On August 19, Marvel officially announced that Anthony McKay joined "American Team 4", marking the official transition of superhero "Falcon" to the second generation of Captain America.
Two days after the announcement, Marvel released a new news--- the second generation of Iron Man has finally been implemented, and the superhero has an alias called "Heart of Steel".
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The news was reprinted from the foreign media on August 20, marvel president Kevin Feige revealed in an interview with Comicbook that the new hero "Heart of Steel" will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe and debut in "Black Panther 2".
News about Black Panther 2 was reported at the end of June this year, the script for the film was completed, and it was announced that filming had officially begun, and the official title was temporarily translated as "Black Panther: Long Live Wakanda".
With Black Panther actor Chadwick Bosman now dead, this sequel will be a Black Panther movie without Black Panther, and it's hard to imagine how the story of the film would have been told in the absence of the core protagonist.
But those are all afterwords, and now Marvel has announced that the second generation of Iron Man will appear in "Black Panther 2", which is indeed a big attraction point, after all, there is an extra "golden signboard".
Speaking of this second-generation Iron Man --- "Heart of Steel" first appeared in the 2016 comic strip "Invincible Iron Man", the character is named Lily Williams, a 15-year-old African-American girl.
Lily attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology like Tony Stark, and both were talented and adept at inventing, and her first-generation exclusive armor was also built by herself, in order to qualify for the academy's scholarship.
As a result, in a later experience of seeing righteousness and courage fail, her armor was not only seriously damaged, but also expelled from the academy.
However, fortunately, Tony Stark, who was retired at the time, also noticed this "student sister" from the same school as himself, out of appreciation for Lily's talent, Stark funded Lily to create his own new armor, so the second generation of Iron Man was officially born, named "Heart of Steel"!
The movie version of "Heart of Steel" will be played by actor Dominic Thorne, who is also a newcomer actor, and promoting newcomers is Marvel's "fine tradition" that has always been unique.
The actor will now begin filming the roles of Black Panther 2 this week, and it is planned that the film will be released publicly in North America on July 8, 2022.
Then again, the reason behind the comic's launch of such a personal new character is understood by everyone, but whether the audience can buy it or not is another matter.
It is said that Marvel readers are generally not very interested in this officially approved new Iron Man, and the sales and popularity of related comics are not bad.
Discovering this problem, Marvel quickly made adjustments and continued to let Stark return to Iron Man, while Lily continued to use the name "Heart of Steel", but it was clear that she was no longer the protagonist of the story.
Even in today's "politically correct" America, readers are still not very receptive to the new Iron Man to let a black girl who has not been on the scene for a long time to take over.
Therefore, it is conceivable that Marvel's move is not very good, there are always too many unstable factors, and whether the audience is willing to accept this black girl version of Iron Man, there must be a question mark here.
The reason why readers have a less optimistic performance, in addition to time is one thing, there is also that they feel that she is not the only one in the Marvel world who is qualified to be Iron Man.
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Compared with the Falcons, who also inherited the identity of the US team, the iron heart obviously lacks the important condition of "time".
This new Iron Man has only been born for five years, and it has always appeared in comics until "Black Panther 2" in the beginning of filming.
And the most troublesome point is that Iron Heart has never appeared in the previous Marvel movies, nor has there been any early appearance to pave the way, which makes everyone know very little about her. (After all, I always watch more movies than I do)
And as the successor of the older generation of superheroes, the preparation and transition of the hero's inheritance is essential, otherwise you can't convince most of the audience to accept this arrangement. (Note that it is the majority, and everyone is not required to agree)
According to this requirement, this "successor" must have a sufficiently important intersection with the predecessors, and the appearance time must be early enough.
So what are the similar roles in the MCU? For example, there is a Falcon here in the US team, and there is a little boy named Harry on the Iron Man side.
In Iron Man 3, young Harry meets The Devastated Stark, and with his encouragement, Stark gets back on his feet and truly becomes a vietnamese superhero.
Harry's cute and warm side, so that many viewers have been circled by this little boy, as we all know, the inheritance of a heroic identity is inseparable from the admiration of the younger generations for the predecessors, which is the same as the falcon worship of the AMERICAN team.
At the end of "Avengers 4", Harry, who has grown up to be a teenager, also attends Iron Man's funeral with everyone.
Seeing these pictures, it is difficult not to think that he will be the successor of the new Iron Man.
Although War Machine and Little Peppers are not unconsidered, they have never been more meaningful than Harry, and the officially designated Iron Heart is not popular, plus many of the plot settings of Marvel movies do not all follow the comics, so everyone thinks that it is most appropriate to choose Harry as the second generation of Iron Man.
Another thing, after the release of "Avengers 4", the actor who played Harry, Tysin Pudkinson, also said on the Internet that he was willing to inherit Iron Man's will and become a superhero Iron Boy.
Speaking of this Steel Boy, he appeared earlier in 2005, and in the comics he was one of the creators and members of The Young Avengers.
The most interesting part here is that The Iron Boy's real name is Nathaniel Richards, and this character has another identity in the Marvel World before--- Consort Consort.
In a manga version, Conquistador meets his former youthful self and tells him that he will become a supervillain in the future, but when he was a teenager, he did not want to be an evil person in the future, and as a result, he inadvertently changed history and became Iron Boy.
In the Marvel TV series "Rocky", Conquistador Kang just appeared on the scene, but unfortunately, there is no complete character line between the three at present.
Back to the point, Harry, because of his more reasonable role preparation, before Marvel officially announced that Iron Heart was the second generation of Iron Man, so that a considerable number of people thought that he was the second generation of Iron Man.
But now that everything has been hammered out, the answer is the officially designated but slightly less popular Steel Heart.
Compared with iron man, which became a hit in 2008, Iron Heart did not leave the audience with enough time to know, and unlike Falcon and Harry, who appeared in the movie early, it did not leave enough impression on everyone.
All in all, her appearance is obviously to take over the seat of the original Iron Man, purely following the setting and "political correctness" considerations in the original comics.
For most viewers who are not familiar with the heart of steel, and who already hate "political correctness", it is estimated that there will still be some criticism on the Internet.
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Since the battle of "Avengers 4", the elders of the Avengers have walked away and scattered, and it can be said that they will be disbanded.
In the three giants of marvel movies that year, Iron Man has gone, the US team is old, and only one Thor who has become a fat house has followed the Guardians of the Galaxy to the cosmic wave.
Now in the position of the Big Three, the successors of the US team and Iron Man are both black heroes, and Thor is still a white man.
However, other Avengers heroes, including Thor, also have their own successors, such as the "widowed sister" Yelena Bellova, who is identified as the second generation of Black Widow.
The second generation of Hulk and Hawkeye are said to have been replaced by female characters, and even related film and television dramas have been put on the agenda, and Thor's ex-girlfriend Jane Foster has heard that she will also become a new generation of "female Thor" in "Thor 4".
It seems that the future Marvel hero design will become more and more diverse--- black, white, yellow, male, female everything, what to do.
But to get so many attributes out, just to promote "political correctness", and ignore the most basic audience feelings, such a Marvel movie can still sell well in the future?
But those are not the things that we outsiders should care about, anyway, from now on, when watching Marvel movies, we should first consider it.