I realized something this morning.
Sep. 26th, 2008 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritAnd maybe I'm just slow.
That final battle?
Tony had lost. Obadiah was fixing to kill him dead. And Pepper--rescued him.
This turns your normal superhero paradigm right on its head. Okay, Obie had her cornered and would have blown her head off if Tony hadn't flown in and crashed into him at the start of the fight, but usually the hero's penultimate goal is to rescue the girl, and saving the world seems to be kind of a by-product of that. She just stands there and screams. Mary Jane and Peter Parker, I'm looking at you.
But in this case, Tony's hanging off the ceiling by one arm, he's lost the helmet and a gauntlet, Obie has won the fight, it's all over but the final shot. The only reason Obie loses in the end is because Pepper is there to blow the arc reactor. Because that's what Pepper does. She takes care of Tony.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE.
I also realized that I mirror this in the not!Iron Man story, because not!Tony is literally (yes, I'm using it correctly there) dying there at the end, and not!Pepper swoops in and kills the bad guys.
I didn't even realize I was doing that. Heh.
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ironman_lounge.
That final battle?
Tony had lost. Obadiah was fixing to kill him dead. And Pepper--rescued him.
This turns your normal superhero paradigm right on its head. Okay, Obie had her cornered and would have blown her head off if Tony hadn't flown in and crashed into him at the start of the fight, but usually the hero's penultimate goal is to rescue the girl, and saving the world seems to be kind of a by-product of that. She just stands there and screams. Mary Jane and Peter Parker, I'm looking at you.
But in this case, Tony's hanging off the ceiling by one arm, he's lost the helmet and a gauntlet, Obie has won the fight, it's all over but the final shot. The only reason Obie loses in the end is because Pepper is there to blow the arc reactor. Because that's what Pepper does. She takes care of Tony.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE.
I also realized that I mirror this in the not!Iron Man story, because not!Tony is literally (yes, I'm using it correctly there) dying there at the end, and not!Pepper swoops in and kills the bad guys.
I didn't even realize I was doing that. Heh.
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ironman_lounge.