That's not "a supervillain." That's "an antagonist," especially given that if I recall correctly the dude whose livelihood he destroys is himself fairly well to do? That's the Spider-Man villain right?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
Adrian Toomes' salvage team were contracted to help with the clean-up after the Battle of New York before Tony Stark sent someone to tell them that said contract was being waived in favor of a joint operation between Stark Industries and the US government.
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Replying to @cymaiden @loudpenitent and
At which point, Toomes is like "screw this, let's take the salvage and go onto the black market" and proceeds to become moderately wealthy off the back of it.
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Replying to @cymaiden @loudpenitent and
There's the process by which Quentin Beck (and his whole team) became Mysterio, after years of Tony casually mistreating them and taking credit for their work, apparently with the final straw being Tony claiming he invented the VR brain scanner Quentin spent his career developing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cymaiden and
Hot take: the Spider-Man films are really an enormous portion of what makes the MCU feel really disjointed this way. like so much Discourse about MCU weirdness seems to come from them just...never successfully meshing Spider-Man with everything else?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
i mean they really painted themselves into a corner there 1: canonically, spider-man is an avenger 2: the avengers are a team of soldiers who fight planetary-scale threats 3: spider-man is a *child*
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
"tonky stark called up a child soldier" is just something everyone agreed to not talk about
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
It is very difficult to look at the way they shoehorned Peter Parker into Civil War and not call Tony a criminal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Well, you see, Peter Parker is very poor, and Tony Stark is very rich
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @perdricof and
It's that whole techbro rational utilitarian thing "But if I then wrote the person a check for $10,000, how can you say I caused them net harm"
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The theme of, among other things, the classic work of surrealist social satire The Magic Christian, and the Simpsons episode based on it (the one where Mr Burns makes Homer fuck a panda)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The message of the MCU is supposed to be to hate Tony Stark, but RDJ is so charismatic in the role that the writers fall in love with him along with the viewers.
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