LOL okay I didn't know she'd changed the look. The pink armor is MAGNIFICENT.
IRONHEART (Riri Williams)
Created By: Brian Michael Bendis & Mike Deodato
First Appearance: Invincible Iron Man #7 (May 2016)
Role: Legacy Character, Genius Black Girl, Ares's Favorite Character
Group Affiliations: The Champions, Stark Industries
PL 10 (184)
STRENGTH 0/10
STAMINA 1
AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 5
DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 6
AWARENESS 1
PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Aerobatics 6 (+8)
Deception 3 (+8)
Expertise (Science) 4 (+10)
Investigation 3 (+4)
Perception 4 (+5)
Persuasion 3 (+5)
Ranged Combat (Ironheart Weapons) 2 (+8, +10 Suit)
Stealth 3 (+5)
Technology 9 (+15)
Vehicles 3 (+8)
Advantages:
Beginner's Luck, Equipment (Gear in Suit- Radio, Jammer & stuff), Improvised Tools, Inventor, Move-By Action, Ranged Attack 1, Set-Up
Powers:
"Ironheart Armor" (Flaws: Removable) (Feats: Restricted 2- Only Riri, Remote Control) [97]
Enhanced Strength 10 (20)
Protection 9 (Extras: Impervious 9) (18)
Immunity 6 (Cold, Heat, Radiation, Pressure, Suffocation 2) (6)
"Boot Rockets" Flight 8 (500 mph) (16)
"Targetting & Environmental Sensors"
Enhanced Advantages 10: Extraordinary Effort, Improved Aim, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Precise Attack 2 (Ranged/Cover & Concealment), Ranged Attack 3, Withstand Damage (10)
Enhanced Dodge & Parry 2 (4)
"Armor Sensors" Senses 11 (Extended & Infravision, Extended Hearing, Radar 4, Detect Energy- Ranged, Acute & Accurate) (11)
"Repulsor Rays" Blast 10 (Feats: Split, Improved Critical, Variable Energy Descriptor, Penetrating 4) (27) -- (32)
- AE: "Repulsor Stun" Affliction 10 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Feats: Split) (Extras: Ranged, Cumulative) (31)
- AE: "Uni-Beam" Damage 10 (Feats: Penetrating 5) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (Flaws: Distracting) (15)
- AE: "Electro-Magnetic Pulse" Nullify Technology 10 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst, Sustained) (Flaws: Touch Range) (20)
- AE: "Sonic Attack" Dazzle Audio 10 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (Flaws: Touch Range) (20)
- AE: "Holographics" Illusion (Visual) 5 (10)
-- (117 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +5 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Suit Unarmed +5 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Repulsor Rays +10 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Stun +10 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Uni-Beam +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
EM Pulse +10 (+8 Nullify, DC 18)
Initiative +6
Defenses:
"Out of Suit" Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +7 (DC 17), Toughness +1, Fortitude +4, Will +6
"In Suit" Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +10 (+5 Impervious), Fortitude +4, Will +6
Complications:
Motivation (Heroism)- I mean... I guess?
Responsibility (Teen)- Riri Williams is a young teenager in a world of adults, both at school (MIT) and in the superhero realm.
Total: Abilities: 44 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 97 / Defenses: 16 (184)
-Yayyyyyyyyyy- good ol' Marvel, right around their last big "Diversity Push", introduced Ironheart, an ingenious young black girl named Riri Williams. She fits a lot of the same tropes as her contemporaries- young, a visible minority, and female. She's also representing what a lot of new black characters are in terms of being... well, BOLD about how good they are. I've been told this is somewhat of a "you have to be EVEN BETTER to stand out" kind of a thing, where this boastful personality is a defense mechanism to stand out more when you're one of the few black people.
-Riri Williams is of course a Teen Genius- 15 years old, she has a scholarship to post-secondary and designs a similar suit to the Iron Man armor, in part because of some backstory where a frustrated teacher, tired of Riri's demands for more challenges (because the teacher actually VALUED her skills and wasn't giving the adversity that a rebellious Riri anticipated), just blurts out "You'll never be... Tony Stark!". And so of course Riri sees THIS as a challenge and moves towards it. To me, it seems like she was so eager to be this oppressed girl proving people wrong that she was going to base her identity around it... and got annoyed by people actually giving her validation instead. Which I think is actually kind of clever and funny, but it sets her immediately up as a spiteful, argumentative type. But she ends up stealing gear from school to make the armor and flies off with it when campus security shows up. Tony is naturally impressed when he hears about this, and gives her his blessing- part of a tendency of late '10s Marvel characters to REALLY vocally endorse the new Legacy Minorities so the fans will buy into them by proxy (because that trick ALWAYS works).
-Riri does some stuff and helps out Tony here and there, and is forgiven by her school since I guess she's the best. She manages to beat the Armadillo as one of her first super-villains, and helps out during
Secret Empire, eventually joining the Champions (the new teen team). When she learns that teammate Viv Vision has a crush on her, Riri reacts with what she describes as "internalized homophobia", but the two make peace when Riri is controlled by Blackheart into nearly killing her. She later takes part in the "young heroes are outlawed" story that was absolutely slaughtered by COVID in that year, and has largely just become a "Regular Teen Hero" rather than a replacement. I dunno- all the worst YouTubers in the world hate her, others take individual panels and find she sucks, and I've never read her in anything, lol- I don't know what to tell you.
-Riri is... a smart Teen Genius (but I think like, regular "Child Prodigy" genius, not secretly the smartest person in the universe like Valeria Richards or Moon Girl or whomever). She's got a basic PL 10 version of Iron Man's armor cuz I dunno, I never read it! She's a Teen Iron Man, so I just made her Iron Man Lite! Smart, capable and able to build facsimiles of the suit IN A GARAGE! OUT OF SCRAPS!