![]() ![]() (I’m serious - even the aforementioned close friends call him "Cap" half the time). Only a handful of his close friends actually think of him as “Steve Rogers" - everyone else calls Steve by his code name, which at this point is so much a part of his identity that it might as well be his real name: Captain America. I think you pretty much have to beat him unconscious to get him to quit. In fact, save for one recent but very significant exception, I’m not sure he’s ever surrendered. No matter what his personal feelings are, no matter how much it might cost him, he’s the first guy to stand up and battle injustice, and the last man to surrender the fight. ![]() The most important thing to know about Steve Rogers is that he always does the right thing. And Tony hits several of my most solid characterization kinks with his self-worth issues and engineer geekery and bastard/control-freak façade, plus… my extended family has a history of alcoholism and depression Tony is a character I sometime see more of myself and my family in than I want to.Īnd as a pairing… my anniversary is March 16, the day after Civil War the Confession came out. Individually, Steve and Tony both hold a great deal of personal emotional meaning for me: I come from a family with very strong connections to the military and Steve, both as a character and as a symbol, is very near and dear to my heart. Also, I'm one of about three fans on the internet who actually liked Civil War and liked Tony during it. I have a significant emotional investment in this pairing. Unfortunately for them both, true love doesn’t actually conquer all. And subsequent mainlining of Iron Man and Avengers back issues has only confirmed my conviction that these guys love each other and always have. For one thing, Civil War is actually what led me to start seriously shipping them, because I like my comic couples to come equipped with lots of melodrama. I maintained at the time and still maintain that Civil War and its aftermath make a lot more sense if you assume that Cap and Tony were and still are in love with each other. The ones where I’m secretly convinced that, not only do I ship them, but so do the canon writers.Ĭaptain America/Iron Man is one of those pairings. Because they're Just That Wonderful.Īs a slasher, I ship a lot of pairings that I know are just wishful thinking on my part, but there’s also the odd pairing that truly, honestly strikes me as canonical - the ones where assuming that two characters love each other/want to sleep with each other actually explains canon events better than the non-shippy alternative. Because Idealism/Ingenuity make a great couple, as far as I'm concerned. Because there are more dramatic near-death "Heroic sacrifice in an attempt to trade my life for yours!" scenes than any other pairing I can think of. Because Tony knows what Steve likes in a bagel. The Steve Rogers/Tony Stark ship manifesto.īecause Brian Michael Bendis loves us and wants us to be happy? (See volumes 1-4 of The New Avengers trade paperbacks.) Because they've lived together on and off for about ten years of Marvel Time and keep coming back for more. ![]() I plead the incredible density of comics canon - 45 years worth of it. Įmail: This is a good 1,000 words over the limit. government.Spoilers: moderate ones for years of comics continuity, major ones for Civil War. In his obsession, though, he goes over the edge, and quickly ends up at odds with the Avengers, SHIELD, and the U.S. Tony resolves to track down and destroy all of the rogue operators' suits of armor, as otherwise, he'd feel responsible for any harm they caused in the future. In the original "Armor Wars," Tony abruptly discovers that many of the super-powered villains and mercenaries in the world are using technology that's derived in part from his own early designs, courtesy of his old rival Justin Hammer. ![]() This was during what Iron Man fans call the "Silver Centurion" period, when Tony had traded in his usual color scheme for a unique red and silver suit. The story it's based on is from the first volume of Invincible Iron Man, which ran in issues #225 to #232 between December 1987 and June of 1988, by Bob Layton, David Michelinie, Mark Bright, and Barry Windsor-Smith. The Disney+ show will star War Machine, played again by Cheadle, who must investigate after some of Tony Stark's technology falls into "the wrong hands." (Arguably, those hands included Tony's, but whatever, they're rolling.) Disney+'s other new show, Armor Wars, is explicitly based on a comics storyline from the '80s that's fallen into relative obscurity. ![]()
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