History YMMV / Ironheart

* MyRealDaddy: Creator/BrianMichaelBendis created Riri, but Creator/EveEwing and Jim Zub over in ''ComicBook/Champions2016'' is generally considered the ones who fleshed her out and made her a viable character.

* MyRealDaddy: Creator/BrianMichaelBendis created Riri, but Creator/EveEwing and Creator/JimZub over in ''ComicBook/Champions2016 is generally considered the ones who fleshed her out and made her a viable character.

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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Her often-callous behavior was a major source of derision for her character. When writer Jim Zub took over for ''ComicBook/Champions2016'', he reframed Riri as having NoSocialSkills and being InnocentlyInsensitive, with other characters also taking note of her behavior.
** Her... [[NeverLiveItDown insensitive]] behavior was also examined in her solo, where Riri worries that she might be evil and cites some of her past actions. It becomes a source of angst for her, especially when she finds out [[spoiler: her biological father]] is evil.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Riri is an ''extremely'' polarizing character. To her detractors, she's a one-girl SpotlightStealingSquad that took over the Iron Man title despite not properly establishing herself as a hero and an abrasive character on top of that. To her fans, she's a smart and likable character who always faces her challenges with great bravery.
* BrokenBase: Issue #8 gives Riri's backstory. She expected her kindergarten teacher to brush off her ambitions only for the teacher to encourage Riri in her dream. In response, Riri stares at her teacher as if she was upset over not being discriminated against. The divide comes down to either finding this plotline a good subversion of the usual "you'll never amount to anything" bad guy trope and young Riri was just being [[WrongGenreSavvy confused about why said trope wasn't in play]], or finding this scene ridiculous for making Riri come across like she actually ''wants'' to be discriminated against to prove a point, which isn't helped by a scene where she mocks a NASA secretary over the phone when they (rightfully) assume the random 12-year-old who called can't yet qualify for a position.
* CreatorsPet: Riri herself was one of these for Bendis, though the degree to which is still hotly debated (some fans claim Riri was merely a character Bendis conceived and wrote for his daughters, while others claim he [[WriteWhoYouKnow literally based her off one or both of his daughters]]).
* MyRealDaddy: Brian Michael Bendis may have created her, but much of the readership prefer her depiction under other writers over his.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The often-criticized "Queen of Latveria" story echoes an arc (''Authoritative Action'') from Mark Waid's ''Fantastic Four'' run where the FF took over Latveria. The Fantastic Four ran Latveria for a longer period of time than Riri did. Like Riri, their motive was to improve the lives of Latverian citizens, and like Riri they ran into disapproval from SHIELD. (But not from fans, oddly enough).
** One criticism of Riri is that she has not been properly established in ''Iron Man'' comics before taking the mantle. In reality, she got the same amount of set-up as several well-known legacy characters in superhero comic books like [[ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}} Eric Masterson]], [[ComicBook/GreenLanternANewDawn Kyle Rayner]], [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Conner Kent and John Henry Irons]], [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes]] or [[Comicbook/BatmanNoMansLand Cassandra Cain]], all of whom has either been introduced in the stories ending with them taking the mantle or while they're already replacing their predecessor.
** Even the criticisms that she got into heroics for less-than-noble intentions (which is a ''creative'' interpretation of her character) seem to ignore how many other superheroes, including successors, had less-than-heroic origins. Tony Stark himself was ''intentionally'' a prick when first introduced, [[ComicBook/AntMan Eric O'Grady's Ant-Man]] was a genuine sociopath who only used the Ant-Man suit for selfish gains, ComicBook/BoosterGold was a glory hound only seeking fame, ComicBook/{{Stargirl}} was a teenaged brat trying to spite her step-dad, ComicBook/WallyWest spent his early days as Franchise/TheFlash charging people for saving them, etc. Like, in comparison, her abrasive personality is pretty tame.
* NeverLiveItDown: While plenty of AffirmativeActionLegacy characters have had bumpy starts (see ComicBook/MilesMorales and [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] for starters), Riri made an especially bad first impression among readers. This was magnified after Issue #8 showed her as a kid in kindergarten came out, it became a common half-joking critique among Riri detractors to present her as a "spiteful sociopath" who would come across much better as a character if she became a tragic hero-turned-villain. For context, the comic showed Riri telling her teacher that she wants to be a scientist and the teacher encouraging her. Riri expected to be told that she couldn't be one because of her gender and race because that's how the first female astronaut started out. After being told that the times have changed and she could be whatever she wanted in her life, Riri seemed disappointed rather than happy. She proceeded to [[http://i.imgur.com/JsNw0KJ.jpg stare at the teacher]] until she seemingly realized what Riri wanted to hear and randomly told Riri "Okay, you'll never be... Tony Stark" just to get her to stop and Riri then immediately became determined to prove her wrong. While the scene was intended to be a funny subversion of the trope often used in many minority upliftment narratives, some suggest that Riri became a hero not out of the goodness of her heart but out of spite for some comment a teacher made a decade ago (and one said teacher didn't even actually believe), and that she wouldn't have become a superhero if her teacher mentioned anyone else.
* OvershadowedByControversy: The announcement of award-winning prose writer Eve Ewing on the ''Ironheart'' solo series drew a lot of vitriol on Twitter, due to her lack of experience writing comics. Several big name writers (including Creator/NeilGaiman) came to her defense, pointing out that they were also hired by Big 2 comics without prior experience. This in turn led to people arguing with Gaiman and [[InsaneTrollLogic insisting that he was wrong about his own career]].
* PortmanteauCoupleName: Vivheart for Riri/Viv Vision in ''[[ComicBook/Champions2016 Champions]]'' and Shuriri for Riri/Shuri. The latter, amusingly enough, has been coined in-universe by Silhouette and Okoye to knock Shuri down a peg.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: As mentioned frequently here on this page, Riri was an extremely polarizing character upon her introduction, with the main criticisms being her often abrasive personality and inadequate set-up as a decent hero. Under the direction of other writers (including the aforementioned Jim Zub and Eve Ewing), opinions toward her softened considerably, with some former detractors stating Brian Michael Bendis just didn't do the best job with setting her up.
* RonTheDeathEater: This is very common in fanfiction because of the "Invading Latveria" story arc. It's often pointed out that in her intent to both arrest and embarrass Lucia von Bardas, she conquered a sovereign nation without thinking anything of the potential ramifications. Naturally, fanfiction interprets her as some iron-fisted ruler.
** Also notably a lot of the aforementioned issues noted about; as written, she's an awkward and somewhat abrasive kid who's too smart for her own good but not mature enough to use it, so the interpretation she's a sociopath is a ''massive'' case of this.

** Even the criticisms that she got into heroics for less-than-noble intentions (which is a ''creative'' interpretation of her character) seem to ignore how many other superheroes, including successors, had less-than-heroic origins. Tony Stark himself was ''intentionally'' a prick when first introduced, [[ComicBook/AntMan Eric O'Grady's Ant-Man]] was a genuine sociopath who only used the Ant-Man suit for selfish gains, ComicBook/BoosterGold was a glory hound only seeking fame, ComicBook/{{Stargirl}} was a teenaged brat trying to spite her step-dad, ComicBook/WallyWest spent his early days as ComicBook/TheFlash charging people for saving them, etc. Like, in comparison, her abrasive personality is pretty tame.

* NeverLiveItDown: Riri did not make a great first impression among readers. This was magnified after Issue #8 showed her as a kid in kindergarten came out, it became a common half-joking critique among Riri detractors to present her as a "spiteful sociopath" who would come across much better as a character if she became a tragic hero-turned-villain. For context, the comic showed Riri telling her teacher that she wants to be a scientist and the teacher encouraging her. Riri expected to be told that she couldn't be one because of her gender and race because that's how the first female astronaut started out. After being told that the times have changed and she could be whatever she wanted in her life, Riri seemed disappointed rather than happy. She proceeded to [[http://i.imgur.com/JsNw0KJ.jpg stare at the teacher]] until she seemingly realized what Riri wanted to hear and randomly told Riri "Okay, you'll never be... Tony Stark" just to get her to stop and Riri then immediately became determined to prove her wrong. While the scene was intended to be a funny subversion of the trope often used in many minority upliftment narratives, some suggest that Riri became a hero not out of the goodness of her heart but out of spite for some comment a teacher made a decade ago (and one said teacher didn't even actually believe), and that she wouldn't have become a superhero if her teacher mentioned anyone else.

** Also notably a lot of the aforementioned issues noted about; as written she's an awkward and somewhat abrasive kid who's too smart for her own good but not mature enough to use it, so the interpretation she's a sociopath is a ''massive'' case of this.

* RonTheDeathEater: This is very common in fanfiction because of the "Invading Latveria" story arc. It's often pointed out that in her intent to both arrest and embarrass Lucia von Bardas, she conquered a sovereign nation without thinking anything of the potential ramifications. Naturally, fanfiction interprets her as some iron-fisted ruler.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The often-criticized "Queen of Latveria" story echoes an arc (''Authoritative Action'') from Mark Waid's Fantastic Four run where the FF took over Latveria. The Fantastic Four ran Latveria for a longer period of time than Riri did. Like Riri, their motive was to improve the lives of Latverian citizens, and like Riri they ran into disapproval from SHIELD. (But not from fans, oddly enough).
** One criticism of Riri is that she has not been properly established in Iron Man comics before taking the mantle. In reality, she got the same amount of set-up as several well-known legacy characters in superhero comic books like [[ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}} Eric Masterson]], [[ComicBook/GreenLanternANewDawn Kyle Rayner]], [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Conner Kent and John Henry Irons]], [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes]] or [[Comicbook/BatmanNoMansLand Cassandra Cain]], all of whom has either been introduced in the stories ending with them taking the mantle or while they're already replacing their predecessor.