The Tess Psychology

Growing up Tony Stark was a genius, and spent most of his adolescence trying to gain his father’s emotional love and support. His father was a world-famous inventor, creating the world’s first super-soldier serum, and Captain America. In an attempt to impress his father, and gain his emotional love and support, Tony builds his first engine at six, and graduates from MIT at the top of his class at the age of 17. Psychologists around the world have come to the conclusion that the level of support a parent gives to a child is directly related to the child’s mental health. The lack of emotional support from his father eventually leads to some of the psychological issues Tony struggles with in life. These issues include mistrust, an extreme sense
This movie sees Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Hulk, and Nick Fury work together to stop an alien invasion led by the Norse God ofMischief, Loki. In this movie several of Tony Stark’s psychological issues are brought to the surface, especially his mistrust and pessimism. When the Avengers are all brought onto the helicarrier, the first thing Tony does is plant a device to decrypt SHIELD’s files, however this doesn’t come up until later. What does immediately come up is that Tony has no trust in Nick Fury, or the other SHIELD agents. Not that Tony ends up being wrong in doing so, but he clearly does not trust the people in power. Tony has come to think that he is the only person he can trust, especially with the group of people currently around him. Tony is a pessimist, something is alway wrong, and his inability to trust boosts these ideas. He addresses these sentiments with Steve and Bruce, “ Why did Fury call us and why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables”. Steve asks, “You think Fury's hiding something?”, to which Tony retorts, “He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets” (timestamp) They continue to talk and Tony reveals that he planted the device into the others,“Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours we'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever
Tony and the Avengers face off against thousands of chitauri pouring through a wormhole in the sky. In order to contain this event, the directors of SHIELD decide to drop a nuclear bomb on New York City. Before the bomb hits, Natasha finds a way to close the portal, and tells the team. Tony realizes that if they close it, the chitauri will find a way to come back, and the nuclear bomb will destroy New York City. Instead Tony guides the nuclear warhead through the wormhole, telling Natasha to close it so that the warhead detonation stays in space. Tony tells her to shut it before he falls back through, fully expecting to die. Tony is ready to do die in order to save the world, showing off his maturity. Seconds before the portal closes, Tony’s lifeless body falls back through, and the Hulk catches him.Tony however lays lifeless until the Hulk’s roar presumably restarts his heart. Tony Stark, the mistrusting pessimistic narcissistic asshole was willing to die to save the world. The heroes live, the day is saved, everything is great, and the screen fades black. Except, it’s not. Tony experiences several traumatic events in his life, and the icing on the cake becomes the chitauri invasion, kickstarting his