and I love the idea of Tony doing something dumb and ending up out in the ass-end of space as the property of some aliens who like to capture other aliens and make them fight each other

which has happened at LEAST once in 616 because comics are trash garbage and great

anyway the makluan berserker fight in the imaa finale did not adequately slake my thirst for this dumb trope so, CONCEPT,

instead of Yogthulu deciding that impure souls give him indigestion, he's like "yea these are fine Doom, thx mate, here's your family back" and traps Gene and Howard and Tony in his realm for real

and in the process of having to fight their way out, they get dumped somewhere totally random in space

and tl;dr tony gets trapped on some gladiator planet for years while gene tries to qwop his way back across the universe to get the tenth ring and go find his boyfriend

mmmmaybe Howard is on earth the whole time because gene started to make a portal back while they were fighting yogthulu but only howard made it through before it collapsed?

ye

I'm laughing at Howard showing back up at SI like "hey everyone! not dead! my son's in space now tho" and roberta and team iron man are just like "caN we PLEASE get you BOTH IN THE SAME PLACE at thE SAME TIME FOR MORE THAN 30 SECONDS"

"is there some new cosmic rule that at least one of you always has to be mysteriously missing. STOP DISAPPEARING"

anyway I'm having fun

...I mean there could be that rule

Yessssss

And then I throw somebody at him and it would be fun

this sounds amazing

noneofyours eyy if you wanna somethin with that I'm game /finger guns/

i like that very much

i really want gladiator steve

XD

Gladiator Gene in this AU

Chatvert may i also offer a thorgnarok scenario for your consideration

where gene has been trying to Make Friends And Influence People because he doesn't have all the rings so he can't just cheatcode his way through the galaxy

and he stumbles upon the planet where tony's being held and he sees tony come out in the ring and he's like

turns to his latest alien pal slash uber ride like "hhhhhhey my buddy my man my bff. i uh. are those fighters, like. are they for sale, can i buy them. i need. that one. i need him to not die i would like to purchase or otherwise acquire him right away immediately please"

should have printed more pamphlets

/internally screaming/

lmfao

Yes. I like this

or they both get captured and have to fight each other and gene has to pretend to kill tony

but he doesn't tell him he's gonna do that so it looks more realistic
and tony wakes up STEAMING

"YOU ASSHOLE. YOU KILLED ME!!"
"it was fake and it got us free, quit whining"
"I FUCKIGN DIED"
"it was temporary stasis, stop being such a little bitch"

noneofyours oh man I'm having fun with these. ok ok, concept for steve: some post-Infinity War2 or other unspecified apocalyptic scenario where his tony is dead and steve got stuck in space and he's just like "well I'm fucking depressed and everyone I care about is dead so I guess this is just my life now, sure, whatever"

and he ends up in the gladiator rings and is all

and then he gets paired up with some other fighter and they're going at it and one of them about to finish the other off and the other guy's helmet comes off and OH SHIT it's multiverse-hitchhiker armored adventures tony

and steve is like "the fUCK???? who the fuck????" and tony's like "????? who the fuck is you, man?"

who else is having a good time I'm having a good time

yeet