The Marvel Rising series has been the epitome of everything wrong with comics and Marvel. Yet somehow, Heart of Iron found ways to be worse. Horribly written with awful and depthless characters.
Someone suggested "Super inclusive and progressive" and sure, if by "super inclusive and progressive" they mean turning characters into shallow and superficial stereotypes, with almost no individuality and all identitarian nonsense. If you want a political and ideological garbage disposal, this show is for you. If you want your kids looking up to stereotypes, seeing people as purely representative of broader ideological and political diatribe, generic teen shallowness and complete lack of character depth, this show is for you.
And the writing, even for a children's so, is sub par. To call this "fan fiction" would be a slight at all fan fiction. I am not sure where they find these "writers" but they don't really know how to write, or at least how to write well. This can't touch shows like Teen Titans Go! Or even older Marvel animation, which has always trailed behind DC animation. But this is a new low standard.
The characters are pointless, copycats of established characters. It's like a bad commercial for a product that makes your children dumber. If stereotypes and cliche characters and broad generalizations are "progressive" then what is "regressive"? In reality, the show is no more "inclusive" than regular Marvel or really most shows these days. It just shoves that "inclusiveness" down your throat until you choke and vomit up a rainbow of stereotypical shallowness.
They seem to think being a "minority" means your ethnicity or sexual expression is more important than your individuality and personality. In fact, they seem to think that your ethnicity and sexual expression are ALL people are. It's a giant step backwards and slap in the face to every "minority", every group of people and every stride towards a loving, empathetic and passionate world. Frankly, it's the modern equivalent of a minstrel show, except they run the full gambit of identities.
But the writing, oh the writing...... I've heard many suggest that "the written word is dead". Well, if it wasn't dead before this Marvel Rising series was created, it certainly is no longer breathing after. Let your kids watch this if you want them to grow up without a brain and with the ability to see the world purely in stereotypes and superficial nonsense.
