In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, fans got the chance to meet one of Marvel’s newest and most popular heroes: Riri Williams, aka Ironheart. Her ground-level origin, intelligence, and the unusual but vital process of her creation has brought the character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe just six years after her comic book debut.

Actor Dominique Thorne (If Beale Street Could Talk) steals scenes as as Riri, holding her own among the more seasoned returning cast of Black Panther. Where will you see her again and how did this character come to be? We have answers.

Moviegoers meet Riri when her character is thrust into a complicated international incident involving Wakanda, the U.S., and the powerful undersea nation of Talokan; she’s a world-class mind defying her professors at MIT and working carefully on her very own Iron Man-style flight suit.

Marvel fans first met Riri in 2016’s Invincible Iron Man #7. Originally introduced by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato, fans met the MIT student as she was... building her own Iron Man suit. Just like Tony, Riri’s first suit — a twist on his Mark 41 model — was a little rough, extremely chunky, and very powerful. It was a passion project for Riri, something she “dared herself” to do, but it would come in handy when the original Iron Man went missing.

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