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Tony: Come on, Pep— I’m not even tired and I’m almost done! Just one more day…

Pepper, leaving the lab:

Pepper, storming in five minutes later with Peter by her side:

Peter, sniffling dramatically: Mr. Stark, I’m tired :(

Tony, throwing all his tools down immediately and hurrying out of the lab: Welp, you heard the kid. Friday, dim the lights and cue up Star Wars. I’ll grab the weighted blankets. You grab the hot cocoa. We meet on the couch in five—

Pepper, slipping Peter ten bucks: Thanks sweetheart

This is a fill for today’s @flashfictionfridayofficial  [#FFF354 What is the prompt?]  along with my @marvelousyahtzee  Sixes prompt combo: Night, Alarm.

Fandom: MCU/Marvel Pairing: Tony Stark & his robot, Dum-E  Rating: General Tags: Young Tony Stark, MIT Era, Robots, Self-Reflection Summary:  An exhausted Tony discovers that maybe his dream of a robot companion isn’t so far-fetched.  Word count: 208

A loud beeping noise roused Tony from where he’d apparently fallen asleep after another late night in the workspace he’d carved out for himself in the basement of Building 31.   “Wha’zit?”  he mumbled,  scrubbing a hand over his face as he looked around.    The cursor blinked on the screen in front of him, waiting for his next command.   

That’s right - Tony had been working on the latest iteration of the programming instructions for his robot.   Well, ‘robot’ might be stretching the definition a little. Right now it was just an articulated arm on wheels connected to his computer, combined with  kilobytes of code  that just wasn’t  coming together.   

Maybe he was setting his sights too high, but having grown up with examples like R2-D2, C-3PO and Twiki,  the possibility of creating an autonomous artificial companion was just too tempting.  Coding a natural language interface, along with environment and object recognition was a lofty goal, he knew… and maybe even out of reach, at least with current technology.  

not it/reddie related (jumpscare), but i did this little sketch to celebrate the 1st chapter of my friend mina's stony fic Collision Course being published!!! YAY

company running 'Spider-man tours' where they take you around places Spider-man often visits and also locations of famous Spider-man incidents advertised like 'come to New York and see the Amazing Spider-man!'* (*no refunds if Spider-man is not there.)

Fury escaped a whole set of police cars and weaponized teams and being shot at from all sides, but then comes the Winter Soldier and bam just like that he’s down. Steve took out a set of pirates and Batroc at the start of the movie, then an entire elevator full of STRIKE agents, brought down a plane with his bare hands, but then bam the Winter Soldier slams into him like nothing else before. 

When the Soldier just accepted his punishment, I was deeply creeped out. That’s when it really hit me that he is a victim. He’s been brainwashed so thoroughly Pierce has zero hesitation in getting violent with him. Pierce KNOWS he’s the one in control, and the Soldier would never dare to fight back.

Pierce can hit him with impunity, and the Soldier being a supersoldier is irrelevant. Yeah, he’s physically extraordinarily strong, but he’s not a person, he’s a tool. Pierce expects unquestioning obedience from him, and he always gets it. The Soldier’s mind is not his own, and he’s been enslaved.

P.S. Now I’m nostalgic for the days when Marvel used to make movies that didn’t suck. Yeah, there were some turkeys back in the day, but there were also some movies that were really GOOD. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they convinced Robert fucking Redford to appear in a superhero movie, and he was amazing. Pierce wasn’t your average supervillain.

He was much scarier than that, because he was just a charming, genial, unscrupulous human being who had accumulated far too much power. He had no superpowers at all, but he was a terrifying villain because he didn’t NEED superpowers. He had his brain and his position, and he had a bureaucracy to ensure his decisions get implemented. Plus, the Winter Soldier programmed to carry out Pierce’s every order and treat him like he was God. Pierce didn’t need to get his hands dirty.

These changes from comics canon contain some of the things about the character that were compelling, and also the things MCU had no idea what to do with in later installments

In the winter soldier comics, (which are themselves a violent re-invention of the character, he was raised on a military base and became Steve's sidekick after Steve had become Captain America, kind of a darker figure willing to do dirty work that Cap couldn't be seen doing

in the movie, he's Steve's closest childhood friend. They only end up paired up and fighting together because Steve goes on a desperate mission to save his life

in the winter soldier comics, he is something like 7 or 8 years younger than Steve and they still have a mentor/sidekick type of relationship

in the movie they are the same age and steve is no longer a "mentor" figure, that dynamic is eliminated

in the winter soldier comics Bucky loses all his prior memories after his apparent death, making him a blank slate to be groomed into a soviet super-assassin. There is no brainwashing.

in the movie they deliberately erase his memories by strapping him into this scary device that fries his brain with electricity. It's clearly torture: he is shown hyperventilating as the restraints close onto his limbs and then screaming in agony as the device activates.

in the winter soldier comics Bucky as the Winter Soldier is capable of independent thought and snark, and is shown questioning and mouthing off at his superiors

in the movie, Bucky is completely passive. He barely speaks at all; when he does, he is almost childlike, meek and quiet in his interactions with the Hydra characters, stubborn and confused in his fight with Steve. The main antagonist slaps him across the face for not answering a question and he doesn't retaliate at all even though he can obviously kill everyone in the room in the blink of an eye. In the same scene he also lets the scientists manhandle him and eagerly opens his mouth for the mouthguard even as his heart rate is spiking on the monitor and he's starting to hyperventilate because he KNOWS the pain is coming.

(side note: he is shirtless in this scene for no reason)

(second side note: the line "who the hell is Bucky?" is in the movie because it's iconic from the comics, but it's arguably super OOC for mcu!bucky)

The long hair and cyborg arm are straight from the comics, but the most striking change to his appearance is his mask: in the comics, he's wearing a domino mask over his eyes, but in the film, he has an opaque black mask covering his nose and mouth that takes away much of his ability to emote and looks strikingly like a muzzle. The comics mask evokes mysterious wiles; the film's mask evokes dehumanization.

basically the films gave him a much deeper and more intimate connection to Steve while putting the two of them on even footing as friends and partners, and changed him from a morally gray character who indifferently kills people and regrets and becomes angsty once his memories are restored, to a tortured and dehumanized human weapon who obeys despite not understanding anything that's going on because he knows nothing but pain and punishment.

The film's version is really much more interesting. Snarky antiheroes who kill indifferently are a dime a dozen; a character who is palpably, terrifyingly dominating and powerful yet completely powerless in the hands of those who control him, who is hollowed out of all personal identity and who has no agency or control over his own body as it is mutilated, reconstructed and wielded as a weapon, is something much more delicious and fascinating.

We watch this guy slaughter people effortlessly with an apex predator swagger that projects pure dominance and prowess, then we watch him meekly accept abuse and torture with soft, confused eyes.

The rest of the MCU portrayal of Bucky though after that? Clearly no idea what they fuck they had on their hands or what the fuck they were doing with it.

Flattening his character out into "morally gray depression man and he has Gun." And essentially making his story about shouldering responsibility for what he did as the Winter Soldier. A very flat, "guy did bad thing and now he's angsty and guilty about it and trying to redeem himself" (boring) instead of like. the gut wrenching horror of having your memories burned away and your name taken from you and your body reconstructed without your consent and used against your will.

Judging by the resounding groan from everyone when Tony started talking about his open heart surgery in a cave, they’ve all heard this story a million times. Peter was on the edge of his seat though, and something about his enthusiasm made everyone else get involved.

Clint shared the story about him getting an axe in the back of his calf. The scar ran along the whole muscle and if Peter really paid attention he could see the slight favouring of Clint’s left leg.

Natasha showed him the scar of the time she was shot, through and through in the stomach. She had a few other minor ones, but her claim to fame was that he was barely scarred because she was so good (Clint rolled his eyes and Tony threw a couch cushion at her).

Steve spoke about how most of his scars disappeared, but he did have one that ran down his back from before the serum when he fell off a bike down a cliff edge. Bucky laughed about his clumsiness.

When everyone turned to Bucky for his story, it was obvious the air turned somewhat uncomfortable. Bucky didn’t talk about his arm much, but he explained the basics. Peter sat there completely enthralled.

“Yeah okay, fine, Barnes. You win the scar game,” Tony laughed, leaning back and pulling out his phone.

“Well we haven’t heard the kids, yet,” Clint pointed out, eyeing Peter with a glint in his eyes.

Peter hesitated. “I don’t scar,” he admitted, feeling guilty about it suddenly.

Clint just shrugged. “What, not even a good story to tell?”

Peter thought it over for a second. “Not really. I mean, I’ve had a building dropped on me and then crashed a plane right after but-“

“Woah woah woah, you had a building dropped on you? When the fuck was this?” Tony says, putting his phone back away and sitting forward.

“The Vulture?” Peter says, unsure of himself. He was sure Tony already knew this.

“How did you get out if Tony didn’t rescue you?” Steve asked, curious. Everyone was paying attention, Peter realised.

“I- well, I lifted it?”

Silence.

“Fucking hell, kid,” Clint said, awe in his voice. Natasha gave a low whistle too. Tony just looked horrified.

It was then that Thor walked through the door. “What’s everyone so excited about?” He asked, dropping Mjolnir off on the table before settling down with everyone.

Peter watched as Natasha and Clint had a silent conversation. “Peter thinks he can beat you in an arm wrestle,” Natasha shrugs.

Peter splutters. He tries to back out, but Thor is already in position boasting about how he doesn’t want to ‘crush the little spiders dreams’.

But with this idea I also need there to be a “stark industries households” youtube channel that is, technically, an official SI channel. But it’s not in the slightest used for marketing or anything of the sort. Tony is the only one with the password and every video uploaded is tony going through how to use that machine.

Someone can’t figure out how to empty their damn fancy vacuum and they look up the model on youtube to figure it out, and are greeted by the CEO of the company doing a WILDLY informal tutorial on how to use it and common issues and such.

The videos are often shot by DUM-E or U. Tony often looks very disheveled, and sometimes there’s unrevealed projects just sitting out in the background. Tony acts like he’s talking to an audience of five people and usually there’s five or six videos uploaded back to back, CLEARLY shot in one sitting.

and here's this one too 😭

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.