Ironheart

I am a black woman and marvel fan from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I tried to give this a chance when RDJ gave her well wishes on someone's show. This didn't keep my attention at all. The story doesn't make sense or add up. I left it alone thinking maybe I was already preoccupied to give it my full attention. That wasn't it! How are you doing crimes in a suit that more than your college, neighborhood, colleagues, the news, family, and random people on the street know about? Marvel throws people together.... I love me some Manny Montana (Good Girls- iykyk) and Anthony Ramos is cool but who are the rest of these people? It seems like Marvel falls short when it comes to women in their movies (Captain Marvel, Madame Web) besides Wanda and Widow. Anyway... I have no plans to finish watching it and removed it from continued watching on Disney plus. It's a No for me!

It looks slick but it suffers from the same issue all the new marvel stuff does.

It's emotionally flat as a pancake and doesn't connect with the people watching.

It makes the same mistakes of going for making a statement at the cost of the story and characters.

Neither the character development or the story are developed remotely enough to make us care and in fact do the opposite much of the time.

Someone likely realized this which is why it got shelved so long.

It's not acolyte or snow white levels of bad its just meh.

It's a shame really the people involved deserved better but they may have already know it was bad.

I honestly don't get how anyone's hyping this up. They killed off Tony Stark for this? To put a kid in a plastic suit and call her a genius just because the script says so?

Tony built his first suit in a freaking cave, with junk, and carried the whole MCU emotionally and narratively. And now we get... a teenager with no charisma, no real arc, everything just handed to her. The story feels flat. The emotions feel forced. And the suits? They look like something from a kids' cosplay contest.

The whole thing feels like a cheap knockoff with no soul. Marvel either doesn't know what it's doing anymore - or just stopped caring.

If this is what the "next generation" of heroes looks like... then yeah, maybe Endgame really was the end.

As a lifelong Marvel fan and someone who genuinely admired the growth and sacrifice of Tony Stark, watching Ironheart feels like being spat on for caring.

This series doesn't just fall short - it disrespects the legacy of Iron Man to artificially inflate a character who hasn't earned the suit, the tech, or the respect. Instead of honoring Tony Stark - the genius, billionaire, philanthropist who sacrificed everything - the show takes every opportunity to undermine his legacy. There's a line where Riri says Tony was "nothing without his money." Excuse me?

Tony built the Mark 1 in a cave, while dying, with scraps.

He survived PTSD, took responsibility for his past sins, created new elements, mentored Spider-Man like a father, and saved the entire universe in Endgame. He was more than his money - he was his mind, his heart, and his growth.

This show acts like we forgot that. But we didn't.

Instead of showing Riri Williams learning from Tony's legacy, or striving to live up to it, they turned her into a smug, ungrateful replacement. A character who walks in, acts like she knows better, and immediately claims the spotlight with no build-up. That's not inspiring. That's forced.

You want strong new heroes? Great - earn it.

Let Riri grow, make mistakes, struggle, and rise. Let her respect the ones who came before her. That's called storytelling.

But this? This was lazy writing, weak character development, and an insult to everything the MCU built over 10+ years.

You can't just write off legends to make room for new ones. That's how you lose your audience.

This wasn't a tribute to Iron Man. It was a hit job.

And for that, I'm out.

1 star. And that's generous.

The word superhero has lost all meaning. This character is just a selfish thief. Everything she does serves only herself. She doesn't do anything good for anyone and the story is a compilation of stereotypes. Right off the bat it leans into her being a bad person and feigning decency. I can't believe this got made.

I won't be finishing this series, i have no one to root for. How can you make a protagonist that is so unlikable and expect a different result?

I hope this is a wake up call for the studio but I doubt it. They keep churning out this processed slop and attack the fans when they don't like it.