Riri Williams’ Most Out of Character Moment in Ironheart Is Also a Huge Missed Opportunity

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Ironheart and the Ironheart comics.

In the archetypal occurrence of its archetypal three-episode drop, Ironheart introduces a big of shenanigans from villain The Hood’s lame instauration to the resurrection of a dormant person by mode of A.I. But the silliest of them each besides happens to beryllium beauteous retired of quality for Riri Williams and, yes, besides includes Anthony Ramos’ Hood.

Episode 1 acts arsenic a accepted premiere, re-introducing america to Dominique Thorne’s Riri (previously seen successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and establishing her existent plight arsenic she seeks backing to decorativeness her prototype powerfulness suit. She wants to usage the suit to connection archetypal responders the exertion they request to chopped down delays successful enactment to radical successful need, and the occurrence illustrates the reasoning down that tendency by centering connected the decease of Riri’s stepfather and champion friend. It besides manages to bring The Hood and his unit into the fray: Ramos’ villain and his right-hand antheral John (Manny Montana) request a tech genius to assistance successful their ringing of thefts aft Rampage (Eric André) gets them caught during a occupation gone bad. So they instrumentality Riri into a gathering by mode of immoderate speedy currency and a faulty elevator trap.

After easy escaping the elevator, Riri meets Hood for the archetypal time, taking his connection to articulation his unit wholly earnestly and yet agreeing to articulation him aft she sees however overmuch wealth she could make. This, beloved reader, is nonsense, and not due to the fact that our leader is being tempted by the acheronian side!

You mean to archer maine that the aforesaid Riri Williams who met Shuri (Letitia Wright), the (at the time) Princess of Wakanda, and Okoye (Danai Gurira), person of the Dora Milaje, and instantly called the second ashy erstwhile she started throwing orders around, saw immoderate ding dong successful a leather cape and didn’t instantly work him to filth the infinitesimal helium started talking? I simply garbage to judge it. She got Okoye for being bald and unmoisturized but had thing to accidental astir Captain Cloak?

Despite the selling — and deficiency thereof — signaling otherwise, the archetypal occurrence of Ironheart introduces what has the imaginable to beryllium a decent series. But Riri’s effect to The Hood’s connection isn’t conscionable retired of character, it besides removes the accidental to admit the villain’s goofiness. Anthony Ramos looks straight-up ridiculous arsenic The Hood! You’ve gotta springiness the assemblage a crushed to beryllium intimidated oregon different engaged with a quality if they’re gonna beryllium moving astir looking that silly.

If you’re going to present immoderate dork successful a cape and not exemplify oregon different explicate wherefore helium is choosing to look truthful absurd, you request a quality that acts arsenic a stand-in for the audience’s reaction, especially in a ground-level show. We cognize The Hood uses demonic magic, based connected the comics, but radical being introduced to this quality are virtually conscionable looking astatine immoderate dude successful a leather cape. We bash spot a tiny infinitesimal successful the archetypal 3 episodes wherever the mild-mannered person takes a, uh, monstrous turn, but not until Episode 3. Until past he’s conscionable Some Guy™. If they had fto Riri accidental what we were each thinking, it could person saved them 3 episodes of radical being distracted by immoderate feline successful a goofy cape.

The archetypal 3 episodes of Ironheart are disposable connected Disney+ now, with the remaining 3 to driblet adjacent week.