Get excited because the newest Iron Man is not going to be a man, but a young black girl.
Marvel revealed to TIME that at the end of the Civil War II comic series, Tony Stark will end up retiring his Iron Man suit. New character Riri Williams would be stepping in for him.
Williams is described as a young science genius who is only 15 when she goes to MIT. Stark takes notice of her when she creates her own version of the famous Iron Man suit.
Brian Michael Bendis, writer for Iron Man and her creator, spoke about working in Chicago and seeing how chaotic and violent it was. He said, “this story of this brilliant, young woman whose life was marred by tragedy that could have easily ended her life- just random street violence- and went off to college was very inspiring to me.”
Williams also said that as they have added a diverse cast of characters in the Marvel comics, they saw “part of an audience crawling through the desert looking for an oasis when it came to representation.”
He also said that this discussion about Williams was not a spoiler for what would happen at the end of the Civil War II story.
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