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,

Allow her to Ri(ri)introduce herself. Dominique Thorne suits up again as Riri Williams in Marvel Television’s “Ironheart.” The Disney+ series continues the adventures of the teenage tech genius, who was introduced in the 2022 movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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,