#ego (mcu)

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Tony Stark’s Alter Ego

An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality.

For example, Bruce Wayne’s alter ego is Batman, Bruce Banner’s is Hulk, Peter Parker’s alter ego is Spider-Man, etc.

Everyone thinks Tony's alter ego is Iron Man, right? Well, they are wrong. Because Iron Man is not Tony's "other I". It is still 100% him, with or without armor.

Iron Man does not display any personal characteristics that differ from Tony’s own: endurance, selflessness, courage, reliability, loyalty, integrity, responsibility, caring, compassion, generosity, rare use of mannerisms or sarcasm, quietness, submissiveness, gentleness, etc.

But Tony actually has an Alter Ego. Although it does not have its own name. Here it is:

It is characterized by such traits as extraversion and talkativeness, self-confidence, narcissism and high (or in his case – healthy) self-esteem (see this post), mannerism, sarcasm, indifference, rudeness, hiding pain and health or psychological condition, etc.

See the difference? This is an Alter Ego - a public personality with traits and characteristics that are alternative to the original personality. Don't get confused.

He doesn't need Iron Man to be his Alter Ego because: a) Iron Man isn't hiding, it's not a secret identity; b) Iron Man is actually his own original personality in the way that it is safe for him (from his own point of view) to show his true self. In the armor, he is confident enough. We can see this clearly in Iron Man 3 when he struggles with low self-confidence without his suit throughout the movie. What is causing his PTSD? He is in a transitional period of abandoning his public Alter Ego and trading it in for his true Iron Man identity, but at this point, without the suit, he does not yet realize that HE is Iron Man and not the armor.

Why did he create Alter Ego for the public? I’ll show you soon…

We usually call this Alter Ego his “public mask”. We could give it a name though. Suggest your options.

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Eternals (2021) dir. Chloé Zhao What If...? 2.02: What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes? (2023) dir. Bryan Andrews

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn

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Yeah this is going great 👍

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The lack of official bucky barnes merch in this world is appalling and I take it as a personal offence

[karmaspidr]

Episode 2 of Season 2 of What If was awesome! I loved it! It was incredible. 11/10! Hope was cute, Peter was sad, Bucky was sad, the whole team was awesome! Everyone has to watch it, NOW!

[leresq]

Recently rewatched GOTG Vol. 2 and took some notes

Rocket has no real reason for stealing the batteries other than he wanted to

Rocket can't read sarcasm unless it's explicitly shown to him. He also doesn't understand insults unless he knows what they mean. Autism coded...

Drax has to be more than strong, he's got to be superhuman at this point. He was flung around by the monster that would have killed a human instantly, survived the pressure changes of going through a jump point without exploding, and was hit around by trees like a pinball. Gamora and maybe Nebula are the only ones I can see surviving that. Speaking of which how does Quill survive being thrown around by the monster without breaking any bones?

When Gamora says "If you'd flown with what's in between your ears instead of what's in between your legs" she points to Rocket for the latter half of that statement implying he wasn't castrated by the High Evolutionary. 👀

It's implied Rocket doesn't completely understand depth and 3D space when saying Ego was a tiny man which makes sense for a raccoon but also not for the best pilot in the galaxy.

"You didn't know cuz you didn't wanna know cuz it made you rich." Is a hard ass line

I don't know much about Kurt Russell's history in acting but him as a villain is fantastic

Rocket grooms himself with his tongue!!! So kitty!!!!!!

The fact that Drax connects being an old woman to being wise means his not understanding metaphor isn't an inherent trait and it also means nobody before this point has been able to indirectly teach him what things mean.

Rocket's singing voice hunghhhh... He also runs quadrupedal by instinct

Despite having such tiny and probably fragile hands Rocket can still punch hard. The way he grabs things meant for normal hands with his little grippy paws is so adorable!!!

Drax wasn't lying when he said he was humble. Despite being a bit reckless he rarely brags about himself at all.

Even though family story time about impregnation probably is not a good idea Drax is probably the most sex positive member of the group.

Ego says he made pain receptors yet he doesn't react to anything as if it hurts at all.

Nebula never was a sadist. Thanos made her become violent because he hurt her every time she lost, so she got more and more angry. If she successfully enacted her plan of torturing Thanos I don't think she would have enjoyed it, she would be delivering a sense of justice in her eyes. She doesn't talk about that plan with fondness, she talks about it like it's a hard job that'll take a lot of willpower to complete. Who knows how many years of Thanos' abuse were quickly replaced by love and she barely resisted being healed.

When Peter successfully forms the celestial energy Ego doesn't look into his son's eyes with pride, he looks at the energy with greed. Great subtle acting.

I don't think Drax meant to insult Mantis by calling her ugly, that was just an unfortunate moment of unfiltered honesty. The fact that he quickly changes the meaning so it's some kind of compliment is impressive and adorable.

When Peter says he sees Eternity I think he sees the thing from Thor 4. Ego's plan is to reach Eternity and wish for the universe to be completely and totally his.

The contrast of the majesty Ego supposedly shows Peter and the horror of Ego's genocidal design found by Gamora and Nebula with music is perfect

The crabby puppy so cute he makes me wanna die 😍

Kraglin is so cute he's had such a hard life he just needs a warm shower and a talking Russian dog for a best friend.

The reason Mantis could put Ego to sleep when he didn't want to isn't because she's super powerful (even though she is) it's because she's part celestial and maybe Ego happened to miss a little bit of the connection to the light she has.

Life isn't about trying to make everything perfect or exactly the way you want it to, it's about diversity. That's what Ego doesn't understand.

My headcanon is that Yondu is the only one of his crew that actually cared about hygiene. He looks relatively clean compared to everybody else.

The last real goodbye Gamora and Nebula had was in Vol. 2

Baby Groot finally being nice to Drax is cute.

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LESBIAN WANDA MAXIMOFF．

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“Listen to me! You are a god. If you kill me…you’ll be just like anyone else.”

“What’s so wrong with that?”

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return of big style for heist n whyenn :3

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THAT WAS TOP-NOTCH HOWARD STARK I'M THRILLED.

MCU confirmation on Howard and T'Chanda (T'Challa's grandfather) being pals and T'Chanda giving him the vibranium, and Howard still managing to be exceptionally weird about Steve and being the one to break through to Bucky while being exceptionally weird about Steve, this is the happiest What If has ever made me and probably will ever make me. (that was def AoU Thor though, sorry about...your entire planet being wiped out?)

*Captain America theme plays*

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I don't know if anyones ever brought any attention to it but the reason why Peter was able to fight Ego was because he's Celestial, he fought back against the (at the time) most powerful being because he was one of the most powerful too.

Yeah, its the same with Mantis, she was able to fight back and disarm Ego for a while because she, like Peter, is also Celestial, her powers were stronger then than they were on Titan where it was hard for her to detain Thanos because like Peter her powers weakened after the Light died with Ego.

She's already an Empath, so she'll always have some power, but after Ego she's never seen doing anything of that strength again, its mostly just emotional influence.

Anyways, to remind the crowd, Mantis is also a Celestial, and, at one point, probably one of the most powerful beings in the Galaxy.

#SiblingGoals

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What if Episode 2

THERE ARE SO MANY EASTER EGGS! AND REFERENCES

Peggy and Howard being shook after seeing the winter soldier was crazy and then calling it rumour that it’s Bucky.

And Winter soldier talking felt a bit weird probably because he doesn’t, and mention of Steve! Howard talking with Bucky so that he doesn’t shoot Peter Quill was insane.

And then him saying that Cap is saving his ass ahaha

Hope and Peter getting to know each other was great too I honestly thought he might attack her.

The unlikely team up during the Cold War with the Russians ahaha

Hank, King T’Chaka, Wendy Lawson, Bill Foster and Thor

Th mention of teseract, Kree and Peter picking up the raccoon toy I mean love the details

Thor showing up? It was hilarious and Peter saying I’m Starlord that felt great and just blasted out Ego.

It felt good, avengers team up in the 80s

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn

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Mighty Marvel Movie Poll! Round 2!

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Hubristic Assholes Tourney round 1 part 3b

Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda) vs Ego the Living Planet (MCU)

Propaganda below cut!

Shen

Constantly met his destiny on the road to prevent it. Wiped out all the pandas? Nope. One got away with her child, and set him on the path to become the strongest fighter in China. Tried to kill him with a cannon? Oops. Ended up sending him all the way to his original village, letting him master the technique he will use to beat you. Reject their offer to turn over a new leaf and instead attack them? Congratulations! You’re about to be crushed because you keep cutting the strings holding up your super-weapon; He spent like an hour practicing his big intro to intimidate Po, and he interrupted it by just saying “Hey”.

Ego

His plan is working. He’s won over his son by telling him how they can be a family again, and he knows peters wanted that since he lost his mother. He then decides this would be the Perfcet time to casually mention that it was actually him that killed peters mother. Surely this will have no negative consequences oH WHAT WAIT IM BEING SHOT AT AHHHH; Quite possibly the only thing that could’ve broken his mind control thing over Peter and ruined his plan. Idiot forgot peters only half living planet celestial and actually no isn’t gonna agree with his reasoning for killing his mother. And excellent hubris in that his downfall comes literally less than a second later. Peter wastes no time in switching sides and trying to kill him as soon as he finds out. Painful scene but also satisfying, which is what hubris is supposed to be.