Marvel’s Black Female Iron-Man Has A New Superhero Name

Jordan Simon
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For anyone keen on guessing, it isn't Ironwoman.

In early July, the popular Iron Man series garnered a significant deal of press in the comic book world for introducing Riri Williams, a 15-year-old African-American female at MIT, as the next incarnation of Iron Man. However, it turns out the prodigious teen is getting a new alias and it won’t be named Iron-Woman. According to Wired, Riri Williams will assume Tony Stark’s superhero mantle under the name Ironheart.

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In an interview with Wired, comic book scribe Brian Michael Bendis revealed that the name was coined by Joe Quesada, Marvel’s resident editor-in-chief. “Iron Woman seemed old fashioned to some,” Bendis said. “Iron Maiden looked like a legal nightmare. And Ironheart, coined by Joe Quesada, after I told him my planned story for Riri, speaks not only to the soul of the character but to the Iron Man franchise as a whole.”