Jim Rash will appear in the Ironheart Disney+ series
Ironheart will be introduced to the MCU with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. There were quite a few scenes that were filmed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT. Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams also attended the same university. In fact, MIT has already been visited by the MCU. According to some reports, the Ironheart Series will see Riri Williams get kicked out of MIT for doing other students’ homework in exchange for money to fund her projects. It will bring back an obscure and strange character who was played by Jim Rash in Captain America: Civil War.
Jim Rash is back in the Disney+ series Ironheart
The Ironheart series will obviously see Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams and The Hood by Anthony Ramos. But Jim Rash is also expected to make an appearance. Rash is best known for his role on the TV show Community where he worked with Anthony and Joe Russo. He will resume his liaison role with MIT. He could even play an antagonistic role to Riri Williams since she was kicked out of college. It will be quite fun to find out what his character has been up to all these years. Another question that arises is whether or not he was able to create this self-cooking hot dog. Some fans are even speculating that he may have become the Dean of MIT, although that seems pretty unlikely.
Previous appearance in Captain America: Civil War
During the Civil War, Iron Man goes to MIT and holds a seminar. During this time, he demonstrates a new technology known as BARF or Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing. It was essentially a holographic illusion technology that allowed its user to recreate and relive old memories. Curiously, this technology was created by none other than Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio. Tony Stark showed his last memory of his parents before they died in the car crash, which basically means they were killed by Bucky.
After his presentation, he gives a speech announcing the research grant awarded to each of the students. This would provide them with adequate funding to move forward with their own inventions and ideas. When he leaves the stage, he meets an MIT liaison played by Jim Rash who introduces him to his new idea of inventing a self-cooking hot dog. Naturally, the scene was simply meant to be comic relief and an ode to the Russo Brothers and the community. In fact, the MCU has seen several cameos from actors who played a central role in the show Community.
Every Community Cameo In The MCU
These cameos mostly appear in Avengers Endgame. The first involves Ken Jeong, who played Professor Ben Chang on the sitcom. He plays the role of the security guard who lets Scott Lang aka Ant Man out of the warehouse where he was trapped in the quantum tunnel. The second cameo was a bit later in the film during the Time Heist. Yvette Nicole Brown, who played Shirley Bennett in Community, stars as a SHIELD agent at a secure facility in 1970. Captain America was there to retrieve additional Pym particles from Hank Pym’s lab. Brown’s SHIELD agent noticed his suspicious actions and reported him to security. Looks like we’ll be getting another community cameo in the MCU soon enough.
