The character of Ironheart by Eric André has a link with the last Marvel hero you are waiting for
This article contains spoilers For “Ironheart” season 1, episode 1, “Row me at home”.
Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) came out of Wakanda, MIT, and with a very bad crowd. The “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Spin-Off “Ironheart” brings Riri back to his roots in Chicago, with a burning desire to build something really unequaled but a chronic lack of funding. To mitigate the latter, she agrees to join the gang of Parker Criminals “The Hood” Robbins “(Anthony Ramos) for a little breakage, with a little time, after being convinced that they are sufficiently acceptable to work in the short term.
The Parker group presents the kind of membership that you expect to see in a MCU project on the theme of robberies, of the pirate slug of Shea flowed to the erratic clown of Sonia Denis. The most surprising presence among them is perhaps the actor Eric André, who plays the guy from the team’s resident technology, Stuart Clarke. Stuart spends a large part of his time radiating the vague ineptus and trying and not establishing the badly adjusted code name “crawling”, and he completely ignores that Parker and the gang intend to replace it with Riri.
Stuart is treated as a character of a joke from start to finish, but his comic book has a little more influence (as well as powers). He is also noted to have a working relationship with an incredibly improbable Marvel crime fighter: Frank Castle, better known as Punisher.
The ramping comic strip version is a very different beast
Although it is mainly a chewing toy, episode 1 of “Ironheart” offers a key index that Stuart could actually be more than who meets the eye. After being missed several times by the rest of the hood gang, Riri – a proven technical engineering – immediately recognizes Stuart of a technological discord and confirms independently that, in his circles, he is indeed known as the unleashing.
This sign of small head but potentially significant can be a sneaky reference to the iteration of the character’s comic strip, a fairly capable technological super-villain that shakes a powerful super-plage and is known to return from the dead in a mysterious way. With the help of his exoskeleton costume, this unleashing has your medium -sized ensemble of armored heroes – theft and massively improved physical attributes – as well as the special capacity to emit hypnotic gas.
It is also remarkable for being one of the extremely rare breeds of Marvel characters with a criminal past that interacted with the Punisher and were not immediately welcomed with a hail of bullets. Indeed, Frank Castle was not aware of the criminal past of the crawling when he started working with the pirate … and when he discovered it, it is enough to say that the relationship of the pair deteriorated extremely quickly.
Punisher has already had acolytes
Although better known for his gonzo buffoon facts on “The Eric André Show” (like a truly unforgettable interview with Lance Reddick), Eric André can act. In fact, he once refused the role that earned Kieran Culkin in Kieran Culkin when he decided to play Benji in “A Real Pain” was not for him. Despite this, it would be quite difficult to imagine it by fighting crime with Growly Punisher by Jon Bernthal-especially since the latter has full hands in New York for the moment, graciousness of “Daredevil: Born Again” and next “Punisher” special (with his role in “Spider-Man: Spider-Man: Spider-Man of 2026).
Admittedly, it would not be the first time that the McU Punisher has had a backup. In season 1 of “The Punisher”, Frank Castle teams up with David “Micro” Lieberman (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who also plays Ben Grimm in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”), an NSA analyst who was forced to simulate his death after learning too much and is looking for a way to find his life. After a difficult start with the Punisher, the two discover that they share a target, and Micro becomes the control of Frank’s mission and the de facto partner. However, as it stands, all signs indicate that the MCU intends to let the Punisher fly solo for a while … that is, unless Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) needs a favor.
The 1-3 episodes of “Ironheart” are currently in difficulty on Disney +.
