Marvel's 'Ironheart' suits up

NPR | By Glen Weldon,

Eric Deggans, Hafsa Fathima, Mike Katzif, Jessica Reedy

Published June 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT

Ironheart is a fun new Marvel series following Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a brilliant young woman we first met in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. To fund her inventions – including a suit a lot like the one Iron Man used to wear – she falls in with a gang of criminals who rob from the rich led by The Hood (Anthony Ramos). But when her ambitions place the people she loves in danger, she's forced to reckon with her past and her grief. Ironheart is streaming now on Disney+.

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