Post: #1

Not April Fools. Not a joke.

Riri is a science genius who enrolls in MIT at the age of 15. She comes to the attention of Tony when she builds her own Iron Man suit in her dorm.

http://time.com/4394478/iron-man-riri-wi...ony-stark/

Post: #2

No more money for Marvel from me.

Post: #3

This is Riritarded

Post: #4

^^^ Nice picture of Robert Downsie Jr

Post: #5

Does she work with the female Thor? A lesbian love story?

Post: #6

The only way I would buy a ticket to see this is if I found out that she dies at the end by the hands of a male cis-gendered super villain

Post: #7

Absolutely disgusting. Go make your own brand of robotic suits, bitch!

Post: #8

This move is completely retarded and further alienates the comics audience, being a complete work of far out fantasy in it's choice of female engineering genius, nevermind her being a black teenager. Who will relate to this character? Certainly not teenage American females.

Marvel see themselves as doing a public service, they think to themselves "Let's help encourage black female engineers, the world needs more of that" then directly convert established characters into that and then hope life starts imitating art.

Post: #9

Of course he is.

Some of you seem genuinely surprised.

Post: #10

No big deal. After having fallowed the Trump thread for a year I completely lost any interest in fictional superheroes anyway.

Post: #11

so for those of you keeping tabs at home, here's a roll call of Marvel's diversity changes, all within the past 5 years:

Captain America: black
Spider-man: black hispanic
Thor: woman
Hulk: asian
Ms. Marvel: "pakistani-american" muslim
Iceman: gay (after almost 50 years of hetero comic continuty)
Wolverine: woman
Iron Man: black teenage girl

Am I missing anyone?

Meanwhile, I can't recall DC pulling this bullshit. That's interesting.

Post: #12

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  so for those of you keeping tabs at home, here's a roll call of Marvel's diversity changes, all within the past 5 years:

Captain America: black
Spider-man: black hispanic
Thor: woman
Hulk: asian
Ms. Marvel: "pakistani-american" muslim
Iceman: gay (after almost 50 years of hetero comic continuty)
Wolverine: woman
Iron Man: black teenage girl

Am I missing anyone?

Meanwhile, I can't recall DC pulling this bullshit. That's interesting.

I often wonder what Stan Lee thinks of all this bullshit his beloved Marvel has pulled.

Post: #13

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  so for those of you keeping tabs at home, here's a roll call of Marvel's diversity changes, all within the past 5 years:

Captain America: black
Spider-man: black hispanic
Thor: woman
Hulk: asian
Ms. Marvel: "pakistani-american" muslim
Iceman: gay (after almost 50 years of hetero comic continuty)
Wolverine: woman
Iron Man: black teenage girl

Am I missing anyone?

Meanwhile, I can't recall DC pulling this bullshit. That's interesting.

Did all this happen after Marvel was bought by Disney?

I don't read the comic books, at least all this wonderful diversity hasn't seeped through to the MCU. Yet.

Post: #14

(07-07-2016 08:18 AM)MikeS Wrote:  

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  so for those of you keeping tabs at home, here's a roll call of Marvel's diversity changes, all within the past 5 years:

Captain America: black
Spider-man: black hispanic
Thor: woman
Hulk: asian
Ms. Marvel: "pakistani-american" muslim
Iceman: gay (after almost 50 years of hetero comic continuty)
Wolverine: woman
Iron Man: black teenage girl

Am I missing anyone?

Meanwhile, I can't recall DC pulling this bullshit. That's interesting.

Did all this happen after Marvel was bought by Disney?

I don't read the comic books, at least all this wonderful diversity hasn't seeped through to the MCU. Yet.

Ding ding ding! We have a winnar!!!! Yes it happened after they bought it. I have a large somewhat older collection of Marvel comics from my childhood with a few very valuable pieces (mostly DC). I stopped buying the occasional piece right after Disney bought them. I almost cried I was so upset over the news. Disney is about TPTB as it can get. We could discuss it more, but that would probably get racial and get us nowhere insight wise.

I honestly think Stan is too old and nice to give a good shit. His family will be super wealthy for generations to come. They will probably wait until he dies before they make a transgender Spiderman. He and Jack Kirby(RIP) created most of the characters you see today, but Spiderman is his personal baby.

I will say that changing the way the superheros look or making copy cats is not all that heretical. Alternate Universe and One Shots with black/white swapped men we common back in the day. That includes DC Comics as well. What's appalling is the reason why they are doing these things, as well as using girls. That's different. Young boys and men read comics, not young women and girls. They are fucking with their base and it will probably backfire.

Comics in general are dying, thanks to the digital age, and you are going to see alot of stunts and shock stuff from them to stay relevant. I think they are testing this out on comics first because Marvel's bread and butter is movies now. A young black girl Iron Man, might flop badly in theaters so, they need a proof of concept first before they implement, because these movies are very expensive. These people, while they want to wash your brain with SJW junk, they still love money more. It's a business and they do not want to be last to the table just incase SJW becomes big.

Post: #15

They used to just introduce a female sidekick ala supergirl, catwoman, etc. Shouldn't she be Irongirl? I am so tired of this agenda. Good thing I never watch Hollywood movies anyway. If people keep buying this crap they will keep spewing it out and it will get progressively worse.

Post: #16

(07-07-2016 08:34 AM)TravelerKai Wrote:  

(07-07-2016 08:18 AM)MikeS Wrote:  

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  so for those of you keeping tabs at home, here's a roll call of Marvel's diversity changes, all within the past 5 years:

Captain America: black
Spider-man: black hispanic
Thor: woman
Hulk: asian
Ms. Marvel: "pakistani-american" muslim
Iceman: gay (after almost 50 years of hetero comic continuty)
Wolverine: woman
Iron Man: black teenage girl

Am I missing anyone?

Meanwhile, I can't recall DC pulling this bullshit. That's interesting.

Did all this happen after Marvel was bought by Disney?

I don't read the comic books, at least all this wonderful diversity hasn't seeped through to the MCU. Yet.

Ding ding ding! We have a winnar!!!! Yes it happened after they bought it. I have a large somewhat older collection of Marvel comics from my childhood with a few very valuable pieces (mostly DC). I stopped buying the occasional piece right after Disney bought them. I almost cried I was so upset over the news. Disney is about TPTB as it can get. We could discuss it more, but that would probably get racial and get us nowhere insight wise.

I honestly think Stan is too old and nice to give a good shit. His family will be super wealthy for generations to come. They will probably wait until he dies before they make a transgender Spiderman. He and Jack Kirby(RIP) created most of the characters you see today, but Spiderman is his personal baby.

I will say that changing the way the superheros look or making copy cats is not all that heretical. Alternate Universe and One Shots with black/white swapped men we common back in the day. That includes DC Comics as well. What's appalling is the reason why they are doing these things, as well as using girls. That's different. Young boys and men read comics, not young women and girls. They are fucking with their base and it will probably backfire.

Comics in general are dying, thanks to the digital age, and you are going to see alot of stunts and shock stuff from them to stay relevant. I think they are testing this out on comics first because Marvel's bread and butter is movies now. A young black girl Iron Man, might flop badly in theaters so, they need a proof of concept first before they implement, because these movies are very expensive. These people, while they want to wash your brain with SJW junk, they still love money more. It's a business and they do not want to be last to the table just incase SJW becomes big.

Which (((people))) would we be talking about here?

Post: #17

(07-07-2016 07:37 AM)Mage Wrote:  No big deal. After having fallowed the Trump thread for a year I completely lost any interest in fictional superheroes anyway.

Post: #18

(07-07-2016 06:11 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Absolutely disgusting. Go make your own brand of robotic suits, bitch!

Back in the 1980s when people in the marvel universe were building armored suits, Tony Stark assumed they had stolen his technology, beat them down and destroyed their equipment. Now he's like Bernie Sanders getting his mic robbed by Black Lives Matter.

#MakeMarvelGreatAgain

Post: #19

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Post: #20

It's incredibly lazy.

A far more interesting way to make a "black girl Iron Man" would be for this freak genius to build her own suit in her dorm, emulating her hero Tony Stark, with the usual naive intent to 'use her gift to fight crime'. Given her apparent background, that would be hood crime a la Chicago rather than interdimensional alien orcs riding flying metal robo-cod. So far, the same. To add some interest, the suit she makes is different/better in some way than what Tony Stark has developed, because why would two geniuses pursuing the same idea end up with the same result?

But then have Tony Stark become aware of her, and kindly dissuade her from her "calling" because he knows how dangerous it is, physically, morally, personally, psychologically - for an adult, let along a 15 year old girl. Because she's a black woman college student, and it's [current year], she naturally interprets his empathy and caution as sexism and racism, which tarnishes her adoration for him. Now you have a potential rival to Tony Stark, who wants to do good, but is morally conflicted and embittered over the perceived insult due to her naivete and pride as a function of her youth and lack of perspective - and feminist brainwashing at college, though the writers couldn't state that explicitly without triggering a shitstorm. This could be an opening to her turning into a villain, or being recruited by villains, etc. But the character is too inherently virtuous for that. Instead, she goes her own way.

She takes on her *own* identity as a result (rather than taking over the Iron Man identity as is currently planned), and occupies a place between hero and villain as needed for interesting story development. Now you have a new character that the purported throngs of young black women pining for a "representative" character of their own can "identify" with, a minority character who is original and not merely re-cast for "diversity" (which has to be insulting if you're in the group being pandered to), a character that's just plain interesting whether you're minority or not, you don't damage the original brand, and you've opened all sorts of new paths for future storytelling.

I'm no comic book fan so I don't know the conventions of the genre. But here I can come up with a plainly superior alternative implementation of their diversity wet-dream in ten minutes of brainstorming from the barest of knowledge of the characters and fictional universe gleaned from MCU movies.

These clowns don't even try.

Post: #21

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  Captain America: black

They also took Falcon's established character (Falcon is the new Cap), and made him a SJW. Even defending illegals coming across the border from evil border patrol agents.

And it wasn't enough to just replace Steve Rogers, they had to destroy his character. Steve has always been the most pro-American, traditional values dude in the MU. So, to show how all of those values are just a sham, they said he is now and always has been a Hydra agent.

(07-07-2016 07:59 AM)Last Parade Wrote:  Spider-man: black hispanic

He's also gay.

Post: #22

It's mind-boggling that they would green light this project after a year of backlash to Ghostbusters. They're pushing the Narrative in spite of losing millions, and no one's buying into their PC agenda anymore.

Post: #23

(07-07-2016 09:22 AM)Alsos Wrote:  I'm no comic book fan so I don't know the conventions of the genre.

The best stories often come up because people don't feel obliged to follow (or are not familiar with) conventions.

Post: #24

This poison is everywhere in comics. You have to dig through alot of this toxic waste to find anything decent.

Amazing Spiderman #1 last year had a gay wedding for no other reason than to have one.

Howard the Duck had too much SJW and anti-Trump comments as did Spider-Man 2099.

Post: #25

(07-07-2016 09:22 AM)Alsos Wrote:  It's incredibly lazy.

A far more interesting way to make a "black girl Iron Man" would be for this freak genius to build her own suit in her dorm, emulating her hero Tony Stark, with the usual naive intent to 'use her gift to fight crime'. Given her apparent background, that would be hood crime a la Chicago rather than interdimensional alien orcs riding flying metal robo-cod.

As a Chicagoan, I can't agree with you more. It's Murder Central every weekend here, and a holiday weekend? Forget about it.