{"id":613,"date":"2025-06-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/ironheart-believes-the-children-are-the-future\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","slug":"ironheart-believes-the-children-are-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/ironheart-believes-the-children-are-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironheart believes the children are the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A girl wearing a gray and green hoodie. Behind the girl is a suit of high-tech armor.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Disney Plus \/ Marvel\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/WGY-101-00248_RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Before the multiverse, magic, or any of Marvel&rsquo;s streaming series were important parts of the studio&rsquo;s cinematic universe, there was <em>Iron Man<\/em>. After years of so-so movies, <em>Iron Man <\/em>reminded everyone that Marvel&rsquo;s big-screen adaptations could be amazing with the right creative teams and stars attached. Robert Downey Jr.&rsquo;s Tony Stark was the MCU&rsquo;s centerpiece and a prime example of how the House of Ideas could make box office record-breaking icons out of its lower-profile characters. A couple of the <em>Iron Man <\/em>films were terrible, sure, but they each played a role in shaping the larger story. And by spending so much time building up Iron Man&rsquo;s presence, Marvel ensured that audiences would be emotionally invested when the franchise ultimately killed him off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A desire to recapture that old <em>Iron Man <\/em>magic seemed to be part of the reasoning behind Marvel&rsquo;s baffling decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/30\/24209499\/marvel-robert-downey-jr-doomsday-russo-bros-salaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bring Downey back as Doctor Doom<\/a> for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/673265\/marvel-studios-avengers-doomsday-secret-wars-delayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming <em>Avengers <\/em>features<\/a>. On its face, the move felt like a sign that the studio was scrambling to win viewers back by playing the hits in a slightly different key. And while Iron Man being a Doctor Doom variant might wind up appealing to diehard fans who&rsquo;ve followed along \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/marvel\/691168\/ironheart-believes-children-are-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the multiverse, magic, or any of Marvel&rsquo;s streaming series were important parts of the studio&rsquo;s cinematic universe, there was [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}