There may be a few facts about Ironheart new fans didn't know.
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00:00Riri Williams, the young heroine known as Ironheart, was created by Brian Michael Bendis
00:05and Mike Diodato, inspired by Tony Stark and having a genius intellect.
00:10Riri reverse-engineered technology from the Model 41 generation of Iron Man's armor and
00:16created her own version of the armor using parts and equipment borrowed from the labs
00:21at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was attending on a scholarship.
00:26With Riri making her MCU debut in Black Panther, Wakanda Forever now seems like the perfect
00:31time to get into some of the lesser-known facts about the character.
00:35So with this in mind, I'm Dan from WhatCulture, and here are 10 things you probably didn't
00:40know about Ironheart.
00:43She wielded the Mandarin's ten rings Ironheart had been tracking the location
00:47of the Mandarin's rings for many years.
00:49After discovering that the rings were going to be auctioned off at an underground weapons
00:53dealership, Williams went undercover as a former Iron Man villain, the Cobalt Man.
00:59She had hoped to secure the rings without any violence.
01:02Unfortunately, Iron Man and War Machine arrived just as the transaction was being completed.
01:07A fight ensued, and Riri was able to use one of the rings to send everyone but herself,
01:13Tony and Rhodey to the Dark Force dimension, and she revealed who she was.
01:18Tony asked why she hadn't come to him for help with this clearly dangerous endeavor,
01:23and Riri countered with why Tony hadn't come to her first.
01:27Ironheart, Iron Man, and War Machine went to a separate location and began discussing
01:32what to do with the rings.
01:34Riri stated that she had been tracking them for years and she wanted to study them because
01:38she believed that they could be used for something other than weapons.
01:42Stark and Rhodes argued that the rings were way too dangerous and needed to be locked
01:46away.
01:47Riri said that she had earned the right to be trusted and to be left alone, and that
01:51either they trusted her or they didn't.
01:54Then Tony and Rhodey agreed to leave the ten rings with Riri.
01:59She Created Her Own AI While at MIT, Riri began to create a new AI
02:04for her armor, but was called away to deal with the villain Clash.
02:08When Riri returned, she found that the AI had completed itself by scanning her brainwaves.
02:13The AI took the form of a teenage version of her slain friend, Natalie Washington.
02:18It called her new AI assistant Natalie, which stands for Neuroautonomous Technical Assistant
02:24and Laboratory Intelligence Entity.
02:27Natalie and Riri argued when they uncovered a hack by a disgruntled former Stark Unlimited
02:32employee, Andre Sims.
02:33The AI wanted to confront him, but Ironheart had been forced to hang up her armor.
02:38With the enactment of the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act, Natalie developed a glitch when
02:43she entered Sims' software to sabotage him.
02:46It made the AI more violent, and she hijacked the Ironheart armor to attack Sims, but Riri
02:51stopped her just in time.
02:55Ironheart Outlawed Riri put her Ironheart armor in storage with
02:59the implementation of the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act, much to Natalie's annoyance.
03:04Being a public figure, she feared the legal repercussions that would befall her mother
03:08if she didn't stand down.
03:10Riri did send Natalie to help the champions with security while trying to evade Cradle
03:15Forces after the act became Kamala's Law, but she stayed safely in Chicago.
03:21The champions end up at Riri's door in Chicago, where she allowed them to hide out.
03:25The champions unwittingly led Cradle Forces right to Riri's home, and they had to fight
03:30their way out.
03:31They discovered that the evil corporation Roxxon is the one behind Kamala's Law, and
03:36thanks to their efforts, it was finally repealed.
03:39The team returned to Chicago and apologized to Williams, and the champions were free to
03:44be heroes again.
03:47Lady Ironheart of Weird World Beginning in Champions issue 25, the team
03:51encountered the strange creature known as the Man-Thing while in Tanzania, and he accidentally
03:57dragged the champions' members, the Wasp, and Sam Alexander with him when he's sucked
04:02into a portal into Weird World.
04:04There, Nadia and Sam lose their memories and find themselves changed by the world's magic.
04:10The villain Eshu travelled to Weird World and found the heroes, and after finding that
04:14Sam could now channel crystal energy, took them under his wing.
04:18With their help, Eshu became the master of Weird World.
04:21The champions followed their teammates to Weird World, but found themselves transformed.
04:26Six members of the team found each other, joined the resistance, and agreed to take
04:30the fight to Eshu.
04:31Sam unleashed his full ability to tap into the powers of the crystals, and would have
04:35nearly killed Riri had Vivian Vision not infused herself into the Ironheart armor,
04:41which gave them the power to unlock Sam's true memories and to save the team.
04:45They defeated Eshu, who quickly fled before he could be apprehended, and then they departed
04:50Weird World, thanks to Man-Thing.
04:54Under the Shadow of the Gun While the champions were helping build a community
04:58center, Miles Morales received an emergency alert on his phone.
05:02A shooter at his school had killed and injured several people, before killing himself.
05:07One of the injured victims was Miles' friend, and because Spider-Man was with the champions,
05:13instead of at the school that day, he blamed himself.
05:17Champions number 24 is Spider-Man's story, but it was Ironheart, who lost both her best
05:21friend and stepfather to gun violence, who had the saddest and probably most logical
05:26take on the tragedy.
05:28While talking to Amadeus, she was sure of the inevitability that this would happen again,
05:32and there wasn't much they could do about it.
05:35She said that the gun violence that had touched her life was the very reason she built the
05:39armor in the first place.
05:40It is Miss Marvel who is in her own school, and has had to endure active shooter drills
05:45since the incident that finally breaks through to Spider-Man.
05:48Ultimately, with the phrase, give up or stand up, Kamala spurred Miles to not only return
05:54to his team, but to his school friends as well.
05:58Number 5, she was recruited by Leonardo da Vinci in Invincible Iron Man number 600.
06:03Painter and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, mastered time and space, and recruited Riri Williams,
06:09Dr. Tony Ho, and Miles Morales to be a part of a think tank to bring SHIELD back.
06:15Da Vinci planned to take the science-first approach to the new SHIELD, whilst Blade and
06:20Cable were handling the physical training of any new recruits.
06:25While this was occurring, on a yacht somewhere, Eric Lynch was being forced by the HUD to
06:29sign over all of Stark Enterprises' assets to him.
06:33The HUD and his gang are beset by Dr. Doom and several Doombots.
06:37Tony and Rhodey then arrive with a legion of remote-controlled Iron Man armors.
06:42Then at the hotel, Tony's biological mother was surprised to see his biological father,
06:47Jude, a HYDRA agent.
06:49She thought she had killed years ago.
06:51Then Mary Jane Watson arrives at the hotel and shoots Jude in the shoulder.
06:55He called for his battalion of nearby HYDRA agents, but they were met by Ironheart, da
07:00Vinci, and their team, and eventually Rhodes and Tony.
07:04Number 4, taking down an empire.
07:06When the sentient cosmic cube, KOBEK, altered reality and created a HYDRA-backed version
07:11of Captain America, Ironheart was one of the heroes that joined the Underground to work
07:16against this secret empire.
07:18After New York City is trapped within a dark force bubble, Riri Williams sends out a distress
07:23call to all available heroes to join her in Washington, D.C.
07:28Champion members Hulk, Spider-Man, Viv Vision, along with Falcon and Wasp joined Ironheart
07:33to form a new Red Room under the tutelage of Black Widow.
07:37The team had then infiltrated a HYDRA base.
07:39Spider-Man then beats Cap nearly to death, but his teammates stop him from killing the
07:44doppelganger.
07:45They were then arrested, and the evil Cap was defeated when the real Captain America
07:49returned.
07:50Number 3, she became the Queen of Latveria.
07:53After flying to the Smithsonian to investigate an explosion, Riri defied Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.
07:59to fly inside and find Sharon Carter sitting amongst the rubble.
08:03Having been saved by a personal force field, Carter asked Ironheart to travel to Latveria
08:07and to dispose of Lucia Von Bardos, the former Prime Minister who had been installed with
08:12America's help, but was now guilty of war crimes.
08:15So fighting Von Bardos and an army of Doombots, Williams gains the upper hand and defeats
08:21her.
08:22When Lucia says she has no authority, Ironheart replies by saying this is an act of dethroning
08:27and declares herself the Queen of Latveria.
08:30Rather than just leaving the country in need, when S.H.I.E.L.D. showed up, Ironheart decided
08:34to hold the position of Queen of Latveria until she could establish a communication
08:39between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Latverian Armed Forces.
08:42She peacefully stopped insurgent attacks and made sure that free elections were planned.
08:47Then Riri abdicated and returned to Chicago.
08:50Number 2.
08:52Developing Ironheart.
08:53Tony Stark had created an artificial intelligence version of his consciousness and when he fell
08:58into a coma after battling Captain Marvel during the Second Civil War, the A.I. was
09:02shipped to Riri Williams and assisted her in creating a new, more streamlined version
09:07of her armor.
09:08Pepper Potts tries to discuss the danger of being a superhero, especially an armored one.
09:13However, they are attacked by the Techno-Golem after Rescue and Ironheart defeat them.
09:18They convene in Tony's Hall of Armor where Riri shows her extensive knowledge of the
09:22various Iron Man armors.
09:24They are joined by Stark's personal assistant, Mary Jane Watson, his biological mother, Amanda
09:29Armstrong and his A.I., Friday.
09:32Armstrong offered to allow Williams to use the Stark Labs as her base of operations if
09:36she wished.
09:37However, the next day, the Dean of MIT came to the Williams' home to convince her to
09:41continue her work in their labs.
09:44And Number 1.
09:45She is a Certified Child Genius.
09:48By age 5, Riri's parents knew she was different.
09:51Her biological father and namesake had died and the family, which consisted of her mother,
09:56sister and her new stepfather, lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.
10:01Riri began exhibiting behavior issues and her mother took her to a child psychologist.
10:06After testing, the doctor determined that the child was a super genius.
10:10Riri's parents arranged to get her special care that would foster her new abilities and
10:15also give her the emotional support she needed to curb the burgeoning behavioral issues.
10:21Her intelligence caused her to become an introvert and her passion and fascination with technology
10:26caused her to spend much of her time alone.
10:28At age 10, Natalie Washington wandered into Riri's open garage and the two became best
10:34friends.
10:35A year later, the MIT gave her a full scholarship and Riri contacted NASA hoping to apply for
10:41their astronaut training program.
10:43Sadly, her age and lack of college degree disqualified her for now.
10:47Undeterred and inspired by her personal hero, the young genius vowed to keep going.
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