#ego (mcu)

[hawkeyecaroldanvers]

*The 11 characters with the most screen time are included

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

[gunsandspaceships]

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.

[sersi]

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

[filministic]

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

[raccoon-coded]

Probably the biggest plothole in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is how every single alien Rocket meets refers to him as a different Terran animal.

How do people who have never been to Earth, and know very little of its culture, know so much about its animals?

Are Terran animals being trafficked out in space? I know the High Evolutionary was taking them from Earth so I guess it's not impossible. But I have my doubts about that theory.

Or do they have other animals in space that share the same names as Terran animals and just so happen to remind them of Rocket in appearance? Idk, for the most part that doesn't seem very plausible.

I'd give Yondu a pass on rat because for many years he lived with Peter who could have told him stories about Earth animals. And also I'd buy that space rats are a thing.

I guess I can give Ego a pass too because he visited Earth a few times for Meredith. Although he visited America, which means he's more likely to know what a raccoon is than what a monkey is. (Although I can't imagine him paying much attention to these things.) Unless space monkeys are a thing.

One more thing is that, while Peter obviously knew what a raccoon was, Trash Panda is a fairly new term which he wouldn't have been around to hear considering he was abducted from Earth in the 80s. That insult would have made more sense coming from one of the Avengers.

Poor Rocket was probably a bit embarrassed when he realised Peter had been right all along though.

In short: James Gunn, explain yourself!

[leresq]

Mantis can put a Celestial, a creator of all mortal life in the universe, to sleep, and she can mentally restrain a being holding most of the cores of concentrated existence. Is she one of the most powerful heroes in the galaxy or what?

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

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

[guardian-angel12]

I feel like the Guardians of the Galaxy fandom is dying off again since it’s been two years since Vol 3 😔

[azamonvoid]

Just watched vol1 &2 of GotG, wouldve watched vol3 too but its 2am already and i was starting to fall asleep right at the end of vol2

[daily-young-sheldon]

[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!

[lukreziaaa]

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

“What’s so wrong with that?”

[mnt-artss]

return of big style for heist n whyenn :3

reblogs appreciated

[bedlamsbard]

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