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Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby KleinerKiller » Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:59 pm

Tony Stark will be replaced by Riri Williams for however long until it's no longer a sales boost and the status quo reverts.

I have no strong opinion on this because I don't read superhero comics and this presumably won't affect the MCU, but don't get into the comments of that article. The social justice crowd is swift and merciless toward dissenters.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Wed Jul 06, 2016 9:28 pm

Riri Williams ain't no Kamala Khan.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby Marcuse » Wed Jul 06, 2016 9:57 pm

Beep me when they write Iron Man as an intelligent protoplasmic slime.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby cmsellers » Wed Jul 06, 2016 10:06 pm

Can't they just cast a black woman in a Thatcher biopic and call it "The Iron Lady"?
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:22 am

I'm hoping she's a lesbian so that she can remain a womanizer. Finally, a womanizer who can get away with it.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby Krashlia » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:11 am

I suspect this is one of those shallow symbolic changes that make those who oppose it look bad.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby gisambards » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:24 am

The real question that concerns me is:
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How is that hair going under the helmet?
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby Krashlia » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:44 am

gisambards wrote:The real question that concerns me is:
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How is that hair going under the helmet?


Wait wait... ho-ly crap! Garnet is playing Iron (Wo)Man?
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:14 am

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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby 52xMax » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:30 am

Yeah, this is going to last as much as Cap's "deep undercover" Hydra recruitment.

Also, it's pretty funny to watch all these ideologues who've never picked up a comic book in their lives virtue signal each other about how the hordes of male white nerds are going to explode, when it's clear they don't know what they're talking about, since the character of Rescue has been around for a while with nobody making a fuss about it, and she even appeared on the third Iron Man movie...sorta.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_Potts_(Earth-616)

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I haven't kept up with Civil War II, but from what I hear it's a giant mess and they're probably retconning it out of the main 616 continuity as soon as the storyline is done. Not that there's anything wrong with a Riri's identity, mind you, other than being redundant since Iron Man has already been replaced by a woman (Pepper) and a black man (Rhodey) before. And you know, there's legacy characters of pretty much all the Superheroes on both Marvel and DC, such as Falcon taking over Captain America, Miles Morales as Spiderman, that girl Hawkeye, as well as every single identity of Hank Pym, just to name a few. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is a legacy character of a Kree superhero who gave her his powers, and when she finally took his name, she passed the Miss Marvel moniker she'd used for years to a new character.

This is just a sensationalist headline designed to sell issues, which purposefully omits the full story, like the time "Thor became a woman", or when "Green Lantern was gay". Like KK said, in the end it's all just going to revert to the status quo, as comics always do.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby DashaBlade » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:17 am

Pretty much everything Max said right up there. ^

Anyone who's actually upset by this really hasn't paid attention to the history of - well - any long running comic series. It's pretty much standard to run storylines featuring new characters in established roles, and established characters getting reinterpreted in new ways. Hell, both Marvel and DC have had countless "What if?" one shots too.

Any time a new writer is hired, the characters are going to change. Sometimes it's just a minor change, sometimes it's something major.

Me, I haven't actually read a (recently published) comic in about ten years, and so I don't know if current readers are upset by any recent changes, but I do know that back when I was a kid, a lot of people lost their shit over the "Dark Age" that hit in the 80s, when every superhero suddenly turned grimdark and violent. The people who lost their shit weren't the kids reading the comics, though. It was the parents and grandparents of the kids reading the comics back in the good old days when every mainstream comic was inspected for traces of communism or violence or sexual innuendo and given a stamp of approval when the comics passed. I also read some of those comics published during the CCA era, and they were crap.

So anyway, change is good. Sometimes the change fails disastrously, sometimes it succeeds resoundingly, but deciding in advance which one it's going to be is a little bit like being one the folks who hated the Punisher back in the 80s just because he wasn't a Silver Age do-gooder.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:20 am

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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby DashaBlade » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:30 am

FaceTheCitizen wrote:To be fair, the Dark age was shit. Not all of it, but there's a reason why the age is looked down by many readers today, including some of the kids who grew up in it.


True, but it was a step up, which I can't complain about. Except that, ya know, suddenly now half of the superhero movies being released borrow from that era, anyway. If it wasn't for the Dark Age where comic artists and authors started giving the finger to censors, though, we'd still be dealing with goofy heroes/sidekicks and no character development.
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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:29 am

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Re: Iron Man will now be a black woman

Postby Malfeasinator » Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:59 am

She kind of looks like Foxy Cleopatra from Austin Powers 3.

edit: "The say what machine?"
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