Rambling January Day 2
morganoconner claimed this one with "Tell me all your feelings about Coulson. Or Clint. Or possibly even Clint AND Coulson. *chinhands*"
I'm going to cheat and break this one into three days.
Ladies and gentlemen, my Phil Coulson feels, let me show you them...
Oh, Phil Coulson, where do I start? Okay, so my history in Marvel is X-Men. I grew up reading the X-Men comics and in all arguments I will default to the side of the mutants. (In 616, the Avengers have done some especially douchetastic things where the mutants are concerned, and the X-Men are my babies, so my heart will always sing in a key of X.)
And then 2008 rolls around.
Now, understand that, at this point, my opinion of Tony Stark is so low that I have to dig to get to it. (The reason I will never ever ship Tony/Steve is that I have massive issues with 616!Tony and 616!Steve. In that they're both giant dickwaffles.) However, I have an unbroken run on the Marvel movies and Anthony Edward Stark is not about to break that.
So, I'm sitting in a cinema, and I've got to admit at this point that Robert Downey Jr was born to play Tony Stark, and I'm actually enjoying myself. (Even if I still think that Stark is a giant dickwaffle.) And then it happens. A dude in an ill-fitting suit, introducing himself to Pepper as "Agent Phil Coulson, with the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division." (He got to 'Home...' and I went 'SHIELD!' under my breath.)
He doesn't look like much, this dude in his ill-fitting suit but, oh god, he turns out to be so much more.
And he keeps appearing. Yes, we have the tag scenes connecting phase 1 together, but the link through it all is Phil Coulson.
With Iron Man 2, we suddenly see a more badass version of Phil. And, I've got to be honest, anyone who threatens to tase Tony Stark's ass is worthy in my book. But not just that, we see Phil, with his Cap fetish.
Here, this man is one of you... it says to us. Take him into your hearts... And we did.
He starts off as almost a joke in Iron Man, the nerdy bureaucrat that no one really pays any attention to, and he ends Phase One as the one that brings it all together, the push the goddamn Avengers need in order to actually fucking fight.
Because he's Phil Coulson. He's the guy who can take out armed robbers with a bag of flour. He's the guy who'll threaten Tony Stark without batting an eyelid. He's the guy who stands in front of an Asgard Destroyer with nothing more than a holstered gun, a megaphone and a pair of balls the size of Jupiter.
This is the man who was written into the 616!verse. When Marvel was picking out the characters for the movies, selecting the comic characters who they think they'll need and who'll bring people in to see the films, they take the guy written specifically for the movies and write him into main canon. Not into the comics based on the MCU, but into 616.
He went from 8 minutes in Iron Man to being written into 616 canon and leading the first TV show to be worked into the 199999!verse. He joined together a team of heroes with the sacrifice he made, and thousands of people from all over the world because we weren't prepared to let him go.
Because he's Phil motherfucking Coulson. And if you can't appreciate that, then you're just wrong.
(I'm going to save my Clint feels and my Clint/Coulson feels for other days :D )
I'm going to cheat and break this one into three days.
Ladies and gentlemen, my Phil Coulson feels, let me show you them...
Oh, Phil Coulson, where do I start? Okay, so my history in Marvel is X-Men. I grew up reading the X-Men comics and in all arguments I will default to the side of the mutants. (In 616, the Avengers have done some especially douchetastic things where the mutants are concerned, and the X-Men are my babies, so my heart will always sing in a key of X.)
And then 2008 rolls around.
Now, understand that, at this point, my opinion of Tony Stark is so low that I have to dig to get to it. (The reason I will never ever ship Tony/Steve is that I have massive issues with 616!Tony and 616!Steve. In that they're both giant dickwaffles.) However, I have an unbroken run on the Marvel movies and Anthony Edward Stark is not about to break that.
So, I'm sitting in a cinema, and I've got to admit at this point that Robert Downey Jr was born to play Tony Stark, and I'm actually enjoying myself. (Even if I still think that Stark is a giant dickwaffle.) And then it happens. A dude in an ill-fitting suit, introducing himself to Pepper as "Agent Phil Coulson, with the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division." (He got to 'Home...' and I went 'SHIELD!' under my breath.)
He doesn't look like much, this dude in his ill-fitting suit but, oh god, he turns out to be so much more.
And he keeps appearing. Yes, we have the tag scenes connecting phase 1 together, but the link through it all is Phil Coulson.
With Iron Man 2, we suddenly see a more badass version of Phil. And, I've got to be honest, anyone who threatens to tase Tony Stark's ass is worthy in my book. But not just that, we see Phil, with his Cap fetish.
Here, this man is one of you... it says to us. Take him into your hearts... And we did.
He starts off as almost a joke in Iron Man, the nerdy bureaucrat that no one really pays any attention to, and he ends Phase One as the one that brings it all together, the push the goddamn Avengers need in order to actually fucking fight.
Because he's Phil Coulson. He's the guy who can take out armed robbers with a bag of flour. He's the guy who'll threaten Tony Stark without batting an eyelid. He's the guy who stands in front of an Asgard Destroyer with nothing more than a holstered gun, a megaphone and a pair of balls the size of Jupiter.
This is the man who was written into the 616!verse. When Marvel was picking out the characters for the movies, selecting the comic characters who they think they'll need and who'll bring people in to see the films, they take the guy written specifically for the movies and write him into main canon. Not into the comics based on the MCU, but into 616.
He went from 8 minutes in Iron Man to being written into 616 canon and leading the first TV show to be worked into the 199999!verse. He joined together a team of heroes with the sacrifice he made, and thousands of people from all over the world because we weren't prepared to let him go.
Because he's Phil motherfucking Coulson. And if you can't appreciate that, then you're just wrong.
(I'm going to save my Clint feels and my Clint/Coulson feels for other days :D )