Every Nickname Iron Man Gave Other MCU Characters Explained

While Tony Stark may be best known for being a billionaire playboy philanthropist genius and well, you know, Iron Man, he is known for many

other

things as well as his sarcastic jokes that always make the crowd laugh, the best of which is It has to be the

nickname

s. he has given almost

every

character in the mcu tony stark has given him over 50

nickname

s over the years and they aren't always pleasant. Each avenger has a nickname. People you've only met once have a nickname and they'd probably give you a nickname. If I could, let's get into all of them, the first Iron Man movie is the one that started the whole MCU madness and introduced us to two best friends who would be an integral part of the story in the future, Tony Stark and James Rhodey.

Rhodes, Rudy was practically Tony Stark's babysitter because back then he really liked being a playboy, plus he had to keep his friend in good shape while they worked together on the Jericho missile launch in Afghanistan, as expected of this guy relationship, Rhodey would do it sometimes. He loses his mind with Tony when his antics became too much for him, but like any good friend, Mr. Stark knew exactly how to smooth things over with his best friend, so of course Tony called Roadie a bunch of nicknames. funny like honey bear platypus and bitter patch. He knows the kind of neck names that could calm anyone down after Tony Stark decided to tell the entire world that he was indeed Iron Man.

It was Nick Fury who sought him out as the perfect candidate to join the Avengers initiative, but as We all know, Tony passed. most of

iron

man 2 turned down the offer because he was too busy trying to stay alive yes the threat of palladium poisoning and shrapnel piercing your heart is no joke during one of tony and fury's many conversations they flatly refused to join the avengers initiative and called her a super secret boy band because it was under the radar and made up of many different superheroes, not because they were going to be the next sync, now that boy band would also end up including a woman in black widow, but let's cut Tony some slack. because she had no way of knowing that Natasha Romanov was introduced in Iron Man 2 beforehand when Nick Fury sent her to take care of Tony Stark because they feared for her life that her shrapnel was causing Tony great distress.

Natasha adopted Natalie's disguise. Rushman and became Tony's assistant, they had some flirtatious exchanges, but it was clear that Tony knew something was up from the jump, it was still nice of Natasha to promote Pepper Potts to CEO of Stark Industries even though she he did because he feared the worst for Tony, that being said, it was a decision that would end up paying dividends when Stark decided to be more of a superhero than a businessman. Fury eventually admits that he planted Black Widow to be her assistant, leading Tony to call her a triple imposter due to her deceptive abilities as a super spy.

Loki is one of the most beloved

characters

in the MCU and for good reason he is known as the god of mischief because, well, bad things happen whenever he is around. Iron Man's first encounter with Loki was when the villain attacked Germany in The Avengers, Loki was wearing his iconic helmet and Tony wasted no time giving him the nickname Reindeer Games, while a Ben Affleck movie was released in 2000. called Reindeer Games. I feel like this is more of a reference to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer later on. transports loki to the quinjet when tony took an

other

swipe at the god's appearance instead of making fun of his attire, mr stark decided to test his long black hair by calling it all-time rock, in reference to the broadway musical set in the 80. with

characters

with similar hairstyles, tony stark and captain america have always had an up and down relationship from the moment they had their first proper conversation in the avengers, it was fun and interesting to tell me that steve rogers was frozen in ice for decades. so Tony just couldn't resist referring to Steve's time frozen and frozen as if it were a capsule, a Pultman 2 of the word popsicle and Captain America's nickname.

Tony Stark later made another joke at Steve's expense about how our favorite super soldier wasn't even remotely up to date on the modern world, Steve Rogers was literally a man out of time, leading Tony to call him "old man" and " older companion", which are correct statements considering the fact that Cap was born in 1918, making him 94. in the avengers when thor hijacked the quinjet and the avengers, this led to a battle between

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man and The God of Thunder in the forest after seeing Thor's cape and hearing his vocabulary, Tony called him Shakespeare in the park later, Tony playfully calls Thor Point Break a reference to Bodhi from the 1991 film where Patrick's character swayze has a similar hairstyle, this nickname actually stuck with Thor until Ragnarok, then the Avengers endgame time jump happened and let's just say he wasn't very kind to Thor, he was severely depressed which led to him earning more weighing a few pounds, the avengers allowed him to understand that what he was going through was difficult, but at one point Tony called him a lebowski because of his striking similarities to the guy from the 1998 coen brothers movie, the big lebowski. never change tony never change unfortunately clint barton spent most of the avengers under loki's control, it took him a while but he eventually recovered and joined earth's mightiest heroes in the battle against the god of mischief and his chittari army during the battle of new york.

Captain America was the one who took charge and

gave

orders for each member of the Avengers to follow. It was Hawkeye's job to get to a high point, but since he's just a normal human with some very impressive archery skills, he needed help getting there. quickly to higher ground, so he asked Iron Man to take him right before Tony forced him. He called Clint Legolas a Lord of the Rings reference that works because both characters are renowned archers and skilled with a bow and arrow, but Clint probably wishes he had Legolas' hair, we all do. Tony Stark and Happy Hogan also had a very interesting relationship.

Jon Favreau not only directed the first two Iron Man films, but also plays Happy in the MCU, who is Tony's best friend, bodyguard and head of security for Stark Industries after being promoted in Iron Man 3. when aldrich killian He tries to lure Pepper Potts into his master plan, Happy noticed something was wrong with the boy from the beginning, just like all of us, being the good friend, he is happy and decided to call Tony and tell him what was going on, but This wasn't just any phone call, it was a video call. Now Happy isn't the most tech-savvy guy, so he had some trouble getting his entire face into frame, leading Tony to call him a security front, since that's all he could do.

I could see a man as brilliant as him, Tony Stark has made many mistakes throughout his time in the MCU, but the biggest and probably the baddest would have to be Ultron, naturally, in Avengers Age of Ultron, Intelligence artificial intelligence would end up turning against his creator and wanted iron man's head on a spike when ai pietro and wanda maximoff were busy getting some vibranium they were surprised by the avengers ultron he just couldn't believe our heroes were sabotaging his plans but things got worse once tony called him junior why did he take this? Outside of the angry robot, well, that's because it's a reference to AI's personality, which was like Tony's, but more evil and corrupt.

Also, if you think about it, Iron Man technically created Ultron, calling him junior could be pointing out that she was like his son. One of the most powerful characters in the MCU is Wanda Maximoff even though he has yet to show his true potential on the big screen using the ability to manipulate the minds of his enemies. Wanda

gave

all the Avengers some disturbing visions in the Age of Avengers. ultron that each hero took it differently bruce banner was the one who took it the worst when he unleashed hulk's wrath on the city of johannesburg south africa if it weren't for tony's contingency plan in the form of hulkbuster armor to counterattack against the hulk would have destroyed the entire that city during the duel between Tony and Hulk.

Mr. Stark referred to Wanda as a little witch who was just playing with him considering that in the comics she is known as the Scarlet Witch. This nickname was perfect for Tony Stark. and peter parker probably had the most unique relationship in the mcu, they first met in captain america's civil war where tony recruited the young man for the iron man team from there the relationship blossomed to the point where tony He was a father figure and mentor to Peter, but first. Spider-Man could join the Iron Man team Tony sat down to try to get to know the young man and what he is.

Peter let her know about his spider powers and even showed her his homemade suit. This made it clear to Tony that she was a superhero. The name would have something to do with spiders, so he comes up with Spiderling Crime Fighting Spider and Spider Boy, which are big names in their own right when Spider-Man makes his long-awaited MCU debut during that airport battle. Tony calls him Underoos referring. In addition to his pajama suit, Captain America Civil War also introduced Tony Stark to Bucky Barnes, the guy who was brainwashed by Hydra and managed to eliminate her parents.

When Tony found out that Bucky had been framed, he followed Steve and Bucky to the Hydra facility to Siberia, which is a great place to hide, if I'm honest, I'm not sure of Tony's intentions. Bucky and Steve were ready to fight him until the two Avengers came to an agreement. The thing is, while Steve was comfortable letting his guard down, Bucky wasn't. t and kept his gun pointed at tony this was the breaking point for iron man who only had to crack a joke he asked bucky to stand down calling him a manchurian candidate a reference to richard condon's novel about the american government brainwashing the citizens to turn them into murderers, which is almost exactly what happened to bucky ebony ma is one of the most interesting characters in the mcu and by interesting i mean disgusting, an honorable member of the black order, lives to serve thanos, which means he gets into the Avengers business in Avengers Infinity War when he arrives in New York with his friend Call Obsidian in search of the Time Stone and Doctor Strange's Aya Bagamoto, they meet Iron Man Strange Wong and Bruce Banner , which inevitably turns into a confrontation between the villains and us. heroes, but before the fight even started, Tony decided to make fun of Moz, I should say, unique facial features that gave him the nickname Squidward, sure he may not sound like Squidward, but he definitely looks like the beloved SpongeBob character , Ebony Ma, is not attractive, that's for Sure, during the Avengers Infinity Wars meeting in New York between the members of the Black Order and our heroes, Tony Stark asked Bruce Banner to become the Hulk, but the cheerful green giant just wasn't interested in joining the party, no matter how many times Bruce tried to leave him. the rage monster let loose it wasn't happening yeah we've all been there anyway this disappointed Tony told his fellow avenger that he was embarrassing him in front of the wizards referring to Strange and Wong and then in The Avengers end the game when Tony and Nebula came home thanks to Captain Marvel.

Tony was still dealing with

every

thing as he talked to Cap about what had happened on Titan. Tony referred to Doctor Strange, the man who saved his life, as the shadiest street magician. The nickname, of course, is a reference to the street where the sanctum sanctorum can be found, on which Strange's residence is also located. Drax is a fan favorite in the MCU because he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, which always gets a lot of laughs. Nothing beats that moment in Guardians of the Galaxy where Drax thought that. by standing perfectly still you could turn invisible, yeah we can still see you buddy anyway after knowledge of Thanos' imminent arrival motivated Tony Stark to take flight to Titan rather than wait for things on earth In Avengers Infinity War, we saw Iron Man meet some members. of the guardians of the galaxy, including our gray boy, Drax, now Drax is not the kind of guy I would like to insult as he could probably send me to the moon with one punch, but nothing can scare Tony Stark and prevent to make a Joke that he called Drax Mr Clean due to the character's resemblance to Proctor and Gamble Brand's pet when Iron Man arrived on Titan in Avengers Infinity War with Spider-Man Doctor Strange and the Guardians of the Galaxy realized that everyone They were willing to get it.

The man Thanos himself, but this ended up as a classic case of having too many cooks in the kitchen because during his lifetimethey just couldn't find the right plan of attack, in particular it was Star-Lord and Tony Stark who clashed. heads and couldn't come to an agreement, we all know how stubborn those two can be, the rest of the team stood by as they watched them argue, but finally Tony had enough and just couldn't get through to Peter Quill, so he told Peter Quill. His Peter Peter Parker himself must not listen to Flash Gordon referring to Quill's space adventures, which are quite similar to the titular characters from the 1980 film.

Nebula's character development in the MCU has been incredible. He started out as a pure villain, but throughout the films. we've seen her transform into a good person, a hero you could say at the beginning of the end of the Avengers, Tony Stark recorded what he thought would be his final message to his beloved pepper pots when he was trapped in space floating aimlessly in the Benatar in this message

explained

why he went to Titan and even clarified his current situation by mentioning that he only survived the injury he received fighting Thanos thanks to the blue villain.

No, that's not a good way to refer to someone who saved your life, but Nebula is. Definitely blue and it can also be very, very bad, so you're right. Interestingly, the blue bad guys were the villains of the 1968 Beatles movie Yellow Submarine at some point during the endgame Tony asked about Thor the God of Thunder was very quiet in the scene but you know who wasn't Rocket's favorite trash panda everyone surprised by Rocket's ability to speak English like a raccoon Iron Man couldn't help but say that until this moment he thought that the member of the Guardians of the Galaxy was a bear constructed in reference to the fact that the rocket looked like a stuffed animal, although it has reason because the rocket is as cute as any construction. bear that you can find after the five year time jump, the team met again for the time heist where the rocket's mechanical skills were much needed.

Tony is the technological genius. He wanted to check on the raccoon to see how he was doing and called him. ratchet a reference to the video game ratchet and clank which features a humanoid creature with a rocket-like spaceship tony stark has always had an affinity for bruce banner as someone who speaks the same language as him science this is a language i have yet to learn master and probably never will, but he finds a way to bring these two Avengers together, which is just beautiful with the team finally ready to take on the time heist after Captain America's touching speech in the Avengers finale, Smart Hulk or the Professor Hulk or Super Jacked In.

The clever green guy, whatever you want to call him, was tasked with turning on the big version of the quantum tunnel that would transport them to the correct time periods. Tony was the one who gave Banner the go-ahead to start the machine by calling it jelly. Green, yeah, considering the fact that Hulk is known for being nasty and Green Tony is a little sassy here, it's just good banter between two friends. Tony Stark and Scott Lang haven't always been on the same side of a fight that dates back to Captain America. civil war when they were on different teams, although they may not have known each other very long in the mcu, they spent a good amount of time together in the Avengers endgame where they finally got to play for the same side as They formed a team during that time. heist to get the test act holding the space stone, surprisingly they worked quite well together and came up with a plan to achieve their goal quietly, of course if you work with Tony you will get a nickname and Ant-Man was privileged to have not one but two of them, Thumbelina and Stuart Little, both in reference to their ability to shrink, but neither of them are really that flattering.

What was your favorite nickname? Which one do you think Tony Stark would put? Let us know in the comments section below and don't forget to subscribe to cbr for more mcu content as always, thanks so much for watching.