Just when you thought the constant cancel culture discourse couldn’t get any more ridiculous, #TonyIsOverParty was trending at the weekend. Why? Because The Falcon and the Winter Soldier revealed that Tony Stark didn’t pay the Avengers for the saving the world.
That was the least important takeaway from the scene in question, but social media was still populated by incredulous responses in the aftermath, which obviously led to calls to cancel the beloved and entirely fictional character who acted as the main drawing card and face of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe for over a decade.
Needless to say, some of the more level headed Twitter users out there felt compelled to point out how inherently absurd the thought of lashing out at Robert Downey Jr.’s genius billionaire playboy philanthropist was, and you can check out some of the reactions below.
you can’t cancel tony stark, he’s not fucking real. HES A CHARACTER, GET THAT THROUGH YOUR STUPID HEAD
— esthela (@hollandeceased) March 21, 2021
Marvel Stans trying to cancel Tony Stark is so funnny because he's:
1. Dead.
2. Fictional.— Cristina
(@CrisseyPau) March 21, 2021
You see as the Pilot Episode of #FalconAndWinterSoldier rolls out, these feeling entitled wokes are trying to cancel Tony Stark out. Blaming him for not "giving salary" to the Avengers Members.
Forgetting that being a "hero" is doing something unappreciated/ unpaid.
— Charles Dirnt (@TheBoy_General) March 21, 2021
Listen I am not a Tony fan, but the amount of people trying to cancel Tony for not paying the avengers is ridiculous
the man wasn’t their employer how y’all gonna get mad for him not paying them???#TonyStark #FalconAndWinterSoldier
— 𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐎
(@xhawksgf) March 20, 2021
Cancel culture is really going for tony stark??? Are you kidding me y’all mfs needa get out and see the sun
— Richard (@lilchestdawg23) March 20, 2021
It brings me no joy, but I think we have to cancel Tony Stark. Yeah, he died to save the universe, but a former arms dealer who didn't pay his workers?? Get him out of the paint. #TonyIsOverParty
— Harrison Faigen (@hmfaigen) March 20, 2021
Why are people trying to cancel Tony Stark for not "paying wages" when he's fuckin dead? Sam was dead for 5 years and before that he went on run with the guy who killed his parents. He was not obligated to pay their rent
pic.twitter.com/7Snae5LjCS
— jodi b (@blueisneversus) March 20, 2021
Why is everybody trying to cancel #TonyStark when the #Avengers were Nicholas J Fury's super-secret boy band to begin with. If anybody owes Sam Wilson money, it's Fury.
— Tara O'Shea (@tara_oshea) March 20, 2021
are yall this desperate to cancel tony stark over something it's embarrassing smh
— zayn♤ | tfaws era (@jewwuu) March 20, 2021
"oh no, let's cancel Tony Stark and Rhodey for being in a picture with this high ranking Hydra agent" you see how ridiculous you sound yet? pic.twitter.com/wyvGRivJ9T
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(@Fortune_Howell) March 18, 2021
Tony Stark locked up his own friends. Cancel that guy.
— Scott the Human (@flickerbucket) February 23, 2021
Completely ignoring the overzealous demands to throw Tony Stark on the cultural scrapheap to focus on the facts, he was never under any obligation to financially compensate his teammates. After all, he was neither their boss nor the leader of the Avengers, and he was kind enough to kit them all out in snazzy superhero costumes and provide them with a huge facility in which to live free of charge.
Having Tony pay them would also lead to some ethical questions that the MCU would rather do without, seeing as they’re all-powerful beings who operate without any sort of jurisdiction. Being under contract would give them the right and option to refuse getting their hands dirty if they didn’t feel the money was right, and it’s hard to imagine a world where the Avengers would refuse to stop Thanos from wiping out half of the universe because the wages on offer weren’t to their liking.
from We Got This Covered https://ift.tt/3rezNOF
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