I really, really hope they're not, but I have to believe/expect the worst, because if I let myself relax and assume that surely they won't kill him now because it would be short-sighted and a waste, and Marvel is not DC, and then they do... I can only handle character death if I expect it in advance and have already reconciled myself to it. (it's why I advocate fic labels, because I only want to bite my nails over canon).
If they are going the shooting-themselves-in-the-foot-a-la-DC route, than I'm reassured that they'll at least let it have the proper impact (i.e. If they did/do kill Cap off, Tony falling apart at the end of FrontLine is the "Oh God, none of it was worth it if Steve is dead" emotional collapse).
If they aren't killing him off (as seanchai assures me they won't--she swears the Punisher is going to break Cap out of prison, whether he wants to be rescued or not), then it's the "Oh, God, I've thrown away everything I cared about and now these reporters are telling me I did the right thing? I didn't do the right thing; I did the necessary thing and other people paid for it and I hate myself for it," emotional collapse, with all the stuff he's been surpressing in order to get things done hitting him at once.
Either way, the throwing the helmet across the room was a nice touch, since Tony's canonically thought of "Iron Man" as the better half of himself, the part that he bases a lot of his self worth on. If he hates that part of himself, too, now, then he's really in trouble (and all alone, woe, as that last page of FrontLine so gleefully pointed out).
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Date: 2007-03-01 04:22 pm (UTC)If they are going the shooting-themselves-in-the-foot-a-la-DC route, than I'm reassured that they'll at least let it have the proper impact (i.e. If they did/do kill Cap off, Tony falling apart at the end of FrontLine is the "Oh God, none of it was worth it if Steve is dead" emotional collapse).
If they aren't killing him off (as
Either way, the throwing the helmet across the room was a nice touch, since Tony's canonically thought of "Iron Man" as the better half of himself, the part that he bases a lot of his self worth on. If he hates that part of himself, too, now, then he's really in trouble (and all alone, woe, as that last page of FrontLine so gleefully pointed out).