Smartphone usage in Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron

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OH LOOK it's been a month. Uh, whoops. Well, without further ado, the smartphone appearances and non-appearances in Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron. And then some comments.

 

 

• (Was someone on their phone at the beginning?)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 00:46 | SG hangs back, takes out her phone and checks something, and then is disappointed (She's checking if Captain Marvel fighting Hala is there yet.)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 03:09 | Ms. Marvel calls Daisy (Her phone is now pink)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 06:42 | SG grabs her phone to take a video of Iron Heart (Her phone is now red)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 07:55 | Iron Man calls for help on his phone
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 13:30 | Squirrel Girl put the video on Hero Watch, and looks closer at the video
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 14:45 | Squirrel Girl looks up people on her phone (Her phone is grey for this shot)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 20:50 | A smartphone-looking device (with an antenna?) used to track the arc reactor
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 23:05 | Riri tries to remotely access her suit from the same device
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 25:35 | NEGATIVE: Daisy calls Captain Marvel with an ear-thing (again at :31)
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 32:55 | NEGATIVE: Squirrel Girl can't call for help with her token because her comm is in her token, even though she... has a phone.
• Marvel Rising: Heart Of Iron -- 33:30 | MINOR: "I texted you three times yesterday."

General MINOR NEGATIVE: Location-based text alerts have been a thing for a while, and that should probably have come up at some point

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In general, there really wasn't much. There weren't all that many places where it would have fit in -- the episode was a lot of fighting -- so that isn't all that surprising. What I do what to point out, though, is how much they didn't think about it. Not only in the missed example, where we see them pulling a "They cannot communicate! Oh no!" plot point despite Squirrel Girl having a phone, but also in the design itself.

Ms. Marvel's phone has changed color from the red in the previous ones, to a lighter pink, and Squirrel Girl's changed to Ms. Marvel's previous red, from the green that it was previously -- before, two appearances after that, suddenly being grey.

(And that's fine! This isn't a complaint -- minor details in the coloring are just an expected artefact of regularly and efficiently getting out these things, without making it an Ordeal.
 

There's nothing much we can conclude about HOW they think about smartphones from this movie, but we do learn about HOW MUCH they deliberately think about them -- not much. Which is great for our purposes, because they won't be, like, ~trying~ to use smartphones or anything -- they'll use them only if they happen to think about them, and know how to use them. Only if they happen to find a use that makes them think of them.

(Also though, as a last thing, I have to say: I DO like the green MUCH better, so I'm hoping whoever does the coloring for the next ones goes back to that.)