Wakanda Forever. Not only did the sequel to Black Panther (2018) expand Wakanda by giving Dora Milaje leader Okoye a new identity as Midnight Angel and establish T’Challa’s sister Shuri as the next Black Panther,

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first three episodes of Marvel’s Ironheart. Dominique Thorne returns as Riri Williams in Marvel’s Ironheart, giving audiences a much closer look at the 19-year-old tech wiz than her introduction in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was able to offer.

However the composition of her new standalone series Ironheart is far patchier, a mess of mismatched plots, themes, and action sequences. Showrunner Chinaka Hodge is certainly ambitious in her attempts to weave together very disparate aspects of the MCU to tell a different sort of origin story,