Having heard a summary of the beginning of the "Iron Heart" comic, I find myself amused because I think I could have done a better job of this example of a "diverse" character replacing an already established character. Part of this is inspired by my own background, the name of the comic book, and just my own bemusement that these leftists completely forget Natives exist unless it's to try to use us as a cudgel against white people (something unfortunately many Natives seem perfectly fine with).
That being said, I'd end up borrowing heavily from what the woke comic did, in that the main character would be an ostracized nerd character who, for whatever reason, greatly admires Tony Stark and his Iron Man suit. The reservation is not kind to him. On the reservations I lived on, the youth had adopted ghetto culture and do their best to emulate the inner city gangs, so that would be the case here, too. But he does have a friend, a fellow nerd and outcast. The only other really sympathetic person to him is a tribal elder who is also a relative to him. His father is a thief who got caught and is in state prison. His mother is away working at a Stark Industries factory of some kind, so he is living with his grandmother to go to school, and she mainly wishes he was normal, but leaves him to tinker in their basement and doesn't really do much aside from give him shit from time to time over not having a girlfriend and for liking the stuff he does, and hanging out with the friend that he has.
He does get out to visit his mother from time to time, though, which is how he ends up having access to the tech he needs to build a mini-reactor like what powers the Iron Man suit in his basement. This is based a bit on that kid that managed to build a nuclear reactor in his back yard, along with his own version of the Iron Man suit, though it is based more on the first one Tony built when he'd been kidnapped since he doesn't have access to fancy computers and the like to make his own true suit.
At some point, though, the bullies who have beat him up occasionally have gotten more violent and now bring weapons into it. His friend tries to help him and is killed as a result. He himself is only saved thanks to the police turning up just then, but he gets the feeling that the police won't really do anything since they tend not to do much anyway. So hot-headed as he is, he decides to take matters into his own hands, and puts on his version of the Iron Man suit, and goes on a rampage to get revenge for his friend. The police show up to stop him before he can kill any of them, though. He's pretty incensed by it, and tells the police, so, since they never seem to stop any of the gangster types from doing anything, but as soon as someone else does something to fight back, they show up and treat him like a criminal, which even includes one of them shooting at him. As you might expect, he gets a bit mad and ends up taking it out on a couple of squad cars. He is stopped because he ends up damaging his suit, and while the police seem to go nuts themselves to try and get him out of it, they are stopped by the arrival of more people who were drawn by the disturbance, including that tribal elder, who gets them to stop.
He ends up in jail over this, of course, his grandmother kicks him out of her house, and his mother is angry at him for seeming to follow in his father's footsteps. As his antics involved an Iron Man suit and a reactor he built himself, the Feds get involved, and this also draws the attention of Tony Stark, who is impressed at the teen's intelligence and abilities, and takes some sympathy with him.
Skipping ahead a bit, he ends up out of jail and out of trouble due to Tony's influence (and he isn't quite sure how to feel about that), with part of the deal being that he will be working for Tony to pay off the stuff he stole to make his reactor. Due to falling out with what's left of his family, he both rejects and is rejected by his family. Before he leaves the reservation, though, he is visited by the tribal elder who gives him a new name (something that is really not done anymore) which he then uses from then on as his surname - Iron Heart.
And that's about as far as I've gotten on that scenario.
I'm kind of curious what other people think of that.
That being said, I'd end up borrowing heavily from what the woke comic did, in that the main character would be an ostracized nerd character who, for whatever reason, greatly admires Tony Stark and his Iron Man suit. The reservation is not kind to him. On the reservations I lived on, the youth had adopted ghetto culture and do their best to emulate the inner city gangs, so that would be the case here, too. But he does have a friend, a fellow nerd and outcast. The only other really sympathetic person to him is a tribal elder who is also a relative to him. His father is a thief who got caught and is in state prison. His mother is away working at a Stark Industries factory of some kind, so he is living with his grandmother to go to school, and she mainly wishes he was normal, but leaves him to tinker in their basement and doesn't really do much aside from give him shit from time to time over not having a girlfriend and for liking the stuff he does, and hanging out with the friend that he has.
He does get out to visit his mother from time to time, though, which is how he ends up having access to the tech he needs to build a mini-reactor like what powers the Iron Man suit in his basement. This is based a bit on that kid that managed to build a nuclear reactor in his back yard, along with his own version of the Iron Man suit, though it is based more on the first one Tony built when he'd been kidnapped since he doesn't have access to fancy computers and the like to make his own true suit.
At some point, though, the bullies who have beat him up occasionally have gotten more violent and now bring weapons into it. His friend tries to help him and is killed as a result. He himself is only saved thanks to the police turning up just then, but he gets the feeling that the police won't really do anything since they tend not to do much anyway. So hot-headed as he is, he decides to take matters into his own hands, and puts on his version of the Iron Man suit, and goes on a rampage to get revenge for his friend. The police show up to stop him before he can kill any of them, though. He's pretty incensed by it, and tells the police, so, since they never seem to stop any of the gangster types from doing anything, but as soon as someone else does something to fight back, they show up and treat him like a criminal, which even includes one of them shooting at him. As you might expect, he gets a bit mad and ends up taking it out on a couple of squad cars. He is stopped because he ends up damaging his suit, and while the police seem to go nuts themselves to try and get him out of it, they are stopped by the arrival of more people who were drawn by the disturbance, including that tribal elder, who gets them to stop.
He ends up in jail over this, of course, his grandmother kicks him out of her house, and his mother is angry at him for seeming to follow in his father's footsteps. As his antics involved an Iron Man suit and a reactor he built himself, the Feds get involved, and this also draws the attention of Tony Stark, who is impressed at the teen's intelligence and abilities, and takes some sympathy with him.
Skipping ahead a bit, he ends up out of jail and out of trouble due to Tony's influence (and he isn't quite sure how to feel about that), with part of the deal being that he will be working for Tony to pay off the stuff he stole to make his reactor. Due to falling out with what's left of his family, he both rejects and is rejected by his family. Before he leaves the reservation, though, he is visited by the tribal elder who gives him a new name (something that is really not done anymore) which he then uses from then on as his surname - Iron Heart.
And that's about as far as I've gotten on that scenario.
I'm kind of curious what other people think of that.
