What Happened To Everyone Who Wore Iron Man's Armour?
2. Riri Williams
Marvel Comics
Riri Williams was introduced by Brian Bendis and Michael Deadato in 2016, during a time in which Tony was dealing with the aftermath of Civil War II.
Riri quickly cemented herself as one of the smartest individuals in the Marvel Universe at the age of just 15, using her brains to assemble an Iron Man armour of her own from the scrap lying around at her university campus. Stark - being Stark - discovers what Riri's up to and then decides to encourage her decision to be a superhero. Riri then took on a different identity - Ironheart - before featuring heavily across a plethora of different Marvel stories, including Secret Empire.
As Ironheart, Williams has become a member of the Champions and is even currently starring in her own comic, written by Eve Ewing and with art from Kevin Libranda.
Riri's impact cannot be overstated, and though the character is yet to realise her full potential, it's clear there's still a lot more to come.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
