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Been catching up on the MCU in preparation for Endgame (yes, I’m very late, please don’t spoil me). Noticed a really obvious sex joke in The Avengers: Tony inserts a nuclear missile into a hole in the sky, missile blows up, the day is won.

I’m not sure whether this is just a funny sex joke or whether it actually means something. Regardless, here are some other potentially important facts:

• Stark Tower, the new phallic monument to Tony’s ego, is also pointed directly at the hole. Tony flies up the length of the tower before continuing on to his climactic victory.
• Before this happens, Jarvis is like “Hey, should we call your girlfriend?” and Tony is like “Oh yeah, good idea,” but she doesn’t pick up.
• The Tesseract, which opens up the hole, is once called “she.”
• Iron Man 3 comes next. In this movie, Tony experiences panic attacks related to his victory with the missile. He also befriends a child.

Possibly symbolic of some sort of sexual violence from Tony to Pepper? On account of the whole “Check in with your girlfriend first, but if she doesn’t say anything, just go for it” sequence? Maybe. Time will tell.