Latest / Vigilante Vibes Podcast / Ep. 105. Ironheart: Comics VS. MCU
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- 0:17Hi guys, it's Megan from Vigilante Vibes and I have
- 0:20another character breakdown for you today.
- 0:22And today I'm going to be talking about RiRi Williams,
- 0:25played by Dominic Thorne in the upcoming Iron Heart series that
- 0:31comes out on June 24th. That Marvel as of the date as of
- 0:37the 8th of May, they have not done anything to promote it at
- 0:42all. Of course, as soon as I post
- 0:44this, they might drop a trailer. So that's usually how it goes.
- 0:47So maybe I'm manifesting it right now, but who knows.
- 0:50But since most people don't know that show is coming out, please
- 0:53spread the word and raise the hype.
- 0:55Even if you're not a fan of re re, if you're not a fan of Iron
- 0:59Heart, not a fan of her comics or her character, she still the
- 1:03show still deserves a fighting chance like every other Marvel
- 1:06show does. So in this episode I will give
- 1:11you the MCU version of RiRi Williams, played by Dominic
- 1:14Thorne, Dominique Thorne, sorry, and then I'll give you the full
- 1:20comic version. So in the MCU, RiRi Williams is
- 1:24an MIT student and A gifted inventor who invented various
- 1:28cutting edge designs such as a flying suit of armor based on
- 1:31Iron Man's suit. As one of her projects was used
- 1:35by the CIA to find Vibranium outside of Wakanda, Williams
- 1:39found herself threatened by Neymour since her invention put
- 1:43Talukan in danger of being exposed to the surface world.
- 1:47Targeted by both Tolokinel and the United States government,
- 1:53Williams was approached by Cherie and the Wakandans, which
- 1:56later escalated into a war between Wakanda and the Tolokin.
- 2:01Williams helped the Wakandans in the final battle using the new
- 2:04armor made with a Condon technology and returned to the
- 2:08US after the conflict. So one thing I want to talk
- 2:12about about this particular thing, I see a lot of people say
- 2:16if we ever see her again in the MCU, she needs a new suit.
- 2:19We can't do it with that suit. They hated it.
- 2:21I personally, I, I was all right with the suit.
- 2:24It was a little too futuristic looking for me personally, but
- 2:29it's Wakandan's. Heck, what are you going to do?
- 2:32Just so you know, it won't be that suit in her series.
- 2:35If you'll remember, at the end of Wakanda Forever, Cherie took
- 2:37the suit back because it belonged to Wakanda.
- 2:41So it she'll be getting a new suit, new design and all that.
- 2:44So there you go. Now, in the comics, RiRi
- 2:50Williams debuted an Invincible Iron Man Volume 3 #7 in 2016,
- 2:56created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Diadato.
- 3:01It's said that she was inspired by the actress Sky Jackson, but
- 3:06the creator has also said that he made the character with his
- 3:09daughters in mind, which I think is so cute.
- 3:12She later appeared under the code name Iron Heart.
- 3:15An Invincible Iron Man Volume 3 #9 by Brian Michael Bendis and
- 3:20Stefano Caselli If there's one thing you should take away from
- 3:24this is that Brian Michael Bendis is an incredible writer.
- 3:29He is phenomenal. Like the New Avengers comics,
- 3:36all him just. I will at the end of this video,
- 3:40check out my breakdown of who the New Avengers are in the
- 3:44comics and you will see that his name is littered all over it.
- 3:48He's phenomenal. His writing sings to my heart,
- 3:51and that's all you need to know. Moving on.
- 3:54RiRi Williams was born not long after her dad, RiRi Senior,
- 3:57passed away. She grew up in the South Shore
- 4:00neighborhood of Chicago with her mom Ronnie, her sister Sharon,
- 4:04and her stepdad. While she was 5, her parents
- 4:08noticed that she was having some behavioral issues, so they took
- 4:10her to a child psychologist. After a bunch of tests, it turns
- 4:14out Rhode Island, Rhode Island was a super genius.
- 4:16The psychologist suggests that they find special ways to
- 4:20support her intelligence while also making sure she got the
- 4:23emotional support she needed. This is an Invincible Iron Man
- 4:27Volume 4 #1 Rhode Island Rhode Island was so smart that she
- 4:31often kept to herself and became kind of an introvert.
- 4:35She didn't really have any friends until she met Natalie
- 4:37Washington at the age of 10. Natalie noticed Rhode Island
- 4:40Rhode Island working on some cool superhero related
- 4:43inventions in her garage and the two quickly became close.
- 4:47Just a year later, Rhode Island Rhode Island got a scholarship
- 4:50to MIT. Sadly, when Rhode Island Rhode
- 4:54Island was 13, things took a tragic turn.
- 4:56During a picnic at Marcotta Park, a drive by shooting
- 5:01happened nearby Rhode Island. Rhode Island wasn't hurt, but
- 5:03both Natalie and her stepdad were hit by stray bullets and
- 5:06did not survive. You can see this in Invincible
- 5:08Iron Man Volume 4 #1 What started out just as a personal
- 5:12challenge turned into a secret mission for Rhode Island, Rhode
- 5:15Island. Building her own suit of armor,
- 5:17she reverse engineered some older Iron Man tech, model 41 to
- 5:22be exact, and began putting together her own prototype.
- 5:27Most of the materials came from stuff she borrowed around
- 5:30campus. Once campus security started
- 5:33getting suspicious, RiRi decided to test out the suit for real by
- 5:36putting on and flying away. As she flew across the country
- 5:40getting a feel for how the suit worked, she ended up stumbling
- 5:43on a prison break in New Mexico. A couple of inmates were making
- 5:47a run for it in the truck, and RiRi managed to stop them, but
- 5:51her armor took a pretty bad hit in the process.
- 5:54She went back home to keep working on it, even though her
- 5:57mom wasn't exactly thrilled. But then something unexpected
- 6:00happened. Tony Stark himself showed up
- 6:03after hearing what RiRi had done.
- 6:05He gave her his full support to become a superhero with her suit
- 6:09repaired. She later teamed up with Iron
- 6:11Man and joined the fight in the second Superhero Civil War,
- 6:15going up against Captain Marvel's side.
- 6:17This is in Civil War Two number Six.
- 6:21After Civil War ended and Tony Stark ended up in a coma and
- 6:24after his fight with Captain Marvel, RiRi stepped in and
- 6:27carried on his legacy. With the help from an AI version
- 6:31of Tony he'd left behind, she built a new and improved suit
- 6:34and took on the superhero name Iron Heart.
- 6:37It didn't take long before people, both friends and enemies
- 6:40of Iron Man, to start paying attention to her.
- 6:44You can see this in Invincible Iron Man Volume 4 #3 After
- 6:50teaming up with the Rescue to take down the Techno Golem and
- 6:54her biohack ninjas, SHIELD started keeping an eye on her.
- 6:58Rhode Island Rhode Island was becoming kind of a big deal.
- 7:01Tony's mom, Amanda Armstrong, offered her his old lab.
- 7:06MIT wanted to support her work, and even the Champions, a team
- 7:09of young superheroes, asked her to join.
- 7:12Soon after, SHIELD convinced her to head to Latveria to take down
- 7:17a war criminal named Lucia. Von Bardas Re re handled it and
- 7:21even declared herself Latveria's new ruler for a bit.
- 7:24But after helping broker peace and push for the country's first
- 7:29democratic elections, she stepped down and helped set the
- 7:32stage for a new beginning there. When Hydra took over the US
- 7:35government led by an evil fascist version of Captain
- 7:39America, RiRi and the Tony Stark AI joined the Underground, which
- 7:43is a resistance group made-up of heroes and regular people
- 7:47fighting back. During all of this, RiRi grew
- 7:50closer to the Champions and eventually left the Underground
- 7:53with them to team up with Spider Man and Black Widow in a secret
- 7:56group called the Red Room. They were planning to take down
- 8:01HYDRA Cap, but things went S fast when the Champions tried to
- 8:08execute their plan. Black Widow was killed by
- 8:10Captain America and the young heroes were captured.
- 8:13Luckily, during the big final battle in DC, the real Captain
- 8:17America returned. Hydra was defeated and the
- 8:20Champions were freed. As a thank you for helping to
- 8:23defeat Hydra, A sentient cosmic cube named Kobic sent a few
- 8:28heroes on a trip through time, Rhode Island.
- 8:30Rhode Island ended up in the far future where she met Sorcerer
- 8:33Supreme Tony Stark. Magic Tony I said it, which gave
- 8:39her a new boost and inspiration to keep building her future.
- 8:43This can be seen in Generations, Iron Man and Iron heart #1 Not
- 8:48long after, while looking into the mystery of Tony Stark's
- 8:51missing body, Rhode Island, Rhode Island got invited to a
- 8:54super genius think tank ran by Leonardo da Vinci, the very one
- 8:59who wanted to create something new to replace SHIELD.
- 9:02After all that and Tony finally waking up Rhode Island, Rhode
- 9:06Island officially joined the Champions.
- 9:08This is in Champions volume to #19 She went on more and more
- 9:13wild adventures while like rescuing the new teammate Amka
- 9:17Aliak from the North Pole and even heading into space to help
- 9:21Nova stop a genocide against the Shatari.
- 9:24Things got intense when RiRi tried to take on Thanos himself.
- 9:29He destroyed her armor in seconds but let her live because
- 9:33the Champions had unknowingly helped his 'cause.
- 9:36After that loss, RiRi was feeling pretty shaken, but her
- 9:39teammate Viv encouraged her to design a new suit, this time
- 9:43inspired by what they just experienced with the Shatari.
- 9:46This is an an Infinity countdown #2.
- 9:50Later on, RiRi unveiled her brand new Iron Heart suit to the
- 9:54rest of the Champions. Before heading to Tanzania, she
- 9:59was doing a favor for a friend of Nadia's by helping install
- 10:03water filters into a local village.
- 10:05When she got there, the locals welcomed her with a meal and
- 10:08Amca and Viv went off to check something strange in a nearby
- 10:11forest, which turned out to be man thing hiding out there.
- 10:15She he ended up attacking them and although they managed to
- 10:18stop him, it came at a cost. Viv got badly damaged and Sam
- 10:23and Nadia were accidentally pulled into another dimension
- 10:27while the team kept searching for their missing friends.
- 10:30Ree Ree was with Miles Morales when he got some awful news.
- 10:35A shooting had happened at his school.
- 10:37The whole team was shaken, but RiRi took it especially hard.
- 10:41She told Amadeus Cho that stuff like that, how common and
- 10:46unavoidable it feels, was one of the reasons she built the Iron
- 10:49Heart armor in the 1st place. This can be seen in champions
- 10:52#22 to 24. A little while later in
- 10:57Champions volume to #25 Rebe was with the Champions when AMCA
- 11:02figured out that about their missing teammate and where they
- 11:05ended up. After some convincing, AMCA let
- 11:08the rest of the team tag along and they all entered in the Sage
- 11:12parallel. A strange alternate reality that
- 11:15looked and felt like a fantasy RPG.
- 11:18Everyone got transformed into the classic dungeon and dragon
- 11:21style characters based on their personality.
- 11:24RiRi became a noble paladin named Lady Ironheart and she was
- 11:29the only one who still remembered their lives back on
- 11:32Earth. She reunited with Miles who was
- 11:35now going by Shadow Spider, a rogue type character, and the
- 11:39two of them set off to find and rescue the rest of their team.
- 11:44Eventually they found the others, Mystic Marvel who is
- 11:47Miss Marvel, Vivid Vessel who is Viv Snow Gore which is Amka,
- 11:53Braun, Hammer which is Amadeus Cho, and even a now friendly man
- 11:58thing. Together they went up against
- 11:59the evil ruler of the world who had brainwashed Nova who's Sam
- 12:04and Wicked Wasp who is Nadia into fighting on his side.
- 12:09Rhode Island, Rhode Island and Viv teamed up to take the
- 12:11villain down and everyone made it back home safely.
- 12:15Afterward. Rhode Island, Rhode Island had a
- 12:16heart to heart with Miles, who was feeling guilty about some
- 12:19things he'd said while playing the role of Shadow Spider.
- 12:23He promised he wasn't leaving the team.
- 12:25Later. Viv, still affected by what she
- 12:28experienced as Vivid Vessel, realized she had feelings for
- 12:31Rhode Island, Rhode Island and surprised her with a kiss.
- 12:34But Rhode Island, Rhode Island, completely caught off guard and
- 12:37not great with emotional stuff by any means, didn't know how to
- 12:40react. She didn't respond clearly and
- 12:44things got awkward, leaving some tension between her and Viv and
- 12:47making RiRi feel a little off balance within the team.
- 12:50This can be seen in Champions volume to #27 later on Rhode
- 12:56Island. Rhode Island helped later on
- 13:00Rhode Island, Rhode Island helped lead a bigger, more
- 13:02global Champions mission that had the team doing relief work
- 13:05on multiple countries. It was a major operation, and
- 13:09she played a big part in pulling it off.
- 13:11But after things settled down, Viv approached her again, still
- 13:14looking foreclosure about the kiss in her feelings.
- 13:16Rhode Island Rhode Island, completely caught off guard
- 13:18again, not knowing how to respond, still couldn't give her
- 13:22a clear answer. This made things even more
- 13:25uncomfortable, and Rhode Island Rhode Island ended up stepping
- 13:28back from the Champions for a while.
- 13:30Eventually though, RiRi fell under the influence of the demon
- 13:33Black Heart. In a twisted moment, she showed
- 13:37up at Viv's house in Arlington while Viv was in the middle of
- 13:40coordinating a champion's mission and attacked her.
- 13:44The rest of the team stepped in and a battle broke out.
- 13:47It wasn't until Viv apologized to RiRi mid fight that she
- 13:50managed to be snapped out of it and break free of Black Hearts
- 13:53control and help take him down. Afterward, RiRi was finally able
- 13:58to be honest with Viv, saying she didn't return her romantic
- 14:03feelings but valued their friendship very deeply.
- 14:06That helped them both finally move forward.
- 14:08And this can all be seen in Champions Volume 3 #8 through 10
- 14:14Rhode Island. Rhode Island eventually accepted
- 14:16MI TS offer to run her own lab, using the opportunity to work on
- 14:20proper AI system for her armor. While giving a tour to some
- 14:25foreign visitors. There was an accident.
- 14:27There's always an accident, and around the same time, she picked
- 14:31up some strange police activity that led her into a fight with
- 14:34the villain Clash. After she defeated him, he
- 14:37handed her a token from the Ten Rings, telling her that she had
- 14:41the potential to go down a dark path.
- 14:43That really shook her. Later, while processing
- 14:49everything, RiRi got a surprise FaceTime from her friend Xavier
- 14:52King. They talked for a while, and
- 14:55during the call, something huge happened.
- 14:58Her AI project, which she'd built from scans of her brain
- 15:02waves and memories, suddenly finished building itself.
- 15:05The AI had taken the form of an older version of Natalie, her
- 15:09best friend that died years ago. Re renamed the AI Natalie, short
- 15:14for a Neuro Autonomous Technical Assistant and Laboratory
- 15:18Intelligence Entity, and together they returned to
- 15:22Chicago to investigate the mysterious disappearances of
- 15:26Riri's childhood friend Deja Hamilton, teaming up with Riri's
- 15:31mom and Xavier to find out what was going on.
- 15:34This is all in Iron Heart numbers one through 3.
- 15:38While leading A-Team, RiRi ended up walking straight into an
- 15:42ambush set by the Ten Rings. As she kept digging, she finally
- 15:46found Deja, who had been kidnapped and was being held by
- 15:50a Ten Rings agent called Midnight's Fire.
- 15:53Not long after, she showed up at her garage and told her that he
- 15:56was searching for something called the Wellspring of Power,
- 16:00and he wanted RiRi to join him on that quest.
- 16:03She turned him down and they fought, but he beat her pretty
- 16:07quickly and took off. Eventually, RiRi tracked Deja to
- 16:12a warehouse, where she discovered a bunch of kids being
- 16:14held hostage by a corrupt politician named Thomas Birch.
- 16:19She managed to rescue Deja and the others, and realized that
- 16:22Midnight's Fire had been using Birch as a puppet the entire
- 16:25time. A few days later, RiRi decided
- 16:29to drop out of MIT, which it looks like that's what's going
- 16:32to be happening in the Iron Heart series on Disney Plus.
- 16:37With the reward money she got for exposing Birch and the cash
- 16:41from selling the patent for the tech she used to find Deja, she
- 16:45bought a studio in Chicago and started setting up her own base
- 16:49of operations. You can read all this in Iron
- 16:51heart #5. At one point, Miss Marvel asked
- 16:56RiRi to look into the disappearance of Miles Morales
- 16:59during the time RiRi had been away from the Champions and
- 17:02Miles had actually quit the team, breaking the promise he'd
- 17:06made to stick around. Determined to find him, RiRi
- 17:10fell back into her old habits and tracked down his last known
- 17:13location using his phone data, which made her AI Natalie laugh
- 17:18a bit at the house. Stalkerish that was.
- 17:20They eventually found him caught up in some kind of time related
- 17:23experiment being run by a group called The Tank.
- 17:26After taking care of that situation, RiRi and Miles
- 17:29finally had a heart to heart and patched things up over his
- 17:31decision to leave the team. Not long after, while giving
- 17:35Nadia a tour of her lab, chaos broke out in Chicago, a full
- 17:39blown zombie outbreak. RiRi tracked the source to
- 17:42Midway Airport and figured out that the villain behind it all
- 17:45was someone named Eclipse. She jumped into action and was
- 17:48able to stop the outbreak by taking Eclipse down.
- 17:51This can all be seen in Iron Hearts number six to seven.
- 17:56After taking down Eclipse, RiRi noticed the symbol on her head
- 17:59matching the one tied to the 10 rings.
- 18:02Realizing she was out of her depth with whatever she was
- 18:04turning into, she flew to New York to get some magical backup
- 18:07from Doctor Strange. He was hesitant at first,
- 18:10worried that she might fall into the same trap of ego and
- 18:13ambition that Tony Stark had, but he helped her anyways.
- 18:17With his guidance, RiRi found out that the Wellspring of Power
- 18:20was located in Wakanda. She turned to Tony for help
- 18:24getting there and eventually met up with Cherie.
- 18:27Their first meeting was a little tense, but they both ended up
- 18:30working together to stop a swarm of shadow creatures leaking from
- 18:34the Wellspring. Along the way, they were joined
- 18:37by the Silhouette, who was one on the same mission to stop her
- 18:40twin brother, Midnight's Fire. The three of them made their way
- 18:44to the Wellspring and fought off more shadow creatures, with a
- 18:48koi jumping in to help after secretly following them.
- 18:52Once they made it to the Wellspring, A Silhouette helped
- 18:54them uncover the Ten Rings in the middle of reopening it.
- 18:58Among them were Midnight's Fire Eclipse to MO and their leader,
- 19:03someone named Dune, who shockingly turned out to be
- 19:07Riri's father. They were captured at 1st and re
- 19:10returned the tables by challenging them for control of
- 19:14the wellspring. After revealing who she was with
- 19:17some PIM particles Nadia had given her, she managed to grab
- 19:21the key but ended up falling into the Wellspring herself.
- 19:25Inside, she had a huge realization about what really
- 19:28happened to her dad and came out of it with upgraded powers.
- 19:31She used them to take down the Ten Rings and force them to
- 19:34retreat. A few days later, RiRi and
- 19:38Silhouette were honored by Wakanda with the Circlet of
- 19:42Bast, their highest honor. Sheree also let RiRi know that
- 19:46she'd always be welcomed there, and RiRi later returned to help
- 19:50Wakanda build a space Armada and even took part in defending the
- 19:55country during the battle against Ndijaca's forces.
- 19:58This can be seen in Black Panther #20 to 24.
- 20:02After the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act was passed, which
- 20:06banned teen vigilantes, RiRi had to hang up her iron suit for
- 20:09good to avoid getting her mom in trouble.
- 20:12This led to some tension between her and Natalie, the AI, when
- 20:16RiRi found out about Andre Sims, an industrial saboteur, but
- 20:22didn't want to go after him directly.
- 20:25Things got worse when a glitch in Matt Natalie's system caused
- 20:28her interaction with Sims Sabotage software.
- 20:34I said that wrong, yes. Hi Millie,
- 20:51where was I? This led to some tension between
- 20:54her and Natalie when RiRi found out about Andre Sims, an
- 20:58industrial saboteur, but didn't want to go after him directly.
- 21:02Things got worse when a glitch in Natalie's system caused by
- 21:06her interaction with SIM Sabotage software made the AI go
- 21:09rogue and take control of Riri's empty armor to attack Sims.
- 21:14RiRi eventually tracked Natalie down and helped her snap out of
- 21:18it. After SIM Sabotage was exposed,
- 21:21RiRi put her Iron Heart armor away for good, accepting that
- 21:25her days as Iron Heart were over, but she and Natalie still
- 21:28worked with the Champions and Rhode Island.
- 21:30Rhode Island was sending her AI to New York to provide security
- 21:34for a secret meeting of teen heroes.
- 21:36After Kamala's Law was passed and being enforced by Cradle, a
- 21:41meeting got busted when Viv Vision accidentally leaked its
- 21:45location to the authorities, but Natalie helped a few of the
- 21:48heroes escape. Later, the protests against
- 21:52Cradle made their way to Chicago, bringing the rest of
- 21:55the Champions, Miss Marvel, Miles Sam along with it.
- 21:59After a protest got out of hand and exposed them to the
- 22:02authorities, the Champions took refuge in Riri's house.
- 22:05There, they confronted her about not being there with them and
- 22:09accused her of being the one who tipped off Cradle about the New
- 22:12York meeting. Rhode Island.
- 22:14Rhode Island explained that her public identity and reliance on
- 22:16her mom made it impossible for her to break the law like they
- 22:19could with their secret identities.
- 22:22She also denied betraying them, and in the process revealed that
- 22:25she'd figured out Miss Marvel's real name.
- 22:28Despite her hesitation, her team mates had inadvertently LED
- 22:32Cradle to her house, something Rhode Island, Rhode Island had
- 22:34already anticipated, so she was wearing her armor gauntlets
- 22:38under her clothes. She had no choice but to suit up
- 22:40and help fight off Cradles forces.
- 22:44RiRi and the Champions went on the run, trying to stay one step
- 22:48ahead of Cradle, but every time Viv accidentally exposed their
- 22:51location. Like at this point, just get rid
- 22:53of Viv and the final confrontation.
- 22:56They were rescued by Cyclops and his team, Pixie and Dust.
- 23:00Cyclops explained that while Krakoa wouldn't take them in,
- 23:03they could stay with the Marauders and Captain Kate.
- 23:06Pride Kitty Pride for those who don't know, after a brief fight
- 23:11in a meeting with her idle storm, RiRi and the Champions
- 23:14decided to stop running and face Cradle head on.
- 23:17They went back to Riri's house, apologize to her mom, and with
- 23:20her blessing, recorded a video exposing Cradle.
- 23:23They also got their mobile base back. the Champions took down
- 23:27rocks on the people behind Kamala's Law, which was then
- 23:31repealed. With that, they were finally
- 23:34free to be heroes again without the constant threat of
- 23:37persecution. As for the Mandarin's rings,
- 23:40RiRi had always been interested in them.
- 23:43When she found out they were being sold on the black market
- 23:45by a group called Source Control, she went undercover as
- 23:49Cobalt Man to buy them. Iron Man and War Machine had the
- 23:54same idea and ran into her right after she bought the rings.
- 23:58She ended up using her cover to help start take down the Source
- 24:02Controls leader Spymaster. Tony wasn't thrilled about re re
- 24:06keeping the rings at first, but eventually he let her study them
- 24:11to explore their potential for non offensive uses.
- 24:14The more re re wore the wings, the more they started to mess
- 24:18with her. She kept them on all the time
- 24:20and even lied about having them. During Orcas's campaign to
- 24:25oppress mutants worldwide, Tony asked for her help to travel and
- 24:28build spaceships out of Mysterium for the mutant counter
- 24:32offensive. Along the way, she teamed up
- 24:34with the mutant inventor Forge, and they ran into Moklon Dragon.
- 24:39The dragon warned RiRi that the rings were holding the evil
- 24:42spirits of its kin before flying off.
- 24:44After they built the ships in Knight of Eller, the dwarfs who
- 24:49helped them backed out because they wanted the Mysterium all
- 24:51for themselves. Under the influence of the
- 24:53rings, RiRi lost it and almost went too far, but Forge managed
- 24:57to snap her out of it. Realizing how dangerous the
- 25:00rings actually were, RiRi decided to get rid of them.
- 25:04Using the device Forge made that could send things whatever they
- 25:08needed to go, RiRi shot the rings in a space and scattered
- 25:12them across the Galaxy. After Tony Stark's Iron Man
- 25:15armor got wrecked by a magical virus that Justine Hammer
- 25:18planted, he had to rely on a basic low tech suit to stop her
- 25:22plans. He succeeded, but all his other
- 25:25suits were still useless, which sucks.
- 25:28Needing a way to clear the virus from his systems, Tony called in
- 25:32Ironheart and Natalie, asking them to come to his Santa Monica
- 25:36base. With some help from the Scarlet
- 25:38Witch, RiRi figured out that Justine Hammer's Mysterium
- 25:42powered Iron Monger suit, left behind after their fight could
- 25:46remove the virus from Stark systems.
- 25:49While they were at it, RiRi also discovered that a Stark facility
- 25:53in Southern California needed SHIELD clearance to Get full
- 25:56access. This LED them to Agent Melinda
- 25:59May's office where they found out that ex SHIELD agent Carolyn
- 26:03Palamas had been using Tony's old credentials to get into
- 26:07start tech. The team headed to the
- 26:09restricted facility to stop Palamas from stealing anything
- 26:13and Natalie hacked the smugglers phones to find out that they
- 26:17were headed to Hellman Circle in West Side Chicago.
- 26:21This really ticked off Rhode Island, Rhode Island and she
- 26:23used some force to get Palamas to admit what her group was
- 26:27planning using Stark's surveillance tech in Chicago.
- 26:31Tony then realized that Hellman Circle was the former Stark
- 26:34Industries Midwest Operations HQ, sold by Anthony Stark
- 26:38decades before, but still registered in his name.
- 26:41Arriving at Hellman Circle, RiRi, Tony, and Melinda were
- 26:45confronted by Lucia Bond Vardis, and you can read all of that in
- 26:49Iron Man Volume 7 #4 So as you can see, Iron Heart Rebellion,
- 26:55she's very, very active in the comics with Iron Man, with
- 27:00champions, with a lot of different characters.
- 27:03I'd really like to see her join the Champions, but we need to
- 27:08get a miles in there too. I want to see them all, but as
- 27:12usual, I have some comics for you to check out to get to know
- 27:15RiRi Williams even more. Starting off Invincible Iron Man
- 27:20volume 4, Iron Heart volume 1 Generations Iron Man and Iron
- 27:29heart #1 Iron Heart Bad chemistry number one and from
- 27:37free Comics Books day Ironheart, Marvel voices number one and
- 27:43also check out the Champions runs because she's all up in
- 27:47there and she is phenomenal in it.
- 27:50So that is RiRi Williams Ironheart.
- 27:53Hopefully we get something about her show this week because at
- 27:58this point it's like why don't we have anything?
- 28:01Every other project has been promoted so much more than this
- 28:04show and it just feels suspicious, but that's all I can
- 28:11really say. So when that does drop, when we
- 28:13do get a trailer, be sure to like and subscribe so you can
- 28:17see me react to it as I do with all Marvel trailers.
- 28:21So I hope you enjoyed this character breakdown and with
- 28:23that being said, have a marvelous day.