Star Sapphire vs Ironheart

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Hi and welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films and debate the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat based battle simulations. 

I'm Marvelous Joe and I'm his twin brother Johnny DC. And welcome to this whooping that 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 discount Star Sapphire. She's just as powerful as Green Lantern. So you're taking crazy pills if you think she's losing. 

Crazy like a fox pills. I've always wanted to pit Iron Man versus a Green Lantern. I feel like this is the closest we're going 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 we have one news item and that is the Hulk and Scorpion have been confirmed to appear in the upcoming Spider-Man brand new day film. Exciting stuff. 

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But now that that's out of the way, on to the news. Right, this past week we learned from the Hollywood Reporter that it has been confirmed that Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk and Michael Mando as the Scorpion will be joining the cast of Spider-Man brand new day. Now this has been rumored for a while, but it was not officially locked in until the script was locked in and the writers for sure wanted to go in that direction. And so they're bringing aboard these two new characters. We still don't know exactly what the story is going to be, but the persisting rumor is that Mr. Negative is going to be the main villain. 

He corrupts the Hulk back into a savage form and the Punisher and Spider-Man team up in order to stop the Hulk's rampage. I don't know how the Scorpion factors into that, so we'll have to see. All he knows is it's about time we get the actual Scorpion on screen. Yeah, he's been teased ever since Spider-Man Homecoming when the character was speaking with the vulture in prison. Geez, I really wonder what's happening with Michael Keaton's the vulture right now. Like, what is he doing these days now that he's in an alternate dimension and just thinking about Spider-Man, I guess. 

I don't know. But as far as the Scorpion goes, I really hope that we get the main universe comic book version of the Scorpion and not the ultimate comic book universe version of the Scorpion. Because I want to see the green suit. I want to see the prehensile tail with the stinger that shoots acid. 

I want the works. Yeah, didn't we get the ultimate version of Scorpion in the Spider-Verse films? That was like a hybrid version of the character. 

He was kind of like a mix between the ultimate version and the comic version. I really hope that the rumors are true that we're actually going back to the Hulk and not any 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 feeling we're done with Red Hulk and I'm not sure we'll see She-Hulk, but we at least have to have this whole Scar thing addressed because, you know, having a kid in your life and to just not address it would be rather strange, I think. Each of the Spider-Man movies has always had like a veteran performer starring in the movie alongside 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 seems like they're keeping that trend going here, but even doubling up with John Berndthal and Mark Ruffalo. These Spider-Man movies have really become more of like a Marvel team-up series of films, which is fine because I've always liked that comic book series and Spider-Man still is the main character, but it's just interesting how they chose to do that. It's almost like they don't have faith that the Spider-Man character can stand on his own, or they're just really trying to tie him into the greater MCU universe since these films are still being released by Sony. Yeah, maybe it's just a way for Marvel Studios to keep control over the script. Maybe. 

I have no idea. But it should be interesting to see how these characters play out in this Spider-Man movie. I'm really excited to see the first marketing for it when that's released, which won't be for a while, I think as I said last episode, because the movie won't come out until the end of July of 2026. I bet we 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 proper trailer, 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, so I guess now let's go ahead and move on to the main event where we find out who would win in a fight between the Green Lantern Villain, Star Sapphire, and the Iron Man ally, Iron Heart. Alright, Star Sapphire vs Iron Heart. Now we're doing this episode as a tie-in to the first season of the Iron Heart show, which debuted on Disney Plus 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, between Superman and Fantastic Four and Sandman, those took precedence, but we always knew we wanted to do an Iron Heart duel. Yeah, I think in a lot of Marvel vs DC fan matchups, especially when it comes to the Justice League vs the Avengers, a lot of people will pit Green Lantern against Iron Man, which I always thought was pretty interesting. And I'm hoping that they're pretty evenly matched. 

I guess we'll find out in the course of this episode. Yeah, initially we were thinking of doing Iron Heart vs Natasha Irons, Steel, but then we figured that might be too much of a retread between Steel and War Machine, which is a duel that we've already done, so I'm glad this pairing found its way into our lineup. Now since this is a tie-in duel, we all know that Iron Heart has been portrayed by Dominique Thorne, both in the Wakanda Forever movie and in her series, but Star Sapphire, aka Carol Ferris, has also been in a movie, and that was the 2011 Green Lantern film she was played by Blake Lively. Yeah, she wasn't a Star Sapphire in that film, but I'm sure if they ever made a sequel to that, 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 really liked Blake Lively as an actress, so they wanted to put her in their big blockbuster film, but I can think of much better actresses for Star Sapphire. Like who? I don't know, off the top of my head, Elle Fanning? What? 

I don't know. She doesn't even have brown hair. We all know that hair color is the most important part of superhero casting. Way to fail on that one. Anna DeArmes then. Anna DeArmes. 

Heck yeah! You know this person 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 like almost 60. 

To me more, that's my final answer. Good call, good call. Moving on to the duel, to explain our methodology behind the duels, let's go to our sentient duel simulator, Alfred Jarvis 9000. AJ9K tell our listeners how you go about determining a winner in our duel matchups. 

Yes, of course, sir. The way I determine a winner between the contestants is by running 1000 Monte Carlo simulations using the characters statistics. A Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic model used to determine outcomes through random sampling. In this case, I randomize the statistics along a normal distribution as a way to simulate the many variables that can occur during battle. 

The stat parameters are based on the official Marvel power grid from which the DC characters statistics are extrapolated. Additional stat categories are included such as range, damage potential, versatility and perception, in order to create a more detailed and accurate simulation. The results of the 1000 simulations provide a percentage of wins for each character. The contestant with the higher percentage is declared the victor as they have a higher probability to win any given battle. In an equitable pairing, neither character should win 100% of the matches. The comic book stories have shown that there's even a way for Batman to defeat Superman, so the confidence rate of my method falls in line with the precedents that have been established in the source material. My mathematical simulations are without subjectivity or bias. Feats are not the sole consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for determination of the winner. 

Thanks, A.J .9K. Before we run the simulations though, we like to break down each character's histories and abilities before improvising a scenario on how we imagine one of the 1000 simulations would play out beat for beat. And it's my turn to go first with the DC characters backstory, so let me tell you all about Star Sapphire. Now Carol Ferris was the daughter of Carl Ferris, owner of Ferris Aircraft, a defense contractor based in Coast City. Groomed to take over the company, Carol was 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 the recruitment of a bold new test pilot, Hal Jordan. Their mutual attraction developed into a complicated, romantic relationship, repeatedly tested by Hal's unexplained absences, 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 more about Hal Jordan in our Green Lantern vs Nova dual episode. While on a flight, Carol was abducted by the Zemorans, an immortal race of female warriors who once shared ancestry with the Guardians of the Universe. Believing Carol embodied their ideal of love, they transformed her into Star Sapphire by 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, often without memory of her actions afterward. In her early appearances as Star Sapphire, Carol repeatedly fought Green Lantern under the gemstone's influence. 

As she was often unaware of her actions while possessed, she believed herself in love with Hal but acted violently to control or punish him. The Zemorans viewed love as possession, and the gem reinforced this philosophy through Carol. After numerous clashes with Hal and other heroes, the Zemorans eventually removed the gem, allowing Carol to resume her leadership at Ferris Aircraft. 

She retained only vague memories of her time as Star Sapphire. Though she returned to civilian life, Carol remained entangled in coast cities recurring superhuman conflicts. Ferris Aircraft suffered repeated attacks, including a major incident involving a rogue AI named Airwave and another in which Hector Hammond telepathically manipulated Carol's staff. 

These events led to internal investigations and legal scrutiny. When Hal's identity was later exposed, public trust in Ferris Aircraft eroded, forcing Carol to rebuild both the company's reputation and its infrastructure. Carol's relationship with Hal deepened but remained strained. 

She rejected several of his marriage proposals, valuing her independence and wary of becoming consumed by his unpredictable life. Still, she stood by him during his suspension from the Green Lantern Corps, and he even funded the creation of the short-lived civilian air force known as the New Guardians Initiative. During this period, Carol was once again drawn into cosmic affairs when the Zemorans evolved their philosophy and created the Star Sapphire Corps, a full lantern corps powered by the emotional spectrum's violet light of love. Reluctantly accepting a new violet power ring to help counter the rising threat of the Sinestro Corps, Carol regained her powers, this time with full autonomy and consent. Unlike the gem, the ring allowed her to maintain self-control while channeling the same emotional power. She helped the Star Sapphires grow their ranks and expand their role to enforcers of romantic obsession to guardians of emotional bonds and compassion. During the emergence of the Black Lantern Corps, Carol played a vital role in reviving key fallen heroes by channeling the violet light alongside representatives of other emotional spectrums. 

Her bond with Hal Jordan allowed them to briefly unite all seven rings, helping to repel Necaron's forces. Afterward, Carol stayed on earth while continuing to support the Star Sapphire Corps from afar, coordinating efforts from the newly formed Zemoran central battery. As threats to the emotional spectrum escalated, Carol assumed a more prominent role in interstellar diplomacy. She helped prevent a full-scale war between the Indigo 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 sentient embodiment of love when it tried to bond with a corrupted host on earth, successfully separating it and reabsorbing its energy into the violet battery. Carol briefly worked alongside the Blue Lanterns during their effort to stabilize planets destabilized by war, using her understanding of compassion and loss to mediate ceasefires. She even partnered with Guy Gardner and Atrocitus to prevent the destruction of a mining colony caught in a three-way emotional conflict. 

You can learn more about Guy and Atrocitus in their duels against Gord the God Butcher and Juggernaut respectively. Although her relationship with Hal continued to rekindle and fade, the two developed mutual respect as equals rather than star-crossed lovers. Following the Flashpoint event that reset DC's continuity, Carol's background remained largely unchanged. She continued to run Ferris Aircraft and maintained a complicated romantic history with Hal Jordan. When Hal resigned from the corps to investigate emotional disturbances in deep space, Carol declined to join him, citing the need to focus on her company and her own path. Nevertheless, the Violet Ring returned to her during an alien invasion, forcing her to confront the reawakened Predator and the emotional chaos it triggered in Coast City. 

After rejoining the Star Sapphire Corps, Carol chose to operate independently, rejecting the Zemmoren's call to return to Zemmaron full-time. She used her ring selectively, deploying it during major crises that required her unique insight. During a conflict in sector 1416, Carol uncovered a conspiracy involving brainwashed Violet recruits, an incident that caused her to reevaluate the corps' recruitment methods and eventually overhaul the Star Sapphire initiation process. She also intervened in matters affecting Earth, including dismantling an undergrad traffic ingrain using blind-controlled Violet constructs and halting a cult on RAN that worshipped a corrupted version of the Predator. 

Carol worked closely with Saurin Iknatu of the Sinestro Corps to co-develop protocols for emotionally volatile ring bearers, forming the foundation of a joint inter-core training program. Her independence remained a defining trait, even as she worked with how Jordan admissions involving temporal anomalies, failed peace accords, and the resurrection of Corona, she refused to be defined by the relationship. At one point, she rejected her ring entirely to experience life without cosmic responsibilities, only to return when the Zemmoren battery began destabilizing due to neglect. She stabilized the corps herself, using commeditation and precise emotional calibration, then resumed her duties on her own terms. By the end of the timeline, Carol had assumed the role of emotional spectrum ambassador, serving as both warrior and counselor to multiple corps. She helped contain outbreaks of emotional entropy, uncovered new entities forming from fractured love, and guided Star Sapphire trainees through their psychic bonds. Power-wise, Star Sapphire wields a Violet Power Ring powered by the emotional spectrum's energy of love. The ring allows her to create hard light constructs limited only by her imagination and the clarity of feeling, including weapons, shields, prisons, and transportation fields. She can generate crystalline casements that induce emotional reflection in her targets, and teleport through violet light channels across interstellar distances. The ring grants her flight, energy projection, translation of alien languages, and survival in the vacuum of space. Her bond with the predator enhances her ability to detect and interpret emotional connections, and strengthens her power against other emotional spectrums. 

Carol also possesses combat skills, leadership experience, and a strong rule that allows her to operate independently of her ring's influence. That's Star Sapphire. Every time you mentioned the predator, I just kept thinking of the predator that would fight Arnold Schwarzenegger and go up against the Xenomorph aliens. Yeah, different predator. This one looks more like a dragon that is glowing purple, I guess. Isn't it weird that the embodiment of love would be called predator? 

Yeah, sketch, right? It was retroactively made the embodiment of love. Still a weird choice. 

I'm not gonna disagree. It's like 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 about her backstory. Riri Williams was born in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood to Demetrius and Ronnie Williams. Her father died shortly before she was born, and she grew up with her mom and stepfather, Gary. Showing impressive aptitude even as a toddler, Riri was just five years old when tests showed her to be a super genius. 

Ordinary classes bored her, and she spent most afternoons in 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 in his duel against Cyborg. Despite being inspired by the story, Riri was born in Chicago. Desired by the 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 ideas into machines. Two years later, MIT, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered Riri a scholarship, resulting in the now 12-year-old leaving home for college. For her 13th birthday, Riri met the first black woman astronaut, fueling a lifelong desire to reach the stars. The dream was shattered months later, however, when a drive-by shooting killed Natalie and Gary, while Riri looked on helplessly. 

The loss convinced her to refocus her aims from venturing to space to instead protect the ones she loved. Back at MIT, Riri studied every video of Iron Man she could find and found and downloaded old armor design files. She smuggled spare metal and circuits from campus labs and built a bulky gray suit modeled from one of Tony Stark's early armors. When security knocked on her dorm room door, Riri climbed into the prototype and blasted through a window, flying off and quitting school mid-flight. The suit managed to make it all the way to New Mexico, where she stopped two escaped prisoners. Her crash landing, however, cracked her chest plate. Returning to Chicago to repair the armor, Riri found Tony Stark waiting in her driveway. Impressed that a teenager had copied his tech, Stark encouraged her to keep working on it and offered advice when needed. Soon after, Tony Stark was left in a coma after a battle between two hero factions over the ethics of pre-cognitive and preemptive crime fighting. 

Before falling, he had saved a copy of his mind as an artificial intelligence which moved into Riri's garage computer. With its help, she chose to take on Stark's legacy and build a slimmer, red and gold armored suit, choosing to codename Iron Heart as an homage to the loved ones she lost. Iron Heart's early outings were tough. Fighting beside Pepper Potts and Rescue Armor, she stopped the armored criminal called Technogolom and her Biohack Ninjas. Agents from the Worldwide Spy Group Shield took notice and quietly urged Riri to stop Lucia von Bartus, a cyborg who had seized control of the Eastern European nation of Latveria. 

Riri flew overseas, defeated von Bartus, brokered peace between Liberian forces and Shield, and helped arrange the first free elections in that country. Back in the United States, Tony Stark's biological mother, Amanda Armstrong, handed Riri the keys to one of Tony's labs. Riri's old school asked her to return, and a teenage superhero squad called the Champions invited her to join their ranks. 

Riri accepted all three offers, dividing her days between inventions in the lab, classes at MIT, and missions with her peers like Ms. Warble and Miles Morales Spider-Man, both of whom you can learn more about in the respective duels against Elastowomen and Batwing. The teamwork with the Champions proved vital when a reality-warped Captain America helps the terrorist group Hydra overthrow the US government. Guided by Black Widow, the Champions joined in underground resistance. The young heroes watched the Widow die, were jailed, and were freed only after the real Steve Rogers was restored. 

You can learn more about Captain America and Black Widow in the respective duels against Commander Steel and Black Canary. After that adventure, a living cosmic cube named Kobik flung several heroes through time. Riri landed decades in the future, where a magic-using Tony Stark told her to follow her own path. She returned 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, she recruited the new hero's snow guard to the team, then flew into space to help Nova during a Chitauri Civil War. During the battle, she impulsively charged at Thanos, who vaporized her armor, pushing Riri to later design a tougher model using a Chitauri alien alloy. 

You can learn more about Thanos in his duel against Darkseid. Soon after, the Champions traveled to Tanzania to install water filters for a village where they fought the misunderstood swamp beast Man-Thing. A strange portal 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, a shining paladin and the only one who still remembered Earth. She regrouped her friends and led 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. That tension let the demon Blackheart twist Ironheart's mind during a later attack. Viv's heartfelt apology broke the spell, and together they drove Blackheart off. Riri admitted she could not return Viv's romantic feelings, but still value to their friendship. Using advanced scanners from her MIT lab, Riri mapped her brain patterns to build a new suit AI. 

The program took the form of her old friend Natalie and called itself Natalie, or the neuro-autonomous technical assistant and laboratory intelligence entity. Around the same time Ironheart clashed with the Ten Rings crime syndicate. Their agent, Midnight Fire, kidnapped children in Chicago while hunting the mystical wellspring of power. Riri was able to rescue the kids and use the reward money to open a neighborhood tech studio. Chasing the Ten Rings to Wakanda, Riri teamed with Princess Shuri, the Shadow Walking Hero silhouette, and a koye of the Dora Milaje to locate the hidden wellspring beneath a mountain. You can learn more about Shuri and her duel against Aqualad. Inside, she faced Midnight's Fire and Dune, who was revealed to be Demetrius, the father she thought was dead, now loyal to the Ten Rings. Grabbing the wellspring's key, Riri fell to its energy, saw visions of her past, and emerged temporarily supercharged with mystical energy. She used its power to defeat the Ten Rings, and Wakanda honored her with the Circlet 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 an invading force. Back home, Congress passed a law banning heroes under 18. Fearing legal trouble for her mother, Riri tried to retire, but a government unit called Cradle raided her house and hunted the champions members across the country. Riri uncovered proof that the energy giant Rockson had funded the law to sideline teen heroes. 

Public outrage forced Cradle to shut down and the law to be repealed. During a separate sting, Iron Heart, Iron Man, and War Machine all tried to stop a black market shop named Source Control from selling the Mandarin's Ten Alien Power Rings. Riri ended up taking the rings for study, but they whispered dark thoughts into her mind. On a later mission to the dwarf realm of Nedevalir with Mewit inventor Forge, a McLuhan dragon warned her the rings housed evil spirits. Riri used Forge's portal cannon to hurl all Ten Rings into deep space before they could corrupt her. 

You can learn more about the Ten Rings in our Abra Kadabra vs Mandarin dual episode. Soon after, an advanced virus shut down every high-tech zoo Tony Stark had ever built, causing him to call Riri and Natalie for help. The investigation led to an old Stark plant in Chicago where Lucia von Bardus tried to steal some surveillance gear. Fighting besides Stark, Shield Agent Melinda May, and the Scarlet Witch, Iron Heart defeated von Bardus and used fragments of her stolen armor to wipe the virus, restoring Iron Man's systems. And that's Iron Heart's backstory. Powers-wise, Iron Heart's alien alloy 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, ferrous liquid spray for magnetic attacks, EMP restraints, EMP blasters, repulsor powered drones, remote communications access, an on-board artificial intelligence called Natalie which performs tactical analysis and target scanning, thermal vision, night vision, and that's just to name a few of the gadgets her armor has. In addition to all that, Iron Heart is a highly gifted engineer and inventor with a genius level intelligence. Yeah, half that shit isn't even gonna work against Star Sapphire. 100% of it is gonna work against her. Are really an EMP blast? 

Yeah, I mean, don't the Green Lantern rings or not for electricity or something? I'm gonna slap the shit out of you. Runs on love, bro. Pure love. Do you have an LMP? I don't think you do. 

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Well, now that we've got their histories and abilities out of the way, let's speculate on how one of the 1,000 simulated matches will go. The winner is determined by simulations, not the speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fight could play out. Adrian Nk, what are the rules of our speculation? 

Well, I should say there are no rules, other than the characters have no prior knowledge of the other going into the fight. All they are aware of starting out is that the other character is a threat that needs to be eliminated. For the speculation, the contestants will begin approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript environment that will have no bearing on the match itself, as no environmental statistics are considered in my simulations. The contestants must earn victory on their own merit. 

Alright, then let's get into it. Star Sapphire and Iron Heart meet on the battlefield. Who goes first? I'm going to say that Iron Heart goes first by having Natalie, her AI, quickly scan Star Sapphire. And she's like, Natalie, who is she? 

And Natalie's like, who the else would it be, bish? That's Star Sapphire. And I'm picking up major vibes from that ring of hers. So Riri's like, let's take it out. And she targets the ring and launches a barrage of many heat seeking missiles from her forearms at Star Sapphire. Right away, Star Sapphire, she's going to generate a bunch of heart shaped shields that block all of the missiles mid flight. And she's going to counter with a thorny, flowered vine that's going to wrap around Iron Heart and bind her. Alright, okay, so Iron Heart's wrapped up in this vine construct and she's going to struggle to break free from it. But I think to bite her some time while she's struggling, she's going to emit a sonic attack comboed with some strobe flashbangs. And that's going to disorient Star Sapphire because Star Sapphire is going to be covering her ears because they're in pain and you know, closing her eyes. 

And that's going to give Iron Heart enough time to break out of the vine. And then she's going to eject like four different repulsor drones from her armor, and they're going to fly alongside her and blast alongside her as Iron Heart and the drones encircle Star Sapphire. So Star Sapphire is getting like repulsor blast from five different directions. Okay, Star Sapphire, you know, she gets hit briefly, but she's going to quickly counter Iron Heart's drones with little flying cherub archers that fight back against them, shooting them down while Star Sapphire herself is going to fire her own massive arrow at Iron Heart, plunging it right into her arc reactor on her chest. The heart shaped one? 

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 Iron Heart's evasive maneuvers and have her dodge the arrow. And that's when Iron Heart blitzes Star Sapphire, just punching her right in the face with her fist, knocking her out. Okay, so Iron Heart lands a punch on Star Sapphire. She's just going to spin around with a giant hand construct that's going to just backhand Iron Heart right to the ground. And Star Sapphire is going to follow up by generating a massive swarm of small butterflies that are going to land on Iron Heart, just covering all of her armor, and it's going to crawl into it to shut it down. Are you trying to have Star Sapphire just generate like, lovey-dovey things like butterflies? 

And? I don't know, butterflies seem kind of weak. Like, they're going to try to get into Iron Heart's armor, but you know, that thing is like locked down tight. 

I mean, they're made of energy. All right, while this fruitless endeavor is happening, from the ground, Iron Heart's going to raise up her arm, fire out taser cables that attach to Star Sapphire's skin and stun her, and make her fall down to the ground too, as all the energy butterflies dissipate. Yeah, but before the cables have been reached, her Star Sapphire is going to protect herself by quickly generating this castle tower construct that just kind of goes up around her a few stories into the sky. And at the top of this tower is going to be a dragon that looks like the predator entity, and it's going to dive down at Iron Heart, just clawing and biting at her armor. 

Again, this is not the predator with like the 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 a unibeme laser from her chest that's just going to shatter the predator dragon construct. And all pissed off, she's going to rock it from the ground. And then she's going to shoot an actual rocket from her back that's going to shoot over to the tower construct and blow it right up. So Star Sapphire is exposed now. And that's when Iron Heart shoots out a spray of the Ferris adhesive liquid metal that's just going to coat Star Sapphire, turning Carol 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 control like basic repel attract stuff. Okay, well, I mean, the metal is going to melt off of her right away. Like if that stuff was liquid, it's not going to take long for her to get heated up pretty quickly. You know, you're going to see these purple flames just begin to emerge from beneath it as it just melts off of her. And that's when Star Sapphire encases Iron Heart in this violet crystal chamber that's going to lock her in a trance where she hallucinates being with her stepfather and Natalie again, you know, the people she loves. And with Iron Heart distracted, that's when Star Sapphire causes a giant gemstone 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 like Iron Heart's not going to wait for that to happen. Right away, she's going to activate her magnetic system 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 she falls to the ground. And that is where Iron Heart 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 a love induced hallucination, because she's still in the fucking crystal chamber. And here comes the comment. You said that she hallucinates her stepfather, Gary and Natalie. Well, yeah, she hallucinates Gary and Natalie and defeating Star Sapphire, like they're just in the background while she does it. Well, I'm calling bullshit on that. And we could go ahead and leave the match there and find out which scenario happens by running the stats. 

Either Iron Heart yanks the ring off of Star Sapphire's hand and then repulsor blasts her, or Iron Heart gets trapped in a sapphire 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 calculations, processing results, simulations complete. 

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 Hal Jordan. Oh yeah, and also in the same way that Star Sapphire is faster and more versatile than Iron Heart in the same way that Hal Jordan is to Iron Man. 

But we're saying Iron Heart is marginally more perceptive than Star Sapphire because not only does she have like her enhanced sense modes, but also has the artificial intelligence Natalie backing her up, as well as drones to get external data. But can't she create force fields like Star Sapphire? Well, probably not to the same extent as Star Sapphire, but she doesn't need to because she has a fucking indestructible suit of armor. So she's more durable. 

Star Sapphire barely wears any clothes. Another win. Right, so taking that and all of the other stats into account, Joseph, who do you think came out on top? Iron Heart. Iron Heart because she has a whole suit of armor and Star Sapphire only has a rinky dink ring. 

And last time I checked, armor beats ring. Well, when's the last time you checked our Instagram? Not there recently, 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 checked because I have 81%. Matter of fact, it just went down to 80%. 

I did put this up just a few hours ago. So maybe. 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 matchup between Star Sapphire and Iron Heart is Star Sapphire. All right, that does it for this episode, guys. I want to give a big thanks to our executive producers. No, no, no, no, no. 

You have to sit through this. Star Sapphire won 547 of the 1000 simulated matches or 54.7% of the time compared to Iron Heart, who only won 45.3% of the time. That's not a bad showing. It's actually closer than I thought it was going to be. 

I thought Star Sapphire was going to be high 50s, low 60s instead of just mid 50s. Yeah, what an idiot. Shut up. You lost. 

You can't say anything. I can say that I don't think this match would serve as a good proxy for a Green Lantern Iron Man fight because clearly Iron Man would win that fight. You literally just said when you were talking about the stats that it would be. 

That was before I heard the results. Just accept it. No way Iron Man beats Hal Jordan. Just no way. Except Iron Man's armor has proven to be more capable and versatile than Ree Reeves' armor in the 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 Star Sapphire. Whatever helps you cope. But that does it for this duel. AJ9K, help close us out. 

Our next episode is going to be another duel where we pit the former Aquaman sidekick Tempest. Against the Inhuman 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 our executive producers, Jon Starroski, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Balcombe, Miggy Mathen Guillen, Nathaniel Wagner, Lee Vietn, Austin Wazelowski, AJ Dunkerly, Nick Obanto, Scott Camacho, Gil Camacho, 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 guys next week. Up, up and away, true believers. 

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