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Yvonne Strahotski <3
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In Iron Man 3, he thinks he cannot deal with superheroic stuff and other problems without the suits since in Avengers, he wouldn't have been able to save the day without the suit. That created trauma and anxiety in Tony, thinking he is nothing without the suit. We find out that Tony can be superheroic without the suits. The question in IM3 isn't about Tony's motivations like in Avengers(whether Tony is a hero or not), it's about his skills/abilities/self-confidence/capabilities (whether he needs the suits or not in being a great superhero).
Tony has no superpowers, and as far as I understand, you can't be a superhero without being 'super' in some way. People have been debating whether or not Batman is a superhero for decades, and I doubt that this movie somehow brought the revelation that a person with no superpowers can be a superhero. Unless of course, you mean just 'hero', which Tony is, and was.
I always felt that the suit, the whole Iron Man persona, is the sole reflection of what Tony Stark really is - a reflection of his own skills as a man, his abilities, self-confidence, his capabilities. He made an arc-reactor in a cave out of nothing, and he created an impossible to synthesize new element. He saved New York from being nuked, he saved the Helicarrier from falling from the sky, and ****ing laid the most critical damage to the Chitauri, next to a god and an unstoppable monster. None of that he could've had the chance to do if he wasn't a hero himself, or he didn't have any of those abilities/traits you've listed, if he was just an average Joe who happened to have an accident or develop superpowers out of nowhere, or was born this way. He's not a nobody who happened to find a suit, and learned how to be a hero afterwards. Even the first movie emphasizes on that:
-Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
-I'm sorry.. I'm not Tony Stark.
He had a change of heart in the first film and came up to be a hero on his own terms, and used his brilliance to catch up with the rest of the big guys. Did they really need to prove all this stuff again in this movie?
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