Marvel's new Iron Man will be a black woman replacing Tony Stark
 

http://time.com/4394478/iron-man-rir...ms-tony-stark/

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Marvel continues to go all social justice warrior and replace Tony Stark with a black woman, yet she's still called Iron Man instead of "Iron Woman" or something like that.

So Marvel again trying to appeal to feminists and minorities by replacing an established character for 60 years with another female minority. When will it end?

Doesn't really matter. By the next MCU movie starring Iron Man as a lead character, Stark will most likely be back in the armor.

Does this mean Iron Man will finally get that personality he's been missing?

Lol. So relevant.

Huh, so they're going the Tim Drake route.
Interesting.

Still ought to be better than Ghostbusters, I would prefer it if the name stayed as Iron Man. The idea seems alright right now but hopefully nobody ****s it up with various things. I know she's a girl and man is in the title of Iron Man but what if she had a secret identity or something pretending to be a dude? I still think Stark will be in the armor again though.

How about Iron Tran?

Also, her name is re-re.

How ironic that yesterday we were talking about having a black April in TMNT and all of a sudden the very next day Marvel officially announces a black woman Iron Man.

What a coincidence!

No big deal. In the 1980s, a black man replaced Iron Man while Tony Stark worked through his alcoholism.

Yeah, but all THAT 15-yo had to do is figure out Bruce Wayne was Batman. And do a lot of athletics.

A high-school or college student making a robotic exoskeleton armored suit capable of weaponry, defense, and flight? On her budget? Nah.

Having actually lived at MIT for a summer, trust me...if she has the talent, the tools wouldn't be hard to come by.

Would that much materiel be available to a student? Enough to actually fab a full Iron Man suit?

...

I guess so. Students pull all sorts of goofy stuff in labs and shops. I guess it's not quite as far-fetched as my original reaction.

They are very fond of their Hacks.
http://hacks.mit.edu/

I don't buy it. I mean, Iron Man wears a helmet. So...

But that was different. That was Tony's longtime friend. This is just some kid.

I can't say I'm suprised

Why is Marvel replacing all their established heroes with minorities when the characters are now popularized through the movies to casuals?

- Black female Iron Man
- Female Thor
- Black Captain America
- Asian Hulk
- Black/Spanish Spiderman (Miles)
- Female Wolverine (X-23)

It like...makes no sense.

I don't know about this. This iron man woman situation is too much.

(I think X-23 is kinda cool.)

Comics today are almost all written by fanboys who want to leave their marks in comic history. It used to be the fanboys would make sweeping retcons like changing Power Girl's history or erasing Peter and MJ's marriage, but now they like to make their mark by whoring themselves out to women and minorities. You can almost hear the company and the writer screaming, "Buy my comic! Please!! Look, I included a black character!! That appeals to your sense of 'social justice', right?"

This is what POC like to call, pandering, and what SJW's call progress.

Marvel sells to Tumblr kids and tries to sell to SJWS when they don't really buy comics. Ever wonder why they always renumber? Because they only buy #1s before losing interest. Then Marvel can start up ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT ALL SJW UNCANNY AMAZING UNBREAKABLE HULKVENGERSMEN NOW.1.0

This is why DC is killing them right now.

I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way.

This makes me cringe.

What's so stupid is it makes no sense. Kids being exposed to these superheroes for the first time due to the movies would want to see the same characters in the comics....not completely different characters.

Some kid who loves Tony Stark in the movies and says, "Hey, maybe I should read some Iron Man comics!" and then sees a black woman in the Iron Man armor instead...like what's the point?

I don't know, even in the 90's when I was a kid comics confused me so what do I know.

In ten years, their flagship title will be MRA. Marvel's Righteous Avengers.

Ah, so this is the new thing comics dudes are overreacting to? And in the process, giving the company they're angry at tons of free press?

Cool, cool.

Its not the same as I'm used to! How dare they change white men into black girls!

What it does, is is divide the fans. It splinters a brand into the new Iron person, vs the "real" Iron Man. Then there's the inevitable arguments over which version should be in the movies, leading eventually to either a retcon, or a full replacement.

Superman used to be defined for most folks by the 78 film. The quintessential version, alongside the fleischer cartoons, supported by comics, was Reeve. Universally accepted and beloved.

Now we have injustice, featuring a crazy Alien overlord, bent on killing and enslaving the world, who we're calling Superman. In the movies, he's a weak and apathetic dim-wit, who makes poor choices, and can't control himself.

But don't worry, it's all good because there isn't just one Kryptonian to chose from; infact, it's even crazier than the superfamily of the golden age! Now, there's a multiverse of Supermen, hundreds of them, all shapes and sizes, from almost all walks of life.

When everyone's super, is anyone super?

EDIT:

Wait is anyone watching Fox News Right now? I've never actually watched this ****, but dafuq is up with the trashy stripper look on the women? Also when the hell did Antonio Sabato Jr. become a political pundit.

This is GD bizarre.

That's actually Marvel's buisness model. Angry fans=more sales

Look it up, Brevroot said it himself.

It's a sh*t show. Kinda funny, but ultimately infuriating because I loathe the spread of misinformation. Let's just say they know their demographic well.

I come from a super right-wing family, so I'm familiar with it. It's only worth watching if you want to laugh at it or if Andrew Napolitano is talking.

It's hilarious how similar the format is to CNN, but, like on backwards day.

They almost cancel each other out. The remainder is still stupid, natch.

The remainder being MSNBC? :lol:

Don't get me started on the Kremlin funded RT...

He's dead though. If Tony is going to have someone else pilot his suit, why not a impressionable student that is clever enough to make their own suit. Two birds in one stone, a new pilot and they aren't hired by a rival company.

Why do people care so much about Injustice? It's an alternate timeline based off a s*itty video game.

Read the ACTUAL IN-CANON Superman comics, and you'll find he is an uplifting, morally-centred and inspirational family man with a wife and kid these days.

I don't even know if we get that in Canada, and I wouldn't watch it even if I could, but I know they have a habit of hiring a certain "type" for female correspondents/newscasters (bleach-blonde white women). And CEO Roger Ailes has recently been sued by one such former employee for sexual harassment. So...

I don't think I own any Iron Man comics outside of Extremis and the first storyarc by Busiek and Chen.

I am all for diversity in comics, but as a fan who happens to be black myself, this does seem like an insincere publicity stunt. All that energy devoted to pissing off fans when they could just make a new character.

This stuff never ends up being the new status quo for long, like when Rhodes took over.

I'll take them seriously when they recast RDJ with Lupita N'yongo.

Iron man still works

the letters to represent Iron is "Fe"

so

"Fe" man

"Fe" Male

It was used on one of the covers for Superior Ironman.

Hope for a 3rd Superior comic

Hasnt Miles Morales been in the Spider-Man universe since the 90s though? I dont know why people would be up in arms over that one.

Miles has only been in comics for about 5 years now.