Son, you've got a condition

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adorabias:

You know what? This gives me feels. So I think it needs some new meta.
There are 230498234 ways to interpret how Loki’s scepter doesn’t work on Tony when it touches the arc reactor- it brings up a lot of questions. Like the scene in the helicarrier. Was that Tony’s natural snarky defenses reacting in response to everyone else’s mood taking a downturn because of the scepter or was he actually influenced by the negative aura?
I’m a huge fan of mindcontrol Tony (because I love the funny thing about how Howard looked at the Tessearct and how it was a source of infinite energy and came up with the arc reactor in response and they are undoubtedly interlinked) but there’s just so much to say about this.
The arc reactor is proof that Tony Stark has a Heart.
However when Loki captures Barton, he says “You have Heart.” and we’re lead to believe that if you have a heart, you therefore will be able to be controlled by the Tessearct.
You can take this as Tony Stark does not Actually have a Heart.
Or maybe it’s a stronger heart than the Tesseract could ever hope to compete with.
The arc reactor isn’t only proof that Tony Stark has a heart- it is proof that his heart was broken. His heart was broken when he saw kids in Afghanistan who were charged with his safety get blown to smithereens because everything naturally has to revolve around Tony Stark, right? He is the center of his own universe and to teach him a lesson, the people around him had to pay. Nothing would be able to shatter a man’s heart more thoroughly than the realization that his pain will always be found in other people.
So in response he was saved- Yinsen took the shards out of Tony’s chest and tried to stitch the remains of his heart back together. And there’s the line in Iron Man where Tony just looks to Pepper and says “I know in my heart that it’s right.”
It’s almost a joke- because his heart. His heart is the arc reactor now, isn’t it? His heart is under perpetual attack and his heart is always at risk. He’s teetering on the edge of not surviving and the only thing that keeps him going is this thing in his chest that lets the entire world know his weakness.
But it’s that weakness that keeps him from resisting the mindcontrol powers of the Tesseract.
It’s not that Tony Stark lacks Heart- it’s that his is now fortified against being commandeered by anyone else.

…or you could just say that since what the scepter came into contact with was not flesh that that is why it didn’t work… hence the comedic value of the metallic little ‘chink’ sound… :B

Well, yeah duh that’s the in-universe explanation. But fiction is full of symbolism, and it’s the symbolism of the events taking place onscreen that make them more than the sum of their parts.

adorabias:

You know what? This gives me feels. So I think it needs some new meta.

There are 230498234 ways to interpret how Loki’s scepter doesn’t work on Tony when it touches the arc reactor- it brings up a lot of questions. Like the scene in the helicarrier. Was that Tony’s natural snarky defenses reacting in response to everyone else’s mood taking a downturn because of the scepter or was he actually influenced by the negative aura?

I’m a huge fan of mindcontrol Tony (because I love the funny thing about how Howard looked at the Tessearct and how it was a source of infinite energy and came up with the arc reactor in response and they are undoubtedly interlinked) but there’s just so much to say about this.

The arc reactor is proof that Tony Stark has a Heart.

However when Loki captures Barton, he says “You have Heart.” and we’re lead to believe that if you have a heart, you therefore will be able to be controlled by the Tessearct.

You can take this as Tony Stark does not Actually have a Heart.

Or maybe it’s a stronger heart than the Tesseract could ever hope to compete with.

The arc reactor isn’t only proof that Tony Stark has a heart- it is proof that his heart was broken. His heart was broken when he saw kids in Afghanistan who were charged with his safety get blown to smithereens because everything naturally has to revolve around Tony Stark, right? He is the center of his own universe and to teach him a lesson, the people around him had to pay. Nothing would be able to shatter a man’s heart more thoroughly than the realization that his pain will always be found in other people.

So in response he was saved- Yinsen took the shards out of Tony’s chest and tried to stitch the remains of his heart back together. And there’s the line in Iron Man where Tony just looks to Pepper and says “I know in my heart that it’s right.”

It’s almost a joke- because his heart. His heart is the arc reactor now, isn’t it? His heart is under perpetual attack and his heart is always at risk. He’s teetering on the edge of not surviving and the only thing that keeps him going is this thing in his chest that lets the entire world know his weakness.

But it’s that weakness that keeps him from resisting the mindcontrol powers of the Tesseract.

It’s not that Tony Stark lacks Heart- it’s that his is now fortified against being commandeered by anyone else.

…or you could just say that since what the scepter came into contact with was not flesh that that is why it didn’t work… hence the comedic value of the metallic little ‘chink’ sound… :B

Well, yeah duh that’s the in-universe explanation. But fiction is full of symbolism, and it’s the symbolism of the events taking place onscreen that make them more than the sum of their parts.

(Source: treatyoself)