Current Events > Black Panther's 16 Year Old Sister Is Smarter Than Tony Stark

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https://screenrant.com/black-panther-sister-shuri-smarter-tony-stark/

.....wtf?
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Virtue signalling means introducing minority characters as the best of the best.

Why are you pretending to care?
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Virtue signalling means introducing minority characters as the best of the best.

But its ok when we have white child geniuses in comics, which there are many of.
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does that mean that she's smarter than Black Panther?

because iirc, he's supposed to be one of the eighth smartest people in Marvel, but I don't think that he was smarter than Tony
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Well she lives in a city that's decades ahead of the rest of the world.

Besides isn't Banner the actual smartest guy in the MCU?
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Darmik posted...

Well she lives in a city that's decades ahead of the rest of the world.

Besides isn't Banner the actual smartest guy in the MCU?

I heard it was Richard Reeds.
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Blue_Inigo posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Virtue signalling means introducing minority characters as the best of the best.

But its ok when we have white child geniuses in comics, which there are many of.

If a white child genius was introduced as smarter than the canon smartest character, I'd still be annoyed. It has nothing to do with being white or black or male or female, it's that you don't debut at the top. And it's pretty evident that she's being toted as the smartest simply because she's a minority character.

They should've introduced her, let her develop her own following, and casually allowed her to surpass Tony Stark in a manner which felt organic. Instead, they threw a 15 year old girl into a metal suit, called her Iron Man, and proclaimed her smarter than the original. That's not a good way to make friends.

I wouldn't want to meet the 17 year old who could outfight Batman.

St0rmFury posted...

Darmik posted...

Well she lives in a city that's decades ahead of the rest of the world.

Besides isn't Banner the actual smartest guy in the MCU?

I heard it was Richard Reeds.

We haven't gotten Reed Richards yet.
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more like black pander

am i right guys?

do you guys like my joke?
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Where does tony stark rate on the genius list of marvel characters?

Dr. Doom and Reed Richards are most likely above him also.
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Black Panthers producer claims

this is like DBZ power level arguments except somehow more pathetic
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Blue_Inigo posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Virtue signalling means introducing minority characters as the best of the best.

But its ok when we have white child geniuses in comics, which there are many of.

If a white child genius was introduced as smarter than the canon smartest character, I'd still be annoyed. It has nothing to do with being white or black or male or female, it's that you don't debut at the top. And it's pretty evident that she's being toted as the smartest simply because she's a minority character.

They should've introduced her, let her develop her own following, and casually allowed her to surpass Tony Stark in a manner which felt organic. Instead, they threw a 15 year old girl into a metal suit, called her Iron Man, and proclaimed her smarter than the original. That's not a good way to make friends.

I wouldn't want to meet the 17 year old who could outfight Batman.

are you complaining about finctional characters making friends?

so some idiot blogger uses a movie to try to overwrite actual comics

that's cute

Skye Reynolds posted...

They should've introduced her, let her develop her own following, and casually allowed her to surpass Tony Stark in a manner which felt organic. Instead, they threw a 15 year old girl into a metal suit, called her Iron Man, and proclaimed her smarter than the original. That's not a good way to make friends.

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.
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armandro posted...

more like black pander

am i right guys?

do you guys like my joke?

Yes that's funny
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makes sense. wakanda is ahead of america

Mistere Man posted...

Where does tony stark rate on the genius list of marvel characters?

in the comics he's below like all the researchers
in the mcu he's outmatched by people in his own movies
he's an engineer. great for applying knowledge, but that doesn't make him smart

Skye Reynolds posted...

They should've introduced her, let her develop her own following, and casually allowed her to surpass Tony Stark in a manner which felt organic. Instead, they threw a 15 year old girl into a metal suit, called her Iron Man, and proclaimed her smarter than the original. That's not a good way to make friends.

what
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You mean the head of R&D of the most technologically advanced country in the world is the smartest person in the world?!

Inconceivable!

Yeah I figured he wasnt that high on the list.
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Fam_Fam posted...

are you complaining about finctional characters making friends?

"Hey, I'm going to take his statement literally to make him look like an idiot."

Darmik posted...

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

Skye Reynolds posted...

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

there's more than one young black female character in marvel y'know
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

are you complaining about finctional characters making friends?

"Hey, I'm going to take his statement literally to make him look like an idiot."

Darmik posted...

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

So you didn't even read the damn thing and start bitching about "virtue signaling?" lol
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I guess it's slightly more justified in a film universe because you don't have as much time for the audience to get to know movie characters as you would with a comic character who's gonna be there month after month.

I said I wouldn't want to meet the teenager who could outfight Batman, but I wouldn't exactly get upset if a James Bond movie had a Japanese teenager who knew gadgetry better than he did.

prince_leo posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

there's more than one young black female character in marvel y'know

Apparently they're all smarter than Tony Stark.

It's a recent trend of like the past 5 years to introduce characters, usually female it seems, and mention they are smarter than Tony Stark.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Apparently they're all smarter than Tony Stark.

out of the smart characters in the MCU, who isn't though?
IM2 - whiplash and hammer were both around tony's intelligence with whiplash perhaps even moreso
IM3 - killian was smarter
Ant-Man - pym can do things that tony can't
Spider-Man - peter had built some stuff that tony hadn't
GotG - rocket is obviously not human and in another galaxy, but he seems to be on par
etc.
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it doesn't matter snice its a blgoger talking about movies so like let them clickbait

AverageCEgal posted...

it doesn't matter snice its a blgoger talking about movies so like let them clickbait

Actually it's a quote from the movie's producer

ok replace blogger with idiot witing a fannon mary sure

Darmik posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

They should've introduced her, let her develop her own following, and casually allowed her to surpass Tony Stark in a manner which felt organic. Instead, they threw a 15 year old girl into a metal suit, called her Iron Man, and proclaimed her smarter than the original. That's not a good way to make friends.

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.

it's Skye Reynolds

don't respond
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How come nobody cares about Peter Parker being a 16-year-old super genius?

cause not idiot director trying to say his mary sue is better than the decades of comics

Sky Reynolds was talking about another young black girl who was Iron Maiden. She built her own suit and is said to be smarter than Tony

Zikten posted...

Sky Reynolds was talking about another young black girl who was Iron Maiden. She built her own suit and is said to be smarter than Tony

That's a cool name for her. All of those articles though made it seem like she was (temporarily) succeeding Tony Stark as the new Iron Man.

Zikten posted...

Sky Reynolds was talking about another young black girl who was Iron Maiden. She built her own suit and is said to be smarter than Tony

No shit. The problem is they're doing exactly what you do, only reading the headlines and trying to have a discussion.
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But whether it's Peter, Riri, or Shuri, teen prodigies have been a staple of Marvel since forever, so I don't see why people complain about it now.

it's actually Ironheart
and the problem was that she has nothing to do with this topic
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

But whether it's Peter, Riri, or Shuri, teen prodigies have been a staple of Marvel since forever, so I don't see why people complain about it now.

Spider-Man's first solo issue had him meeting the Fantastic Four with the established heroes commenting on his potential. They didn't introduce Spider-Man as stronger than the Thing or smarter than Reed Richards.

She serves to demonstrate that this is not the first time Marvel debuted a young teen girl and said "btw she's better than Tony"

no like its okay i get it
the idiot is upset he cant write comics or movies so he wants a mary sue he dreams about being iron man
like its totally ok im just gonna mock him

Skye Reynolds posted...

Zikten posted...

Sky Reynolds was talking about another young black girl who was Iron Maiden. She built her own suit and is said to be smarter than Tony

That's a cool name for her. All of those articles though made it seem like she was (temporarily) succeeding Tony Stark as the new Iron Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3bc8rCy6Q&t=5s

better then

Skye Reynolds posted...

ThanksUglyGod posted...

But whether it's Peter, Riri, or Shuri, teen prodigies have been a staple of Marvel since forever, so I don't see why people complain about it now.

Spider-Man's first solo issue had him meeting the Fantastic Four with the established heroes commenting on his potential. They didn't introduce Spider-Man as stronger than the Thing or smarter than Reed Richards.

So if Riri was just a little less smart than Tony Stark people wouldn't have a problem with her? Why's that? Doesn't she have more potential than Tony did when he was her age?

I'd like to see what she can build with a box of scraps
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riri is one of the worse charactesr in the entire comic world
she was put there by a writer that was forcing an agenda
like write a character like kamala or laura
you dont need a giant i iz better than errryone character

armandro posted...

more like black pander

am i right guys?

do you guys like my joke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

ThanksUglyGod posted...

But whether it's Peter, Riri, or Shuri, teen prodigies have been a staple of Marvel since forever, so I don't see why people complain about it now.

Spider-Man's first solo issue had him meeting the Fantastic Four with the established heroes commenting on his potential. They didn't introduce Spider-Man as stronger than the Thing or smarter than Reed Richards.

So if Riri was just a little less smart than Tony Stark people wouldn't have a problem with her? Why's that? Doesn't she have more potential than Tony did when he was her age?

Having Tony admit that she's more advanced than he was at her age would've been fair. As for her being more or less intelligent, that's not so much the issue as them coming out and saying it. When you're going up against time tested characters, you earn every scrap you get.

We've got a boxer named Muhammad Ali. He's a four time world champion, the only person who can claim that. Now we've got an amateur boxer who's just made their debut and we're already making the claim that they're faster and stronger than Ali. Do you see the problem with that?

You're setting someone up for failure when you're telling people right at the starting gate that they're objectively better than their predecessor. If there were any truth to that, it'd be the audience saying it. Let people meet Riri first. Let them admire her own accomplishments. And when it comes time to state that she is matter of fact more intelligent than Tony Stark, make it a claim that people will accept because they've seen how her work compares to his.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

are you complaining about finctional characters making friends?

"Hey, I'm going to take his statement literally to make him look like an idiot."

Darmik posted...

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

no, but its getting at that this character not being liked my the Marvel Universe or something? making it sound like the character made herself that smart, and that would lead to her not being accepted. it was not the actress or the character's choice to be written how it was. and if you're talking about the writers (who are writing FOR the marvel universe), who do they need to "make friends with"? this is part of the universe, and it happens that this smartest person is a young black woman. Which is a problem, apparently. But it wasn't a problem when the rich white man became the smartest character. He had no problem making friends.

prince_leo posted...

in the comics he's below like all the researchers
in the mcu he's outmatched by people in his own movies
he's an engineer. great for applying knowledge, but that doesn't make him smart

Thank you. This is all I came here to say.
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Schwarber posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

are you complaining about finctional characters making friends?

"Hey, I'm going to take his statement literally to make him look like an idiot."

Darmik posted...

Wut? This is about the MCU and the unreleased Black Panther movie.

I thought this was about the new "Iron Man" from last year. The movies are doing it too?

So you didn't even read the damn thing and start bitching about "virtue signaling?" lol

That sums up the type of person who uses virtue signaling in an actual conversation, yeah.
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