Carol often gets coded as masculine, almost as often as Tony gets coded as feminine
Some day, I will actually sit down and write a piece of meta on gender coding in Iron Man and Ms. Marvel, because the two of them do tend to be given the opposite gender's coding more than is usual. I suspect it's one reason why Tony seems to be the designated uke (okay, bottom/sub, he doesn't blush or weep enough to be an uke) in Steve/Tony fandom -- people pick up on that, whether they realize it or not, and Steve, converse, gets very much coded as the classic Male Heroic Guy.
Carol&Tony is a lot like Rhodey&Tony.
When I try to ship them in my head, both of those pairings sort of crash and burn for some of the same reasons, too, but they would both be gloriously hot trainwrecks-in-the-making while they lasted. And therefore I'm glad canon has never gone there for Tony and Carol, because they've both had enough romantic trainwrecks already.
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Some day, I will actually sit down and write a piece of meta on gender coding in Iron Man and Ms. Marvel, because the two of them do tend to be given the opposite gender's coding more than is usual. I suspect it's one reason why Tony seems to be the designated uke (okay, bottom/sub, he doesn't blush or weep enough to be an uke) in Steve/Tony fandom -- people pick up on that, whether they realize it or not, and Steve, converse, gets very much coded as the classic Male Heroic Guy.
Carol&Tony is a lot like Rhodey&Tony.
When I try to ship them in my head, both of those pairings sort of crash and burn for some of the same reasons, too, but they would both be gloriously hot trainwrecks-in-the-making while they lasted. And therefore I'm glad canon has never gone there for Tony and Carol, because they've both had enough romantic trainwrecks already.