@omegalbagel I’ve been rewatching MCU with Des and I had some insights that I think you’d dig. I get the Cap love now. He was always a little too righteous for me but I think the world needs that and now I do too. I used to be all Team Tony but now I’m all Team Cap.

Like Tony is flashy and a fun dickhead but Cap is the heart. I feel like these have to be purposeful by the filmmakers. Here’s two examples that stuck out to me. BIG small moments:

Both of them have these plane jumping cool guy superhero moments. Tony’s to make a splashy entrance. Cap’s on an actual saving the world mission. Tony feigning patriotism. Cap actually living it.

Another BIG small moment. In Iron Man 1, Pepper asks him about buying a Jackson Pollock. Tony says “I need it. Buy it. Store it.” Kudos for knowing about his spring period (but getting it wrong) but dude just wants to own art and not appreciate it. Like everything in his life.

Steve, who missed out on everything, keeps a running list of works of art he missed out on that people suggest he should check out and it actively seeking it out. He believes in people and what they belive in. Tony wants it because it’s “overpriced”

Like those and 10 other things are running through my mind. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Maybe I’ll turn this into a video or something but I had to share it with someone who would appreciate it.

Other last minute musing: Tony inherited an empire and changes its course for better after personally experiencing the harm it does (great character arc). Steve comes from nothing, gives up everything to prove himself, loses everything, fights an unwinable fight, loses it all.