But the thing that I love here is that once he tells her what's going on, she GETS it, and promptly sets herself to help in anyway she can. YES. Given how much he was hiding from her I can't blame her for being irritated or even angry, but when he finally 'fesses up, you can see her going, "Okay, now that I see what we're dealing with, we will handle this, together." Because as you pointed out, she's a problem-solver by nature. THE problem-solver.
- One of my favorite things about movie!Tony is that while he generally hates social interaction, if it comes down to it, he has zero qualms about delegating both as Tony [hence making Pepper CEO of Stark Industries] and as Iron Man [he actively told Cap to call the action once the aliens invaded NYC, because Tony *knows* he sucks at being a soldier, and at giving other people strategic orders].
I love this about Tony too. It would be easy to see his genius and eye for detail and obsessiveness and think, here is a guy who has to be a micromanager, because he would never trust someone else to do the job right. Instead, he's secure enough in who he is and what his contribution is to not always have to be the guy in charge. He recognizes other people's strengths, but more than that, he has a very good instinct for whom he can trust enough to run things.
I've kind of been wanting to write an MCU fic where Tony and Maria Hill interact more; I don't think she particularly likes or trusts him, and I think he distrusts her motives insofar as she's an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fury's 2IC, but in any kind of a combat situation I think he would surprise her by making it clear how much he trusts her competence and her ability to command, and in turn she would be forced to revise her opinion of him at least somewhat. I always enjoy that grudging admiration type of dynamic.
The smartest thing Marvel did besides hire RDJ was to make Tony *likable*, or at least relatable, to the other characters in the 'verse. He's still the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist, but all the other characters, at one point or another, learn he's got a good heart. And him being able to delegate, and relinquish control, make him likable to the audience as well.
It's funny, I don't really care for Maria Hill in the comics [she's the one who wanted the Superhero Registration Act that started the Marvel Civil War], but because the movies are pretty much ignoring comic canon, I'm excited to see what she's gonna be like in the next Cap movie, and in SHIELD. One thing I do like about her in the comics is that she never even wanted to be Director of SHIELD that much, but she's got a sense of duty going on, so she does it, and later on she's Tony's Deputy when he's in command, again because she understands nobody else can do it.
YES. Given how much he was hiding from her I can't blame her for being irritated or even angry, but when he finally 'fesses up, you can see her going, "Okay, now that I see what we're dealing with, we will handle this, together." Because as you pointed out, she's a problem-solver by nature. THE problem-solver.
- One of my favorite things about movie!Tony is that while he generally hates social interaction, if it comes down to it, he has zero qualms about delegating both as Tony [hence making Pepper CEO of Stark Industries] and as Iron Man [he actively told Cap to call the action once the aliens invaded NYC, because Tony *knows* he sucks at being a soldier, and at giving other people strategic orders].
I love this about Tony too. It would be easy to see his genius and eye for detail and obsessiveness and think, here is a guy who has to be a micromanager, because he would never trust someone else to do the job right. Instead, he's secure enough in who he is and what his contribution is to not always have to be the guy in charge. He recognizes other people's strengths, but more than that, he has a very good instinct for whom he can trust enough to run things.
I've kind of been wanting to write an MCU fic where Tony and Maria Hill interact more; I don't think she particularly likes or trusts him, and I think he distrusts her motives insofar as she's an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fury's 2IC, but in any kind of a combat situation I think he would surprise her by making it clear how much he trusts her competence and her ability to command, and in turn she would be forced to revise her opinion of him at least somewhat. I always enjoy that grudging admiration type of dynamic.
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It's funny, I don't really care for Maria Hill in the comics [she's the one who wanted the Superhero Registration Act that started the Marvel Civil War], but because the movies are pretty much ignoring comic canon, I'm excited to see what she's gonna be like in the next Cap movie, and in SHIELD. One thing I do like about her in the comics is that she never even wanted to be Director of SHIELD that much, but she's got a sense of duty going on, so she does it, and later on she's Tony's Deputy when he's in command, again because she understands nobody else can do it.
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