Tony does spin out of control and fights his best friend because he’s a drunken mess… except he’s dying. He already gave Pepper his company and is now entrusting the Iron Man suits to the one person he can trust: Rhodey. Tony brawling with Rhodes isn’t just a dispute between friends. Tony was testing Rhodes to see if he was willing and able to use the suit to fight his best friend if need be. In one go, Tony was training, teaching, and evaluating Rhodes’ suitability. Brilliant. War Machine was planned by Tony, who thought he was going to die.
All of which lends new meaning into Tony’s line to Rhodey earlier in the movie: “You gotta trust me. Contrary to popular belief, I know exactly what I’m doing.”
Samuel L. Jackson on Nick Fury’s relationship with Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
And when I talk to Natasha, it’s as a father figure because he loves her in a way that he doesn’t love anybody else as part of that whole group of people. The fact that they’re both members of this shadow world and he knows her past in a way that no one else knows it, there’s an affection and a respect there and a knowledge of that kind of person she is in there. Even if she loves him, if she had to kill him, she would, and he understands that. There’s a way of dealing with her that he can’t deal with anybody else. (x)
I’ve been meaning to write a post on this forever, and the topic recently went around again, so this seems like a good time. As per my usual method, my goal is to lay out what actually is in the source material, from which I will draw some conclusions and you will probably draw others.
Really interesting meta, but I’d like to correct the original meta writer to say that there *is* alcohol in The Incredible Hulk – Betty, Bruce and Leo drink wine at dinner before Bruce has his little wibbly moment, and then later, Bruce and Leo drink while they have their frankly amazing heart-to-heart. In the second scene, the wine is actually drawn attention to deliberately – Leo offers Bruce some wine, and Bruce says,‘if you’re having some’ and Leo says, ‘oh, I’m having a lot’.The sharing of the drink helps put both of them at ease enough to have their discussion about Betty and Bruce’s past, the residue that past has left on their present, and how Leo has learned to live with the shadow of Bruce in his and Betty’s relationship.
knitting in the dark 