I'm very bored with rich white men in fiction who get to do everything they want. I see enough of that shit in real life.
This.
And the most frustrating part for me about this, too? Is that MCU!Tony Stark/Iron Man could and should be a great, revolutionary criticism and deconstruction of wealthy affluent white male privilege, U.S imperialism, colonialism, and overwhelming military force, and capitalism. Hell, in the comics, he is-when writers know what the hell they're doing, Tony Stark is supposed to be something of a benevolent socialist and actually quite often butts heads with the U.S and other governments over the sell of his inventions.
Instead, in the MCU, we just have this guy that keeps playing a formulaic version of the very worst interpretations of Tony Stark. You can read that formula from his very first movie:
1.) he's threatened/hurt or simply perceives himself to be threatened/hurt
2.) he goes berserk and does some outlandish shit that gets a whole lot of people hurt and/or killed (in his 1st movie, he just waltzes into an Afghanistan war zone; in his 2nd movie, he acts a goddamned fool that puts Rhodey & Pepper on the line and also doesn't take care of his arc reactor tech, allowing Ivan Vanko to murder so many people at the Stark Expo; in his 3rd movie, he gives away his home address on an international platform...the same house that Pepper also lives in...etc., etc...),
3.) shit predictably blows up, he supposedly learns a lesson...but not without hundreds or even thousands of people paying a price.
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Date: 2016-05-12 01:54 am (UTC)This.
And the most frustrating part for me about this, too? Is that MCU!Tony Stark/Iron Man could and should be a great, revolutionary criticism and deconstruction of wealthy affluent white male privilege, U.S imperialism, colonialism, and overwhelming military force, and capitalism. Hell, in the comics, he is-when writers know what the hell they're doing, Tony Stark is supposed to be something of a benevolent socialist and actually quite often butts heads with the U.S and other governments over the sell of his inventions.
Instead, in the MCU, we just have this guy that keeps playing a formulaic version of the very worst interpretations of Tony Stark. You can read that formula from his very first movie:
1.) he's threatened/hurt or simply perceives himself to be threatened/hurt
2.) he goes berserk and does some outlandish shit that gets a whole lot of people hurt and/or killed (in his 1st movie, he just waltzes into an Afghanistan war zone; in his 2nd movie, he acts a goddamned fool that puts Rhodey & Pepper on the line and also doesn't take care of his arc reactor tech, allowing Ivan Vanko to murder so many people at the Stark Expo; in his 3rd movie, he gives away his home address on an international platform...the same house that Pepper also lives in...etc., etc...),
3.) shit predictably blows up, he supposedly learns a lesson...but not without hundreds or even thousands of people paying a price.
4.) basically wash, rinse, repeat