#MIT!rhodey

[ironspidersblog]

Currently obsessed with thinking about mit era rhodey and Tony

WHAT SHENANIGANS DID THEY GET UP TO

[winterironrox]

Rhodey throws Tony his first real birthday in their dorm. It’s just the two of them, eating junk food, and watching Star Trek. Jarvis calls around noon and he’s the only other person to wish Tony a happy birthday.

It’s the best birthday Tony has ever had. All the others were about his parents or forgotten in favor of celebrating Steve for Memorial Day.

This is when Tony decides that Rhodey is going to be next to him forever. They are brothers now. And when Rhodey smears grocery store sheet cake on Tony’s face, kisses his cheek, and says “Happy Sweet Sixteen” Tony finally understands how people can cry from happiness.

[gunsandspaceships]

When Tony and Rhodey met each other

We know that they already knew each other in the spring of 1987 (IM1), right?

But for how long at that point? When did they actually meet?

While researching these questions, I discovered some inconsistencies and logical errors in the MCU.

It is known that Tony was born on May 29, 1970, and Rhodey on October 6, 1968. So Rhodey is 2 years older.

1984 - Tony went to MIT for his BS when he was 14 years old. Rhodey was 16.

We have information that Rhodey did not attend MIT for his Bachelor’s degree. He received it from the Air Force Academy and went to MIT for his Master’s degree. The minimum age for admission to the Air Force Academy is 17. Logic says that if Rhodey is not a genius like Tony, the appropriate age for him to start MS would be 20-21. But this would mean that he did not enter MIT until 1988. This is where the problems begin.

Spring Break 1987 (most likely March) - from what Tony said in the first Iron Man at 0:53:10, we have several interpretations:

Was it true?

a) One day, Rhodey woke up with a transgender/transvestite named Ivan in the same bed, and Tony witnessed or heard about it;

b) it was Tony’s joke and nothing happened, because Rhodey said “Don’t do that. They’ll believe that”.

Where were they?

1) They already knew each other. Rhodey was already studying at MIT. Logical error.

2) They didn’t know each other yet, but Rhodey was already at MIT getting his MS, meaning he started it at least in 1986 (18 years old). Logical error again.

3) They didn’t know each other yet and Rhodey was attending the Air Force Academy.

4) They knew each other because they met outside of MIT (maybe at some engineering competition, for example), and spent that spring break together.

1987 – Tony graduated from MIT. Graduation usually takes place in May.

What is 100% true we don’t know, because there is not enough information.

But the logical answer would be: at the time of spring break 1987, Tony was 16 and he was finishing his BS degree. Rhodey was 18 and he was still doing his BS at the Air Force Academy. At some point, they met and struck up a friendship. Then in 1988 or 1989, Rhodey went to MIT to get his master's degree at the same college as Tony because Tony was most likely getting his master's degree there at the time.

The movies never mention that Tony was getting a Master’s degree or actually received one, but there are enough hints to draw a conclusion, and I will do so in my next post.

[irondad-defensesquad]

idk if that's just me but why do you make rhodey so serious. like he's often portrayed as the serious guy who's done with everyone's shit, which is partially true. but rhodey is silly. he's a loser even if he's not an absolute disaster like tony. let rhodey be silly too.

[irondadfics]

Hi!! I’m looking for this fanfic I’ve read months ago and lost it. And wondered if it could be found—please & thank you!! The premise is it’s a one-shot about Tony & Rhodey helping Peter move into his dorm room at MIT.

hello, is this your fic?

Allston Christmas by Gruoch (orphan_account)

“You guys didn’t have to do this,” Peter says from where he sits squeezed into the middle seat of the U-Haul, sweat running down his back. The air-conditioning in the truck they’ve rented is broken, and even with the windows rolled down it’s hellishly hot inside. “Really. I could have handled it myself.” “We wanted to,” Tony replies as he blasts the horn at a minivan with a “Harvard Mom” bumper sticker that is attempting to cut into his lane. “It’s like a little trip down memory lane. It’s nostalgic—it’s gonna be fun. Right, Rhodey?” “Absolutely,” Rhodey agrees, with all the enthusiasm of a man being lead to the gallows.

[julunibalism]

Imagine what Rhodey had to deal with at MIT 😭

A tiny demon who's a genius but also a dumbass who can't take care of himself for shit.

[burymeinariver]

Tony and Rhodey

Have you ever thought about Tony and Rhodey doing best friend things? Like just imagine Rhodey dressing up as a platypus (Perry the Platypus, more specifically) for Halloween and Tony is like Doofenshmirtz or something.

Imagine the pranks they did in MIT like I could definitely see Tony and Rhodey running from the cops more than once because a prank went too far. And when the Avengers move into the tower Rhodey sneaks in and they play a prank on the Avengers and make them think that there's a ghost or something and JARVIS is in on it like they'll check the footage after all of the cups are stacked into a pyramid and the plates somehow too and JARVIS removes the two from the footage.

Rhodey will fill Tony's playlist with a bunch of emo songs or shit like ICP and Eminem (Tony's not a big fan of rap).

In retaliation, Tony will fill Rhodey's duffel with a bunch of Goldfish crackers (The pretzel ones that Rhodey hates so much) or sourpatch kids.

They'll have their own pen-twirling language that they made in MIT that Natasha has tried time and time again to understand but can't and she's so confused because it looks like they're either talking or having a pen-twirling competition and she can't figure out which.

Tony will have Jarvis randomly blare an airhorn sound and scare the fuck out of everyone and Rhodey just gives Tony the dirtiest look when he jumps out of his skin and spills his Frosted Mini Wheats and Tony's just laughing his ass off because that's his best friend covered in cereal like that one time Tony snuck up behind him and scared the shit out of him because he was having a bad day and Rhodey can't even be mad because Tony's smiling and laughing, and not that fake press bullshit and-

Yeah, just best friend shit like that

[the-faultofdaedalus]

if we had to take ANYTHING from the MCU to put into 616 (and bleh at it happening at all but here we are) I do love the role they gave Rhodey as college friend and military liaison, it’s a great role for him and Tony deserves!!! to have as much Rhodey as possible. Much better the Billionaire/Play boy/blah blah wrong eye color blah NO.

MORE RHODEY.

i... think that might be a thing from ults? them being friends in uni?

i think they fall out at some point in ults though but like,,,, its ults

[rebelmeg]

casual reminder that tony also spent 3 months not knowing if his best friend was dead or alive... with the likelihood that he wouldn't see him again either way.

“Next time you ride with me, okay?”

[disappointment-comics]

haunted by the 1980s kid quill returns to earth for Ego and gets adopted by the pyms and peggy carter and howard stark are friendly and find bucky much earlier and t'chaka and thor team up timeline of the mcu. what do you mean it includes several references to howard and tony's strained relationship. what do you mean hope van dyne hangs out at shield (and becomes peter quill's brother!) what do you mean the episode ends with all of them hanging out and cooking meals together. blasts me right back to reading kid!tony stark fanfiction when i was in high school. yes all ur favs hung out as kids <3

[ironspidersblog]

the amount of money marvel would make from me personally if they made a movie of mit era tony and rhodey having adventures. I would genuinely buy every piece of merch, every movie ticket, every everything for this to exist

[gunsandspaceships]

Tony Stark’s achievements

Childhood:

“Brilliant and unique mind”

At age 4 built his first circuit board

At age 6 built his first engine

Cracked the Pentagon’s firewall in high school on a dare

Went to college at 14

Built cool smart robots (Dum-E and U) when he was a teen

At 17 graduated summa cum laude from MIT

Polyglot

Before Afghanistan:

“Da Vinci of our time”

Became an owner and CEO of Stark Industries at 21

Successfully ran the company for decades

Advanced the world of technology, not only in weaponry and robotics but also:

created advanced AI J.A.R.V.I.S.

created holographic interface technology

created repulsor technology

Participated in charity

In and after Afghanistan:

“I’m sorry, I’m not Tony Stark”

Survived an open-heart surgery in a cave, without general anesthesia

Lived with, in fact, a debilitating wound, shrapnel, and a huge and dangerous technological device in his body for years and was willing and capable of doing not only his usual work but also being a superhero and doing all these next things...

Did not give up under torture and fought with his captors

Invented and built a miniaturized Arc Reactor, in a cave, with a box of scraps

Invented and built Iron Man armor, in the same cave, with the same box of scraps

Escaped from captivity by himself (with help from Yinsen, but without any armed assistance)

Became an expert in piloting and driving

Saved people in Gulmira

Saved a USAF pilot

Probably the best hacker in the world, was able to easily hack networks of the Pentagon, US government, AIM, and SHIELD

Fought with Iron Monger after nearly died. Defeated him and saved many lives. Was ready to die for that

Built many more different Iron Man armors

Fought terrorists between IM and IM2 (IM2 tie-in comics)

Saved a submarine crew (IM2 - newspapers in Vanko’s home)

Saved a woman from a fire (IM2 - newspapers in Vanko’s home)

“Stabilized East-West relations” (IM2 - newspapers in Vanko’s home), so the world was “enjoying its longest period of uninterrupted peace in years”

Organized Stark Expo

Was able to keep Iron Man armor in his safe hands despite the government’s and HYDRA’s attempts to take it for themselves

Defeated Ivan Vanko in Monaco

(Re)Discovered a new element

 Synthesized it, by building a particle accelerator, at home

Revolutionized energy industry and science. Gave clean energy to the world

Defeated Vanko in New York with Rhodey, Natasha, and Pepper and saved many lives again

Saved Peter Parker (IM2)

Made it so that the Abomination would not leave prison and join the Avengers

Built Stark/Avengers Tower powered by Arc Reactor technology

Saved Steve Rogers and many civilians in Germany from Loki

Was able to fight with Thor on equal terms

Biggest brain on Earth, arguably - in the Universe:

best scientist on the team, in SHIELD, on Earth, in the Universe

expert in nuclear, particle, and quantum physics

was able to learn very quickly – became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics in one night

Successfully tracked Tesseract by its gamma radiation with Bruce

Saved Helicarrier with the Avengers and SHIELD agents on board, almost died

Saved Rogers from a merc right after that

Fought with Chitauri, killed many of them, saved a lot of people

Was able to blow up a Leviathan by himself

Saved New York City by redirecting a nuke to the wormhole

Saved the world by destroying Thanos’ Chitauri army, almost died again

Founded The United States Department of Damage Control to clean up after battles

Rebuilt Stark Tower into Avengers Tower and gave each team member their own quarters

One of the best biologists and biomedical engineers on Earth, even if it’s not his main area of expertise:

helped Maya with Extremis back in 1999, because knew more in her own field, and even didn’t remember that

was head hunted by Aldrich Killian to work on Extremis with/instead of Maya, who was the leading expert in tissue regeneration

improved and stabilized Extremis, so it became safe regenerative technology, and with it…

cured Pepper

healed extensive injuries in his chest

invented and implanted devices for remote control of his suits (into his forearm in IM3, and most probably into his brain for Mark L armor in Infinity War)

invented build-in diagnostic system in his suits

Invented many devices for protection purposes (ex. bomb disposal)

A capable detective. Figured out the cause of explosions in IM3 on his own

Saved Pepper instead of himself by putting Mark 42 on her during the attack on his Malibu mansion

Survived the attack with a barely working prototype suit. Shot down a helicopter with a piano

Was able to fight with enhanced fire-breathing regenerating terrorists without armor and weapons in Rose Hill. In handcuffs

Knowledgeable and skilled in medicine:

saved a kid with his arc reactor in a deleted scene from IM3, selflessly pulling it out of his chest and performing defibrillation under electric shocks

knew how to recognize hyperglycemia when Harley was eating 3rd bawl of candies

closed his wound in Infinity War with nanoparticles

performed first-aid on Bruce after his snap

Built a lot of stuff from random things he bought in a store for the assault on the Mandarin's mansion. In a motel

Successfully stormed the Mandarin's mansion full of armed and huge security guys with dogs. Alone. Without his armor

Successfully escaped captivity in the Mandarin's mansion with just a few pieces of armor on

Saved all the people who fell from the Air Force One

Stormed Roxxon Norco ship with Rhodey, without a suit. With one handgun

Saved the US president

Defeated Killian and his Extremis-enhanced terrorists, saved many lives

Built quinjets

Created Iron Legion

Became the benefactor of the Avengers, provided them with everything, was a combatant, and also the team’s pilot, hacker, engineer, medic, and scientist

As an Avenger saved many lives on missions, including destroying the rest of HYDRA in AoU

With Bruce’s help created Veronica and Hulkbuster suit

Defeated a rogue Iron Legionnaire with a fork

In contrast to other team members was able to function after Wanda played with his mind

Defeated mad Hulk. Saved a lot of lives in Johannesburg

Easily hacked nuclear codes in Nexus and found J.A.R.V.I.S. “in the world’s biggest haystack”

Created advanced AI F.R.I.D.A.Y.

Many advanced AIs

Created Vision

With the Avengers defeated Ultron and his army

Evacuated people who were left in Sokovia

Saved a falling evacuation shuttle with people on it

Together with Thor saved Earth by destroying the falling Sokovia

Rebuilt Stark Compound into Avengers Compound for the team in Upstate New York

Invented several medical devices, including leg braces, blood toxicity detector

Sponsored the development of technology for psychotherapy (B.A.R.F.). Prevented it from being used for harm

Funded all the students’ projects at MIT

Did everything possible to legally, politically, and physically protect the team before, during, and after the Civil War

Was able to disarm Winter Soldier without a suit, with only one armored glove

Figured out Spider-Man’s identity

Created Spider-Man’s suits

Mentored, sponsored, and looked after Peter Parker

Saved Peter Parker (SMH). Twice

Saved the ferry from sinking

Invented nanoparticles

 “Earth’s best defender”

Went to space to save Peter, Strange and bring back Time Stone

Saved Peter Parker (IW)

Saved Strange on the Donut spaceship. Killed Ebony Maw

Cloak of Levitation chose him as his second favorite (deleted scene with Tony wearing Levi and Strange in Mark L)

Was respected by Thanos himself

Withstood when Thanos hit him with a moon

Fought Thanos, made him bleed, kept fighting even without armor

Survived a severe injury thanks to his own invention

Was able to function, tried to fix Benatar, and return home while injured and ill with an infected wound

Built a lab for Bruce and helped him to become one with Hulk (combine the best of both worlds)

Became an amazing dad

Became an expert in time travel physics

Discovered/invented (controlled) Time travel

Built a time machine

Went on Time Heist and stole Tesseract from a guarded military base

Created his own Infinity Gauntlet

Thus brought half of the universe back to existence (Bruce snapped and partially sacrificed his health, but nothing would be possible without Tony)

Saved Bruce’s arm by providing emergency medical care

Fought with Thanos again and…

Saved the whole Universe

[denebolablack]

HE DESERVED MORE TIME WITH MORGAN, PEOPLE.

MORGAN DESERVED TO BE RAISE BY HER PAPA AND HER MAMA NOT JUST HER MAMA.

AHHHHHHHHH *Scream in endgame*

daddy’s girl

[irondad-defensesquad]

tony when peter and ned do smth stupid: ugh teenagers, i would never-

rhodey, side-eyeing him while remembering that he and tony did the exact same stupid thing when they were in mit:

[reginaphalangelobster125]

Too Sweet

Tony Stark x fem!reader

Summary: You are Tony Stark's assistant and you love your job. And possibly your boss.

Warnings: No smut but it gets heated, age gap reader is in her mid 20s and he's in his early 40s, little bit of jealous Tony, slutty halloween costume, I think that's all

Word Count: 1,433

You were Tony Stark's assistant and you loved it. You thoroughly enjoyed your job and everything it entailed. You often orchestrated Tony's entire day, you got him coffee, made phone calls, organised meetings, sorted files and that was all before lunch. Something was always happening with Tony Stark and you were happy to help with it all.

Tony loved having you around, you were so tender and sweet with everyone but especially him, or at least he liked to think so. You were full of kindness and joy, and that's what made him fall for you. It started off innocently, he hired you because you were overqualified to say the least, he especially loved that you went to MIT. You were ecstatic when he called you personally to tell you that you got the job. At first it was strictly professional, until one day Tony asked you to join him for lunch. He said it was just because there was a lot to go over before the events of the week and you believed him but he knew it was just an excuse to get to spend time with you. Having lunch together became an at least weekly occurrence for you.

You mostly spoke about Stark Industries, but Tony was able to subtly change the topic of conversation to you. He asked you about your family and hobbies but your favourite topic was always MIT. He'd tell you about 'the old days' with Rhodey and about some of his favourite past projects and you would tell him about your experiences. He was a little shocked when you told him about one of your favourite projects as he had done the same thing once. He thought you might have heard about it through the media and were just trying to make polite conversation but then he remembered that he never told anyone about that project, not even Rhodey. That was when he realised how similar the two of you were, the main difference being that you were well and truly good in Tony's eyes.

He never told you any stories about his party days as he thought that you would think less of him for it. He regretted some of those experiences, especially now, with you. He knew his feelings towards you were completely inappropriate, for one you were his assistant and the other being he was 15 years older than you. He felt awful thinking such depraved things about such a sweet young woman, but he couldn't help it. You always wore tight little skirts that were mid thigh length and he couldn't help but think about grabbing those thighs, sliding your skirt up and- he couldn't think about it. It was wrong, completely and totally wrong, he couldn't.

You weren't much better, whenever you saw him walking out the door in a tux, about to go to some kind of party or gala, all you wanted to do was grab his tie, lead him into a nearby closet and- no! You couldn't, he's your boss, it would be completely inappropriate.

The annual Halloween party hit him hard. You decided to dress as a sexy vampire and your costume was almost too much for him. You wore a flowy sleeved white top with a low square neckline, which you paired with a very tight black corset that pushed up your breasts spectacularly. You wore a black mini skirt and red tights with knee high black leather boots. You had your hair out of its usual bun or ponytail and it was styled beautifully, splayed across your shoulders. You had a bite mark on your neck and fake blood dripping out of it running down your chest and onto your top. And of course fake fangs.

Tony decided not to dress up but he thanked the god he didn't believe in, that you did. He had never seen this side of you, he always thought you were a precious little thing but tonight you weren't. You did your normal routine that day except you barely saw Tony. He had squirrelled himself away in his office, hiding from you. There was just too much temptation and he didn't want to do anything to make you uncomfortable or his worst fear, hate him. So he decided the best way to avoid that was to avoid you entirely.

The day continued and he stayed in his office. It was getting dark and that's when the employees started the party. You wanted to be at the party but you couldn't help thinking about Tony, you found yourself doing that a lot. You decided to check on him but on your way to his office one of your coworkers grabbed your hand and dragged you over to where everybody else was dancing and having a great time. You were a good sport and danced with all of them for a couple of songs, which Tony saw from his office. He started to boil over with jealousy when he saw a man come over and dance with you. The man was handsome and more importantly, around your age, something Tony could never be.

You only danced with the man because you thought once it was over you could slip out, which you did. Tony had stopped watching as it was just making him more and more upset. You managed to escape the party and knock on his door.

"Mr Stark? Are you in there?"

He was surprised to hear you "Uh, yes, come in"

"Is everything alright? I haven't seen you at all today"

"Yeah, yeah 's fine"

"If something is bothering you, you can tell me"

"Nothing is bothering me"

"You can't lie to me, Mr Stark, I know you better than you think"

He sighed, took a deep breath, stood up from his seat on the couch and walked over to the window overlooking the bright lights of the city, trying to get as far away from you as possible.

You followed him, you stood behind him and said "Did I do something wrong? I'll go if you want?"

Just as you were about to turn around Tony grabbed your wrist, the touch sending chills over your skin.

"No, you didn't do anything, you're perfect" he whispered the last part but you still heard him.

"Well then what's wrong?"

"I don't think I can control myself much longer"

"What do you mean 'control yourself'?"

"I mean it's getting harder and harder to deny my feelings for you"

"Y-You have feelings for me?"

"Yes"

Your breath hitched, in this moment you realised just how close you were, your face was just inches away from Tony's. You could feel each other's hot breath mingling in front of you. Tony's words hang heavily in the air and you could hear your blood thumping in your ears.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have-"

Tony was cut off by your lips smashing into his in a rough kiss filled with desperate passion. Your hands moved up, one on his shoulder and the other gliding through his hair, ruffling it up. One of his hands went from your wrist to your waist and the other cradled your face, his thumb brushing across your cheek. You only pulled away when you were completely breathless and on the verge of oxygen deficiency. You were both breathing heavily, almost panting. Once you caught your breath you looked up into Tony's eyes.

"Was that okay?" you asked, still slightly afraid of the answer.

"That was amazing" he replied, looking up, unbelievably adorable with his hair all askew. "So I take it you feel the same way?"

"Yes" you said with a huge smile on your face.

"Good, now I can do what I've been wanting to do for months"

"What's that?"

He moved his hands down to your ass and picked you up, you wrapped your legs around his waist and held onto his neck. He carried you over to his desk and with one swift movement, he knocked everything onto the floor and threw you down on the desk. He knelt over you and started kissing you again, this time filled with a fire you had never felt before. He began trailing open mouthed kisses down your neck, he reached your chest and licked the fake blood up with a fierce look in his eyes. He moved back up, kissing you again and he winced when you accidentally bit down on his lip with your fake fangs.

You giggled a little "Sorry I'll take these out"

He smirked and you stared up into his eyes, dark and clouded with desire.

"Don't"

[rebelmeg]

"You are concerned for me? How dare!?"

IRON MAN 3 (2013) dir. Shane Hall