war profiteering days & rejects any responsibility for what his weapons did to the Maximoff twins and their country in AoU- this is the man that Sam has seen. I don’t like the idea that we should expect Sam to care about the motivations of a man who blasted him in the face for trying to help a wounded friend and then locked him in a super secret floating alkatraz without listening to him. Sam’s totally in the right here.#yep he keeps doing the same dann thing#over and over and over agaon#and people have died#and like guys there is a racial context to sam being expected to show ~understanding~ to tony#and to putting a black man in jail#and to tony *interning* a mentally ill jewish romani woman#like tony has not taken the same responsibility he is now placing on th#if this was just tony i would have left it alone#but putting sam in the position of ~being wrong~ about tony#or ~not understanding~ him#makes me really uncomfortable (@queerlaurabarton) -- source link
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