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5 min readMarvel Tried to Bury This Show
The host opens by comparing Marvel's handling of Ironheart to a student who realizes they've completely misunderstood a class assignment and tries to hide at the back of the room, hoping the teacher will forget about them. The show was commissioned five years ago during the peak of what the host calls the "swap out beloved legacy characters for diverse new alternatives" trend in the MCU. It's based on a comic book character from what he describes as arguably the least successful era of Marvel comics, a character who "did nothing but ride the coattails of her far more popular male predecessor, only with none of his charm, likability, flaws, or character development." The host argues the show was "outdated and obsolete before it was even released," and that Marvel knew it. Their strategy: go silent, try to bury it, and hope audiences would forget.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:04) **Ironheart Burying & The School Presentation Analogy** - Asmongold introduces the thesis that Marvel tried to bury the Ironheart show, comparing it to a student who misunderstood a class assignment and hid at the back of the room.
- 2 (01:38) **Asmongold's Own Group Presentation Story** - Asmongold recounts a personal anecdote about soloing a college group presentation and then snitching on his teammates to the professor.
- 3 (03:55) **Relating to the "Burying" Strategy** - Asmongold returns to the main thesis, stating that Marvel's attempt to hide Ironheart is exactly like his own experience of trying to make his useless teammates stand behind him and say nothing.
- 4 (05:50) **First Official Trailer Reaction** - Asmongold plays and reacts to the first official Ironheart trailer, mocking its premise and dialogue.
- 5 (08:02) **Producers' Defensive Comments** - Asmongold reads producer comments claiming Riri is not a successor to Iron Man, calling them a "throne of lies."
- 6 (09:00) **The "One-Up" Character Comparison** - Asmongold contrasts Tony Stark's origin (a flawed playboy building a suit to escape captivity) with Riri Williams (a teenage genius who taught herself advanced tech "as a fetus").
- 7 (09:55) **Actress Defends the Role; Robert Downey Jr. Blessing** - Asmongold reacts to the actress Dominique Thorne's press tour where she claims the show isn't a retread of Iron Man and says Robert Downey Jr. gave her his blessing.
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