Major online uproar over Marvel comics making new Ironman 15yr old black girl

[CougarKing]

Marvels leaps into controversy even as the recent shootings seem to dominate the media this week:

CBC

Marvel fuels internet clash by making Iron Man a 15-year-old black girl
Tony Stark will soon be replaced in Marvel's Iron Man comics by teen genius Riri Williams

By Lauren O'Neil, CBC News Posted: Jul 07, 2016 8:09 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 07, 2016 8:09 PM ET

Marvel, purveyor of superhero franchises, has given two vocal and constantly sparring online communities a new reason to wage battle this week by changing the gender, age and race of a canonical comic book character.

Whether or not the fans were flamed on purpose is up for debate — but what's certain is that Iron Man will soon be a 15-year-old black girl from Chicago.

Meet Riri Williams, a science prodigy who leaves the "chaos and violence" of her city behind to enrol at MIT, where eventually she reverse-engineers an Iron Man suit in her dorm room.

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[CBH99]

Marvel isn't stupid.  While the movies are about the comic book characters, villains, storylines - at the end of the day, they bring in huge amounts of $$ at the box office.

Ironman isn't just a movie franchise.  Its a very successful movie franchise.  And without it, the Avengers franchise couldn't exist. 

I am going to guess that this is just going to be an exploration of one of the alternative comic book venues.  (Such as different versions of Spiderman, Spidergirl, Spiderwoman, etc)

 

[a_majoor]

SJW convergence tends to ruin everything it touches, including movie franchises. Do you really think Iron Man fans want to spit through a 2hr scolding about what nasty privileged white people they've been?

 

[cavalryman]

SJW overreach =
:trainwreck:

op:

 

[Jarnhamar]

a 15-year-old black girl from Chicago.

She better be transgender or I'm going to throw a brick through a department store window and looting all the shit inside!

 

[AbdullahD]

She better be transgender or I'm going to throw a brick through a department store window and looting all the crap inside!

Ya know I had something really sarcastic typed up here because I thought it was funny.

But then I stopped and deleted it, because I didn't want to get in trouble and this is a publicly searchable forum

But let's just say shallow plays got money are just that.

 

[PuckChaser]

She better be transgender or I'm going to throw a brick through a department store window and looting all the crap inside!

It's OK, she self identifies as white, like the reverse of that white chick who ran a NAACP chapter in the US.

 

[cavalryman]

Do Iron Lives Matter?
;D

 

[mariomike]

It's OK, she self identifies as white, like the reverse of that white chick who ran a NAACP chapter in the US.