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The New Iron Man Is A Young Black Woman

• popsci.com

Move aside, rich white dudes. There's a new super genius in the Marvel Universe. She's young, black, and way smarter than Tony Stark.

Marvel just announced the arrival of Riri Williams, the new Iron Man successor appearing at the conclusion of Civil War II. Williams enrolled at MIT when she was 15 and has retrofitted an Iron Man suit in her dorm room.

In an interview with TIME, the character's creator and Iron Man writer Brian Michael Bendis said he was influenced by stories of real youths who overcame violent inner cities to earn their educations. But some wish the change wasn't only in fiction, and that Marvel would step up to hiring more women and people of color (Bendis is a straight white man) to tell these stories:


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