Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer’s Ironheart has a big MCU future

Marvel Studios has introduced Ironheart (the heir apparent to Tony Stark) as a brand new superhero in armor. Ironheart will appear in both this year’s Black Panther sequel, Wakanda for Ever: Black PantherAnd in an independent series, Disney Plus 2023. You can see the trailer here Wakanda ForeverWe see the brave young hero flying into battle in “The Young Hero,” which is set for release November 11, 2022.

Ironheart’s alter ego is Riri Williams, a genius inventor who creates what Marvel describes as “the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.” Played by Dominique Thorne (Beale Street Talks), young Riri takes on the mantle of Ironheart after she builds her own suit of souped-up armor — one that she’ll apparently upgrade with the advanced technology of Wakanda and its powerful extraterrestrial element, Vibranium.

“The film deals with a lot of things, but one of them is foils — people who exist in contrast, but there’s a thread of similarity,” Ryan Coogler explained to Entertainment Weekly. “In this film, we get to see Shuri meet someone who has some things in common with her, but is also very, very different.”

In 2016, Riri Williams was the first Marvel Comics artist to make her debut, in the pages Invincible Iron Man. While studying engineering at MIT — Tony Stark’s alma mater — Riri reverse-engineers an older model of Iron Man’s armor and fights a bit of crime, naturally garnering the attention of Stark and later working alongside an AI duplicate of Tony after he fell into a coma.

Ironheart, due out in Fall 2023, isn’t the only Iron Man spinoff in the works for Disney Plus. Marvel Studios has also a slew of Iron Man spinoffs. Armor WarsBased on the comic book series, “” was promoted recently from Disney Plus to full-fledged theatrical movie. To combat Stark technology falling into wrong hands, the movie will see Don Cheadle return as James Rhodes.