spinestalker:

brendaonao3:

knightinironarmor:

knightinironarmor:

it’s kind of hilarious how some people actually do think mcu tony would feel offended by the superiority of shuri’s intellect like?? first of all he immediately hit it off with bruce, who’s technically smarter than him in a bunch of areas according to some marvel fan ratings. he acknowledges steve as the chief battle strategy voice while in the field. he literally made pepper his boss. helen cho talked about her regeneration craddle to tony like “this is the future, your clunky metal suits will be left to dust” and tony was all “great! that is EXACTLY the plan” he’s out there funding university research and enabling the superhero dreams of teens he saw on YouTube and whose coding abilities actually already beat his own like what on earth made people start thinking tony “futurist” stark is intimidated by human progress

bruce: wait so you want me to help you do this thing

tony: no i want to help YOU do this thing! no one knows the thing better than you

people: tony stark!! hates all intellects!! that aren’t his!!

Fuck, Tony would be the FIRST person to make all the grabby hands at Shuri’s tech and beg her to tell him every single tiny thing about how she got it all to work.  That man is a genuine geeky fanboy when it comes to super smart people.

One if the most important traits of people with very high intelligence is knowing you aren’t always the smartest.

(via spinestalker)