The New Iron Man Isn't Who You'd Expect

to say we have a lot on our minds after avengers endgame would be a major understatement so we're going to go ahead and give a big spoiler warning for endgame right up front we hope you've clicked the video after seeing the movie but in case you haven't - consider yourself warned with that out of the way we can now say that one of the biggest most emotional events of endgame was the death of Tony Stark also known at least until now as the one and only Iron Man but a distinct sound effect sounding a lot like Tony's hammer shaping the original Iron Man armor played over the final moments of the movie's closing credits is this just a sentimental tribute to the moment that started it all or could it be a hint that there are more Iron Men or iron women to come stick with us as we look at the characters who could take up the Iron Man mantle moving from least to most likely starting on the less likely end of the spectrum we're looking at everybody's favorite for head of security happy Hogan before you write him off completely let's make our case in one of the final scenes of endgame we see happy promising to by Tony daughter Morgan as many cheeseburgers as she wants this implies happy will serve as an uncle figure and maybe even a mentor to her if Morgan or anyone else for that matter would look to become an iron person who better to show them the ropes than happy well maybe a couple of other people but we'll get to that later happy is a pleasant guy a capable fighter and has had a ton of time to watch Tony work and though he never donned the Iron Man armor in the comics he did get zapped with cobalt rays and then turned into a super-powered bald man called the Freak but on a more serious note with his appearance in the trailers for spider-man far from home it's not at all impossible that happy would suit up to help Peter Parker fight Mysterio even just for one scene 52 year old Jon Favreau headlining his own trilogy on the other hand well that seems far from likely anyway on the much younger side we have another character from the Iron Man trilogy Harley keiner Harley it was a bullied kid who encountered a suit 'lest Tony during the events of Iron Man 3 Harley and Tony developed a playful father-and-son relationship as they helped each other find their self-confidence at the end of the movie Tony even upgrades Harley's amateur science lab into a state-of-the-art tech facility there are plenty of reasons Harley would be a suitable heir to the Stark Empire and after his surprise appearance at tony's funeral and endgame it seems like the Marvel Universe might not be done with him yet so why is Harley such an unlikely choice well a few reasons first off would be that Harley is not the best-known character before endgame he had only appeared in Iron Man 3 which came out six years ago and judging by the amount of articles that have popped up explaining who he was it seems that even a lot of super fans had trouble recognizing him this leads to the second problem which is that Harley is played by Ty Simpkins who despite being a very good actor who has appeared in big films like insidious and Jurassic world is not a very recognizable face even at 17 only a few years removed from his most famous roles Simpkins looks very different and I don't see Marvel giving him the lead in his own film they could always recast him with an older or more well-known actor but we wonder what the point would be in removing our only connection to this relatively obscure character we hope Harley can stick around in the MCU but as for taking over shellheads armor in the near future we just don't see it another character fans have theorized about is the princess of Wakanda herself Cherie being a tech genius and natural smart aleck Cherie would be a great fit for her own version of the Iron Man armor which she would no doubt design herself being a fan favorite character Cherie seems like a good fit for a new generation of Avengers some fans have even theorized that her name similarity to another character riri Williams aka iron heart could mean that this was the plan for her all along this theory has received blowback however with other fans expressing frustration that one prominent black female superhero would be combined with another we say there's room for both iron heart and Sheree in the MCU and like Tony and Bruce before them maybe a love of science could cement them as best pals getting closer in the plausibility Department we should talk about a seemingly obvious choice after what we saw an endgame Pepper Potts pepper is a character who has been around since 1963 and has always been an important part of Iron Man's supporting cast while originally Tony's secretary pepper has taken on a more active role in the comics since her appearance in the movies she eventually discovered a suit of armor Tony had secretly built for and takes on the name of rescue rescue has appeared in the secret Empire and Iron Heart comic series and played an important role in the Secret Invasion storyline which after the scrolls were introduced in Captain Marvel might be ripe for a cinematic adaptation in endgame it was very exciting to see pepper finally suit up on screen and fight alongside Tony and all the other Avengers after all these years pepper is a character beloved by fans who has been part of the MCU from the very beginning and therein lies the biggest problem with this choice actress Gwyneth Paltrow who plays pepper is 46 years old and has been doing less and less acting in recent years headlining her own franchise with a character who she's already played in seven films over the past decade probably sounds exhausting pepper would make a great mentor to a new character and as much as we love her we were satisfied with her exciting emotional send-off an endgame speaking of obvious choices we must discuss the case of Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes aka Rhodey aka war machine aka iron patriot a man with many names Rhodey as charismatic be played by Don Cheadle has always played second banana to Tony but could now finally be his time to shine it's certainly not impossible after all Captain America passed on his identity to his former sidekick the Falcon presumably for future movies war machine is well known and well loved by fans and had some killer moments an endgame making the most of an unusual pairing with nebula and on that note wouldn't it be cool to finally see a disabled superhero get their due before end game roadies disability played like a minor inconvenience but with one great line in this movie it was given a lot more emotional significance how cool would it be to see a movie really dive into roadie as a character navigating disability and being an awesome superhero while he does it Rhodey would be a great choice for the new Iron Man there's even precedents for this in the comics as Rhodey has taken over the Ironman identity many times over the years while Tony was battling alcoholism in the late 70s Rhodey donned the armor for a time even battling in the classic secret war event and if we were a betting website we'd have our money on Marvel adapting secret war sometimes soon but it's hard not to think about fatigue both for the actor and character not only is Don Cheadle 54 years he's appeared in six movies over the past decade and it kind of feels like if he was gonna get a bigger role he would have gotten it by now it seems far more likely that Marvel will look for some new blood though we can totally see Rhodey stepping back into a mentor role for whatever character inherits the role of armored Avenger also it's worth mentioning that war machine is one of the characters rumored to be in consideration for a series on Disney Plus Disney's new streaming service we're sure we'll be seeing more him soon one way or another getting close to our most likely pick is a character we've only just met Morgan Stark Tony's daughter the first time we meet Morgan she's wearing a helmet for a version of Pepper's armor and if that isn't foreshadowing we don't know what is under the tutelage of Rhodey pepper and happy it's extremely possible that Morgan would inherit the armor created by her super dad and continue fighting evil across the globe though she's obviously a bit young Morgan could be aged up and recast as a teenager in a movie or two and we think we might know where she would fit in you probably remember one of the biggest moments in endgame when Captain Marvel asked the plow through Thanos his army with the Infinity Gauntlet and she's flanked by every female superhero in the universe call us cynical but that read to us as a test run for an inevitable a-force movie for those not in the know a force was an all-female Avengers team that debuted in 2015 and featured characters like she-hulk Captain Marvel and Dazzler if Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman proved anything in a force movie with the roster a female character seen an endgame would be a license to print money and after that who knows maybe a sequel with a teenaged Morgan startin trying to join the a force in the way Peter Parker tried to join the Avengers usually when adapting a character from the comics to the screen there will be a few differences Sam Raimi's spider-man shot organic webs instead of mechanical ones Hawkeye never wears his comic book mask and Thanos never wrote around in a helicopter with his own name printed on the side still all these pale in comparison to Morgan's journey from page to screen comic book Morgan is one a man to Tony's cousin not his daughter and three a villain who is trying to kill him multiple times now Morgan is a pretty obscure character and couldn't really be more different from the character we see an endgame but Marvel could have picked any name at all for Tony's daughter and they chose to name her Morgan is this just a bizarre Easter Egg or could the Russos be hinting that Morgan might not have the same sense of good and evil as her dad could it be that we haven't met the first of a new generation of Marvel heroes but the beginnings of a new villain after all with her father's death Morgan has plenty of reason to be pissed off at the Avengers for the moment Morgan is kind of a mystery to us so at this point only one obvious choice remains our pick has to be RiRi Williams also known as Iron Heart in the comics RiRi is a brilliant teenager who attends MIT on a scholarship she builds her own version of the Iron Man armor and is given the blessing of Tony Stark to assume the identity of Iron Heart she was also mentored by Tony himself who due to being in a coma at the time spoke to her only by hologram the idea of a Tony hologram comes up near the final scene of endgame as Tony leaves a final video message for his daughter Morgan could Tony have left video messages for whoever takes over his suit as we were saying RiRi is a relatively new character having debuted in 2015 but she's growing in popularity and seems in line with Marvel's more diverse lineup a black female Iron Man would definitely get attention and we think could be a Captain Marvel sized hit plus another teen character to pal around with spider-man Shuri and the next generation of Marvel heroes seems like an easy sell who do you think will be taking over as Iron Man or as a leader of the Avengers for that matter do our theories hold water or is there something we're missing did we rule out happy Hogan too fast let us know also don't forget to Like and subscribe for more great videos about the Marvel Universe and so much more [Music]

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2019