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

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Skye seriously. Shut the Fuck up
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Fam_Fam posted...

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.

You're being obtuse. When I say that it's not a good way to make friends, I'm obviously talking about the character's chances of being popular with the audience.

When you start out as "better than x established character," you're going to make a couple of people's shit list.

We're so fixated on that 'better than Tony Stark' qualifier that we're failing to notice the larger point: that she is the smartest human being on the planet.

The intelligence standard to which everyone should aspire happens to be held by a black woman. Maybe it shouldn't be (and one day it may not be), but in America that is inherently political. This whole movie cannot escape its political implications, which is kind of the risk of doing it and introducing Wakanda in the first place. The people who are going to be mad about Shuri will be besides themselves regardless. Let them be mad.
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Theyre all only as smart as the writers who write them are able to make them.

boxington posted...

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

Black Panther has proven time and time again to be far above Tony. By actual feats. Not sure on the rankings.
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Who cares
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Lol, teenage/young geniuses have been in Marvel comics since forever

Get over it.

Skye Reynolds posted...

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?

If that person is indeed faster and stronger than Ali? No I have no problem with that whatsoever.
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