The MCU Welcomes Ironheart the Super Villain 

"I wanted to make a character my step daughter can look up to." *Creates a Villain.

Remember how she somehow made a vibranium detection machine, despite having no vibranium for the machine to cross reference with? It’s like having a drug sniffing dog just find cocaine despite having no prior exposure to cocaine to even know what it smells like

Why is she stealing? Tony built his suit in a cave, _with a box of scraps!_

>nobody recognizes her genius >full scholarship for MIT

YaBoi Zack nailed this when her comic first came out. You're both right, she has a supervillain origin and motivations. She even makes her teacher tell her she'll "never be as smart as Tony Stark". She is driven by jealousy right out of the gate.

The most racist character origin bendis could have come up with

I was shaking my head the first time I heard her origin. A super-genius that can't invent something she could sell to get the money she needs? Anyone remember the origin of Doctor Doom? How he and Reed Richards studied together and only few could even start to follow their conversations? How they build their own computers at college because those of the university weren't good enough? And remember, Doom was there on a scholarship. He would have had to earn the for that somehow. How does Reed Richard finance a skyscaper in the middle of New York and all the materials he needs? By selling some low-level inventions (by his standards) he makes on the fly. But no, that takes too much time and effort for Riri Williams.

My favorite comic characters growing up were Spawn and Blade. Two black dudes. I'm a white guy. Those characters were badass (and both antiheroes). I didn't need a white guy to see myself, I saw myself as them cause of their attitude .

"Stealing from the rich to give to herself" I see Marvel wisely took inspiration from the hit canadian tv show Robyn Hood.

4:23 "How fucking dare you not victimise me!"

So... the super smart tech genius doesn't know how to entrepreneur herself a new suit and has to resort to stealing?

I thought Ironheart was a Japanese porn parody movie

I don't care how smart you are, or how well you can design a suit of power armor: actually fabricating a suit like that would require a multi-million dollar workshop and at least 4 highly specialized craftsmen. "Knowing how to weld" does not make you good at it, that's a skill that takes thousands of hours to master. Intelligence does not automatically translate into skill.

i completely forgot ironheart existed.

If this goes into Iron Heart vs RDJ's Dr Doom as an invasion of Latveria I'd actually be interested in seeing how stupid that gets.

Iron heart, the shit nobody wanted

As they say in Robyn Hood, "We be robbin, robbin, robbin.."

Ironman used his own parts and equipment to make his suit and tech. Ironheart appropriates pieces of Ironman's suit as her own. "One of these things is not like the other..."

You're literally the only RU-vidr that I follow who covered this. I had no idea that there was anything related to Ironhart at D23, let alone a trailer. I guess that shows just how little interest there is in the character.

2:45 As strange or silly as this sounds, Parker Robbins is actually a well-established supervillain in the comic books since his first appearance in 2002. He actually goes by the name “The Hood”, and this isn’t a reference to a hoodie; apparently he gets his cape and hood as well as boots off of killing a demon, and is basically trying to be a Kingpin kind of figure. The more interesting thing is that while The Hood might have had tiny brushes with being a anti-hero in the comics, that is a very legit straight-up villain character they have “teaming up” with Riri.

This is why I have collected all of the old media and said goodbye to anything Disney produces.

The showrunners almost certainly think of her as a Hero, because their psychology is villain psychology. We've seen this before on these Disney shows. They don't understand morality, so they don't understand what good and evil is, let alone what heroes and villains are.

"I made this so my daughter can have a hero!" **makes a villain**

Another, “ends justify the means” character. Perfect villain setup.

Robbins is actually a reasonably okay villain from the comics. His eponymous "hood" is really a cloak made from a swatch from Mephisto's cloak (obtained from a deal of course). Unlike most villains in Marvel, he doesn't immediately try to rule the world, but instead starts to build a crime syndicate one careful step at a time, always thinking that's the plateau where he'll stop. Sadly, pitting him against Ironheart in the MCU means they plan on him dying and never being seen again, so they'll probably make him very 1D.

Marvels says it’s the world outside your window… they don’t say the window overlooks the prisons exercise yard.

Funny how people stealing tech were literally the villains in Spider-Man Homecoming yet now that the person stealing the tech is a young black girl suddenly she's a hero

Today I Learned: Wakanda has no kind of outreach or recruitment programs for underprivileged black Supergeniuses in the rest of the world. That, or by circa 2025 in the MCU, being able to build your own Iron Man suit out of scrap is only the skill equivalent of being able to replace the alternator on your hatchback. "We're sorry-that's just not Wakanda Institute of Technology-level work. Have you considered Wakanda Community College? They also have a VERY nice intramural Lacrosse program!"

If she is a genius, why does she need other peoples tech? A real genius makes their own.

Iron hart in the mcu should have be Tony's daughter. Considering what thay did at the end of endgame. With the ark reactor. And the (proof that Tony Stark has a hart).

I love how the one good thing about this character is her slimmed down sleek Ironman suit but they turned it into a weird flying Temu Samus Aran cosplay…

Villains no longer exist in Disney. They ALWAYS have a good reason for what they do. People defend Thanos, for Pete's sake.

"Parker...Robbins...magical hood" Can't even make this up

Iron Heart..ugh. I shouldn't believe that it's here but here we are.

I remember her get mad at that poor excuse for a replacement Patriot De'shawn for being sad that a bunch of civilians people died in a plane crash during Secret Empire. Made you that he suck as well, but at least he felt bad about something.

A friend of mine was getting into comic book art. We were all sitting and getting drunk, and spitballing ideas, mostly stupid shit. One of the ideas was The Hoody, a static shock style anti villain who gained his powers from a mystical hoody he wore, using it to fight crime. This was not a serious character, despite the overtones, and largely was a pot shot at Spawn and his cloak, and we were laughing our asses off at it. I'll have to call him up and tell him The Hoody apparently has made it into the MCU

*Brian Michael Bendis* - "There's no black character in Marvel comics that my adopted daughter can identify with." *Storm* - Am I a joke to you?

The background of the character’s creation sounds exactly like the creation of the character Sun-Man, where a black woman started an action figure company because her son told her that he couldn't be a hero because he had no black heroes to look up to, and she basically reused the molds for the Masters of the Universe line to create minority-based characters. Even the uncreative author sounds like he literally lifted and genderflipped the story for the Sun-Man toyline’s creation for his “unique and inspirational story of how (he) created Ironheart.” XD

evil can't create, it can only corrupt.

I’m sorry, she did what in Latveria. Was Doom taking a nap or dead or something? No way she can deal with Doom, he would immediately humble her with his superior tech, intelligence, and ya know entire countries economy and arsenal at his command.

John Henry Irons built a suit that didn't shame the "S" shield he put on it after Superman died. And he did it on a CONSTRUCTION WORKER'S pay. Riri is a bad joke, and always has been. Which sucks, because she COULD have been really cool.

So his daughter can identif with a negative based character with no positive traits and gets on everybody's nerves wow what a nice dad

Remember when disney/marvel was loved & cherished? Future generations won't remember that 🚮

What I can't believe is Disney stole the name from a porn parody of Iron Man 😂

I bet money they greenlight season 2 before the third episode airs. I already know this won’t even get echo type viewership

The worst part is that they couldve made ironheart likeable, and make sense. Instead of tony having a daughter with piper, he couldve adopted Riri, had her go through the exact same sotryline as his daughter and now the name "Ironheart" makes sense and the character starts off likeable and on a positive note.

If they do a little reworking, give her a character arc that involves becoming a team player and learning the value of boundaries, she could be an interesting character. Any character, no matter how sketchy their origin or initial actions, can become an interesting and inspirational hero. Except the Joker. Someone needs to put the Joker in a forever box.

Wow... they really decided to make her backstory a triple layered stereotype. This literally took me 5 minutes to come up with a better one: Her application to MIT triggers a secret "Successor Protocol" left by Stark where she unknowingly achieved the required combined personality, moral, and intellectual scores. Jarvis/Friday have been scanning every applicant for years and calculated Riri as the first potential successor but this is only step one. She now has to earn deeper levels of the protocol by proving herself to Jarvis/Friday with her actions and her successes will unlock more of Stark's tech and research for her to adapt but her failures will trigger more challenges in the protocol designed to help her grow into the hero Stark wished to become. Add this in the tension that she has to do this all in secret until she reaches the last level, otherwise the protocol will lock her out and Jarvis/Friday will restart the search for a different Successor candidate again. It's like winning the Golden Ticket but now your workload has tripled while you try to keep it a secret from everyone.

You know, between this and Gotham war, what is with recent superhero media trying to justify theft as a heroic thing to do? And before anyone brings up the Robin Hood argument, there’s a big difference between stealing from a corrupt monarch as a last resort and stealing from law abiding citizens for your own personal gain.

Hated her in the comics, hated her in wakanda forever and I dont think my opinion of her will change any time soon with this new show. We already have war machine, we didnt need another black iron man character who is basically a walking talking stereotype. I fully expect this to join the rest of the garbage mcu tv shows in the burning dumpster that disney tosses them into after they flop.

So Ironheart in this show….is like the Vulture in Spider-Man Homecoming….just with different motivations. I don’t think the writers realized the similarities.

So if a black student did that to me in a classroom. (I.e. insisted I be racist to them and then held eye contact with me for an uncomfortable amount of time) I’d maintain eye contact wile calling the school counselor and telling them I had a student that was expecting some kind of mental health crisis and needed some intervention . Behavior like that is a bright red flag

Producer: Where did she get that suit? Writer: She stole it!!!

Nothing in these movies actually imprints on my long term memory

Wait wait wait,she conquers lathberia as in doctor doom country as in Robert Downey jr character as in former iron man , the amount of coincidences that needed to happen 😂 for this is actually hilarious

0:50 no.... You're kidding. He adopted a black child, and omg.... Omg... Omg.... I can't with these people....

Well, that's enough disney TV for a decade. I'm going outside to touch grass...

Doc Ock: "she break the rules and become the hero, I do it and I become the enemy. That doesn't seem fair."

“No heroes her daughter could look up to…” like Storm, Miles Morales, Black Panther, Shuri, War Machine, Static Shock from DC, etc etc etc. All these heroes existed back in 2015.

Riri lands outside Tony Stark's vacation home and demands to meet with Tony. Tony's wife says, "No," so Riri uses one of the 10 Rings of the Mandorin she's stolen to mind-r4p3 the woman into telling her where Tony is. Problem: Tony's "wife" is actually Emma Frost in disguise, so she gets her psychic ass handed to her and is told to go to the secret entrance, like she was supposed to. Now, what's wrong with this? 1. Riri knew about the secret entrance, but didn't go there. 2. Upon being confronted, her first instinct was to psychically assault someone. 2a. If not for the person being a trained telepath, she could have done serious psychic damage, untrained as Riri is.

Has to steal parts to build "her designs", while Tony built a seemingly impossible miniaturised Arc Reactor "In a Cave! With a Box of Scraps!" Also Peter managed to develop his own Web Fluid formulae with a basic Chemistry Set, and Web Shooters by "Dumpster Diving" for junk parts.

I have zero reverence for any of the new characters with about a decade of history, like Ironheart, Miles, Spider-boy, Kamala, America Chavez, and yet they get shows and movies while other characters who deserve better are left hanging and ignored. Characters like Cloud9, Hardball, MVP, Machine Teen, Gravity, The Gauntlet, Southpaw, Komodo, Aranya, Trauma, Slapstick are totally forgotten from the comics now. But these new characters keep failing and yet keeping getting pushed to the foreground desperate to make them stick. While previously Marvel would've just dumped these failures and moved on to the next round of new characters.

I could have sworn that they included the teacher bit when she was introduced in black panther 2. lets chalk that up to the Mandella effect because i'm not going to rewatch BP2 to find out.

Pepper Potts should be the new iron woman

iron who? Sorry never heard of them. is it a metal band or something?

Growing up in the north side of Chicago we would call people Reeree who were acting, not the smartest. I dont think I could ever take the name Riri seriously because of it

4:06 sounds like she just really wants to get someone cancelled fr

I always said she's a Super Villain. The way her story is, it's plain for everyone to see. Black girl magic, right.

BROO, 😂😂 YOU FUNNY AF! I JUST STOPPED PLAYING ELDEN RING IN MID FIGHT BECAUSE YOU HAD ME DYING WITH THAT VOICE😂😂

I'm not gonna lie, i completely forgot this character existed. When i saw the title of this video my first thought was that you were doing a hearts of iron video...Hearts of iron is much more interesting.

man u cracked me up magical hoodie LOLOL

You forgot to mention it took Thanos to finally slap some humility into Riri.

"Puts on his magic hoodie and gets his powers" Bro didn't watch Cloak & Dagger. Not even the first time Marvel pulled that gimick lol.

I love how in order to make the black character more relatable to black audiences, they made them victims of gun crimes and gang culture.

This depresses me because I have nothing against Riri or her being an "Ironman" so to say, but everything she is already there. I mean, poor War Machine was there first and he was pushed aside. Not to mention, so was Rescue who is the best example of a damsel in distress turned heroine the right way. Riri would have worked best as a scientist and a girl in the chair like Oracle because her genius is an asset and that position is important, but not as a replacement for Ironman. She feels like a replacement goldfish and that's a shame. PS: I am aware that in the comics, she not a good girl, but I would like her to be rewritten as one.

The phrase, “truth is stranger than fiction,” has never become so true.

Who in the world shortens Demetrius to Riri?

At this point “hero” is an artificial label. Kind of like how Wanda was the real villain of WandaVision, but the show runners artificially made her a hero.

Being a "terrible person" fits RIGHT IN with the entire Acolyte model of storycrafting. Terrible, and yet another sample of making future role models for "the younger ladies that never had someone that looked like them when they were young" in it. *EYEROLL*

I think only the kid from iron man 3 should be the next iron man, this woman is a nobody with no interest to anybody

wait..... Vulture kind of did this after getting cheated out of his salvage contract and got labeled a villain. She does it and is a hero? How absurd

I absolutely love how people push stealing from the rich is okay because they HAD to do shady stuff to get it. No, not hard work, dedication, and reliable character. That's just inconceivable to their dysfunctional minds. Absolutely intolerable in my mind

Great superhero motivations summed up in 1 sentence: Superman - "Truth, justice, and the American way." Spider-man - "With great power, comes great responsibility." Iron heart - "I'll show them!"

i love her black and purple armor i had no idea she was portrayed as negative it seems marvel is sabotaging a character who might be good with better writing

Side tangent: Everyone misunderstands Sister Sage in The Boys. They either think she's poorly written like Iron Heart as someone who's supposed to be the smartest person on the planet. (Literally says the same damn line as what's her face whenever someone says she's the smartest woman on the planet.) Or they defend her without any evidence and say she is the smartest person on the planet because that's what the show says. Both are wrong. The Boys is a subversion of comic books. Sister Sage is a self centered narcissist like every other character on the show. She's smart but more like a con artist is smart. I can imagine a little "Dexter" monologue in her head every scene where she's using every bit of her intelligence just to get out of the room alive every time Homelander is talking. Got fired on purpose, that's for sure. She didn't plan any of those deux ex machinas in the season finale though. She just played the cards as they were dealt and took credit for the chaos. She is a subversion of the Iron Heart character.

.... I was on a post, talking about a black WW2 vet, who despite the ideals of the time, still served, and had to become a video game MC, monster up and neutralize the threat to him and his crew, after they got ko in a battle. Some superhuman type, the, apparently first supersoldier, that Capt America didn't know about , level ish. And after a few thousand views on the comment , about the narrator, fittingly hyping this absolute Chad up, by giving him Nick names.. today we get a few of the lesser lifeforms on there, doing what they do, thinking what they think and then saying it, cause it's not in anyone's face, and their safe behind their keyboard. And about a vet, from an actual, blood n guts war. A man who , somehow survived, adapted and overcame enemies of the state and country to save his men. Solo.. he soloed the final boss!!! I mean the type of stuff that literally screams "AMERICA" and these POS ignore all that, just to be POS that they are . Soo Ya know what. This story , from a guy, u said adopted huh??? Ya, well nah, this don't surprise me one bit. I'd say it's pretty on brand. "Let take a positive, albeit annoying, strong, intelligent, promising black women, and ish allllll over that, and smile about it" Ya... That's Hollywood as a whole Question though... And I'm as mercenary as the next clock puncher. But when the actors and actresses , read the script.. put 2 n 2 together, and still played this BS out. I wonder what they thought about the implications and message that this would portray. Or did they stuff all their pride and ideas down deep, and cash that check

How the hell do you have 16 likes and "no views" , bro RU-vid trying to screw ur channel

remember ber how disney also made "The Acolyte", a story about a villain

MCU really scrapping the bottom of the barrel here

Even in the Incredibles the super villain Syndrome started out small by making inventions to sell to people to make a living, all the while keeping his most powerful ones to himself.

Everyone knows the best Ironheart is the Japanese AV version

“The other scientists at the universities laughed at me and the prestigious science magazines refused to publish my research, but I’ll show them!!! In my underground basement lab I’ll make progress they can only dream of! They’ll regret they denied my genius, they’ll regret it bitterly! Muhahahaw!!!” That’s the quintessential mad scientist villain origin story isn’t it? It’s Captain Nemo, Herbert West and Dr Doom. I wish the MCU would just embrace this and make a story about the rise and fall of a supervillain protagonist.

4:37 This looks like it's from the Power Rangers tv show or Beetle Borgs. 🤐

Riri's gonna be indeed recognized...as a villain

This is still a thing? I thought Marvel paid the contract penalties and just threw this in the trash.

The fact that Disney already gave iron heat 2 shows(Iron Heart 2025 & Marvel Rising) while she's been existing for LESS THAN 8 YEARS, while denying Rhodey, A FAN FAVORITE ANF ONE OF THEIR 1° & MOST PROMINENT LEGACY CHARACTERS, to be featured in any media(TV Shows, Games, even live action at this point) for the past decade , aside from being GROSE, needs to be studied ☹️

Everyone gets deleted!

So these are the values being promoted today... lovely.

"They" are going to try to spin all this in a positive way. Witness the future doublethink.

Too bad there isn't such a thing as a "Stark Scholarship" like when Tony promised to fund everyone's projects at MIT...