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 and Mike Diodato.
00:07Inspired by Tony Stark and having a genius intellect,
00:10Riri reverse-engineered technology from the Model 41 generation of Iron Man's armor
00:15and created 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.
00:25With Riri making her MCU debut in Black Panther Wakanda Forever,
00:30now seems like the perfect time 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 know about Ironheart.
00:42Number 10, she wielded the Mandarin's 10 rings.
00:45Ironheart had been tracking the location of the Mandarin's rings for many years.
00:49After discovering that the rings were going to be auctioned off at an underground weapons dealership,
00:54Williams went undercover as a former Iron Man villain, the Cobalt Man.
00:58She 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 what to do with the rings.
01:34Riri stated that she had been tracking them for years and she wanted to study them
01:38because she 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 away.
01:47Riri said that she had earned the right to be trusted and to be left alone
01:50and that either they trusted her or they didn't.
01:53Then, Tony and Rhodey agreed to leave the ten rings with Riri.
01:57Number 9.
01:58She created her own AI.
02:01While at MIT, Riri began to create a new AI for her armor
02:05but was called away to deal with the villain Clash.
02:07When 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.
02:18Ironheart called her new AI assistant, Natalie, which stands for
02:22Neuro Autonomous Technical Assistant and Laboratory Intelligence Entity.
02:27Natalie and Riri argued when they uncovered a hack by a disgruntled former Stark Unlimited employee,
02:32Andre 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.
02:51But Riri stopped her just in time.
02:53Number 8.
02:54Ironheart Outlawed.
02:56Riri put her Ironheart armor in storage with the implementation of the Underage Superhuman
03:01Welfare 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.
03:18But 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 their
03:30way 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.
03:45Number 7.
03:46Lady Ironheart of Weird World.
03:49Beginning in Champions Issue 25, the team encountered the strange creature known as the Man-Thing
03:54while in Tanzania, and he accidentally dragged the champions' members, the Wasp, and Sam Alexander
04:00with him when he sucked into a portal into Weird World.
04:04There, Nadia and Sam lose their memories and find themselves changed by the world's magic.
04:09The villain Eshoo traveled to Weird World and found the heroes, and after finding that
04:14Sam could now channel crystal energy, took them under his wing.
04:17With their help, Eshoo 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 the
04:30fight to Eshoo.
04:31Sam unleashed his full ability to tap into the powers of the crystals, and would have nearly
04:36killed RiRi had Vivian Vision not infused herself into the Ironheart armor, which gave them the
04:42power to unlock Sam's true memories and to save the team.
04:45They defeated Eshoo, who quickly fled before he could be apprehended, and then they departed
04:50Weird World, thanks to Man-Thing.
04:52Number 6.
04:54Under the Shadow of the Gun.
04:55While the champions were helping build a community center, Miles Morales received an emergency
05:00alert on his phone.
05:01A 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,
05:12instead of at the school that day, he blamed himself.
05:16Champions 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 take
05:26on the tragedy.
05:27While 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.
05:34She 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 Ms. Marvel, who was 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 to
05:55his 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 S.H.I.E.L.D. back.
06:15Da Vinci planned to take the science-first approach to the new S.H.I.E.L.D., whilst Blade and
06:21Cable were handling the physical training of any new recruits.
06:24While this was occurring, on a yacht somewhere, Eric Lynch was being forced by the HUD to
06:29sign over all of Stark Enterprise's assets to him.
06:33The HUD and his gang are beset by Dr. Doom and several Doom bots.
06:36Tony and Rhodey then arrive with a legion of remote-controlled Iron Man armors.
06:41Then, at the hotel, Tony's biological mother was surprised to see his biological father,
06:47Jude, a HYDRA agent. She thought she had killed years ago.
06:50Then, 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 Vinci,
07:00and their team, and eventually, Rhodes and Tony.
07:03Number 4, taking down an empire.
07:06When the sentient cosmic cube, Kobik, altered reality and created a HYDRA-backed version of
07:12Captain America, Ironheart was one of the heroes that joined the underground to work against
07:17this secret empire. After New York City is trapped within a dark force bubble, Riri Williams sends
07:22out a distress call to all available heroes to join her in Washington DC. Champion members Hulk,
07:29Spider-Man, Viv Vision, along with Falcon and Wasp, joined Ironheart to form a new red room under
07:35the tutelage of Black Widow. The team had then infiltrated a HYDRA base. Spider-Man then beats
07:41Cap nearly to death, but his teammates stop him from killing the doppelganger. They were then
07:45arrested, and the evil Cap was defeated when the real Captain America returned.
07:49Number 3, she became the Queen of Latveria. After flying to the Smithsonian to investigate an
07:56explosion, Riri defied Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. to fly inside and find Sharon Carter sitting
08:02amongst the rubble. Having been saved by a personal force field, Carter asked Ironheart
08:06to travel to Latveria and to dispose of Lucia von Bordos, the former Prime Minister who had
08:11been installed with America's help, but was now guilty of war crimes. So, fighting von Bordos and
08:17an army of doom bots, Williams gains the upper hand and defeats her. When Lucia says she has no
08:23authority, Ironheart replies by saying this is an act of dethroning and declares herself the Queen of
08:29Latveria. Rather than just leaving the country in need, when S.H.I.E.L.D. showed up, Ironheart
08:34decided to hold the position of Queen of Latveria until she could establish a communication between
08:39S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Latverian Armed Forces. She peacefully stopped insurgent attacks and made
08:45sure that free elections were planned. Then, Riri abdicated and returned to Chicago.
08:50Number 2, developing Ironheart. Tony Stark had created an artificial intelligence version of his
08:56consciousness, and when he fell into a coma after battling Captain Marvel during the Second Civil
09:01War. The AI was shipped to Riri Williams and assisted her in creating a new, more streamlined version of
09:07her armor. Pepper 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, they convene in
09:18Tony's Hall of Armor, where Riri shows her extensive knowledge of the various Iron Man armors. They are joined
09:24by Stark's personal assistant, Mary Jane Watson, his biological mother, Amanda Armstrong, and his AI,
09:31Friday. Armstrong offered to allow Williams to use the Stark labs as her base of operations if she
09:36wished. However, the next day, the Dean of MIT came to the Williams home to convince her to continue
09:42her work in their labs. And number 1, she is a certified child genius. By age 5, Riri's parents knew she was
09:50different. Her 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. Riri began exhibiting
10:02behavior issues, and her mother took her to a child psychologist. After testing, the doctor determined
10:08that the child was a super genius. Riri's parents arranged to get her special care that would foster her
10:14new abilities, and also give her the emotional support she needed to curb the burgeoning behavioral
10:20issues. Her intelligence caused her to become an introvert, and her passion and fascination with
10:25technology caused her to spend much of her time alone. At age 10, Natalie Washington wandered into
10:31Riri's open garage, and the two became best friends. A year later, the MIT gave her a full scholarship,
10:37and Riri contacted NASA, hoping to apply for their astronaut training program. Sadly, her age and
10:44lack of college degree disqualified her for now. Undeterred and inspired by her personal hero,
10:50the young genius vowed to keep going. And that's our list. You can find more lists like this on screen
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11:02and I'll catch you in the next one.