Duuuude, Civil War Aftermath
OMFG, if I could crawl into these Iron Man issues and use them like a blanket, I would. It's so deliciously angsty, and in a good way, not in the way the Civil War hurt. Just finished the Stark: Disassembled storyline and as I said before, I am so late to the party that it's not even funny anymore, but I'll just keep posting here because frankly, the BF is starting to be annoyed by my ramblings and has gone and found the perfect solution: He simply says
OMFG, Tony is going all Flowers for Algernon and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Oh, the sweet, sweet angst. Even though I'm pissed they went to all the trouble only to retcon the Civil War now. Or reformat, to be more precise.
So Tony Stark realises Norman Osborn will come after the last existing copy with all the superhuman registration data - which is, as it turns out...
... yeah. And since Extremis made his brain a harddrive, the sensible thing is to delete it. Delete everything. Including everything, like the mental capacity to know how to breathe. Because Tony Stark never does things the easy way, he decides to become brain dead.
And because Osborn is after him, he runs and slowly loses all his memories and IQ points and it freaking breaks my heart.
RIGHT IN THE FEEEEELS.
And he runs, loses coherence and his capability to use the Iron Man armor and in the end he's alone and in the desert and in the armor where it all started and the last coherent thing he thinks/says before Norm beats him into a vegetative state is...
And then he's gone. This isn't losing a superpower or a suit, this is losing yourself and did I say RIGHT IN THE FEEELS.
But then all his friends decide to get him back even though his will clearly says he's okay with remaining a vegetable if they think he's too much trouble because none of his old pals love him anymore. Thor's there and even (resurrected) Cap comes to help because he clearly still loves Tony. They've been at each other's throat, but still they come and don't even have to think about the right answer. DUNE HAS ALL THE FEEEELS.
Meanwhile Tony's in deja-vu land, digging up teeth and tangerines with his parents and is hunted by StarkTech Tripods or something. I don't get it. He doesn't get it, so he doesn't wake up.
Thank heavens we have another guy with a goatee around to save the day: Did I mention FEELS?
So Doctor Strange saves the day. And actually says "Trust me, I'm a Doctor." Yeah, I might have to read some of his stories soon.
Tl; dr, they reboot Starks brain with a backup harddrive of his head he made before Extremis. So he doesn't remember anything about the Civil War. Or sleeping with Hill. Or sleeping with Pepper. See? Better than retcon. Meh. People say he can return to being less douche-y now, but WTF, everyone was douche-y during the Civil War. And while even more people say Stark was an arrogant ass through all of this, my personal opinion is that you can only push a person so far before he cracks under all the stress, a genius futurist who recently obtained bioelectrical rewiring/superpowers even more so... which basically translates to NO ONE GETS HIM LIKE I DOOOOO.
Still, I hope this means Tony and Cap will kiss and make up in the near future.
This post was brought to you by a Fear of Mondays that lead to Dune reading comics till 3 am and resulted in her being completely dead in the morning... I know nobody really reads these, but I have feeeels I need to get out somehow before the BF decides to put fingers in his ears and sing loudly while I rant.
OMFG, Tony is going all Flowers for Algernon and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Oh, the sweet, sweet angst. Even though I'm pissed they went to all the trouble only to retcon the Civil War now. Or reformat, to be more precise.
So Tony Stark realises Norman Osborn will come after the last existing copy with all the superhuman registration data - which is, as it turns out...
... yeah. And since Extremis made his brain a harddrive, the sensible thing is to delete it. Delete everything. Including everything, like the mental capacity to know how to breathe. Because Tony Stark never does things the easy way, he decides to become brain dead.
And because Osborn is after him, he runs and slowly loses all his memories and IQ points and it freaking breaks my heart.
RIGHT IN THE FEEEEELS.
And he runs, loses coherence and his capability to use the Iron Man armor and in the end he's alone and in the desert and in the armor where it all started and the last coherent thing he thinks/says before Norm beats him into a vegetative state is...
And then he's gone. This isn't losing a superpower or a suit, this is losing yourself and did I say RIGHT IN THE FEEELS.
But then all his friends decide to get him back even though his will clearly says he's okay with remaining a vegetable if they think he's too much trouble because none of his old pals love him anymore. Thor's there and even (resurrected) Cap comes to help because he clearly still loves Tony. They've been at each other's throat, but still they come and don't even have to think about the right answer. DUNE HAS ALL THE FEEEELS.
Meanwhile Tony's in deja-vu land, digging up teeth and tangerines with his parents and is hunted by StarkTech Tripods or something. I don't get it. He doesn't get it, so he doesn't wake up.
Thank heavens we have another guy with a goatee around to save the day: Did I mention FEELS?
So Doctor Strange saves the day. And actually says "Trust me, I'm a Doctor." Yeah, I might have to read some of his stories soon.
Tl; dr, they reboot Starks brain with a backup harddrive of his head he made before Extremis. So he doesn't remember anything about the Civil War. Or sleeping with Hill. Or sleeping with Pepper. See? Better than retcon. Meh. People say he can return to being less douche-y now, but WTF, everyone was douche-y during the Civil War. And while even more people say Stark was an arrogant ass through all of this, my personal opinion is that you can only push a person so far before he cracks under all the stress, a genius futurist who recently obtained bioelectrical rewiring/superpowers even more so... which basically translates to NO ONE GETS HIM LIKE I DOOOOO.
Still, I hope this means Tony and Cap will kiss and make up in the near future.
This post was brought to you by a Fear of Mondays that lead to Dune reading comics till 3 am and resulted in her being completely dead in the morning... I know nobody really reads these, but I have feeeels I need to get out somehow before the BF decides to put fingers in his ears and sing loudly while I rant.