My take on this always comes back to Steve's biggest systemic blind spot: his absolute belief that his own moral judgment overrides everyone else's right to the truth. Steve spends three movies criticizing Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. for keeping secrets and managing people for "the greater good," yet he turned around and did the exact same thing to Tony.
He unilaterally decided that Tony wasn't mature or emotionally stable enough to handle the truth about Howard and Maria Stark's deaths. By robbing Tony of his right to process his own parents' murder, Steve acted with a paternalistic arrogance that completely betrayed their partnership.
Protecting Bucky's innocence didn't require deceiving Tony, Steve simply chose the comfort of a lie over an uncomfortable, necessary confrontation.
Someone once told me that fear of heights is not really the fear of falling but the fear that the irrational urge to throw yourself over the edge will become irresistible. True in my experience
Tony spends basically his entire arc being punished for trying to fix things and never once gets the benefit of the doubt for trying. He builds Ultron out of trauma and gets blamed for the outcome with zero acknowledgment of the fear that drove it. He pushes for the Accords out of genuine guilt over Sokovia and gets treated like a bureaucrat instead of a guy trying to prevent another disaster. Even his death in Endgame plays less like the team losing their friend and more like the plot finally being allowed to move on.
That's the actual tragedy hiding under "I am Iron Man," he spends three phases of movies being the guy who does the uncomfortable, unpopular thing to protect people, and gets remembered by his own team as the volatile one, the liability, the guy who needs managing. He dies saving a universe that mostly related to him as a problem to be handled rather than a person to be understood.
What made Tom’s version work wasn’t just that he looked young. It was how often Peter’s age actually affected his decisions.
He gets excited when Tony Stark notices him, rambles when he’s nervous, makes terrible calls because he thinks he can handle things he clearly isn’t ready for, and constantly tries to prove he belongs in rooms with adults and experienced heroes.
Even in Homecoming, Peter spends most of the movie trying to be taken seriously while still being a kid who has homework, school and Aunt May waiting at home. Then No Way Home shows the other side of that immaturity. He makes an emotionally driven decision with Strange because he can’t accept losing the people he loves, and that mistake completely spirals out of control.
Tom didn’t just play a young Spider-Man. He played what happens when a kid gets Spider-Man’s powers before he’s emotionally ready for them.
in my house, age of ultron will never be hated because this is the last avengers movie where the O6 are all alive and fighting together in the same place.
Lo lamento pero en 2008 vi esto de niño y para mi fue de las cosas mas geniales que vi en mi vida,por lo cual la armadura del MCU no solo emana aura sino un sentimiento que estas viendo algo genuinamente real
they HAD to kill tony or peter wouldn’t have ever suffered in his life
peter broke? tony sent $100k to his acc. can’t find a job? stark industries. fridge empty? doordashing him groceries. tuition too high? it’s already payed for. identity revealed? tony going back in time again