So his good friends Ms. Marvel and Captain America offer to help him out, Avengers-style. But Tony, he's a jerk (plus he has secret plans afoot, methinks), so...
Hmmm...aside from Cap needing to trim his eyebrows, I want to rewind a bit and blow it up:
Really.Now, I know that Matt Fraction essentially believes that you can never write someone out of character, because you can't really prove they wouldn't have said that, and such arguments are just "arguing the very nature of imagination itself," which is "counter-intuitive and counter-productive," blah blah.
And yeah, Stark was being a douche and had it coming. And yeah, Cap would certainly restrain him until he chilled, and probably wanted to get his attention with some tough love.
But does anybody out there really believe that, in this situation, Captain America would threaten an unarmed and unarmored Tony with graphic, crippling violence? Anyone besides Matt Fraction?
Maybe it's just me...
Oh good grief. Remember when the Avengers actually used to...kind of like each other?
ReplyDeleteIt's been a while.
Is Cap taking problem solving advice from Wolverine now?
ReplyDeleteUgh. Horrible. And did this fan favourite writer ( whom,I must admit, I've never read) really say that? Surely the comic book equivalent of " It wasn't me, I didn't do it, my tummy hurts".
ReplyDeleteAnother example of why I can't read current Marvel Comics!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bag of ... bilge.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, can you work with Tony Stark and *not* occasionally experience the overwhelming impulse to break his nose with your forehead?
ReplyDeleteAnd aren't these supposed to be the same Cap and Shell-head who admitted that they were "still friends" at the end of the whole "Tony erasing his secret identity from the world's memory" plotline (by Kurt Busiek)?
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I *don't* think that Cap would say that to a friend, under *any* circumstances...unless maybe he's picked up a cocaine habit that's inflating his ego and jacking up his levels of arrogance and/or selfishness.