Star Sapphire vs Ironheart

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• 0:00:00 - Introduction 
• 0:03:21 - Question of the Week 
• 0:03:58 - Hulk and Scorpion confirmed for Spider-Man: Brand New Day 
• 0:07:18 - Star Sapphire vs Ironheart intro 
• 0:11:40 - Star Sapphire history and abilities 
• 0:20:35 - Ironheart history and abilities 
• 0:29:24 - Fight speculation 
• 0:37:27 - Duel results 
• 0:40:53 - Sign off 
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Episode Transcript

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This is a DynaMic Network Podcast. Hi and welcometo the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we

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review superhero films and debate thesuperiority between Marvel and DC by comparing
their characters in stat based battlesimulations. I'm Marvelous Joe and I'm his twin
brother Johnny DC. And welcome to this whoopingthat the DC team is going to receive this week when
Ironheart beats the shit out of Star Sapphire.Definitely not the other way around. I would not

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discount Star Sapphire. She's just as powerful asGreen Lantern. So you're taking crazy pills if you
think she's losing. Crazy like a fox pills. I'vealways wanted to pit Iron Man versus a Green
Lantern. I feel like this is the closest we'regoing to get to that. We're going to run the
simulations later on this episode. Before that,we're going to break down the latest comic book
movie news to come out this past week, of which wehave one news item and that is the Hulk and Scorpion

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have been confirmed to appear in the upcomingSpider-Man brand new day film. Exciting stuff. As
always, we list our segment times and our episodedescription, so feel free to check out the show
notes if you want to skip ahead to a particulartopic. Our artificially intelligent dual
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supports the podcast. Guys, be sure to tune in tothe other shows and the Dynamite podcast network
this week, including the console combat podcast,where hosts John and Dean simulate battles
between popular video game characters. We don'tknow the next episode because John hasn't told us
yet, but definitely tune in on Monday to consolecombat. Over on the Max Destruction podcast hosts
Scotty and Gilly, Pay Your Favorite Action Heroesfrom film and television against each other.

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They're taking a hiatus during the month ofAugust, so make sure to get caught up on their
latest episodes. And on the Senjo World podcasthosts Zachary Hepburn speculates on fights
between fan favorite anime and manga characters.In his next episode, Zach's going to reveal who'd
win between Akuto Sai from Demon King Daimou andAmos Voldegoed from Misfit of Demon Academy.

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Visit dynamicpodcasts.com or click the link inour show notes to listen to all of the shows in the
Dynamite podcast network. And with that out of theway, quick to the no prize. There's no no prize.
We're actually recording this episode early. Solast week's question of the week is still active.
So let's go ahead and move on to the question of theweek. What was the best live action Spider-Man

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suit and the best Batman suit and why? Record youranswer at dynamicdool.com by clicking on the red
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dual no prize that we'll post to Instagram. Be sureto answer before August 16th. But now that that's
out of the way, on to the news. Right, this past weekwe learned from the Hollywood Reporter that it has
been confirmed that Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk andMichael Mando as the Scorpion will be joining the

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cast of Spider-Man brand new day. Now this has beenrumored for a while, but it was not officially
locked in until the script was locked in and thewriters for sure wanted to go in that direction.
And so they're bringing aboard these two newcharacters. We still don't know exactly what the
story is going to be, but the persisting rumor isthat Mr. Negative is going to be the main villain.
He corrupts the Hulk back into a savage form and thePunisher and Spider-Man team up in order to stop

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the Hulk's rampage. I don't know how the Scorpionfactors into that, so we'll have to see. All he
knows is it's about time we get the actual Scorpionon screen. Yeah, he's been teased ever since
Spider-Man Homecoming when the character wasspeaking with the vulture in prison. Geez, I
really wonder what's happening with MichaelKeaton's the vulture right now. Like, what is he
doing these days now that he's in an alternatedimension and just thinking about Spider-Man, I

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guess. I don't know. But as far as the Scorpiongoes, I really hope that we get the main universe
comic book version of the Scorpion and not theultimate comic book universe version of the
Scorpion. Because I want to see the green suit. Iwant to see the prehensile tail with the stinger
that shoots acid. I want the works. Yeah, didn't weget the ultimate version of Scorpion in the

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Spider-Verse films? That was like a hybridversion of the character. He was kind of like a mix
between the ultimate version and the comicversion. I really hope that the rumors are true
that we're actually going back to the Hulk and notany more of this smart Hulk BS. I do have to wonder
though if with the Hulk comes She-Hulk, his son,Scar, Red Hulk. That's a great question. I have a

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feeling we're done with Red Hulk and I'm not surewe'll see She-Hulk, but we at least have to have
this whole Scar thing addressed because, youknow, having a kid in your life and to just not
address it would be rather strange, I think. Eachof the Spider-Man movies has always had like a
veteran performer starring in the moviealongside Spider-Man. Like in Homecoming, there
was Iron Man. In Far From Home, there was Nick Fury.In No Way Home, there was Doctor Strange. So it

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seems like they're keeping that trend going here,but even doubling up with John Berndthal and Mark
Ruffalo. These Spider-Man movies have reallybecome more of like a Marvel team-up series of
films, which is fine because I've always likedthat comic book series and Spider-Man still is the
main character, but it's just interesting howthey chose to do that. It's almost like they don't
have faith that the Spider-Man character canstand on his own, or they're just really trying to

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tie him into the greater MCU universe since thesefilms are still being released by Sony. Yeah,
maybe it's just a way for Marvel Studios to keepcontrol over the script. Maybe. I have no idea. But
it should be interesting to see how thesecharacters play out in this Spider-Man movie. I'm
really excited to see the first marketing for itwhen that's released, which won't be for a while, I
think as I said last episode, because the moviewon't come out until the end of July of 2026. I bet we

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get our first trailer with the Avatar movie.Maybe, but I'm guessing it's going to be more
around January or February. At least for a propertrailer, we might get like a small teaser or
something in front of Avatar. Well, a cool story,bro! We've already done the Question of the Week,

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so I guess now let's go ahead and move on to the mainevent where we find out who would win in a fight
between the Green Lantern Villain, StarSapphire, and the Iron Man ally, Iron Heart.

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Alright, Star Sapphire vs Iron Heart. Now we'redoing this episode as a tie-in to the first season
of the Iron Heart show, which debuted on DisneyPlus about a month and a half ago. It's been a while.
We haven't been able to get to this duel right away,because we had so much to review that came down the
pike around the end of July. Yeah, betweenSuperman and Fantastic Four and Sandman, those

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took precedence, but we always knew we wanted to doan Iron Heart duel. Yeah, I think in a lot of Marvel
vs DC fan matchups, especially when it comes to theJustice League vs the Avengers, a lot of people
will pit Green Lantern against Iron Man, which Ialways thought was pretty interesting. And I'm
hoping that they're pretty evenly matched. Iguess we'll find out in the course of this episode.

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Yeah, initially we were thinking of doing IronHeart vs Natasha Irons, Steel, but then we figured
that might be too much of a retread between Steeland War Machine, which is a duel that we've already
done, so I'm glad this pairing found its way intoour lineup. Now since this is a tie-in duel, we all
know that Iron Heart has been portrayed byDominique Thorne, both in the Wakanda Forever

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movie and in her series, but Star Sapphire, akaCarol Ferris, has also been in a movie, and that was
the 2011 Green Lantern film she was played by BlakeLively. Yeah, she wasn't a Star Sapphire in that
film, but I'm sure if they ever made a sequel tothat, it would have happened. Do you think Blake
Lively was well cast as Star Sapphire? Fuck no!What really? No, I think Warner Brothers just

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really liked Blake Lively as an actress, so theywanted to put her in their big blockbuster film,
but I can think of much better actresses for StarSapphire. Like who? I don't know, off the top of my
head, Elle Fanning? What? I don't know. Shedoesn't even have brown hair. We all know that hair
color is the most important part of superherocasting. Way to fail on that one. Anna DeArmes

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then. Anna DeArmes. Heck yeah! You know thisperson is supposed to be a love interest to Kyle
Chandler, who is the current Hal Jordan in the DCU,right? That means you gotta go with someone who's
at least above 40, because Kyle Chandler's likealmost 60. To me more, that's my final answer. Good
call, good call. Moving on to the duel, to explainour methodology behind the duels, let's go to our

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sentient duel simulator, Alfred Jarvis 9000.AJ9K tell our listeners how you go about
determining a winner in our duel matchups. Yes, ofcourse, sir. The way I determine a winner between
the contestants is by running 1000 Monte Carlosimulations using the characters statistics. A
Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic modelused to determine outcomes through random

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sampling. In this case, I randomize thestatistics along a normal distribution as a way to
simulate the many variables that can occur duringbattle. The stat parameters are based on the
official Marvel power grid from which the DCcharacters statistics are extrapolated.
Additional stat categories are included such asrange, damage potential, versatility and

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perception, in order to create a more detailed andaccurate simulation. The results of the 1000
simulations provide a percentage of wins for eachcharacter. The contestant with the higher
percentage is declared the victor as they have ahigher probability to win any given battle. In an
equitable pairing, neither character should win100% of the matches. The comic book stories have

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shown that there's even a way for Batman to defeatSuperman, so the confidence rate of my method
falls in line with the precedents that have beenestablished in the source material. My
mathematical simulations are withoutsubjectivity or bias. Feats are not the sole
consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated fordetermination of the winner. Thanks, A.J .9K.
Before we run the simulations though, we like tobreak down each character's histories and

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abilities before improvising a scenario on how weimagine one of the 1000 simulations would play out
beat for beat. And it's my turn to go first with theDC characters backstory, so let me tell you all
about Star Sapphire. Now Carol Ferris was thedaughter of Carl Ferris, owner of Ferris
Aircraft, a defense contractor based in CoastCity. Groomed to take over the company, Carol was

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intelligent, ambitious, and confident,eventually rising to the role of president after
her father's retirement. Under her leadership,Ferris Aircraft expanded military contracts and
experimental aviation research, including therecruitment of a bold new test pilot, Hal Jordan.
Their mutual attraction developed into acomplicated, romantic relationship,

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repeatedly tested by Hal's unexplainedabsences, which were due to a secret role as Green
Lantern. Carol, unaware of his dual life,struggled with his unreliability but remained
emotionally tethered to him. You can learn moreabout Hal Jordan in our Green Lantern vs Nova dual
episode. While on a flight, Carol was abducted bythe Zemorans, an immortal race of female warriors

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who once shared ancestry with the Guardians of theUniverse. Believing Carol embodied their ideal
of love, they transformed her into Star Sapphireby giving her a powerful violet gemstone. The
gem's consciousness warped Carol's emotions,turning her affection for Hal into obsession and
driving her to battle him as Star Sapphire, oftenwithout memory of her actions afterward. In her

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early appearances as Star Sapphire, Carolrepeatedly fought Green Lantern under the
gemstone's influence. As she was often unaware ofher actions while possessed, she believed
herself in love with Hal but acted violently tocontrol or punish him. The Zemorans viewed love as
possession, and the gem reinforced thisphilosophy through Carol. After numerous

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clashes with Hal and other heroes, the Zemoranseventually removed the gem, allowing Carol to
resume her leadership at Ferris Aircraft. Sheretained only vague memories of her time as Star
Sapphire. Though she returned to civilian life,Carol remained entangled in coast cities
recurring superhuman conflicts. FerrisAircraft suffered repeated attacks, including a

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major incident involving a rogue AI named Airwaveand another in which Hector Hammond
telepathically manipulated Carol's staff.These events led to internal investigations and
legal scrutiny. When Hal's identity was laterexposed, public trust in Ferris Aircraft eroded,
forcing Carol to rebuild both the company'sreputation and its infrastructure. Carol's

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relationship with Hal deepened but remainedstrained. She rejected several of his marriage
proposals, valuing her independence and wary ofbecoming consumed by his unpredictable life.
Still, she stood by him during his suspension fromthe Green Lantern Corps, and he even funded the
creation of the short-lived civilian air forceknown as the New Guardians Initiative. During

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this period, Carol was once again drawn intocosmic affairs when the Zemorans evolved their
philosophy and created the Star Sapphire Corps, afull lantern corps powered by the emotional
spectrum's violet light of love. Reluctantlyaccepting a new violet power ring to help counter
the rising threat of the Sinestro Corps, Carolregained her powers, this time with full autonomy

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and consent. Unlike the gem, the ring allowed herto maintain self-control while channeling the
same emotional power. She helped the StarSapphires grow their ranks and expand their role
to enforcers of romantic obsession to guardiansof emotional bonds and compassion. During the
emergence of the Black Lantern Corps, Carolplayed a vital role in reviving key fallen heroes

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by channeling the violet light alongsiderepresentatives of other emotional spectrums.
Her bond with Hal Jordan allowed them to brieflyunite all seven rings, helping to repel Necaron's
forces. Afterward, Carol stayed on earth whilecontinuing to support the Star Sapphire Corps
from afar, coordinating efforts from the newlyformed Zemoran central battery. As threats to the

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emotional spectrum escalated, Carol assumed amore prominent role in interstellar diplomacy.
She helped prevent a full-scale war between theIndigo Tribe and the Red Lanterns, tracked the
emotional anomalies across multiple sectors,and uncovered rogue Star Sapphires who had
twisted their rings power for selfish control.She also confronted the Predator itself, a

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sentient embodiment of love when it tried to bondwith a corrupted host on earth, successfully
separating it and reabsorbing its energy into theviolet battery. Carol briefly worked alongside
the Blue Lanterns during their effort tostabilize planets destabilized by war, using her
understanding of compassion and loss to mediateceasefires. She even partnered with Guy Gardner

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and Atrocitus to prevent the destruction of amining colony caught in a three-way emotional
conflict. You can learn more about Guy andAtrocitus in their duels against Gord the God
Butcher and Juggernaut respectively. Althoughher relationship with Hal continued to rekindle
and fade, the two developed mutual respect asequals rather than star-crossed lovers.

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Following the Flashpoint event that reset DC'scontinuity, Carol's background remained
largely unchanged. She continued to run FerrisAircraft and maintained a complicated romantic
history with Hal Jordan. When Hal resigned fromthe corps to investigate emotional disturbances
in deep space, Carol declined to join him, citingthe need to focus on her company and her own path.

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Nevertheless, the Violet Ring returned to herduring an alien invasion, forcing her to confront
the reawakened Predator and the emotional chaosit triggered in Coast City. After rejoining the
Star Sapphire Corps, Carol chose to operateindependently, rejecting the Zemmoren's call to
return to Zemmaron full-time. She used her ringselectively, deploying it during major crises

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that required her unique insight. During aconflict in sector 1416, Carol uncovered a
conspiracy involving brainwashed Violetrecruits, an incident that caused her to
reevaluate the corps' recruitment methods andeventually overhaul the Star Sapphire
initiation process. She also intervened inmatters affecting Earth, including dismantling

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an undergrad traffic ingrain usingblind-controlled Violet constructs and halting
a cult on RAN that worshipped a corrupted versionof the Predator. Carol worked closely with Saurin
Iknatu of the Sinestro Corps to co-developprotocols for emotionally volatile ring
bearers, forming the foundation of a jointinter-core training program. Her independence

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remained a defining trait, even as she worked withhow Jordan admissions involving temporal
anomalies, failed peace accords, and theresurrection of Corona, she refused to be defined
by the relationship. At one point, she rejectedher ring entirely to experience life without
cosmic responsibilities, only to return when theZemmoren battery began destabilizing due to

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neglect. She stabilized the corps herself, usingcommeditation and precise emotional
calibration, then resumed her duties on her ownterms. By the end of the timeline, Carol had
assumed the role of emotional spectrumambassador, serving as both warrior and
counselor to multiple corps. She helped containoutbreaks of emotional entropy, uncovered new

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entities forming from fractured love, and guidedStar Sapphire trainees through their psychic
bonds. Power-wise, Star Sapphire wields a VioletPower Ring powered by the emotional spectrum's
energy of love. The ring allows her to create hardlight constructs limited only by her imagination
and the clarity of feeling, including weapons,shields, prisons, and transportation fields.

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She can generate crystalline casements thatinduce emotional reflection in her targets, and
teleport through violet light channels acrossinterstellar distances. The ring grants her
flight, energy projection, translation of alienlanguages, and survival in the vacuum of space.
Her bond with the predator enhances her ability todetect and interpret emotional connections, and

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strengthens her power against other emotionalspectrums. Carol also possesses combat skills,
leadership experience, and a strong rule thatallows her to operate independently of her ring's
influence. That's Star Sapphire. Every time youmentioned the predator, I just kept thinking of
the predator that would fight ArnoldSchwarzenegger and go up against the Xenomorph

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aliens. Yeah, different predator. This one looksmore like a dragon that is glowing purple, I guess.
Isn't it weird that the embodiment of love would becalled predator? Yeah, sketch, right? It was
retroactively made the embodiment of love. Stilla weird choice. I'm not gonna disagree. It's like

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he's like a love predator. Not a sexual one.Fucking creepy. But that's DC for you. Let me tell
you about Ironheart who has nothing creepy abouther backstory. Riri Williams was born in
Chicago's South Shore neighborhood to Demetriusand Ronnie Williams. Her father died shortly
before she was born, and she grew up with her mom andstepfather, Gary. Showing impressive aptitude

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even as a toddler, Riri was just five years old whentests showed her to be a super genius. Ordinary
classes bored her, and she spent most afternoonsin the family garage building gadgets from scrap
instead of playing outside. On one fateful day,she and Gary were rescued from a group of scrawls by
the hero Iron Man, whom he could learn more about inhis duel against Cyborg. Despite being inspired

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by the story, Riri was born in Chicago. Desired bythe armored hero from a young age, her teacher told
her that she would never be Tony Stark. At age 10,Riri made her first close friend, Natalie
Washington, who loved watching Riri turn ideasinto machines. Two years later, MIT, or the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offeredRiri a scholarship, resulting in the now
12-year-old leaving home for college. For her13th birthday, Riri met the first black woman

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astronaut, fueling a lifelong desire to reach thestars. The dream was shattered months later,
however, when a drive-by shooting killed Natalieand Gary, while Riri looked on helplessly. The
loss convinced her to refocus her aims fromventuring to space to instead protect the ones she
loved. Back at MIT, Riri studied every video ofIron Man she could find and found and downloaded

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old armor design files. She smuggled spare metaland circuits from campus labs and built a bulky
gray suit modeled from one of Tony Stark's earlyarmors. When security knocked on her dorm room
door, Riri climbed into the prototype and blastedthrough a window, flying off and quitting school
mid-flight. The suit managed to make it all the wayto New Mexico, where she stopped two escaped

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prisoners. Her crash landing, however, crackedher chest plate. Returning to Chicago to repair
the armor, Riri found Tony Stark waiting in herdriveway. Impressed that a teenager had copied
his tech, Stark encouraged her to keep working onit and offered advice when needed. Soon after,
Tony Stark was left in a coma after a battle betweentwo hero factions over the ethics of

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pre-cognitive and preemptive crime fighting.Before falling, he had saved a copy of his mind as an
artificial intelligence which moved into Riri'sgarage computer. With its help, she chose to take
on Stark's legacy and build a slimmer, red and goldarmored suit, choosing to codename Iron Heart as
an homage to the loved ones she lost. Iron Heart'searly outings were tough. Fighting beside Pepper

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Potts and Rescue Armor, she stopped the armoredcriminal called Technogolom and her Biohack
Ninjas. Agents from the Worldwide Spy GroupShield took notice and quietly urged Riri to stop
Lucia von Bartus, a cyborg who had seized controlof the Eastern European nation of Latveria. Riri
flew overseas, defeated von Bartus, brokeredpeace between Liberian forces and Shield, and

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helped arrange the first free elections in thatcountry. Back in the United States, Tony Stark's
biological mother, Amanda Armstrong, handedRiri the keys to one of Tony's labs. Riri's old
school asked her to return, and a teenagesuperhero squad called the Champions invited her
to join their ranks. Riri accepted all threeoffers, dividing her days between inventions in

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the lab, classes at MIT, and missions with herpeers like Ms. Warble and Miles Morales
Spider-Man, both of whom you can learn more aboutin the respective duels against Elastowomen and
Batwing. The teamwork with the Champions provedvital when a reality-warped Captain America
helps the terrorist group Hydra overthrow the USgovernment. Guided by Black Widow, the Champions

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joined in underground resistance. The youngheroes watched the Widow die, were jailed, and
were freed only after the real Steve Rogers wasrestored. You can learn more about Captain
America and Black Widow in the respective duelsagainst Commander Steel and Black Canary. After
that adventure, a living cosmic cube named Kobikflung several heroes through time. Riri landed
decades in the future, where a magic-using TonyStark told her to follow her own path. She returned

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to the present, determined to do exactly that,though she still stayed active with the Champions
as well. On her rescue near the Arctic Circle, sherecruited the new hero's snow guard to the team,
then flew into space to help Nova during a ChitauriCivil War. During the battle, she impulsively
charged at Thanos, who vaporized her armor,pushing Riri to later design a tougher model using

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a Chitauri alien alloy. You can learn more aboutThanos in his duel against Darkseid. Soon after,
the Champions traveled to Tanzania to installwater filters for a village where they fought the
misunderstood swamp beast Man-Thing. A strangeportal later trapped half the team in a
medieval-style realm called the Siege Parallel,turning each hero into a fantasy version of
themselves. Riri became Lady Ironheart, ashining paladin and the only one who still

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remembered Earth. She regrouped her friends andled them home. Weeks later, her Android teammate
Viv, the daughter of Vision, kissed Riri.Uncomfortable with Viv's actions, Riri pulled
away and their friendship grew strained. Thattension let the demon Blackheart twist
Ironheart's mind during a later attack. Viv'sheartfelt apology broke the spell, and together

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they drove Blackheart off. Riri admitted shecould not return Viv's romantic feelings, but
still value to their friendship. Using advancedscanners from her MIT lab, Riri mapped her brain
patterns to build a new suit AI. The program tookthe form of her old friend Natalie and called
itself Natalie, or the neuro-autonomoustechnical assistant and laboratory
intelligence entity. Around the same timeIronheart clashed with the Ten Rings crime

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syndicate. Their agent, Midnight Fire,kidnapped children in Chicago while hunting the
mystical wellspring of power. Riri was able torescue the kids and use the reward money to open a
neighborhood tech studio. Chasing the Ten Ringsto Wakanda, Riri teamed with Princess Shuri, the
Shadow Walking Hero silhouette, and a koye of theDora Milaje to locate the hidden wellspring

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beneath a mountain. You can learn more about Shuriand her duel against Aqualad. Inside, she faced
Midnight's Fire and Dune, who was revealed to beDemetrius, the father she thought was dead, now
loyal to the Ten Rings. Grabbing the wellspring'skey, Riri fell to its energy, saw visions of her
past, and emerged temporarily supercharged withmystical energy. She used its power to defeat the

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Ten Rings, and Wakanda honored her with theCirclet of Bast, a ceremonial award and the
highest honor Wakanda can bestow to an outsider.She later helped build Wakanda's first deep space
fleet and fought alongside them against aninvading force. Back home, Congress passed a law
banning heroes under 18. Fearing legal troublefor her mother, Riri tried to retire, but a

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government unit called Cradle raided her houseand hunted the champions members across the
country. Riri uncovered proof that the energygiant Rockson had funded the law to sideline teen
heroes. Public outrage forced Cradle to shut downand the law to be repealed. During a separate
sting, Iron Heart, Iron Man, and War Machine alltried to stop a black market shop named Source
Control from selling the Mandarin's Ten AlienPower Rings. Riri ended up taking the rings for

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study, but they whispered dark thoughts into hermind. On a later mission to the dwarf realm of
Nedevalir with Mewit inventor Forge, a McLuhandragon warned her the rings housed evil spirits.
Riri used Forge's portal cannon to hurl all TenRings into deep space before they could corrupt
her. You can learn more about the Ten Rings in ourAbra Kadabra vs Mandarin dual episode. Soon

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after, an advanced virus shut down everyhigh-tech zoo Tony Stark had ever built, causing
him to call Riri and Natalie for help. Theinvestigation led to an old Stark plant in Chicago
where Lucia von Bardus tried to steal somesurveillance gear. Fighting besides Stark,
Shield Agent Melinda May, and the Scarlet Witch,Iron Heart defeated von Bardus and used fragments

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of her stolen armor to wipe the virus, restoringIron Man's systems. And that's Iron Heart's
backstory. Powers-wise, Iron Heart's alienalloy armor grants her high durability,
increased lifting strength of around 70 tons,supersonic flight speed, repulsor blasts, a
uni-beam chest laser, mini precision missiles,flashbangs, sonic emitters, taser cables,

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ferrous liquid spray for magnetic attacks, EMPrestraints, EMP blasters, repulsor powered
drones, remote communications access, anon-board artificial intelligence called
Natalie which performs tactical analysis andtarget scanning, thermal vision, night vision,
and that's just to name a few of the gadgets herarmor has. In addition to all that, Iron Heart is a

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highly gifted engineer and inventor with a geniuslevel intelligence. Yeah, half that shit isn't
even gonna work against Star Sapphire. 100% of itis gonna work against her. Are really an EMP blast?
Yeah, I mean, don't the Green Lantern rings or notfor electricity or something? I'm gonna slap the
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Well, now that we've got their histories andabilities out of the way, let's speculate on how
one of the 1,000 simulated matches will go. Thewinner is determined by simulations, not the
speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fightcould play out. Adrian Nk, what are the rules of our
speculation? Well, I should say there are norules, other than the characters have no prior
knowledge of the other going into the fight. Allthey are aware of starting out is that the other

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character is a threat that needs to be eliminated.For the speculation, the contestants will begin
approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescriptenvironment that will have no bearing on the match
itself, as no environmental statistics areconsidered in my simulations. The contestants
must earn victory on their own merit. Alright,then let's get into it. Star Sapphire and Iron

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Heart meet on the battlefield. Who goes first? I'mgoing to say that Iron Heart goes first by having
Natalie, her AI, quickly scan Star Sapphire. Andshe's like, Natalie, who is she? And Natalie's
like, who the else would it be, bish? That's StarSapphire. And I'm picking up major vibes from that
ring of hers. So Riri's like, let's take it out. Andshe targets the ring and launches a barrage of many

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heat seeking missiles from her forearms at StarSapphire. Right away, Star Sapphire, she's going
to generate a bunch of heart shaped shields thatblock all of the missiles mid flight. And she's
going to counter with a thorny, flowered vinethat's going to wrap around Iron Heart and bind
her. Alright, okay, so Iron Heart's wrapped up inthis vine construct and she's going to struggle to

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break free from it. But I think to bite her some timewhile she's struggling, she's going to emit a
sonic attack comboed with some strobeflashbangs. And that's going to disorient Star
Sapphire because Star Sapphire is going to becovering her ears because they're in pain and you
know, closing her eyes. And that's going to giveIron Heart enough time to break out of the vine. And

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then she's going to eject like four differentrepulsor drones from her armor, and they're going
to fly alongside her and blast alongside her asIron Heart and the drones encircle Star Sapphire.
So Star Sapphire is getting like repulsor blastfrom five different directions. Okay, Star
Sapphire, you know, she gets hit briefly, butshe's going to quickly counter Iron Heart's

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drones with little flying cherub archers thatfight back against them, shooting them down while
Star Sapphire herself is going to fire her ownmassive arrow at Iron Heart, plunging it right
into her arc reactor on her chest. The heart shapedone? Yep. Okay, but Natalie, you know, she was
targeting Star Sapphire's ring energy earlier.So she's like zoned in on it and is able to engage

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Iron Heart's evasive maneuvers and have her dodgethe arrow. And that's when Iron Heart blitzes Star
Sapphire, just punching her right in the face withher fist, knocking her out. Okay, so Iron Heart
lands a punch on Star Sapphire. She's just going tospin around with a giant hand construct that's
going to just backhand Iron Heart right to theground. And Star Sapphire is going to follow up by

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generating a massive swarm of small butterfliesthat are going to land on Iron Heart, just covering
all of her armor, and it's going to crawl into it toshut it down. Are you trying to have Star Sapphire
just generate like, lovey-dovey things likebutterflies? And? I don't know, butterflies seem

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kind of weak. Like, they're going to try to get intoIron Heart's armor, but you know, that thing is
like locked down tight. I mean, they're made ofenergy. All right, while this fruitless endeavor
is happening, from the ground, Iron Heart's goingto raise up her arm, fire out taser cables that
attach to Star Sapphire's skin and stun her, andmake her fall down to the ground too, as all the

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energy butterflies dissipate. Yeah, but beforethe cables have been reached, her Star Sapphire is
going to protect herself by quickly generatingthis castle tower construct that just kind of goes
up around her a few stories into the sky. And at thetop of this tower is going to be a dragon that looks
like the predator entity, and it's going to divedown at Iron Heart, just clawing and biting at her

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armor. Again, this is not the predator with likethe dreadlocks and the shoulder cannon and all
that. Well, I mean, if you want to imagine that,just that with wings. Okay, well, while Iron
Heart's being attacked, she's going to fire aunibeme laser from her chest that's just going to
shatter the predator dragon construct. And allpissed off, she's going to rock it from the ground.

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And then she's going to shoot an actual rocket fromher back that's going to shoot over to the tower
construct and blow it right up. So Star Sapphire isexposed now. And that's when Iron Heart shoots out
a spray of the Ferris adhesive liquid metal that'sjust going to coat Star Sapphire, turning Carol

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Ferris into Carol Ferris. You see what I did there?Wait, so she's like a metal statue now? Yeah. And
Iron Heart has like some limited magnetic controllike basic repel attract stuff. Okay, well, I
mean, the metal is going to melt off of her rightaway. Like if that stuff was liquid, it's not going
to take long for her to get heated up prettyquickly. You know, you're going to see these

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purple flames just begin to emerge from beneath itas it just melts off of her. And that's when Star
Sapphire encases Iron Heart in this violetcrystal chamber that's going to lock her in a
trance where she hallucinates being with herstepfather and Natalie again, you know, the
people she loves. And with Iron Heart distracted,that's when Star Sapphire causes a giant gemstone

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comic to just crash down on Iron Heart,obliterating her and ending this match. But it's
going to take a while for the metal to melt. So likeIron Heart's not going to wait for that to happen.
Right away, she's going to activate her magneticsystem and that's going to yank the ring off of Star
Sapphire's finger, since it's covered in metal.So without her ring, Carol's not doing shit. And

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she falls to the ground. And that is where IronHeart just turns her into a smear with a repulsor
blast. And Natalie's like, Bish, bye. All right,that was a nice move. I bet Iron Heart really loved
that finisher a lot, because it was actually all alove induced hallucination, because she's still

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in the fucking crystal chamber. And here comes thecomment. You said that she hallucinates her
stepfather, Gary and Natalie. Well, yeah, shehallucinates Gary and Natalie and defeating Star
Sapphire, like they're just in the backgroundwhile she does it. Well, I'm calling bullshit on
that. And we could go ahead and leave the matchthere and find out which scenario happens by

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running the stats. Either Iron Heart yanks thering off of Star Sapphire's hand and then repulsor
blasts her, or Iron Heart gets trapped in asapphire construct where she hallucinates and
then gets crushed by a big gemstone meteor.Comment, whatever. Let's enter the stats, run the
simulations, and come back with a winner.Adrian9k, hit it. Inputting data, running

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calculations, processing results, simulationscomplete. All right, so this dual matchup kind of
serves as a proxy for a Green Lantern Iron Man duel.And I think the stats for these characters lined up
pretty well with that type of matchup. In that,Iron Heart is smarter than Star Sapphire in the
same way that Tony Stark is smarter than HalJordan. Oh yeah, and also in the same way that Star

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Sapphire is faster and more versatile than IronHeart in the same way that Hal Jordan is to Iron Man.
But we're saying Iron Heart is marginally moreperceptive than Star Sapphire because not only
does she have like her enhanced sense modes, butalso has the artificial intelligence Natalie
backing her up, as well as drones to get externaldata. But can't she create force fields like Star

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Sapphire? Well, probably not to the same extent asStar Sapphire, but she doesn't need to because she
has a fucking indestructible suit of armor. Soshe's more durable. Star Sapphire barely wears
any clothes. Another win. Right, so taking thatand all of the other stats into account, Joseph,
who do you think came out on top? Iron Heart. IronHeart because she has a whole suit of armor and Star

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Sapphire only has a rinky dink ring. And last time Ichecked, armor beats ring. Well, when's the last
time you checked our Instagram? Not thererecently, but looking at it now. Yeah, Star
Sapphire won our poll with our followers by 81%,which is a lot. Actually, I'm looking at 82%. Well,
looks like you need to get your phone checkedbecause I have 81%. Matter of fact, it just went

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down to 80%. I did put this up just a few hours ago. Somaybe. The point is, Star Sapphire is winning in
the poll, but does she win in the simulations?Let's find out. AJ9K, the results, please. Hey,
you are, sir. All right, the winner of the matchupbetween Star Sapphire and Iron Heart is Star

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Sapphire. All right, that does it for thisepisode, guys. I want to give a big thanks to our
executive producers. No, no, no, no, no. You haveto sit through this. Star Sapphire won 547 of the
1000 simulated matches or 54.7% of the timecompared to Iron Heart, who only won 45.3% of the

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time. That's not a bad showing. It's actuallycloser than I thought it was going to be. I thought
Star Sapphire was going to be high 50s, low 60sinstead of just mid 50s. Yeah, what an idiot. Shut
up. You lost. You can't say anything. I can say thatI don't think this match would serve as a good proxy

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for a Green Lantern Iron Man fight because clearlyIron Man would win that fight. You literally just
said when you were talking about the stats that itwould be. That was before I heard the results. Just
accept it. No way Iron Man beats Hal Jordan. Just noway. Except Iron Man's armor has proven to be more

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capable and versatile than Ree Reeves' armor inthe comic book so far. So I'm not so sure about that.
Wow, way to throw Iron Heart under the bus, bro. No,she's still cool. She's still cool. She still
pulled off a damn decent showing against StarSapphire. Whatever helps you cope. But that does
it for this duel. AJ9K, help close us out. Our nextepisode is going to be another duel where we pit the

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former Aquaman sidekick Tempest. Against theInhuman Crystal. They're both manipulators of
the elements so it should be an interesting match.Yeah, they're both young and they're both in the
royal courts of their respective royal houses.Yeah, it'll be great. But that does it for this
episode. We want to give a big thanks to ourexecutive producers, Jon Starroski, Zachary

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Hepburn, Dustin Balcombe, Miggy Mathen Guillen,Nathaniel Wagner, Lee Vietn, Austin Wazelowski,
AJ Dunkerly, Nick Obanto, Scott Camacho, GilCamacho, Adam Speese, Dean Moleski, Devin Davis,
Joseph Kirsting, Josh Leiner, Mike Williams,Oscar Galvez, and Paul Graves for helping make
this podcast possible. And we'll talk to you guysnext week. Up, up and away, true believers. My 439 00:42:17,120 --> nickname in college was Love Predator, but only because I made clicking sounds in bed.