Why does Tony Stark say this sentence about foul language?
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man shoots at the fort and hits an energy shield, ending up saying
Shit!
and Captain America warns him with
Language!
A couple of minutes later, Iron Man says:
Wait a second. No-one else is gonna deal with the fact that Cap just said "Language"?
Why does he do that? Am I missing something? As far I can hear, nobody swears.
Best Answer
It's Tony having a little fun at Cap's expense. Captain America is from a much earlier period where swearing was less socially acceptable than it is today, and by reflex he tells Tony off.
He's still getting used to the social norms of the 21st century.
Tony's mocking him for being so outdated, which is a bit of a theme with the two of them - he refers to Steve as a "Cap-sicle" in the first Avengers movie, which is to do with Steve being frozen like a popsicle ice lolly, while asking about Pilates and telling him he might have missed a few things.
Tony's also asking if nobody else is essentially going to call out/mock Cap on his somewhat old time values.
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What Marvel movie has the most cuss words?
Ultimately, we learn that the Phase 1 film with the most swear words is Iron Man 2 at 14 while the movie from the first wave with the least amount of swear words surprisingly not The First Avenger but rather the original Thor at two; the first Captain America film has seven.Is there swear words in Avengers?
No explicit scenes or anything to skip over. There is a bit of swearing but nothing too bad.Avengers - Bad Language Scenes
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Why does he do that? Am I missing something? As far I can hear, nobody swears
To answer your question directly; "shit" is considered to be "swearing" or a "swear word". It can still fall into that category in today's society, but its generally not seen as extreme as it was back in Steve Rodger's days. It was definitively a swear word as recently as the 90's, so Rodgers isn't that far off anyhow.
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