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angel_inoshi

Tony: Comic vs. Movie version?

Oct 14, 2011 13:39

So, I had planned on talking about what a surprise it was that 616!Steve turned into a mutant Spider monster that spews baby spiders from his mouth....But, I decided to post this question to you all, and was just curious about your general thoughts.

With the Avengers movie coming out, it's no secret that we have been getting an influx of new Steve/ ( Read more... )

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penumbren October 15 2011, 00:35:50 UTC

Hmmm. From reading that tumblr post, I think that person is only seeing what Tony Stark (especially the movie!Tony) wants them to see.

Everything they described is there, totally. I love the description of "laugh at you and move on," because he would do that. However... comic!Tony has never quite been at that same level of "Fuck you, I'm Tony Stark." Well, maybe Ult!Tony, although he'd say it with a grin. And probably toast you at the same time. The getting angry instead of crying? I love that. It's a great description. It's pretty much true of Tony in any verse; witness the ending of Ultimate Armor Wars, which just about had me in tears ( ... )

angel_inoshi October 15 2011, 02:39:48 UTC

You pretty much nailed my thoughts exactly. I kept thinking...well, yes...Tony can be all you described, but he's so much more. The only time I really ran across a weeping Tony was because of the aftermath of Civil War - because he did cry....In The Confessions ( ... )

penumbren October 15 2011, 04:56:43 UTC

I think part of the reason I love the movies so much is because there's so much hinted at without being drawn out, due to the limitations of the genre. It does make writing about movie!Tony a little easier, because there's less history but there's a lot more room to experiment with. I have Urges to write movieverse fic but nothing's really come to me. (With the exception of the very short little thing I posted to AO3 a while back, and that almost doesn't count.) But overall, movie!Tony is just... shallower. Not because he's a shallow person (at least, not so much as at the beginning! ;), but because he just doesn't have the depth that all of that backstory brings to comic!Tony ( ... )

Long Comment Is Long, Part 1 fictivore October 15 2011, 12:20:14 UTC

Hmm, firstly I think I'm in the minority among new fans, in that I did not come in from the movies. In fact I only saw the two movies for the first time together, quite a while after having read fic and been in the fandom. My first intro was Iron Man Vol 4 and I think I even read Vol 3 before I ever saw the movies. So 'my Tony' is very much first and foremost Comics!Tony. And my intro to Movie!Tony was actually fanfics first. So yeah, like you I have to get my universes straight in my head during discussions. (and everything else is an AU to me, too) ;P ( ... )

Long Comment Is Long, Part 2 fictivore October 15 2011, 12:21:20 UTC

Reading their interpretation of Movie!Tony, I think it is absolutely on-the-spot. But only if we're talking SUPERFICIALLY. How they perceive it, is how Tony portrays himself, how he *wants* everyone else to see him. Even to some extent, what he thinks of himself. It was definitely what he thought of himself pre-shrapnel, but not so much now ( ... )

Re: Long Comment Is Long, Part 2 angel_inoshi October 29 2011, 07:23:14 UTC

No I love your ramble ( ... )