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As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies)
10 Mar 2025
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“Your sole job as Director of SHIELD is to keep track of global threats and you’ve narrowed down the whereabouts of the mad god with mind-control Jedi tricks to the planet Earth,” Tony summarizes flatly. “What’s the plan? We wait till he blows up another super secret facility whose mysteriously undocumented existence doesn’t make me suspicious at all?”
“Germany!” Rogers blurts out, interrupting Tony’s epic stare-down with Fury.In which the surviving Post-Endgame Avengers find themselves back in 2012, trying to stop Loki from invading the Earth. Without tipping their not-in-the-know team members off. Things go— sideways.
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The Red Thread by PastaFossa
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Defenders (Marvel TV)
06 Mar 2025
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It's said that every soul is connected to another by a red thread, and that these two souls are destined to meet. The thread, though it may tangle or stretch, will never break. That's not your experience, lucky or unlucky enough as you are to see the strings that bind people together. A red thread is developed and grown, not born, and you've worked hard to weed out any semblance of crimson that might cling to you. You pay your bills, you keep your head down, and you find whatever lost people or items you're hired to sniff out.
Then the Devil of Hell's Kitchen tags along on a job, and your plan falls apart.
Starts prior to Into the Ring, and loosely follows the canon timeline. There is eventually smut, so enter at your peril. Reader is never physically described but uses a false name and may be treated as an OC.
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- Part 1 of The Devil and the Hound
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One In A Million by ArcticVulpix
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men - All Media Types
21 Jul 2024
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Being that one in a million isn't always a good thing.
Tony finds that out first hand when he hits the genetic lottery and everything changes.
Nothing will ever be the same. -
Surviving Category Four by wolfelements
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies)
13 May 2024
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Sentinel/Guide Alternate Universe
Tony Stark is a guide who hates sentinels. Bonding? No thank you. Simple friendship? You better go through a death defying situtation with him first. Trust? Never.
Enter Bucky Barnes. Killer of his parents. Tortured into doing that very thing. Warped sentinel who, because Tony can't help his nature to accept the request for help from Steve Rogers, is now in his medical ward.
His medical ward, suffering from category four level of sentinel zone outs.
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Let's Whump the Spider-Kid and Friends! by JinxQuickfoot
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), What If...? (TV 2021), WandaVision (TV)
05 May 2024
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Thanos is defeated, the world is saved, and all the Avengers are set to live happily ever after in their Tower. If only their team didn't include a danger magnet in the form of Peter Parker.
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31 days, 31 ways to hurt our favorite Spider-Kid, with bonus whumping of his super friends and excessive use of puns.
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So Many Things to Say by happyaspie
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
01 Aug 2023
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After six years of being in the foster care system, fourteen year old Peter Parker somehow managed to win an opportunity to meet his hero. The one and only Tony Stark.
“Not much of a talker is he,” Tony casually stated, making Peter stomach churn with unease. He had no idea where the man was going with his assessment and wasn’t really sure how to properly defend himself. Thankfully, he didn’t have to.“Peter has what they call selective mutism,” the social worker replied. “So, no. I suppose he’s not much of a talker.”
Tony leaned back in his chair and arched his eyebrow. “He doesn’t talk at all?”
“I’ve been his social worker for six years and I’ve never heard more than a peep out of him,” the social worker said, this time, turning towards Peter to offer him a reassuring smile.
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- Part 1 of Fostering Hope
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The rest of the Avengers are wary of Steve, suspicious that there’s a not-quite-ghost taking refuge in his apartment, despite the fact that none of them have ever stepped beyond the threshold.
Turns out there is a ghost there, but it’s not the one they’re thinking of.
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A series of interconnected one shots documenting the slow return to life of two would-be ghosts in a Brooklyn apartment. -
Is This Child Venomous? by rWolfWrites
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
19 Jan 2023
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The Spider didn't want a new Handler, but the Spider did not get a say. The Soldier had a new mission and the Spider wasn't allowed, even though the Spider was Ready Status: Optimal. The Handler had new conditions, and the Spider did not like them.
~Alternatively~
When Steve saw Bucky hiding in the shadows of his hallway, he really wasn't expecting to be attacked by a small child.
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- Part 1 of Stucky Shares Custody of Peter Parker
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Sharpen Your Teeth by STARSdidathing
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
06 Dec 2022
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A betrayed Tony Stark leaves the Avengers. He's angry and bitter but he's not about to stop being a hero. The problem is that not everyone is happy with his decision.
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'Til the Fight is Done by JinxQuickfoot for Fluencca
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
26 Nov 2022
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Tony’s eyes flew open. He’d imagined it. His cold, pain-ridden brain had conjured his voice up. Why he didn’t know, he’d only just met the kid, but—
“Mr. Stark? Are you awake?”
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When Tony wakes up in chains after the fight in Siberia, he finds that even though Steve and Bucky are gone, he's not alone in the HYDRA base.Series
- Part 1 of Whumptoberverse
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The realization dawned on him, irritating as fuck. “You’re not here,” Bucky said, stabbing a finger at Steve. “Fuck you, you’re not real.”
Steve tilted his head and gave him a truculent one-eyed stare. “Well, maybe not. So what?”
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The seventh escape by Bergen
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jun 2022
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Tony and Pepper snatched Peter up only a few weeks after the first Spider-Man video went viral. Real fucking coincidence, right? Suddenly, Tony Stark rocked right up at his group home, strewing business cards around like he was Oprah. If Oprah were an ugly white dude with a goatee.
“Big fan,” he told Peter, fasting forward through a video of Spider-Man catching a bus before it crashed through a road block. “In and out of foster care your whole life, am I right? I believe my wife and I could provide a very fitting home for you.”
“Pass,” Peter said.Series
- Part 1 of The seventh escape
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Spider Snark and Mr Stark by lethewren
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
21 May 2022
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Spider-Man can take care of himself, he sure as hell doesn't need some holier-than-thou superheroes trying to 'help'.
He's saving lives; so what if Peter Parker is falling apart in the process?
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The one where Peter is homeless, struggling, and maybe needs a little more help than he lets on. Luckily for us, there's a found family of overachieving superheroes oh so eager to help out and bring some joy into his life.
Well. Eventually, at least.
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- Part 1 of To come in from the cold
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the heart that bleeds for the unworthy by thesecretdetectivecollection
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV)
07 May 2022
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Matt doesn't have the heart to just leave him there in a graveyard, unable to stop reliving the death of his family. So he heaves Frank Castle over his shoulder and carries him across Hell's Kitchen, pausing for respite now and again.
His place is too far to go directly, so he leaves Frank outside the church before he breaks into St. Agnes to steal the first aid kit.
Over the course of the night, he repays the gift Frank gave him by telling him the story, by recklessly oversharing with a mass murderer.
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- Part 1 of the bleeding hearts
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The Webs We Weave by apscribbles
Fandoms: Marvel, Spider-Man - Fandom, Deadpool - Fandom, Avengers, Black Cat (Comics)
24 Apr 2022
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Eight years ago Tony Stark tracked down Peter Parker to come to Germany.
Eight years, a fight with The Avengers and a personal battle with a man that went by Vulture passed.
Peter Parker had put a lot of thought into his decision and left Tony Stark behind. Who wanted to be involved with someone who blackmailed him into a battle he was unprepared for and then wanted to control every task he got involved with.
A collapsed building would never leave Peter's mind.
Eight years and Tony hasn't given up the pursuit to reunite with him.
Peter has no interest is reconnecting.
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- Part 1 of Webs
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Waking the Tiger by DCAngst
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Daredevil (TV)
09 Apr 2022
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Bucky Barnes is re-traumatized by therapy and the past as he works the amends list. He embarks on a one-man mission--avenging the most vulnerable of victims and balancing the blood in his ledger. But is it a suicide mission? Sam thinks so and tries to pick up the trail of the former Winter Soldier.
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If They Knew All About You by MsHermia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
20 Mar 2022
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Tony Stark had lost his son when he was only 2 years old, stolen away in broad daylight with nobody the wiser of what exactly happened. Years later, Tony has just made it through the disaster with Ultron. He is trying to keep himself and the team together but relationships are strained and tempers are running high.
Then a random turn of events leads to his path crossing with that of a particular vigilante. They are strangers to each other, or so they think.Peter Parker is on top of the world. After a few shitty years, losing his parents and then losing his Uncle, things are finally looking up. Sure he lives in a crappy little apartment with his Aunt but he might have just found his mission in life.
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This is an AU story obvious by some of the tags. I'm starting out a few weeks after Age of Ultron took place. Civil War will be a thing.
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bound by a promise to the moon by graveltotempo
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Jan 2022
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In 1990, Carol Danvers, James Rhodes, Stephen Strange, Tony Stark and Hope Van Dyne get drunk and make a blood oath.
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- Part 6 of you WILL be sorry
- Part 1 of bound by the moon
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“Specialist Clint Barton.” Peggy supplied while the two privates left the tent. “His unit was just lost. Barton was their sniper so he was at a safe enough distance to....not get hit with any blast. He made it through a lot of enemy territory to get to us.” She was hard to impress but here she was, impressed to spite herself. Steve could hear it in her voice and see it on her face. He didn’t think the kid understood what that meant.
“Kid -” he started.
“None of us are kids anymore, Cap. And I’m not your son either so please don’t call me that. I’m not anyone’s son.” He had a faraway look in his eyes when he said it but then he met Steve’s eyes and gave him an assessing glance from head to toe and followed it up with a smirk, “besides, you can’t be more’n a few years older than me - definitely not old enough for me to call you Daddy.” Then he fluttered his eyelashes in mock innocence.
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- Part 1 of A Bird By Any Other Name
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requirements by graveltotempo
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
21 Jan 2022
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The mating requirement is passed within two months of the Rogues returning.
Tony is not very surprised.
Nor is he unprepared.
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- Part 5 of you WILL be sorry
- Part 1 of the mating requirement