Cannot believe the way Clint was demonstrated to be one of the most intelligent characters and then they just brushed it off for the rest of his run until Hawkeye. But?? A room full of scientists and Clint fucking Barton is the guy who recognises that a door can be tampered with from the other end, even when it’s actually a cube from space.
And it’s such a practical take, too. These people are all running around thinking these fantastical thoughts and Clint, who grew up in an environment where being practical meant survival, looks at the Tesseract and thinks “it’s a door. There’s clearly another side.”
This is what it’s like being a tech writer around engineers.
Like, the assumption is that engineers have a HARD job with MATH and THINKING
But you need someone with common sense to go, “I don’t care if you tell me you’re GONNA do that, where is the released and controlled drawing that fucking proves it, TODD*”
And then, people go, “The engineers say you haven’t released the instructions they sent you three weeks ago! Why haven’t you done that?”
And you go: “Because I said I needed a controlled drawing.”
“Look, that’s how we’re gonna do it. Just go with it.”
“I literally refuse to do this because if it is every discovered you cut this corner, we will be sued into the goddamn ground.”
Or, my personal favorite: “You’re the tech writer, and I found a mistake in this manual, and it must be your fault because you wrote it.”
Me, actually looking into it: “Here’s a 20-email chain where the information was stated, then confirmed by three separate people.”
“Well, we changed it since then!”
Me: “Cool. We can rev it.”
“We need a copy RIGHT NOW for the CUSTOMER.”
“Cool. Not happening. Also, when was this change made?”
“MONTHS AGO.”
“Can you send me proof?”
“I have an email string! You’re on it!”
I am never, in fact, ever on it.**
*I do not work with anyone named Todd.
**More than once. So many more times than once.