Rewatched the Endgame elevator scene and I still can’t let this go.
Howard tells Tony his wife is expecting. Tony doesn’t smile. He doesn’t get emotional first. He looks confused… then immediately asks “how far along is she?”
Tony knows his own birthday. He picked that year on purpose. So why does the math suddenly look like it doesn’t add up to him?
Was it just the shock of standing next to his dad? Or did Tony clock something off about the timeline?
Be honest. What do you think that look was?
Tobey Maguire was once asked about one of the biggest controversies surrounding Spider-Man: the decision to give Peter Parker organic webbing.
Comic book fans were furious, arguing that removing Peter’s mechanical web-shooters took away a key part of his identity as a brilliant inventor.
But Maguire made a surprisingly logical point:
If a high school kid were smart enough to invent an ultra-strong, revolutionary web formula in his bedroom, why wouldn’t he patent it, become a multi-millionaire, and solve his family’s financial problems overnight?
Instead, Peter Parker is famously broke- constantly struggling to pay rent while selling photos of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle just to get by.
From that perspective, organic webbing suddenly makes a lot more sense..
Iron Man 2 actor Mickey Rourke once called Marvel "mindless" over how the studio handled his role in the film.
To prepare for his role as Ivan Vanko, Rourke traveled to Moscow's infamous Butyrka prison to interview inmates, researched authentic Soviet prison tattoos, and studied Russian for months.
However, Marvel Studios prioritized setting up S.H.I.E.L.D. and laying the groundwork for The Avengers, which led them to cut most of Vanko's character depth and reduce his screen time to roughly seven minutes- a fraction of what a central antagonist needed.
@zay_tg99@TheSeriesFeed That’s two theories stacked.
Adopted after a lost baby is the comic lane. Arno.
Tony being Victor is a different movie. The elevator doesn’t get you there by itself.
Rewatched the Endgame elevator scene and I still can’t let this go.
Howard tells Tony his wife is expecting. Tony doesn’t smile. He doesn’t get emotional first. He looks confused… then immediately asks “how far along is she?”
Tony knows his own birthday. He picked that year on purpose. So why does the math suddenly look like it doesn’t add up to him?
Was it just the shock of standing next to his dad? Or did Tony clock something off about the timeline?
Be honest. What do you think that look was?
Maybe Tony wasn't confused about the math........
Maybe he realized something was wrong with the timeline itself, and if Doomsday is about timelines collapsing, what if Tony's confusion was the first hint that Tony Stark's existence doesn't fit neatly into the timeline anymore?
What if the Time Heist didn't just change history…
What if it created the version of reality Doom is now trying to fix?
@elvnz11 Thanos still wins.
2008 Hulk hits harder and fights dirtier. Thanos still knows where to hit. That’s why MCU Hulk got folded so fast. Skill first, rage second.
@Meelky_f Funny. Not the 1.
Cull wasn’t holding four Stones. Thanos on Titan isn’t getting his arm cut off by a door.
If that future won, Strange doesn’t hand over the Stone.
@emeyorX He didn’t think it was that kind of emergency until it was.
Fury’s whole thing is Earth problems. The snap is the first time he admits this one isn’t.
Strange said he’d let Tony die before giving up the Time Stone.
Then Tony’s on the ground on Titan and Strange just hands it over.
Later he holds up one finger.
So was the “1” only Tony snapping in Endgame?
Or did Strange see a future that required Tony to lose first… and everything after that?
Because if he saw the whole board, that wasn’t a sacrifice. That was a setup.
What do you think the 1 actually was?
@cloudighodaro Mjolnir doesn’t turn Steve into Hulk.
It lets him hang. That’s the point of the scene. Not that Cap out-stats the guy who beat Hulk barehanded.
@olawale__01 Because the trick doesn’t beat Thanos. It stalls him.
Strange already saw the version where they stall. It isn’t the 1. Handing over the Stone is the ugly path that still wins.