The expectation that triggered the announcement of who will be the new face of superhero Iron Man – BBC World

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Image caption An African-American teenager named Riri Willliams is the new face of comics Iron Man.

Iron Man now be female.

A 15 year old African-American named Riri Williams superhero costume will the new episode of the comic, announced Wednesday the Marvel publisher.

The character of the young born in the city of Chicago (USA) was described by Marvel as a “geni or “ studying at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, its acronym in English).

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Image caption the superhero Iron Man is part of the team “the Avengers” and has appeared in adaptations film and television.

The incursion of an African-American woman in one of the most traditional comics in the US (It began publishing in 1963) it has caused a wave of reactions encountered among his followers on social networks.

There were those who held the incursion of Williams as a window to diversity within the comic , while others questioned how a woman could be called Iron Man (Iron Man).

“A new Iron Man? Riri Williams? Marvel is trying too hard to be relevant,” he said on the social network Twitter user Philip Dumas.

“I’m excited anyway. But this book should be written by a black woman, not a white man “, the African-American blogger Robert Jones Jr. she said in a tweet , whose user name is Son of Baldwin.

Why Riri Williams

The creator of Riri Williams, Brian Michael Bendis, told the magazine Time Wednesday he believed that “sometimes people do not realize how racist that may sound.”

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Image caption Brian Michael Bendis is the creator of Riri Williams, the new Iron Man.

the American writer 48 he created the character of the teenager after being “shocked by the chaos and violence” of the city of Chicago while he was working there.

“I was very inspired by the story of this brilliant young girl whose life was marred by tragedy and even may have died because of street violence , but in his place went to college, “Bendis told the magazine Time.

” I thought this was the most modern version of a superhero who had ever heard, “he said.

Diversity

it is not the first time that a new Marvel character causes a stir among fans of comic books.

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Image caption Actor Robert Downey Jr. has interpreted the film version of Iron Man.

Riri Williams is part of a generation of heroes like Miles Morales, Kamala Khan and Jane Foster (the new Thor ), which have replaced the classic characters from the comic, played by white men, for a different version.

Morales, for example, he played the first “ Spiderman” black ancestry and Hispanic in an episode of 2011.

and the Kamala Khan’s character, a young American woman of Pakistani family, became “Miss Marvel” in 2013.

to Bendis, there was a public supporter of the Marvel comics that was not being represented in cartoons.

“But now that there are these characters, we are surrounded by comments full of thanks”.