Thor is like “Tony, pay attention for Odin’s sake“
PS Tony “who doesn’t like to be handed things” Stark: character development
And that was right on his arc reactor…
Ehm… No. Tony doesn’t have arc reactor anymore. No arc reactor, no shrapnel near his heart. He has stabilized Extremis and now he’s healthy. More than that, he’s stronger than ordinary human.
Did you miss this Iron Man 3 movie?
No but there still is a scar and maybe the skin is still sensitive. You should remember that there was a huge hole here. And Tony can still be protective over this area.
that’s really true. large scars from intense surgeries like that can take years just to fade from bright red to a-not-as-noticeable light skin color. trust me, i had 3 heart surgeries with two huge scars as proof. plus, i still feel pain from it over a decade later from growing and such.
so yeah, tony’s chest is definitely still sensitive and being tony stark, he’s most likely very protective of it and doesnt want attention brought to it.
So you see Tony as an ordinary real human being or something? I’m sorry… ARE YOU NUTS? Name me one real human being that can live with arc reactor in his chest, grow his armor from under his skin, speak with his tumor and reupload his memory after his death and live again… and all of this with statement “oh he’s just a human, yeah he’s a genius, but he’s ONLY A HUMAN”.
But you do have to realize a lot of that stuff didn’t happen in the MCU, most of that just happens in the comics. In this universe, he is just a genius billionaire who lived through a torturous kidnapping and was able to survive having shrapnel implanted in his chest through the science of the arc reactor. He later had it removed through risky surgery, and has recovered since. There is nothing super human about that. In the MCU, Tony Stark IS a normal living human being. And nothing more than that.
Tony Stark IS NOT a normal living human being if he live for years with the hole that big in his chest.
Get over it.
I feel compelled to chime in on this, mostly because this has taken a ludicrous turn into blatant ableism:
To say a “normal living human being” can’t live with an assisted living device – which, when we strip the arc reactor down to what it was originally designed for, ie. to keep the shrapnel out of Tony’s heart and to keep his then-weakened heart pumping, is what we’re talking about – is pretty gross. As in, people who need mechanical implants
(pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc.) to live aren’t “normal living human beings”? Because that’s the analogy at play here: Tony’s arc reactor is essentially a sci-fi pacemaker that conveniently pulls triple duty as a magnet and an external battery for the suits. In-canon, there’s even a shot of an X-ray depicting where it’s situated in his chest, and I’m pretty sure the idea here is that Tony is always having to monitor his vitals, which became very explicit throughout the course of Iron Man 2.
(And this is all before going into the implications of calling people “nuts,” especially someone who just shared a personal life detail analogous to the topic at hand. Someone – presumbly a “normal living human being” – had three heart surgeries and significant scarring on their chest; professed that their own experience indicates, to them, that Tony would therefore also experience pain and scarring and sensitivity on HIS chest; and is being denigrated for that. Not cool, yo.)
Also, re: Extremis in the MCU, Drew Pearce (one of the IM3 writers) confirmed that Tony did NOT administer Extremis to himself to remove the arc reactor (which creates quite the plot hole regarding why, then, would Tony suddenly decide he could remove the arc reactor and the shrapnel, etc., but that’s besides the point here), so he still isn’t superhuman going into Age of Ultron.
TL;DR Physiologically, and as much as anyone else is in a sci-fi movie, Tony is a “normal human being.” Having been disabled doesn’t change that.
