ok anyway, in im3, tony yells NO! right as, and maybe a little bit before, he fails to catch pepper’s hand (like as soon as that whole metal structure tilts), and not after. when rhodey’s falling in cap 3, tony yells NO! way before rhodey hits the ground, but not as soon as rhodey’s shot and starts falling
this makes me think of the im1 novelization: when tony uses the faulty flight power of the mark 1 to boost him out of the terrorist camp, he figures out mid-fall what his trajectory was and what would be the force of his impact against the ground or whatever. similarly, when that SI rocket lands right next to him during the ambush, the first thing he does is to consider the distance between him and the thing and he quickly concludes that he won’t be able to get out of the blast range
so now i’m emotional over tony’s seemingly preemptive cries of NO! in light of this thing where he’s constantly doing the math in his head. so for instance, with pepper, he’s ~relatively chill and reassuring and confident that he’s gonna catch her, up until that rig unexpectedly tilts – and that would be the moment when pepper veers off the trajectory tony had projected for her and he knows he won’t be able to adjust in time, so he starts crying out BEFORE we ever get the shot of him missing pepper’s hand. and then with rhodey in cap 3, he realizes rhodey is going down and goes back for him, and then the point at which he actually cries out would have been the point when the numbers clicked in tony’s head and he realized he wouldn’t be able to get to rhodey before rhodey hit the ground
and i’m in pain because if we’re to go with this, then we have tony grasping his failure before it even happens
do you ever just sit back and think about the fact that valkyrie goes by valkyrie when that’s not even her name? it’s brunnhilde and yet that is never mentioned in thor: ragnorok. on sakaar she’s merely a job and a number (scrapper 142). it’s not until thor recognizes her as a valkyrie that she becomes known as one, and then she just takes the name for herself.
she becomes valkyrie. and maybe that’s because she’s not going to fight for asgard and against hela as brunnhilde. she’s going as all the ones who became before her, all her sister’s who died before her. she is all of these women in the body of one.
and maybe on that ship with the asgardian refugees that survived thanos, struggling as the leader that she’s forgotten how to be, she sees little girls and teenage girls and mothers and grandmothers and soft girls and hard girls and some who know they are girls in secret even if no one else does watching her. and maybe she decides to teach them what it means to be a valkyrie. and maybe she then realizes that she is not the only valkyrie left, not anymore.
and then maybe she becomes brunnhilde again, because maybe she doesn’t have to bear the name alone anymore.
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