Star Sapphire vs Ironheart

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

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review superhero films and debate the
superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing

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their characters in stat based battle
simulations. I'm Marvelous Joe and I'm his twin

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brother Johnny DC. And welcome to this whooping
that the DC team is going to receive this week when

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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 as
Green Lantern. So you're taking crazy pills if you

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think she's losing. Crazy like a fox pills. I've
always wanted to pit Iron Man versus a Green

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Lantern. I feel like this is the closest we're
going to get to that. We're going to run the

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simulations later on this episode. Before that,
we're going to break down the latest comic book

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movie news to come out this past week, of which we
have one news item and that is the Hulk and Scorpion

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have been confirmed to appear in the upcoming
Spider-Man brand new day film. Exciting stuff. As

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We're actually recording this episode early. So
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So let's go ahead and move on to the question of the
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out of the way, on to the news. Right, this past week
we learned from the Hollywood Reporter that it has

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been confirmed that Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk and
Michael Mando as the Scorpion will be joining the

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cast of Spider-Man brand new day. Now this has been
rumored for a while, but it was not officially

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locked in until the script was locked in and the
writers for sure wanted to go in that direction.

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And so they're bringing aboard these two new
characters. We still don't know exactly what the

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story is going to be, but the persisting rumor is
that Mr. Negative is going to be the main villain.

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He corrupts the Hulk back into a savage form and the
Punisher and Spider-Man team up in order to stop

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the Hulk's rampage. I don't know how the Scorpion
factors into that, so we'll have to see. All he

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knows is it's about time we get the actual Scorpion
on screen. Yeah, he's been teased ever since

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Spider-Man Homecoming when the character was
speaking with the vulture in prison. Geez, I

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really wonder what's happening with Michael
Keaton's the vulture right now. Like, what is he

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doing these days now that he's in an alternate
dimension and just thinking about Spider-Man, I

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guess. I don't know. But as far as the Scorpion
goes, I really hope that we get the main universe

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comic book version of the Scorpion and not the
ultimate comic book universe version of the

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Scorpion. Because I want to see the green suit. I
want to see the prehensile tail with the stinger

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that shoots acid. I want the works. Yeah, didn't we
get the ultimate version of Scorpion in the

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Spider-Verse films? That was like a hybrid
version of the character. He was kind of like a mix

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between the ultimate version and the comic
version. I really hope that the rumors are true

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that we're actually going back to the Hulk and not
any more of this smart Hulk BS. I do have to wonder

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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 sure
we'll see She-Hulk, but we at least have to have

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this whole Scar thing addressed because, you
know, having a kid in your life and to just not

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address it would be rather strange, I think. Each
of the Spider-Man movies has always had like a

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veteran performer starring in the movie
alongside Spider-Man. Like in Homecoming, there

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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

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Ruffalo. These Spider-Man movies have really
become more of like a Marvel team-up series of

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films, which is fine because I've always liked
that comic book series and Spider-Man still is the

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main character, but it's just interesting how
they chose to do that. It's almost like they don't

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have faith that the Spider-Man character can
stand on his own, or they're just really trying to

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tie him into the greater MCU universe since these
films are still being released by Sony. Yeah,

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maybe it's just a way for Marvel Studios to keep
control over the script. Maybe. I have no idea. But

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it should be interesting to see how these
characters play out in this Spider-Man movie. I'm

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really excited to see the first marketing for it
when that's released, which won't be for a while, I

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think as I said last episode, because the movie
won'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

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around January or February. At least for a proper
trailer, we might get like a small teaser or

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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 main
event where we find out who would win in a fight

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between the Green Lantern Villain, Star
Sapphire, and the Iron Man ally, Iron Heart.

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Alright, Star Sapphire vs Iron Heart. Now we're
doing this episode as a tie-in to the first season

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of the Iron Heart show, which debuted on Disney
Plus about a month and a half ago. It's been a while.

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We haven't been able to get to this duel right away,
because we had so much to review that came down the

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pike around the end of July. Yeah, between
Superman and Fantastic Four and Sandman, those

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took precedence, but we always knew we wanted to do
an Iron Heart duel. Yeah, I think in a lot of Marvel

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vs DC fan matchups, especially when it comes to the
Justice League vs the Avengers, a lot of people

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will pit Green Lantern against Iron Man, which I
always thought was pretty interesting. And I'm

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hoping that they're pretty evenly matched. I
guess we'll find out in the course of this episode.

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Yeah, initially we were thinking of doing Iron
Heart vs Natasha Irons, Steel, but then we figured

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that might be too much of a retread between Steel
and War Machine, which is a duel that we've already

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done, so I'm glad this pairing found its way into
our lineup. Now since this is a tie-in duel, we all

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know that Iron Heart has been portrayed by
Dominique Thorne, both in the Wakanda Forever

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movie and in her series, but Star Sapphire, aka
Carol Ferris, has also been in a movie, and that was

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the 2011 Green Lantern film she was played by Blake
Lively. Yeah, she wasn't a Star Sapphire in that

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film, but I'm sure if they ever made a sequel to
that, it would have happened. Do you think Blake

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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 they
wanted to put her in their big blockbuster film,

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but I can think of much better actresses for Star
Sapphire. Like who? I don't know, off the top of my

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head, Elle Fanning? What? I don't know. She
doesn't even have brown hair. We all know that hair

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color is the most important part of superhero
casting. Way to fail on that one. Anna DeArmes

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then. Anna DeArmes. Heck yeah! You know this
person is supposed to be a love interest to Kyle

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Chandler, who is the current Hal Jordan in the DCU,
right? That means you gotta go with someone who's

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at least above 40, because Kyle Chandler's like
almost 60. To me more, that's my final answer. Good

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call, good call. Moving on to the duel, to explain
our 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

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determining a winner in our duel matchups. Yes, of
course, sir. The way I determine a winner between

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the contestants is by running 1000 Monte Carlo
simulations using the characters statistics. A

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Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic model
used to determine outcomes through random

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sampling. In this case, I randomize the
statistics along a normal distribution as a way to

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simulate the many variables that can occur during
battle. The stat parameters are based on the

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official Marvel power grid from which the DC
characters statistics are extrapolated.

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Additional stat categories are included such as
range, damage potential, versatility and

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perception, in order to create a more detailed and
accurate simulation. The results of the 1000

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simulations provide a percentage of wins for each
character. The contestant with the higher

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percentage is declared the victor as they have a
higher probability to win any given battle. In an

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equitable pairing, neither character should win
100% of the matches. The comic book stories have

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shown that there's even a way for Batman to defeat
Superman, so the confidence rate of my method

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falls in line with the precedents that have been
established in the source material. My

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mathematical simulations are without
subjectivity or bias. Feats are not the sole

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consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for
determination of the winner. Thanks, A.J .9K.

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Before we run the simulations though, we like to
break down each character's histories and

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abilities before improvising a scenario on how we
imagine one of the 1000 simulations would play out

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beat for beat. And it's my turn to go first with the
DC characters backstory, so let me tell you all

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about Star Sapphire. Now Carol Ferris was the
daughter of Carl Ferris, owner of Ferris

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Aircraft, a defense contractor based in Coast
City. Groomed to take over the company, Carol was

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intelligent, ambitious, and confident,
eventually rising to the role of president after

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her father's retirement. Under her leadership,
Ferris Aircraft expanded military contracts and

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experimental aviation research, including the
recruitment of a bold new test pilot, Hal Jordan.

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Their mutual attraction developed into a
complicated, romantic relationship,

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repeatedly tested by Hal's unexplained
absences, which were due to a secret role as Green

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Lantern. Carol, unaware of his dual life,
struggled with his unreliability but remained

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emotionally tethered to him. You can learn more
about Hal Jordan in our Green Lantern vs Nova dual

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episode. While on a flight, Carol was abducted by
the Zemorans, an immortal race of female warriors

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who once shared ancestry with the Guardians of the
Universe. Believing Carol embodied their ideal

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of love, they transformed her into Star Sapphire
by giving her a powerful violet gemstone. The

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gem's consciousness warped Carol's emotions,
turning her affection for Hal into obsession and

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driving her to battle him as Star Sapphire, often
without memory of her actions afterward. In her

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early appearances as Star Sapphire, Carol
repeatedly fought Green Lantern under the

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gemstone's influence. As she was often unaware of
her actions while possessed, she believed

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herself in love with Hal but acted violently to
control or punish him. The Zemorans viewed love as

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possession, and the gem reinforced this
philosophy through Carol. After numerous

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clashes with Hal and other heroes, the Zemorans
eventually removed the gem, allowing Carol to

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resume her leadership at Ferris Aircraft. She
retained only vague memories of her time as Star

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Sapphire. Though she returned to civilian life,
Carol remained entangled in coast cities

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recurring superhuman conflicts. Ferris
Aircraft suffered repeated attacks, including a

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major incident involving a rogue AI named Airwave
and another in which Hector Hammond

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telepathically manipulated Carol's staff.
These events led to internal investigations and

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legal scrutiny. When Hal's identity was later
exposed, public trust in Ferris Aircraft eroded,

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forcing Carol to rebuild both the company's
reputation and its infrastructure. Carol's

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relationship with Hal deepened but remained
strained. She rejected several of his marriage

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proposals, valuing her independence and wary of
becoming consumed by his unpredictable life.

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Still, she stood by him during his suspension from
the Green Lantern Corps, and he even funded the

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creation of the short-lived civilian air force
known as the New Guardians Initiative. During

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this period, Carol was once again drawn into
cosmic affairs when the Zemorans evolved their

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philosophy and created the Star Sapphire Corps, a
full lantern corps powered by the emotional

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spectrum's violet light of love. Reluctantly
accepting a new violet power ring to help counter

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the rising threat of the Sinestro Corps, Carol
regained her powers, this time with full autonomy

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and consent. Unlike the gem, the ring allowed her
to maintain self-control while channeling the

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same emotional power. She helped the Star
Sapphires grow their ranks and expand their role

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to enforcers of romantic obsession to guardians
of emotional bonds and compassion. During the

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emergence of the Black Lantern Corps, Carol
played a vital role in reviving key fallen heroes

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by channeling the violet light alongside
representatives of other emotional spectrums.

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Her bond with Hal Jordan allowed them to briefly
unite all seven rings, helping to repel Necaron's

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forces. Afterward, Carol stayed on earth while
continuing to support the Star Sapphire Corps

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from afar, coordinating efforts from the newly
formed Zemoran central battery. As threats to the

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emotional spectrum escalated, Carol assumed a
more prominent role in interstellar diplomacy.

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She helped prevent a full-scale war between the
Indigo Tribe and the Red Lanterns, tracked the

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emotional anomalies across multiple sectors,
and uncovered rogue Star Sapphires who had

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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 bond
with a corrupted host on earth, successfully

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separating it and reabsorbing its energy into the
violet battery. Carol briefly worked alongside

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the Blue Lanterns during their effort to
stabilize planets destabilized by war, using her

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understanding of compassion and loss to mediate
ceasefires. She even partnered with Guy Gardner

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and Atrocitus to prevent the destruction of a
mining colony caught in a three-way emotional

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conflict. You can learn more about Guy and
Atrocitus in their duels against Gord the God

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Butcher and Juggernaut respectively. Although
her relationship with Hal continued to rekindle

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and fade, the two developed mutual respect as
equals rather than star-crossed lovers.

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Following the Flashpoint event that reset DC's
continuity, Carol's background remained

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largely unchanged. She continued to run Ferris
Aircraft and maintained a complicated romantic

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history with Hal Jordan. When Hal resigned from
the corps to investigate emotional disturbances

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in deep space, Carol declined to join him, citing
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Nevertheless, the Violet Ring returned to her
during an alien invasion, forcing her to confront

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the reawakened Predator and the emotional chaos
it triggered in Coast City. After rejoining the

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Star Sapphire Corps, Carol chose to operate
independently, rejecting the Zemmoren's call to

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return to Zemmaron full-time. She used her ring
selectively, deploying it during major crises

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that required her unique insight. During a
conflict in sector 1416, Carol uncovered a

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conspiracy involving brainwashed Violet
recruits, an incident that caused her to

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reevaluate the corps' recruitment methods and
eventually overhaul the Star Sapphire

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initiation process. She also intervened in
matters affecting Earth, including dismantling

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an undergrad traffic ingrain using
blind-controlled Violet constructs and halting

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a cult on RAN that worshipped a corrupted version
of the Predator. Carol worked closely with Saurin

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Iknatu of the Sinestro Corps to co-develop
protocols for emotionally volatile ring

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bearers, forming the foundation of a joint
inter-core training program. Her independence

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remained a defining trait, even as she worked with
how Jordan admissions involving temporal

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anomalies, failed peace accords, and the
resurrection of Corona, she refused to be defined

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by the relationship. At one point, she rejected
her ring entirely to experience life without

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cosmic responsibilities, only to return when the
Zemmoren battery began destabilizing due to

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neglect. She stabilized the corps herself, using
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calibration, then resumed her duties on her own
terms. By the end of the timeline, Carol had

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assumed the role of emotional spectrum
ambassador, serving as both warrior and

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counselor to multiple corps. She helped contain
outbreaks of emotional entropy, uncovered new

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entities forming from fractured love, and guided
Star Sapphire trainees through their psychic

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bonds. Power-wise, Star Sapphire wields a Violet
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energy of love. The ring allows her to create hard
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and the clarity of feeling, including weapons,
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She can generate crystalline casements that
induce emotional reflection in her targets, and

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teleport through violet light channels across
interstellar distances. The ring grants her

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flight, energy projection, translation of alien
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Her bond with the predator enhances her ability to
detect and interpret emotional connections, and

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strengthens her power against other emotional
spectrums. Carol also possesses combat skills,

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leadership experience, and a strong rule that
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influence. That's Star Sapphire. Every time you
mentioned the predator, I just kept thinking of

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the predator that would fight Arnold
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aliens. Yeah, different predator. This one looks
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Isn't it weird that the embodiment of love would be
called predator? Yeah, sketch, right? It was

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retroactively made the embodiment of love. Still
a 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

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you about Ironheart who has nothing creepy about
her backstory. Riri Williams was born in

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Chicago's South Shore neighborhood to Demetrius
and Ronnie Williams. Her father died shortly

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before she was born, and she grew up with her mom and
stepfather, Gary. Showing impressive aptitude

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even as a toddler, Riri was just five years old when
tests showed her to be a super genius. Ordinary

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classes bored her, and she spent most afternoons
in the family garage building gadgets from scrap

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instead of playing outside. On one fateful day,
she and Gary were rescued from a group of scrawls by

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the hero Iron Man, whom he could learn more about in
his duel against Cyborg. Despite being inspired

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by the story, Riri was born in Chicago. Desired by
the armored hero from a young age, her teacher told

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her that she would never be Tony Stark. At age 10,
Riri made her first close friend, Natalie

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Washington, who loved watching Riri turn ideas
into machines. Two years later, MIT, or the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered
Riri a scholarship, resulting in the now

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12-year-old leaving home for college. For her
13th birthday, Riri met the first black woman

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astronaut, fueling a lifelong desire to reach the
stars. The dream was shattered months later,

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however, when a drive-by shooting killed Natalie
and Gary, while Riri looked on helplessly. The

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loss convinced her to refocus her aims from
venturing to space to instead protect the ones she

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loved. Back at MIT, Riri studied every video of
Iron Man she could find and found and downloaded

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old armor design files. She smuggled spare metal
and circuits from campus labs and built a bulky

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gray suit modeled from one of Tony Stark's early
armors. When security knocked on her dorm room

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door, Riri climbed into the prototype and blasted
through a window, flying off and quitting school

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mid-flight. The suit managed to make it all the way
to New Mexico, where she stopped two escaped

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prisoners. Her crash landing, however, cracked
her chest plate. Returning to Chicago to repair

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the armor, Riri found Tony Stark waiting in her
driveway. Impressed that a teenager had copied

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his tech, Stark encouraged her to keep working on
it and offered advice when needed. Soon after,

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Tony Stark was left in a coma after a battle between
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pre-cognitive and preemptive crime fighting.
Before falling, he had saved a copy of his mind as an

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artificial intelligence which moved into Riri's
garage computer. With its help, she chose to take

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on Stark's legacy and build a slimmer, red and gold
armored suit, choosing to codename Iron Heart as

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an homage to the loved ones she lost. Iron Heart's
early outings were tough. Fighting beside Pepper

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Potts and Rescue Armor, she stopped the armored
criminal called Technogolom and her Biohack

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Ninjas. Agents from the Worldwide Spy Group
Shield took notice and quietly urged Riri to stop

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Lucia von Bartus, a cyborg who had seized control
of the Eastern European nation of Latveria. Riri

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flew overseas, defeated von Bartus, brokered
peace between Liberian forces and Shield, and

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helped arrange the first free elections in that
country. Back in the United States, Tony Stark's

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biological mother, Amanda Armstrong, handed
Riri the keys to one of Tony's labs. Riri's old

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school asked her to return, and a teenage
superhero squad called the Champions invited her

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to join their ranks. Riri accepted all three
offers, dividing her days between inventions in

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the lab, classes at MIT, and missions with her
peers like Ms. Warble and Miles Morales

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Spider-Man, both of whom you can learn more about
in the respective duels against Elastowomen and

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Batwing. The teamwork with the Champions proved
vital when a reality-warped Captain America

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helps the terrorist group Hydra overthrow the US
government. Guided by Black Widow, the Champions

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joined in underground resistance. The young
heroes watched the Widow die, were jailed, and

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were freed only after the real Steve Rogers was
restored. You can learn more about Captain

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America and Black Widow in the respective duels
against Commander Steel and Black Canary. After

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that adventure, a living cosmic cube named Kobik
flung several heroes through time. Riri landed

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decades in the future, where a magic-using Tony
Stark 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

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as well. On her rescue near the Arctic Circle, she
recruited the new hero's snow guard to the team,

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then flew into space to help Nova during a Chitauri
Civil War. During the battle, she impulsively

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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 about
Thanos in his duel against Darkseid. Soon after,

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the Champions traveled to Tanzania to install
water filters for a village where they fought the

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misunderstood swamp beast Man-Thing. A strange
portal later trapped half the team in a

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medieval-style realm called the Siege Parallel,
turning each hero into a fantasy version of

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themselves. Riri became Lady Ironheart, a
shining paladin and the only one who still

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remembered Earth. She regrouped her friends and
led them home. Weeks later, her Android teammate

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Viv, the daughter of Vision, kissed Riri.
Uncomfortable with Viv's actions, Riri pulled

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away and their friendship grew strained. That
tension let the demon Blackheart twist

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Ironheart's mind during a later attack. Viv's
heartfelt apology broke the spell, and together

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they drove Blackheart off. Riri admitted she
could not return Viv's romantic feelings, but

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still value to their friendship. Using advanced
scanners from her MIT lab, Riri mapped her brain

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patterns to build a new suit AI. The program took
the form of her old friend Natalie and called

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itself Natalie, or the neuro-autonomous
technical assistant and laboratory

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intelligence entity. Around the same time
Ironheart clashed with the Ten Rings crime

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syndicate. Their agent, Midnight Fire,
kidnapped children in Chicago while hunting the

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mystical wellspring of power. Riri was able to
rescue the kids and use the reward money to open a

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neighborhood tech studio. Chasing the Ten Rings
to Wakanda, Riri teamed with Princess Shuri, the

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Shadow Walking Hero silhouette, and a koye of the
Dora Milaje to locate the hidden wellspring

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beneath a mountain. You can learn more about Shuri
and her duel against Aqualad. Inside, she faced

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Midnight's Fire and Dune, who was revealed to be
Demetrius, the father she thought was dead, now

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loyal to the Ten Rings. Grabbing the wellspring's
key, Riri fell to its energy, saw visions of her

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past, and emerged temporarily supercharged with
mystical energy. She used its power to defeat the

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Ten Rings, and Wakanda honored her with the
Circlet of Bast, a ceremonial award and the

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highest honor Wakanda can bestow to an outsider.
She later helped build Wakanda's first deep space

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fleet and fought alongside them against an
invading force. Back home, Congress passed a law

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banning heroes under 18. Fearing legal trouble
for her mother, Riri tried to retire, but a

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government unit called Cradle raided her house
and hunted the champions members across the

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country. Riri uncovered proof that the energy
giant Rockson had funded the law to sideline teen

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heroes. Public outrage forced Cradle to shut down
and the law to be repealed. During a separate

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sting, Iron Heart, Iron Man, and War Machine all
tried to stop a black market shop named Source

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Control from selling the Mandarin's Ten Alien
Power Rings. Riri ended up taking the rings for

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study, but they whispered dark thoughts into her
mind. On a later mission to the dwarf realm of

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Nedevalir with Mewit inventor Forge, a McLuhan
dragon warned her the rings housed evil spirits.

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Riri used Forge's portal cannon to hurl all Ten
Rings into deep space before they could corrupt

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her. You can learn more about the Ten Rings in our
Abra Kadabra vs Mandarin dual episode. Soon

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after, an advanced virus shut down every
high-tech zoo Tony Stark had ever built, causing

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him to call Riri and Natalie for help. The
investigation led to an old Stark plant in Chicago

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where Lucia von Bardus tried to steal some
surveillance gear. Fighting besides Stark,

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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, restoring
Iron Man's systems. And that's Iron Heart's

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backstory. Powers-wise, Iron Heart's alien
alloy armor grants her high durability,

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increased lifting strength of around 70 tons,
supersonic flight speed, repulsor blasts, a

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uni-beam chest laser, mini precision missiles,
flashbangs, sonic emitters, taser cables,

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ferrous liquid spray for magnetic attacks, EMP
restraints, EMP blasters, repulsor powered

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drones, remote communications access, an
on-board artificial intelligence called

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Natalie which performs tactical analysis and
target scanning, thermal vision, night vision,

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and that's just to name a few of the gadgets her
armor has. In addition to all that, Iron Heart is a

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highly gifted engineer and inventor with a genius
level intelligence. Yeah, half that shit isn't

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even gonna work against Star Sapphire. 100% of it
is gonna work against her. Are really an EMP blast?

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Yeah, I mean, don't the Green Lantern rings or not
for electricity or something? I'm gonna slap the

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shit out of you. Runs on love, bro. Pure love. Do you
have an LMP? I don't think you do. In a world where

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Well, now that we've got their histories and
abilities out of the way, let's speculate on how

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one of the 1,000 simulated matches will go. The
winner is determined by simulations, not the

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speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fight
could play out. Adrian Nk, what are the rules of our

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speculation? Well, I should say there are no
rules, other than the characters have no prior

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knowledge of the other going into the fight. All
they 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

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approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript
environment that will have no bearing on the match

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itself, as no environmental statistics are
considered in my simulations. The contestants

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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'm
going to say that Iron Heart goes first by having

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Natalie, her AI, quickly scan Star Sapphire. And
she's like, Natalie, who is she? And Natalie's

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like, who the else would it be, bish? That's Star
Sapphire. And I'm picking up major vibes from that

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ring of hers. So Riri's like, let's take it out. And
she targets the ring and launches a barrage of many

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heat seeking missiles from her forearms at Star
Sapphire. Right away, Star Sapphire, she's going

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to generate a bunch of heart shaped shields that
block all of the missiles mid flight. And she's

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going to counter with a thorny, flowered vine
that's going to wrap around Iron Heart and bind

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her. Alright, okay, so Iron Heart's wrapped up in
this vine construct and she's going to struggle to

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break free from it. But I think to bite her some time
while she's struggling, she's going to emit a

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sonic attack comboed with some strobe
flashbangs. And that's going to disorient Star

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Sapphire because Star Sapphire is going to be
covering her ears because they're in pain and you

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know, closing her eyes. And that's going to give
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then she's going to eject like four different
repulsor drones from her armor, and they're going

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to fly alongside her and blast alongside her as
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So Star Sapphire is getting like repulsor blast
from five different directions. Okay, Star

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Sapphire, you know, she gets hit briefly, but
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drones with little flying cherub archers that
fight back against them, shooting them down while

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Star Sapphire herself is going to fire her own
massive arrow at Iron Heart, plunging it right

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into her arc reactor on her chest. The heart shaped
one? Yep. Okay, but Natalie, you know, she was

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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 dodge
the arrow. And that's when Iron Heart blitzes Star

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Sapphire, just punching her right in the face with
her fist, knocking her out. Okay, so Iron Heart

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lands a punch on Star Sapphire. She's just going to
spin around with a giant hand construct that's

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going to just backhand Iron Heart right to the
ground. And Star Sapphire is going to follow up by

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generating a massive swarm of small butterflies
that are going to land on Iron Heart, just covering

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all of her armor, and it's going to crawl into it to
shut it down. Are you trying to have Star Sapphire

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just generate like, lovey-dovey things like
butterflies? And? I don't know, butterflies seem

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kind of weak. Like, they're going to try to get into
Iron Heart's armor, but you know, that thing is

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like locked down tight. I mean, they're made of
energy. All right, while this fruitless endeavor

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is happening, from the ground, Iron Heart's going
to raise up her arm, fire out taser cables that

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attach to Star Sapphire's skin and stun her, and
make her fall down to the ground too, as all the

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energy butterflies dissipate. Yeah, but before
the cables have been reached, her Star Sapphire is

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going to protect herself by quickly generating
this castle tower construct that just kind of goes

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up around her a few stories into the sky. And at the
top of this tower is going to be a dragon that looks

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like the predator entity, and it's going to dive
down at Iron Heart, just clawing and biting at her

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armor. Again, this is not the predator with like
the dreadlocks and the shoulder cannon and all

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that. Well, I mean, if you want to imagine that,
just that with wings. Okay, well, while Iron

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Heart's being attacked, she's going to fire a
unibeme laser from her chest that's just going to

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shatter the predator dragon construct. And all
pissed off, she's going to rock it from the ground.

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And then she's going to shoot an actual rocket from
her back that's going to shoot over to the tower

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construct and blow it right up. So Star Sapphire is
exposed now. And that's when Iron Heart shoots out

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a spray of the Ferris adhesive liquid metal that's
just 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

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Iron Heart has like some limited magnetic control
like basic repel attract stuff. Okay, well, I

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mean, the metal is going to melt off of her right
away. Like if that stuff was liquid, it's not going

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to take long for her to get heated up pretty
quickly. You know, you're going to see these

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purple flames just begin to emerge from beneath it
as it just melts off of her. And that's when Star

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Sapphire encases Iron Heart in this violet
crystal chamber that's going to lock her in a

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trance where she hallucinates being with her
stepfather and Natalie again, you know, the

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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

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going to take a while for the metal to melt. So like
Iron Heart's not going to wait for that to happen.

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Right away, she's going to activate her magnetic
system and that's going to yank the ring off of Star

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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 Iron
Heart just turns her into a smear with a repulsor

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blast. And Natalie's like, Bish, bye. All right,
that was a nice move. I bet Iron Heart really loved

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that finisher a lot, because it was actually all a
love induced hallucination, because she's still

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in the fucking crystal chamber. And here comes the
comment. You said that she hallucinates her

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stepfather, Gary and Natalie. Well, yeah, she
hallucinates Gary and Natalie and defeating Star

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Sapphire, like they're just in the background
while she does it. Well, I'm calling bullshit on

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that. And we could go ahead and leave the match
there and find out which scenario happens by

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running the stats. Either Iron Heart yanks the
ring off of Star Sapphire's hand and then repulsor

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blasts her, or Iron Heart gets trapped in a
sapphire construct where she hallucinates and

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then gets crushed by a big gemstone meteor.
Comment, whatever. Let's enter the stats, run the

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simulations, and come back with a winner.
Adrian9k, hit it. Inputting data, running

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calculations, processing results, simulations
complete. All right, so this dual matchup kind of

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serves as a proxy for a Green Lantern Iron Man duel.
And I think the stats for these characters lined up

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pretty well with that type of matchup. In that,
Iron Heart is smarter than Star Sapphire in the

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same way that Tony Stark is smarter than Hal
Jordan. Oh yeah, and also in the same way that Star

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Sapphire is faster and more versatile than Iron
Heart in the same way that Hal Jordan is to Iron Man.

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But we're saying Iron Heart is marginally more
perceptive than Star Sapphire because not only

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does she have like her enhanced sense modes, but
also has the artificial intelligence Natalie

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backing her up, as well as drones to get external
data. But can't she create force fields like Star

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Sapphire? Well, probably not to the same extent as
Star Sapphire, but she doesn't need to because she

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has a fucking indestructible suit of armor. So
she's more durable. Star Sapphire barely wears

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any clothes. Another win. Right, so taking that
and all of the other stats into account, Joseph,

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who do you think came out on top? Iron Heart. Iron
Heart because she has a whole suit of armor and Star

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Sapphire only has a rinky dink ring. And last time I
checked, armor beats ring. Well, when's the last

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time you checked our Instagram? Not there
recently, but looking at it now. Yeah, Star

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Sapphire won our poll with our followers by 81%,
which is a lot. Actually, I'm looking at 82%. Well,

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looks like you need to get your phone checked
because 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. So
maybe. The point is, Star Sapphire is winning in

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the poll, but does she win in the simulations?
Let's find out. AJ9K, the results, please. Hey,

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you are, sir. All right, the winner of the matchup
between Star Sapphire and Iron Heart is Star

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Sapphire. All right, that does it for this
episode, guys. I want to give a big thanks to our

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executive producers. No, no, no, no, no. You have
to sit through this. Star Sapphire won 547 of the

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1000 simulated matches or 54.7% of the time
compared to Iron Heart, who only won 45.3% of the

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time. That's not a bad showing. It's actually
closer than I thought it was going to be. I thought

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

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up. You lost. You can't say anything. I can say that
I don't think this match would serve as a good proxy

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for a Green Lantern Iron Man fight because clearly
Iron Man would win that fight. You literally just

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said when you were talking about the stats that it
would be. That was before I heard the results. Just

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accept it. No way Iron Man beats Hal Jordan. Just no
way. Except Iron Man's armor has proven to be more

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capable and versatile than Ree Reeves' armor in
the comic book so far. So I'm not so sure about that.

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Wow, way to throw Iron Heart under the bus, bro. No,
she's still cool. She's still cool. She still

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pulled off a damn decent showing against Star
Sapphire. Whatever helps you cope. But that does

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it for this duel. AJ9K, help close us out. Our next
episode is going to be another duel where we pit the

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former Aquaman sidekick Tempest. Against the
Inhuman Crystal. They're both manipulators of

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the elements so it should be an interesting match.
Yeah, they're both young and they're both in the

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royal courts of their respective royal houses.
Yeah, it'll be great. But that does it for this

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episode. We want to give a big thanks to our
executive producers, Jon Starroski, Zachary

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Hepburn, Dustin Balcombe, Miggy Mathen Guillen,
Nathaniel Wagner, Lee Vietn, Austin Wazelowski,

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AJ Dunkerly, Nick Obanto, Scott Camacho, Gil
Camacho, Adam Speese, Dean Moleski, Devin Davis,

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Joseph Kirsting, Josh Leiner, Mike Williams,
Oscar Galvez, and Paul Graves for helping make

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this podcast possible. And we'll talk to you guys
next week. Up, up and away, true believers. My

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nickname in college was Love Predator, but only
because I made clicking sounds in bed.