Someone recognizing Tony's physical strength

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

"Tony plucked her up and set her on a workbench like she was five years old...It always surprised her how physically strong he was.  It shouldn’t.  He was a mechanic and the lean, ropey muscles weren’t for show."

This is a line from "Ice and Fire" by SteeleHoltingOn.  Reading this I wondered if there was any other fic where someone remarked on or was surprised at how strong Tony Stark actually was.  Not Iron Man, but Tony himself.  I do recall a scene in Iron Man where I think Tony was working on his suit, wearing a wife beater which showed off his magnificent, muscular upper body.

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[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Sort of off topic, but I was once watching an interview with Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans (thor and Captain America) and the interviewer showed them a picture of a very attractive and muscled arm.

"Who's arm is this?" she asked.

Both of them guessed themselves, or the other one, and she said, "No, it's Robert Downey Jr's" and both of them went 0.0

Yup. Good ol' Iron man is pretty damn strong too, even in rl!

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

Not totally off topic; that's kinda my point. Stark is known for his business acumen and his smart mouth. Plus he's shorter (smaller) then the superheroes on his team. They tend to forget that he's an engineer; used to having to haul around heavy metal objects. I think there are some scenes where he's seen 'blacksmithing'. That takes a lot of muscle.

[(Anonymous)]

The only story of a similar theme that I can remember is Cardio by Oceanbreeze7, story id 8616083 on fanfiction.net. Unfortunately, finding stories like this is, though not impossible, very difficult since hardly any of them actually mentions Tony's strength in either the description or tags :/ It's a real shame, since it's my favourite kind of stories *pouting*

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That one was a good story. Oceanbreeze7's work is also at Archive of Our Own.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I know, but thank you, since I actually prefer reading stories on AO3 and it would have been a great information if I didn't know :) I only gave the ff.net id, because when I thought about this story, I couldn't remember if Oceanbreeze7 had the same nick on AO3 as on ff.net, so the second was easier to find :)
I tried to remember other stories in this theme I know, but couldn't think of anything dealing with Tony's physical strength, despite the fact that I KNOW I read others :< I did however remember some dealing with the 'Merchant of Death' title and possibly some dealing with his genius, if you were interested.