BELOW: Captain America and Iron Man exchange banter, with Cap calling Stark a "libertine"; Captain America is unimpressed by Tony's penchant for alcohol:
"And where can a guy get a drink around here?" Tony added.
"Can't help you there," the tech said.
"Barbarians," Tony said. "Steve, I'm surrounded by barbarians. Including you."
"Sometimes it's tough being a libertine," Steve said.
"Tony's eyebrows shot up. "A joke from Captain Flag, so close to our final confrontation with the alien menace? A joke including the word libertine? Good Lord. I'm starting to think I'm having an influence on you."
Steve ignored this, not even wanting to contemplate the question of how he might influence Tony, and how any possible channel of influence might run both ways. "Instead of a drink, you ought to have something to eat..."
Source: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies (2007), pg. 291. Written by Alex Irvine. See also: libertine; alcoholism; Hedonist; Captain America (Steve Rogers); Iron Man (Tony Stark)
BELOW: In a bit of self-effacing reflection, Tony Stark thinks about his own lack of "moral fiber or ethical beliefs":
He pivoted in midair, reaching down. Thor would save himself, and Clint was a soldier . . . but he had to save Steve [Captain America]. Too many people needed Steve, and Tony Stark might have been a vain, alcoholic, dying playboy with no evident moral fiber or ethical beliefs, but he would have given his life in that moment to save Steve Rogers.
Source: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies (2007), pg. 331. Written by Alex Irvine. See also: belief; alcoholism; sacrifice; amoral; ethical; Non-Religious; Captain America (Steve Rogers); Iron Man (Tony Stark)
BELOW: Captain America considers Iron Man an "amoral boozehound":
A guy like that, Steve thought, everything done for him, everyone else bends over backward for him, and what is he? An amoral boozehound with a brain tumor. That's not the kind of person we need running things around here.
Source: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies (2007), pg. 115. Written by Alex Irvine. See also: alcoholism; amoral; Captain America (Steve Rogers); Iron Man (Tony Stark)
BELOW: Nick Fury knows that many important people in Washington, D.C. think of Tony Stark as an "alcoholic libertine":
Some of the agency types he was going to meet today were gung-ho about Tony's gizmo; some weren't; some were just professing outrage that an alcoholic libertine like Tony Stark had gotten hold of Chitauri tissue.
Source: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies (2007), pg. 16. Written by Alex Irvine. See also: libertine; alcoholism; Hedonist; Iron Man (Tony Stark)
BELOW: Homeland Security official Vince Altobelli refers to Tony Stark as a "dipsomaniac" (someone who drinks alcohol to excess):
Altobelli kept right on talking. "What I want to get on with is the question of how in the hell did Stark Industries, which is run by a for-Chrissake dipsomaniac playboy, get hold of Chitauri tissue?..."
Source: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies (2007), pg. 19-20. Written by Alex Irvine. See also: alcoholism; Iron Man (Tony Stark)