the avengers as greek mythological figures: tony stark as icarus/daedalus
he’s the inventor and he’s the one who is flying too close to the sun, always always always. he invents and then he dons his invention, ‘the suit and i are one’ - which is why he will not fall, he will never fall because he’d just keep building as he goes on. similarly, all human progress narratives can be applied to this fucker - prometheus, for example. tony stark gives the technology of the gods to the humans (tho he’s upgraded from bombs to tesseract energy) and he gives humans the ability to point at a map and obliterate a city; a wrath that previously only gods in the time of heroes had been able to accomplish, via flood or fire. and his punishment is that humanity will never be enough for him. his punishment is that the eagle picking out his liver is living inside his head, and he’ll never be at peace until humanity reaches the stars.
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My scars remind me that the past is real. I tear my heart open, just to feel.
Yo, listen up. Here’s a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world…
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”I’ve been killing myself for years. That’s not news. But I’m going to stop.” —Tony Stark
Tony insulting Cap by telling him that “the only thing special about him came out of a bottle” is a far more devastating insult when you remember Tony is a recovering alcoholic.
