If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
I think part of it is in response to the #metoo movement where women are a lot more self-conscious or guarded around men who constantly flirt with or hit on them or other women, and add in Tony's big ego and it makes him an easy target, even if anyone who really knows him would realize that he truly and deeply cares and respects women.
Yeah, their interaction in this series was so out-of-sorts with how they were characterized outside of it.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Given some of the huge fights Rhodey and Tony have had over the years, and how pissed off Rhodey has been with Tony at times, I don't think that would be a deal breaker. There were times Rhodey wanted to punch Tony into a coma himself.
They were also already a couple before Civil War II. Actually, the Carol/Rhodey relationship is a factor in why the Tony-vs-Carol arguments in that story got so personal. Both of them were grieving for Rhodey--and both of them partly blamed the other for his death at the start of that event.
As for what Carol and Rhodey see in each other, its actually their mutual friendship with Tony that would have brought them together in the first place. With both of them being pilots and both of them having military background, they have enough common ground that they eventually got together...although most of the development of that relationship happened off-panel. I am glad that Kelly Thompson is actually giving the Carol/Rhodey relationship some proper panel time in the current run.
The reason T & C are close friends who also butt heads every two seconds like newborn kittens since Busiek's Iron Man is because writers have turned them into foils with friction-driving similarities.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
They only even fought in Civil War II because Hydra Cap manipulated them both when they were emotionally vulnerable post-Rhodey. I'd be more upset at him than a friend if I were them.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Yes, from Secret Empire.
Of course, the person Carol is talking to is in a coma. She’s never said this out loud to anyone else.
And bizarrely, even her admission includes a jab at Tony. The words “Tony was right and I should have listened to him” don’t seem possible for her.
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor