Ryan Coogler is very excited for fans to meet Ironheart as the new superhero destined to take Tony Stark’s place as the cool-suited tech genius in the MCU and compares her to another popular Marvel character.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) will shake up the MCU in a lot of good ways, but fans aren’t sure how to feel about Ironheart’s arrival in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite Robert Downey Jr.’s fantastic performance, fans are concerned that Dominque Thorne’s Riri Williams/Ironheart won’t help with Stark’s legacy in the MCU and don’t want his role delegated to another character.
While the film will focus on how Wakanda has changed in the last five years, Ironheart will be at the center of the story as he is reportedly the catalyst for why Tenoch Huerta’s Namor is prepared to declare war on his nation.
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Coogler shares in an interview with entertainment weekly who is very excited for fans to see Ironheart replace Tony Stark in the MCU:
“She brings a different kind of energy, but she also has some similarities to characters we’ve seen before in this universe. The film deals with many things, but one of them is contrasts: people who exist in contrast, but there is a thread of similarity. In this movie, we get to see Shuri meet someone who has some things in common with her but is also very, very different.
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He then compares Ironheart to Miles Morales in the way that the two characters are new iterations of archetypal characters in the Marvel Universe:
“I remember when Riri was invented in the publishing industry, and there was a level of excitement around her. It was similar to when Miles Morales was invented. Having lived with these archetypal characters for so long, it’s always exciting to see someone come up and take on the moniker with a different background.”
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While fans know that Miles Morales is their version of Spider-Man, fans also have access to other projects where Peter Parker is the main Spider-Man or is still hanging around. In the MCU, Tony Stark is dead and will not be resurrected or found in another timeline and will have a permanent role in the MCU.
Fans aren’t expecting to see Riri Willaims take over Tony Stark’s legacy. If Marvel can make Ironheart never appear as Iron Man’s direct replacement, fans might feel better about the situation, but they’ll have to wait until black panther 2 finally opens in theaters to see how far Marvel is willing to go.
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here’s a official synopsis For the movie:
In Marvel Studios’ ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba), fight to Protect your nation from the world powers that intervene after the death of King T’Challa. As the people of Wakanda struggle to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must unite with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
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Phase Four might be coming to an end, but MCU fans have a lot to look forward to with Phase Five and Phase Six. In Disney+, You can see moon knight, mrs wonderY she-hulk. for movies, Doctor strange in the multiverse of madness Y Thor: love and thunder They’re on Disney+ now, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will open in theaters on November 11.