katikat | 30 Days Relationship Challenge #19

Tony & Bruce, The Avengers

One of the most interesting things that came out of The Avengers was the friendship between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. Tony is a lovable yet self-centered jerk and Bruce is a bashful guy with major ISSUES but they clicked! Their connection was instantaneous. Finally, Tony found someone on his intellectual level with whom he could talk in really long and complicated words and who understood and added his own. And Bruce finally found someone who didn't tiptoe around "the other guy".

One of my favorite scenes was the one where Tony poked Bruce in the ribs to see if he would Hulk out - and Bruce LOL'd at him. That told us so much about them, about what their friendship was going to be like in the future. Actually, all the scenes in the helicarrier's labs were awesome! Because, yeah, Tony is Iron Man and Bruce is Hulk yet first and foremost, they are geniuses and those scenes underscored this part of their personalities, they showed that these two don't just kick asses, they have a BRAIN in their heads and that's so sexy! And then there was the scene where Hulk caught the falling Iron Man and slid down the building and that was... that was... \o/ Yeah, I might have squeed a little!

And then they actually left together at the end of the movie and it was wonderful and it gave me warm fuzzies because it didn't feel like they were all going their separate ways, some of them stayed together and one day soon they would all see each other again and fight side by side again and it would be like no time had passed and it would be glorious. Yes, the movie ended but it didn't mean their friendship ended and that was beautiful. Fabulous even.

And no, I'm not shipping these two. For that, Tony is way too much in love with Pepper, IMHO (which is why I really don't get the flood of Tony/Steve fics out there because Tony WORSHIPS Pepper *hands*) but I hope that Bruce makes a cameo in the next Iron Man movie and that we'll see more of their friendship in The Avengers 2 and I actually hope for a Hulk movie, as in FOR REAL, and I never even liked Hulk before but Mark Ruffalo is a God and he owned the part and... and... and... YEAH! \o/