yall out here saying tony isnt a good father figure but he went and designed – actually, sat down and specifically written lines of code for an ai in peter’s suit that (besides operating his suit) encourages him and talks to him about his highschool crush, thats some genius level dad of the year shit
It took Tony Stark only a few minutes to realize that Harley Keener, a total stranger and a kid, was being bullied at school. Tony took a piece off his own armor and gave it to Harley so that he could stand up to the bully.
Tony Stark picked up on those nuances literally hours after his house was blown up and he fell into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Later, he involves Harley in his little Mission Impossible reenactment but makes sure the kid stayed back in Rose Hill, where he’d be safe. Tony also entrusted Harley with keeping the Mark 42 secure, and repaid the kid’s kindness – especially when he helped him through that panic attack – with an extreme makeover of his garage, made him a new potato gun (because he had to take apart Harley’s previous one) AND replaced the limited edition Dora the Explorer watch.
Can you imagine Tony approaching his assistant and holding up the broken watch, going, hey I need to buy a replacement. Can you imagine Tony shelling out a few hundred or thousand dollars so that he could return some kid’s watch? People can shut the fuck up about Tony being a poor parental figure because it’s been repeatedly debunked in the MCU.
let’s destroy this idea that tony is a helpless, sullen adult who can’t function properly without the avengers around him 24/7 and instead recognize that tony fucking stark, tony “i built a suit in a cave full of scraps” stark, tony “i figured out how to keep myself alive despite months of palladium poisoning” stark, tony “i took a nuke into a wormhole regardless of the aftermath” stark, etc etc etc, would pick himself up, brush off the dirt and betrayal, and keep moving forward because he’s a god damn futurist and recognizes that wallowing in self-pity only holds him back
Tony Stark is the poster boy for “get better, not bitter.”
jinlinli 