I like that explanation too. The sweater vest was hilarious.
Did anyone else notice Tony Stark having panic attack/heart attack symptoms? That man needs help.
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Zenkitty - May 30, 2016 4:46:32 pm PDT #1088 of 4004
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Connie Neil - May 30, 2016 5:05:43 pm PDT #1089 of 4004
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Did anyone else notice Tony Stark having panic attack/heart attack symptoms? That man needs help.
The man has no one backing him up anymore. I've seen so many people dismissing Tony's problems, one said "It's not like somebody with his money needs any help." I guess rich white guys aren't allowed to have PTSD from torture, betrayal, and flying nukes into outer space and mostly dying.
aurelia - May 30, 2016 5:16:06 pm PDT #1090 of 4004
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Now I'm suddenly wishing that if Agent Carter doesn't get resurrected anywhere, Dottie somehow gets frozen or time-warped or whatever into the modern MCU.
Or at least a Dottie centered short.
Steph L. - May 30, 2016 5:19:27 pm PDT #1091 of 4004
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Did anyone else notice Tony Stark having panic attack/heart attack symptoms?
I figured the "pain in my left arm" comment was a joke (like, he wasn't actually having an MI at that moment), but the stress was real.
Or it's possible that only my brother and I find heart attack-related jokes funny. We are jaded.
Zenkitty - May 30, 2016 6:13:04 pm PDT #1092 of 4004
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I figured the "pain in my left arm" comment was a joke
I thought so except he was rubbing his chest and grimacing and looking scared. Either they're setting him up to have heart problems or the writers are real savvy about anxiety attacks feeling like heart attacks sometimes. At least he got a pat on the shoulder from Natasha.
Calli - May 31, 2016 2:06:36 am PDT #1093 of 4004
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The man has no one backing him up anymore. I've seen so many people dismissing Tony's problems, one said "It's not like somebody with his money needs any help." I guess rich white guys aren't allowed to have PTSD from torture, betrayal, and flying nukes into outer space and mostly dying.
Yeah, I get that he's privileged and his attitude can be off putting. But it's just Tony, Rhodey, and Tony's guilt now, and I think the man needs more of a support structure than that.
He had that surgery to remove shrapnel from near his heart at the end of IM3. I like to think, with no medical knowledge whatsoever to back it up, that surgeons would have noticed major heart disease while they were in there. But Tony canonically has panic attacks.
Kalshane - May 31, 2016 5:33:58 am PDT #1094 of 4004
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I haven't re-watched Age of Ultron, but didn't Vision add the cape after seeing Thor's?
While I'm pro-Cap by default, I thought they did a great job of showing everything that brought Tony to where he was. I didn't blame him for what happened in the movie. It all seemed sort of inevitable (Zemo's manipulations just amped it up to 11.)
Matt the Bruins fan - May 31, 2016 6:15:05 am PDT #1095 of 4004
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I blamed him for the early stuff—Tony was apparently involved with the accords well before Ross blindsided the team with them, and as usual attempted to bludgeon through his own opinion without offering anyone else the chance to discuss options or even giving them a heads up. The whole thing would have benefited from input by Avengers who weren't actually responsible for Ultron almost wiping life off the planet.
I don't blame him for what happened at the end, you really can't expect someone to be rational and calm in the wake of seeing candid camera footage of their parents' brutal murders while the person who committed them is standing a few feet away.
Zenkitty - May 31, 2016 7:08:28 am PDT #1096 of 4004
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I haven't re-watched Age of Ultron, but didn't Vision add the cape after seeing Thor's?
Yeah, he did. It was funny.
Tom Scola - Jun 01, 2016 3:57:05 pm PDT #1097 of 4004
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