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00:00We're in the Endgame now.

00:08The Marvel Cinematic Universe is defined by the specters of flawed fathers

00:12who haunt our heroes.

00:14Talking about a guy who's happy as Dave is when he shipped me off to boarding school.

00:17Whether they're absent dads, dead dads, mistaken dads, or outright evil dads.

00:22And in Avengers Endgame, the Avengers go up against the ultimate bad dad

00:26of the whole universe, Thanos.

00:28When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive.

00:32But in fact, Infinity War already gave us an incredibly symbolic scene

00:37of this universe's founding father, Tony Stark, fighting Thanos.

00:44Which reveals a lot about how the MCU is finally resolving the daddy issues

00:49that have defined its first decade.

00:51Which happens, dads leave.

00:52No need to be a pussy or better.

00:53So we're about to break down this scene.

00:56But before we get into it, a little background.

00:58To get ready for Endgame, we've come together with a bunch of our favorite YouTubers

01:02to create this series, One Marvelous Scene.

01:06Each channel picks one scene from the last 10 years of the MCU to analyze in depth.

01:10So after you watch this, make sure to check out all the others.

01:13And you can even make your own video on this topic.

01:15Just tweet it to us, and we'll make sure it gets added to the playlist.

01:19Now let's look closer at this face-off between Tony and Thanos

01:22to figure out how it illuminates Endgame's and the MCU's deeper messages

01:27about fatherhood and what it means to beget a better future.

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01:43You throw another moon at me, then I'm gonna lose it.

01:47Stark.

01:48You know me?

01:50I do.

01:51As soon as the two meet in the scene, the dialogue reveals something surprising.

01:55Thanos knows Tony.

01:56He's aware of Stark from that original Battle of New York as the person who undid the plan.

02:03Meanwhile from the Battle of New York on, Tony has also had some version of Thanos

02:08in his brain, as an idea without a name.

02:11Thanos has been inside my head for six years.

02:14Photo actor Joe Russo has said that Tony, quote,

02:16has predicted a threat like Thanos.

02:18It's lived in his brain even though he couldn't name it.

02:22Threat is imminent.

02:24In Age of Ultron, Tony has a vision of what looks like a post-apocalyptic world

02:29where his fellow Avengers are dying.

02:31You could've saved us.

02:35And the setting of this fight scene in Infinity War is not unlike the wasteland of that vision,

02:41which on some level has already come to pass.

02:44Watching my friends die, you'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right?

02:49Nope.

02:50Wasn't the worst part.

02:52The worst part is that you didn't.

02:56Thanos' explanation for how he knows Tony is the enigmatic line,

03:00You're not the only one cursed with knowledge.

03:04Both characters have access to some sort of mysterious insight,

03:08which makes them feel they have to make tough decisions others don't understand.

03:11We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but that up there, that's the endgame.

03:18If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.

03:22It needs correction.

03:23You don't know that!

03:25I'm the only one who knows that.

03:28The technology-obsessed Tony is a known futurist.

03:30The futurist, gentlemen!

03:32The futurist is here!

03:35He sees all!

03:37And that's something he has in common with Thanos.

03:40They're both aware of something from an early point and constantly having to deal with being smarter.

03:47Thanos is a futurist as much as Tony Stark.

03:51In fact, these two are similar in a lot of ways.

03:54Both approach problems logically, without emotion.

03:57Genocide.

03:58But random, dispassionate fare to rich and poor alike.

04:03Their instinct is to solve the world's problems through systems of control.

04:08We need to be put in check.

04:09And they may do damage to humankind while trying to protect it.

04:13Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it.

04:17Where do you think he gets that?

04:18So on one level, this scene represents Tony going up against a dark mirror of himself.

04:24But visually here, Tony appears tiny in relation to this giant Thanos looming over him.

04:32He looks like David going up against Goliath.

04:34And these visuals are a clue that this fight is really about Tony battling the source of his father complex.

04:41My only curse is you.

04:43The size and balance highlights how small and unworthy he feels.

04:47This is the little boy in him who will always feel inadequate in relation to the ghost of his emotionally distant father,

04:53Howard Stark.

04:54You know, they say sarcasm is a metric for potential.

04:57If that's true, you'll be a great man someday.

04:59The fundamental flaw in Howard's parenting logic is that he thinks it's enough to inspire, educate,

05:05and provide for his son from a distance.

05:08He doesn't understand that Tony needs his personal warmth and presence most of all.

05:12He was cold.

05:13He was calculating.

05:14He never told me he loved me.

05:15He never even told me he liked me.

05:16When Tony watches this video of his father in Iron Man 2, we see Howard rebuff his young son.

05:23Put it back where you got it from.

05:25Where's your mother?

05:27Maria!

05:28Go on, go, go.

05:29Even as he goes on to leave a loving message for future Tony.

05:33My greatest creation is you.

05:37In this scene when Thanos puts his huge hand on Tony's head, it feels like a paternal gesture.

05:42You have my respects, Stark.

05:44But evoking a perversion of fatherly love, because here he's trying to kill Tony.

05:49So this moment captures how Thanos is a grotesque embodiment of all the daddy issues that pervade the MCU.

05:56I understand my child.

05:59He's the dark father figure of the whole universe.

06:02You have become children of Thanos.

06:05Like a Darth Vader or a Voldemort, who goes against the natural order by attempting to kill the next generation.

06:11In fact, Russo has said that was their intention to make Thanos a quote,

06:15Darth Vader for a new generation.

06:18This frame of Tony taking on an impossibly daunting foe also evokes a human going up against a god.

06:24And the prominent fire imagery reflects that Thanos is a brutal Old Testament style god who inspires fear.

06:34Like Howard as a father, Thanos as a god engages in that same kind of well-intentioned,

06:40cold logic that overlooks the person in the equation.

06:43To bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life.

06:46The way that the MCU conflates the god and father figures in Thanos is fitting,

06:51not only because of the paternalistic god the father of the Judeo-Christian tradition,

06:55but also because we begin life viewing our parents as all-powerful.

07:00So for many of us, the relationship to a parent is a model or proxy for our idea of a god or creator.

07:08I want to be a great king, Baba. Just like you.

07:13And in fact, the MCU uses its father issues to get at a bigger existential question

07:18of how we relate to the universe at large.

07:21Through this twisted version of a god,

07:23the Avengers grapple with inheriting a world that's imperfect, unfeeling, and disappointing.

07:30He invades planets, he takes what he wants, he wipes out half the population.

07:34Moreover, we can't escape being shaped by our disappointing world.

07:38It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we've got.

07:40Even if the son rejects the flawed father, he'll inevitably take after him in some ways.

07:46This is the key to the future.

07:48Reframe the future!

07:49And to some degree, Tony repeats his father's mistakes, too,

07:53with his surrogate son, Peter Parker.

07:55That's not a hug, I'm just grabbing the door for you.

07:57We're not, we're not there yet.

07:59In Spider- Homecoming, Tony even sends an empty Iron Man suit to rescue Peter.

08:04Mr. Stark, you didn't have to come all the way out here.

08:06I had that, I was fine.

08:08Oh, I'm not here.

08:11Thank God this place has Wi-Fi or you would be toast right now.

08:15Mirroring that scene in Iron Man 3 when he sends one of his suits to greet Pepper.

08:20This is a new level of lame.

08:23So these scenes symbolize that, like his dad, Tony doesn't always get the importance of being

08:28there, in the flesh, for the people you love.

08:31His reflex is to hide behind his technology.

08:34My armor?

08:35It was never a distraction or a hobby.

08:38It was a cocoon.

08:40And that's what he does in this scene with Thanos.

08:43But his tech is inadequate and can't protect him.

08:52At the end, his suit is all burnt up in ruins.

08:55And this might make us think of his conversation with Peter in Homecoming.

08:58I'm nothing without this suit.

09:00If you're nothing without this suit, then you shouldn't have it.

09:03Okay?

09:04You gotta sound like my dad.

09:06This scene's ultimate impact is that, like Infinity War as a whole, it ends the wrong

09:11way.

09:13Tony loses the fight.

09:16After this, Doctor Strange gives up the Time Stone to save Tony.

09:20There was no other way.

09:22So what makes Tony so important in this fight, even though he looks glaringly outmatched here

09:28and may not be the strongest Avenger in objective terms?

09:31You know me?

09:32I do.

09:33Thanos' knowledge of Tony reveals that he believes this person could present a real

09:38problem for him.

09:39He doesn't spend a lot of energy intentionally trying to murder people, unless they're in

09:44some way a threat to his agenda.

09:46But almost no one ends up being a threat to the agenda except for Tony.

09:50In Infinity War, each Avenger tests their strength against Thanos, and it's not enough.

09:55A strength where everything than Thanos would be unbeatable.

09:58But Tony epitomizes what makes Marvel great.

10:01His superhero persona is just a suit he made himself.

10:05One thing you can't take away?

10:07I am Iron Man.

10:09The real source of his power is that person underneath the suit, who has the plucky,

10:14versatile, cunning ingenuity that David used to outwit the giant.

10:19It's that unique brain with the creative insight to find the way around the problem.

10:24You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play?

10:26To lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you?

10:29I think I would just cut the wire.

10:30While Tony is conspicuously human here, Thanos is not truly the god that he pretends to be.

10:36Notice this line near the end of the scene.

10:38All that for a drop of blood.

10:40These words seem to tell us that the Avengers' efforts are futile,

10:44but they call on something that Ivan Vanko says in Iron Man 2.

10:48If you can make God bleed, then people will cease to believe in him.

10:53So this drop of blood actually proves that Thanos can be beaten.

10:58You will never be a god.

11:05After all, Thanos, with his Infinity Gauntlet, is hiding behind a kind of technology too.

11:10It takes a mind like Tony's that won't just go up against strength with more obvious strength

11:15to find that way around.

11:18Tony begins Infinity War dreaming about new life.

11:21Last night, I dreamt. We had a kid. So real.

11:26And it's significant that these two futurists envision tomorrow very differently.

11:31Thanos sees the future as weak, needing to be controlled and determined by him.

11:35But the key to parenthood and engendering a positive future is respecting new life

11:40and letting it determine itself.

11:42In other words, listening to the actual kid in front of you.

11:46Nice work in DC.

11:47Okay.

11:48My dad never really gave me a lot of support,

11:51and I'm just trying to break the cycle of shame.

11:53I'm kind of in the middle of something right now.

11:54Don't cut me off when I'm complimenting you.

11:56While he might take a little time to get there,

11:58we see Tony eventually giving Peter this validation and trust.

12:02You're an Avenger now.

12:04And with him, we have to hope and trust that his descendants in the MCU

12:08will carry on his best qualities.

12:10I'm just trying to protect us.

12:12The future us is, and that's it.

12:14Because if there's anything Iron Man has taught us over the last decade,

12:17it's that we humans have a lot more superpower within us than we know.

12:22Humans, they are not the cowering wretches we were promised.

12:30Hi, guys. It's Susannah.

12:31And Deborah.

12:32And we are The Take.

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