Tony Stark, Marvel’s resident Elon Musk-like leader of the Avengers, is in a bit of a tricky situation. As we learned at the start of Avengers: Endgame’s trailer, Stark and Nebula are stranded in space, and oxygen is running out.
Twitter users panicked about Iron Man’s safety, begging NASA to help save Iron Man.
Hey @NASA there’s a ship stuck in space, the “Benatar” it’s occupying two heroes who we need to defeat the Titan “Thanos”. Their names are “Tony Stark” also known as “Iron Man”, and “Nebula”, we’d be grateful if you used your vast resources to rescue them because
— daoud (@frickin9heck) December 9, 2018
Me, knocking on NASA’s front door and asking if I could borrow a ship to go save Tony Stark pic.twitter.com/TaMr18sspw
— Chloe (@ClevaChloe) December 7, 2018
ppl be mentioning nasa to save tony stark omg pic.twitter.com/ovJiPP8bod
— jey (@samanthalison) December 9, 2018
Now, NASA is on the case.
On Sunday, NASA tweeted Marvel and said it “heard about Tony Stark.” The Amerian aerospace administration stressed that Marvel should listen for “Avengers, we have a problem” from mission control. Failing that, NASA recommends “ground teams use all resources to scan the skies for your missing man.” That includes you, Bruce Banner.
Hey @Marvel, we heard about Tony Stark. As we know, the first thing you should do is listen in mission control for “@Avengers, we have a problem.” But if he can’t communicate, then we recommend ground teams use all resources to scan the skies for your missing man pic.twitter.com/zavXrsPljq
— NASA (@NASA) December 9, 2018
Twitter was grateful for the help.
https://twitter.com/starknotreally/status/1071896946489475072
https://twitter.com/jarumchentul/status/1071914473592475648
https://twitter.com/ArveFury/status/1071883878783172608
https://twitter.com/WolverSteve/status/1071845152002633729
https://twitter.com/Toeymarz/status/1071952943128174592
At the very least, it seems Thor is on the case. The photo is littered with cute Easter eggs, too, including a purple dragon that would perfectly help find Stark.
https://twitter.com/Arkesh_143/status/1071987511113609216
Use that dragon to find Tony stank pic.twitter.com/fAEMKrj1Zq
— Newborn_Astronomers (@New_Astronomers) December 10, 2018
MvC 5 confirmed pic.twitter.com/m6QrdXEBmd
— ً (@Mordexai0) December 10, 2018
Hopefully, no one is distracted playing Galaga.
that man is playing galaga..thought we wouldn’t notice..but we did. pic.twitter.com/nltR208UEm
— shevs (@shevsss_) December 9, 2018
#missioncontrol #nasa #capcom pic.twitter.com/UHb7floNhk
— SpT 🍷♍️💙🤓 (@Semere_T) December 9, 2018
Avengers: Endgame is set for April 26. Here’s hoping NASA is able to get Stark back home next year—and maybe replace Elon Musk with him.
