Tony Stark replaced by Black woman in Marvel Comics

[slimreaper]

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Lets erase all white male characters from history while we're at it.


I hate you all.

 

[demon of the leaf]

Uh what

 

[Sonnelion]

I actually agree with this guy for once.:wut:

Why would they do this when there is no point to it at all.

 

[FreakensteinAG]

That's pretty much what people said about Green Lantern back in the day:

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But yes, I disagree with this sudden, odd change. I've read Iron Woman's synopsis (Iron Maiden would be more kickass to be fair), and the writer is making her out to be a major Mary Sue. If you don't know what a Mary Sue is, it's basically the character has no character flaws and all the strengths and edgy uniqueness of an amateur writer.

Now, the writer is not an amateur by any means, I mean, he wrote Avenger's and such. But the sudden, odd shift of character is not befitting.

 

[Yokaze Sama]

Haha what the actual ****? XD

 

[MickNerks]

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Lets erase all white male characters from history while we're at it.


I hate you all.

Their NOT replacing Toni Stark as Iron Man.

He will still be in the story, This is no different from when Batman gets a new Robin. Ton Stark finally gets a protegie. The guy who wrote his artcle obviously doesnt know what he is talking about.

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You can calm down!!!

 

[Avani]

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Seriously though.. I suppose you can just skip watching the movie. They probably are making it for selective fan service.

Their NOT replacing Toni Stark as Iron Man.

He will still be in the story, This is no different from when Batman gets a new Robin. Ton Stark finally gets a protegie. The guy who wrote his artcle obviously doesnt know what he is talking about.

Here is a more accurate article of what is happening:

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You can calm down!!!

Thanks for the link to this:

Spoiler

The next character to join the Marvel Comics “Iron Man” franchise will be Riri Williams, a 15-year-old genius who built a red suit of armor in her dorm room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And, as some Marvel fans have enthusiastically observed, she is black.

Riri, who poses on an illustration of “Invincible Iron Man” with natural hair and a helmet on her hip, is the latest character to be introduced to an increasingly diverse slate of heroes at Marvel Comics.

The news was reported by Time magazine on Tuesday based on an interview with Brian Michael Bendis, a veteran Marvel writer who is white.

He told the magazine that Riri will join Iron Man after her homemade suit catches the attention of Tony Stark, the billionaire engineer and consummate capitalist who first turned up in Marvel pages in the 1960s and was portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the “Iron Man” and “Avengers” films.

It is unclear if Riri will be called Iron Man. As Time suggested, she’s working on a name for herself.

Mr. Bendis has recently written “Uncanny X-Men,” which features Iceman, a gay mutant, and “Ultimate Spider-Man,” in which the titular character, Miles Morales, is of black and Hispanic descent.

Mr. Bendis told the magazine that he developed the character after working on a TV show in Chicago. He said he was inspired by the story of a young black woman, whom he didn’t name, who faced random street violence and made it to college.

“I thought that was the most modern version of a superhero or superheroine story I had ever heard,” he said. “And I sat with it for a while until I had the right character and the right place.”

The development of Riri’s character reflects a comics industry that has made strides to expand its default superhero archetype — that of a straight, white male — to reflect broader diversity in race, gender and sexuality. In June, Marvel announced the creation of Morris Sackett, or Mosaic, a black basketball player who is given mysterious powers after an encounter with an otherworldly vapor.

Last year, Marvel introduced a female Thor and the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was commissioned to reintroduce the Black Panther to fans. And last month, AfterShock Comics announced that it would debut Chalis, after a fan had asked the writer, Paul Jenkins, for a transgender superhero. A teenage Muslim heroine from New Jersey, Ms. Marvel, has been popular since her introduction in 2013.

But aside from Storm, the white-haired mutant featured in “X-Men” in 1975, the Marvel world has lacked black female characters who are central to a story.

Even so, Mr. Bendis told Time that some fans were dismayed at the creation of another character of color.

“All I can do is state my case for the character, and maybe they’ll realize over time that that’s not the most progressive thinking,” he said.

While the move to create Riri has drawn praise for making steps to greater inclusion, some writers and illustrators used the development to spotlight the need for more female writers of color in an industry known for a lack of diversity.

Last year, Adam Sorice, a writer for the pop culture blog The Mary Sue, analyzed the number of Marvel’s female illustrators and writers, finding 8 women among 81 men.

“Diversity has been used as a marketing strategy to engage with female readers first and foremost, but this commitment to representation is yet to carry over to the company’s hiring processes,” Mr. Sorice wrote.

Jamie Broadnax, the editor of the pop culture website Black Girl Nerds, was among those who took to Twitter to discuss the issue underlying the introduction of Riri: a lack of black female creators.

Ms. Broadnax wrote that she was happy to see a black female lead in a comic, “but really wish the publisher would give black women a chance to write them.”

And Mildred Louis, an illustrator who lives near Boston, rejected the idea that a black character should be the work of a white writer.

“Our lives and experiences aren’t a thought exercise,” Ms. Louis wrote on Twitter. “We don’t exist so you can ‘get better at writing.’ ”

It indeed seems much better case than the OP suggested.

 

[SIR HERDERP PRESIDERP SDO]

Her name is Riri Williams

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.

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[Flakez]

Their NOT replacing Toni Stark as Iron Man.

He will still be in the story, This is no different from when Batman gets a new Robin. Ton Stark finally gets a protegie. The guy who wrote his artcle obviously doesnt know what he is talking about.

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You can calm down!!!

He might be around ( depending how Civil War 2 ends) but she will take the mantle.

 

[Your Creepy Stalker]

Well, at least Iron Man isn't suddenly a Nazi.

 

[LoZelda101]

Marvel comics at it again with shock value and publicity BS.

Black spidey
Girl wolverine
Nazi capt
Blk girl iron man.

And anime related deathnote L casted by black guy. Lol

 

[Itachi Edo]

Their NOT replacing Toni Stark as Iron Man.

He will still be in the story, This is no different from when Batman gets a new Robin. Ton Stark finally gets a protegie. The guy who wrote his artcle obviously doesnt know what he is talking about.

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You can calm down!!!

similar to what happened when Jane Foster became Thor. Thor was still in the story, just not the main focal point.

 

[Flakez]

Marvel comics at it again with shock value and publicity BS.

Black spidey
Girl wolverine
Nazi capt
Blk girl iron man.

And anime related deathnote L casted by black guy. Lol

they backtracked the hydra thing an issue later, let's see how this will turn out

 

[Osmon]

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Lets erase all white male characters from history while we're at it.


I hate you all.

Calm down, Slim Jesus.

 

[Illuminater]

My idea is that they make an entirely new hero that's African American instead of replacing popular iconic characters. That way Blacks have a character that can represent them and white people still get to keep their characters.

 

[To Whatever]

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Lets erase all white male characters from history while we're at it.


I hate you all.

Something tells me you don't really care.

 

[FreakensteinAG]

Something tells me you don't really care.

Trust me, he cares. The cringeworthy way.

 

[To Whatever]

Trust me, he cares. The cringeworthy way.

jesus...

 

[Lightbringer]

Slimreaper keeps his cross burning to ward off black people.

 

[LoZelda101]

My idea is that they make an entirely new hero that's African American instead of replacing popular iconic characters. That way Blacks have a character that can represent them and white people still get to keep their characters.

That's common sense dumbass. Which is why it fails :lol
So they use deperate clickbaits covers as the only way to get attention.