Saturday, June 8, 2019

Ironheart (Riri Williams) Part 2: Marvel Rising

Ok this is the second part of the Riri series. These are from the Cartoon Marvel Rising She actually has some amazing foot shots in this series as you'll see below. :-) 
Plus one animation. :-D
A couple of alternate and extended gifs are available here.

(The caps featured here are from the Marvel Rising Special Heart of Iron. Special Thanks to Rtue2 and JTurner for tipping us off to this scene. ^_^)


Riri debuts in the fourth special for the Marvel Rising series Heart of Iron. She depicted as a student who creates her own Iron Man outfit in order to become a hero. Due to her genius intellect she attracts the attention of heroes and villains in the series.

Marvel did a really good job of adapting Riri for this series. I would even go so far as to say that it seems like her background is a little bit more developed than her comic book incarnation. We wind up getting to know her better as she interacts with the other Marvel Rising characters. We get a sense of her personality as well as why she wants to become a heroine. This version of Riri had to sacrifice friendships in order to dive into developing her Iron Man armor and as result is withdrawn and prefers interacting with machines. She winds up helping the other Marvel Rising heroes stop a villain's attack becoming a valuable member of their team and making a new set of friends in the process.

In general, I like this version of Riri a lot. My only criticism with this depiction of her is that she comes off a little bit stiff. This might be an intentional choice on her actresses' part to show her as withdrawn but it makes some of emotional moments involving her less compelling than they could have been. Compared with some of the livelier Marvel Rising characters... Riri seem a little dryer. She is still really cool though and I enjoyed seeing her on screen.   

Ok guys. That's all for today. As always though... more to come soon!
-KSC

42 comments:

  1. Nice feet, but I kinda dislike this SJW trend with all the Marvel properties. Couldn't they just create a new super character?

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    1. Yeah... I think a lot of people were tired of that (myself included). I think Marvel noticed and is dialing it back a little. We've seen a lot of original heroes return to the role like Thor, Iron Man and the Hulk.

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    2. Exactly, diversity's fine, but they should do what they've been doing for many years if they wanna introduce a new character and make them original rather than giving them the identity as an already existing character.
      There's been some exceptions, but the difference is they make it so painfully obvious now.


      Have them appear in a comic with the mainstream characters, then give them their solo series after he/she's been given a proper push. There are other way too, but that's most common approach from what I normally see.

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    3. Really? I don't know how it would make another superhero.

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    4. Yes I agree with you Chris. ^_^

      I think Marvel's logic was that having a new character replace an existing hero would sell better than introducing the new character separately. It a cheap gimmick that people would buy the comics to see what happened to their favorite hero and why they were replaced temporarily boosting the comic book sales. They would also get an additional boost in sales when they inevitably return the classic character to role.

      The problem is that Marvel got super lazy and used that trick too many times replacing (Captain America, Ms. Marvel, Thor, The Hulk, Hawkeye, Wolverine and Iron Man) with newer more diverse counterparts in a very shot period of time. By the time Riri Williams was introduced people were understandably rolling their eyes at it and of course people were going to criticize them for it.

      What really annoys me is when creators use diversity as a cop out for their bad writing/marketing decisions. It an insult to their readers to say that because they complain about the favorite characters being replaced with less developed characters (in terms of plot and history) that they are being racist/sexist. There is no way a character with 60 years of history and background being replaced wouldn't be missed.

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    5. So what you're saying is that no matter how experimental Marvel is, they will receive criticism for not playing it safe even though the complaints will be the same?

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    6. I was explaining the problems with Marvel's writing and Marketing strategy.

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    7. Oh, I know very little on their way of doing business.

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    8. I'm that they try but replacing all of their classic marvel heroes back to back like that was a mistake.

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    9. OK, I'm sorry for butting in.

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    10. It's just that I'm not much of an comic book guy.

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    11. Oh I tend to read a lot of comics so I'm pretty knowledgeable in terms of them.

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    12. Maybe I should stay away from these posts.

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    13. It's fine. ^_^ It is a good opportunity to learn about some of them.

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    14. How so? I can't tell which is which.

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    15. Not the basic ones like Spider Man and Iron Man but the ones succeeded after them or alternative ones.

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  2. I do like her feet but do you think that it's OK to enjoy colored feet like brown skinned?

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    1. Sure. ^_^ With a character like Christie from Tekken. I think of Caramel... sweet and tasty.

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    2. Which skin color is better on girls' feet?

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    3. All colors work for me as long as the feet look nice. I even like the exotic green color of She Hulk's feet. ^_^

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    4. What if the feet don't look good at all? You're too open.

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    5. Oh yes... this only applies to nice looking feet. Like the soft and smooth well pedicured type.

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    6. Who has that in your opinion?

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    7. I think a lot of people like pedicured feet as well. ^_^

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  3. Nice feet, is her original story still a psychopathenvy of not being racially discriminated and stole from her college to make her suit?

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    1. They adjusted a little in the cartoon. She became a heroine after she lost her family. She wanted to become a hero to protect other people. She just wound up isolating herself because she devoted so much to working on her armor.

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