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Marvel.
Specifically the female successor to Iron man after captain marvel put him in a coma,
Riri Williams.
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. #10 The MCU
number 10 is scary for a very specific reason.
If you're a fan od Riri Williams as Ironheart you'll be terrified at the recent theories
going around about Shuri and her potential to become ironheart in the MCU.
In avengers endgame, the climax of the film has ironman calling the cleaning lady.
Cause he turned thanos and his army to dust... yeah that wasnt the greatest.
The aftermath cause tony to die and left the void of Iron person open in the MCU.
In far from home they explore this idea with peter parker.
But some fans think we should be looking to another teen to take up the mantle.
As you may have seen or heard that Harley Keener was present at tony's funeral.
But we arent talking about iron lad.
The reasoning fans have behind Shuri becomming Iornheart is that she's already established
in the MCU, she is also a tech prodigy, the fans absolutely love her, Letitia Wright is
amazing and her getting her own solo film would be incredible.
The mcu hasn't shy'd away from differing from the comic books, as they arent earth 616,
but would this be a change fans would accept?
Some of them.
But not all.
. #9 She fought Hydra
When hydra launched a massive attack on the american government under the guide of a fascist
doppelganger of captain america, Ironheart and her Tony Stark A.I joined the underground,
a contingent of heroes and civilians alike who were fighting against Hydra's regime.
While doing this Riri grew closer to the Campions, another superhero team.
She joined them when they left the underground to support spiderman and worked to formulate
a plan to take down the doppleganger of captain america, wuth guidance from Black Widow.
When they executed their plan, Black Widow was murdered by captain america and the young
heroes were arrested.
When the underground assaulted Washington, they freed the heroes and they helped in the
fight, defeating hydra.
Now i understand that she didnt do this alone, but she was a teenager helping out a group
of heroes taking on a huge group of fascists.
If that's not terrifying from both her perspective and the perspective of her being so young
while doing it, than I am an 11 year old girl with bleach blond hair.
. #8 She’s 15
When i say she is young i'm not kidding.
Riri Williams is literally 15 years old when she begins her superhero journey!
When I was 15 I would just sit in my room constantly... playing skyrim and eating junk
food.
What did you think I was gonna say?
So while i'm going through the rest of this list remember that she is 15.
She is not pulling any punches.
Riri is 5 foot 2 and is a vigilante, scientist, inventor, engineer and former monarch
of latveria.
. #7 Suggestive Cover
Remember that Riri is a 15 year old girl?
Yeah, well when marvel announced a young black girl would be taking over for tony sark as
ironman, we were excstatic!
We also thought that, since she is 15, she would be saved from the over sexualized anatomically
incorrect side of female superhero-ing.
We were apparently wrong.
One reader on twitter said "Riri Williams is 15 years old.
Unfortunately, it seems some comic artists have never laid eyes on a young teenager..."
Marvel was under fire for releasing a variant cover for Ironheart that involved a saying
something along the lines of "Come on, no woman looks like that" but the actual line
being "NO FIFTEEN YEAR OLD LOOKS LIKE THAT".
This particular cover also lightened her skin tone which, understandably pissed some other
fans off.
Some fans interpreted this as marvel saying that lighter skin tones are more attractive,
or at least enforcing that fact.
. #6 Based on Skai Jackson
Most of you may have heard this name before.
And if you grew up watching the family channel you may know the name.
Skai Jackson was the youngest daughter in the Family Channel Show Jessie and honestly
that’s how I will continue to see her.
The look of Riri Williams is believed to be based on Skai Jackson and I can honestly see
it.
I know I keep bringing up how old this character is ext. but when it’s based on someone who
I can now only see as Zuri, it’s hard to not just be grossed out by everything that
had been going on with this character.
Even if she is being a meanie.
There is honestly a lot to unpack with the implications of these things and how people
view comic books.
Its hard to associate comic book characters with real people unless they’ve been playing
that character for so long but when its based on an actual person that I saw on Tv when
they were a child, it’s just weird.
. #5 White Washing?
Riri Williams is a African American character, who was written by Brian Michael Bendis, and
fans appreciated the representation, but felt as if she didn’t accurately depict a African
American teen.
Causing slight controversy since fans felt she was being white washed.
The writer has since changed however, being brought to one Eve L. Ewing, who took over
in August 2018 and has been writing the character ever since.
She is an African American Woman as well, But she was also met with criticism at first,
fans were unhappy because she was an author and had no experience with comic books.
But fans would later come to accept and appreciate Ewing’s writing and story.
Robert Downey Jr. even recommended that Ironheart join the MCU.
This obviously made Ewing ecstatic, saying on twitter “The real story here is that
RDJ said in a room full of people that Ironheart should be in the MCU.
I went straight back to the press area afterward and was like YOU ALL HEARD IT, WRITE THAT
DOWN”.
So clearly Ewing has taken the character to new heights.
Good job Eve.
. #4 Her Suit is stolen
To build her first super suit, Riri stole the equipment from MIT.
When campus security was going to confront her, she put the suit on and fled.
This isn’t bad for the character development, as she made the suit so she wouldn’t feel
helpless like when her bestfriend and stepfather died.
But this is perpetuating the stereotype that African americans are more likely to commit
a crime.
And with it being written by a white male, people thought his was trying to push his
ideas onto readers with making the character do this.
Especially when the character being colored would encourage colored fans to read it.
All in all, being a super genius she shouldn’t have really needed to steal tech to build
the suit.
Especially from her campus.
. #3 Iron Man supported this
After she fled from security Riri spent time flying around the country to get the hand
of her suit’s flying abilities.
Riri noticed a couple inmates escaping from the New Mexico state penitentiary.
She managed to stop the speeding truck they were using as an escape vehicle, but causing
her suit great damage.
She eventually returned home to keep working on her suit, much to her mother’s dismay.
After learning of Riri’s accomplishment, Tony Stark visited her house and chose to
endorse her desire to become a superhero.
Later using a repaired version of her armor, she assisted Iron Man during the second superhero
civil war, fighting against the forces of Captain Marvel.
After Captain Marvel put Tony into a coma, Riri decided to continue his legacy.
My issue with this is that when tony made his armor he was an adult and in an emergency
situation.
He needed to survive.
But Riri is a 15 year old.
She doesn’t even have a driver’s license and you’re endorsing her flying around the
world saving people who are like 2 times her age if not more?
She fought alongside you against captain marvel when she put you in a coma.
She could have just as easily been in the same situation if not worse.
If anything had happened to Riri I imagine it would be a similar situation to how Tony
feels after losing peter in Avengers: Endgame.
Tony put her in a situation where she can get killed.
I understand he’s trying to nurture her genius but can’t she just cure cancer?
Why does she need to fight crime at 15?
And don’t say spiderman does it because he has superpowers and super strength.
She’s just a normal girl with super intellect.
. #2 There will be a major change to her come
november Marvel can barely go a week without claiming
some earth-shattering revelation or another will change a character, or even the entire
Marvel Universe, forever.
In the full November solicitations, the house of ideas promises that at least 2 big changes
are coming.
Ms. Marvel number 9 which features 2 universe shaking possibilities, and the one we are
more interested in Ironheart number 12.
Riri’s adventure in wakanda will finish and it is promised she will get revelations
about her past.
This may be related to her father and how he might be connected to the leader of the
ten rings or may even BE the leader of the ten rings.
But no matter what it is, things will never be the same.
I know comics do this kind of thing a lot but any revelation to a character can be scary
for fans.
She may die, she may turn into a zombie.
You honestly never know with these things.
She may be an imposter or she may have just been coning everyone and now she’s ready
to unleash her master plan.
Let me know in the comments what YOU think the revelation will be or what change will
be made to Riri in Ironheart #12.
. #1 Iron Man Parody
Marvel really needs to vette names when they're thinking about using them because oh boy is
this a number 1.
The name idea came from Joe Quesada who is probably clearing his history right now.
When discussing the name Brian Michael Bendis said “Iron Woman seemed old fashioned to
some and Iron Maiden looked like a legal nightmare, And Ironheart, coined by Joe Quesada, after
I told him my planned story for Riri, speaks not only to the soul of the character but
to the Iron Man franchise as a whole.
Tony first put on the armor to save his heart."
That might not of been his reasoning man, because a quick google with safesearch off
reveals that Ironheart was actually the name of a Japanese Ironman Porn parody that came
out as early as even 2013, since it's a parody of iron man 3.
I dont know when exactly this movie came out, but i am not sorry about it.
Im not saying to look it up.
I'm saying to not look it up.
Because it's crazy and i dont have much information on it.
But now remember that when you see Riri be it on the big screen, or in her next comic
appearance, all you can think about is the fact that her name is a japanese love film.
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. That has been the Top 10 Scary Ironheart Facts
you need to know?
Would you like to see Ironheart in the Mcu?
Do you think it will be Shuri or do you think they will have Sky Jackson play the character
based off her?
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