Though Ironheart executive producer Ryan Coogler wasn’t initially thinking of a spinoff series for Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams - first introduced in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as a young Chicagoan tech wiz - once Marvel’s team approached him about it,

In her long-awaited series, the actor is ready to show the world what makes Riri Williams different from the hero who kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While Riri was certainly pushed as a successor to Tony Stark, her newest villain in Ironheart has many similarities with Doctor Doom. The Hood is a tech wiz, much like Doctor Doom, who is the biggest user of magic in the comics.