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Ironheart Take Me Home | 1.01

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Riri and Xavier being blerds in both universes❤️

Ironheart Volume 1 (issue 1)

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Black Panther (2018) || Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

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BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER dir. Ryan Coogler

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This time, I gotta know

Where did my daddy go?

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Nail on the head. This is literally canon and said by Ryan Coogler (but also a part of the Wakanda Forever activity book, mentioning how Shuri is Riri's mentor), too. Riri wasn't just thrown on the wall hoping she'd stick. There would have to be incentives and relatability that simultaneously ties into Wakanda's development from BP1.

"The simplest way to talk about Riri Williams is to talk about her in terms of Shuri. Shuri's at a point where she's vacillating between optimism and apathy. She meets Riri, who's like a version of herself, and Shuri ends up taking on like, a kind of big a sister role."

— Ryan Coogler

”the kid from Iron Man 3 should’ve been Tony’s successor” You guys didn’t give a fuck about him when the movie came out and now you all like to use him as a scapegoat against Riri. Also can I add that Shuri wouldn’t be as sympathetic towards Harley as she was to Riri. She connected to Riri because she saw herself in her, she saw a young intelligent black woman in STEM. She understood the plights that Riri would face.

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Black Panther (2018), dir. Ryan Coogler

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Hey, that’s me

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MCU Timeline: Black Panther

Millions of years ago - a vibranium meteorite crashes into Africa. The metal affects the plants around it, causing them to develop unusual mutations. One of the plants would later be known as the Heart-Shaped Herb.

Thousands of years ago:

Five African tribes settle in the impacted area and found Wakanda.

The panther goddess Bast comes to a Wakandan warrior shaman and leads him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, which allows him to become the first Black Panther.

He becomes king and unites four of the five tribes. The fifth, the Jabari tribe, isolate themselves in the mountains.

Thanks to vibranium, Wakanda is ahead of the rest of the world in technological advancement and hides in isolation to avoid the upheavals of the outside world.

~1980/81 - T'Challa and Nakia are born.

1981 - T'Chaka becomes king of Wakanda.

1980s:

King T'Chaka's brother, Prince N'Jobu, goes to the United States as a spy.

T'Chaka sends another spy, Zuri, to keep an eye on him.

N'Jobu falls in love with an American woman. They have a child - Erik.

N'Jobu becomes radicalized and comes up with the idea of giving vibranium weapons to black people around the world so they can overthrow all countries and let Wakanda rule them all.

1988:

Wakanda releases misleading tourism advertisement video "I Love Wakanda".

1992:

Knowing that T'Chaka will not support his idea, N'Jobu helps Ulysses Klaue steal a quarter ton of vibranium from Wakanda. This results in the deaths of Wakandans, including W'Kabi's parents.

T'Chaka comes to Oakland to bring N'Jobu back to Wakanda for trial. He reveals that Zuri was sent to spy on N'Jobu.

N'Jobu attempts to kill Zuri, but is stopped by T'Chaka, who kills him.

T'Chaka orders Zuri not to tell anyone what happened.

The Wakandans fly home, leaving behind the body and N'Jobu's son, Erik.

Young Erik finds his father's dead body with claw-shaped wounds on his chest.

2000s:

Erik Stevens graduates from Annapolis at age 19.

He then completes graduate school at MIT.

Stevens joins the Navy SEALs and is sent to Afghanistan, where he receives the nickname "Killmonger".

Killmonger joins the JSOC ghost unit.

At some point he also serves in Iraq.

Between April 2015 and May 2016 - Ulysses Klaue gets a prosthetic arm made from a Wakandan weapon.

The main events of the movie take place in mid-May 2016 (shortly after Civil War).

~May 8, Night - T'Challa and Okoye pick up his ex, Nakia, from her mission in Nigeria so she can attend his coronation the next day.

~May 9:

Morning - T'Challa, Nakia and Okoye arrive in Wakanda.

In London, Erik "Killmonger" Stevens and Ulysses Klaue raid the Museum of Great Britain with an African exhibit made of vibranium. They kill several people, steal the artifact, a mask, and escape.

Note: more proof that it's not summer, as the Official Timeline and Fandom Wiki would have us believe. Have you ever seen bare trees in the summer? Most of the trees around are already green, except for a few like in this screenshot, which means it's April-early May. We already know it's early May after the Civil War and Black Widow timelines, so this is just more proof that I'm right, yay.

~Noon - T'Challa's coronation. Zuri gives him a drink that removes T'Challa's Black Panther powers.

M'Baku, the chieftain of the Jabari tribe, challenges T'Challa but loses the fight.

T'Challa is proclaimed king.

Night - Zuri gives T'Challa a drink made from the Heart-Shaped Herb, which restores his Black Panther powers and sends him to meet T'Chaka in the Ancestral Plane.

After returning, T'Challa talks to Zuri about his father.

~May 10:

T'Challa asks Nakia to stay in Wakanda. Nakia refuses, saying that she has found her calling and that Wakanda should do more for the people outside.

T'Challa goes to talk to W'Kabi, Okoye's husband, about Nakia's offer.

Okoye gathers Wakandan leaders to inform them of the attack on the Museum. T'Challa promises W'Kabi to capture Klaue and bring him to Wakanda.

Evening - T'Challa visits Shuri in her lab and receives new communication devices, sound-absorbing automated sneakers, and a new suit.

~May 11:

Night in South Korea/Afternoon in Wakanda - Klaue's attempt to sell stolen vibranium to an American buyer in Busan, South Korea.

T'Challa, Nakia and Okoye get inside an underground casino where the deal is to take place. There, they meet T'Challa's not-so-old friend Everett Ross from the CIA, who turns out to be the "buyer."

Klaue arrives with armed guards. Okoye starts a fight.

Busan Car Chase that ends with Klaue's capture.

~May 12:

2 pm in South Korea/~7 am in Wakanda - Ross interrogates Klaue at the local CIA office. Ulysses tells Everett that Wakanda is not what he thinks it is.

Killmonger attacks the office and takes Klaue with him. Ross shields Nakia and is shot in the spine. The Wakandans take him to Shuri.

At an abandoned airfield, Killmonger kills Klaue and his own girlfriend, whom Klaue was trying to use as cover.

Evening in Wakanda - back in Wakanda, Suri heals Ross.

W'Kabi receives bad news that Klaue has slipped through T'Challa's grasp.

T'Challa visits Zuri and demands to know the truth about N'Jobu's fate.

~May 13:

Sunrise - Killmonger reaches the Wakandan border and brings Klaue's body to W'Kabi.

Everett Ross wakes up in Shuri's lab.

Noon - T'Challa and Nakia talk about T'Chaka's mistake that led to the creation of Killmonger.

1:35 pm - they are called back to the lab where Ross tells them about Killmonger.

The Wakandan leaders gather in the throne room. W'Kabi brings in Killmonger, who reveals himself to be N'Jadaka, N'Jobu's son, and challenges T'Challa for the throne.

Evening - T'Challa and N'Jadaka fight. N'Jadaka wounds T'Challa and kills Zuri. He then throws T'Challa off a cliff and, having won the challenge, becomes king of Wakanda.

Nakia helps Ramonda and Shuri escape. Shuri takes T'Challa's Black Panther necklace with her.

Night - Nakia returns to Okoye and asks her to help overthrow N'Jadaka. Okoye refuses.

Nakia takes Ross and they head into the forest to reunite with Ramonda and Shuri.

N'Jadaka undergoes the Black Panther ritual.

Nakia sneaks into the room and watches as N'Jadaka orders all the Heart-Shaped Herbs to be burned so that no one else can become king/Black Panther. She takes one with her.

All other Heart-Shaped Herbs are burned.

~May 14:

Jabari fisherman finds barely alive T'Challa and brings him to M'Baku.

N'Jadaka takes the second new Black Panther suit that Shuri made for T'Challa.

He orders vibranium weapons to be sent to Wakandan spies in every country in the world, so that they will start revolutions and kill those in power, their children, and anyone who opposes them. Thus, Wakanda will become the Wakandan Empire, and N'Jadaka will rule them all.

W'Kabi and Okoye argue, and W'Kabi tells her that he doesn't mind the coming war and deaths so that Wakanda can rule the world.

Evening - Nakia takes Ross, Shuri, and Ramonda to the Jabari to give them the last Herb. Jabari warriors surround them.

Night - they are brought to M'Baku, and Nakia offers him the Herb.

M'Baku takes them to T'Challa, who is in a coma.

Ramonda makes a drink from the Herb and gives it to T'Challa, restoring his health and powers.

In the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa talks to his father, who offers him to stay there. T'Challa tells him that he must stop N'Jadaka.

~May 15:

Morning - T'Challa and Co discuss the situation. Shuri gives T'Challa the Black Panther necklace with his suit.

T'Challa asks M'Baku for his army. M'Baku refuses to help.

~6 pm - N'Jadaka prepares to strike at New York, London and Hong Kong, where local "War Dogs" (spies) agree to cooperate.

Note: same places of power as in Doctor Strange, huh? Do you know any other cities, Marvel?

T'Challa shoots down one of his birds loaded with weapons.

Nakia, Shuri and Ross sneak into Shuri's lab.

N'Jadaka orders W'Kabi to kill T'Challa. The Dora Milaje attacks N'Jadaka.

The Battle of Mount Bashenga.

M'Baku and his tribe join in the midst of the battle.

Everett Ross destroys all Wakandan aircraft leaving the country with weapons.

W'Kabi and his tribe surrender to Okoye.

During their duel, T'Challa plunges his blade into N'Jadaka's chest.

~7 pm - T'Challa carries the dying N'Jadaka to watch Wakandan sunset.

T'Challa offers to heal him, but N'Jadaka declines the offer and asks to be buried in the ocean. He pulls the blade out of his chest and dies.

~May 16:

While out for a walk in the city, T'Challa kisses Nakia and asks her to stay again.

Some time later, but probably still in May 2016:

T'Challa buys the building where N'Jobu lived and died. And also two buildings next to it to create the first Wakandan International Outreach Center.

He and Shuri go to Oakland.

T'Challa places Nakia in charge of social outreach, and Shuri in charge of science and information exchange.

Probably June 2016:

At a UN meeting in Vienna, T'Challa announces that Wakanda is opening itself to the world.

Second half of 2016/2017/Early 2018:

Shuri deprograms Bucky Barnes and brings him out of cryo. The locals nickname him "White Wolf".

MCU Timelines: Phases One and Two MCU Timeline: Black Widow MCU Timeline. Captain America: Civil War MCU Timeline: Doctor Strange MCU Timeline: GotG 2 MCU Timeline: Captain Marvel

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I try to avoid saying this again, but now I feel compelled: Please remember characters and ships often won't be interchangeable with the big screen or alternate versions. 616 Shuri and Riri shouldn't be classified as a romantic ship or 616 Riri embedded in mature posts.

"Shuriri" (Princess Shuri and Riri Williams) in the main comics (Earth-616) is platonic. The original version of Ironheart is 15-year-old Riri Williams. This has been said in even Wakanda Forever material and on Marvel's page.

616 Shuri is an adult well in her 20s and meant to read at least in her early 20s.

Since 2022-2023, shippers tried to circulate it has been "canon" or more "food" in 616, citing their moniker in Ironheart Volume 1.

When, goodness no. Ironically, Shuri and Riri disliked the name "shuriri." 😂

When using comic Riri images in your ship boards and smut headers... You can imagine the juxtaposition comicbook readers or Riri fans feel seeing it in the tags.

Note: Riri is a child protégé. Her comic ages are 12 to 15.

Her peers are Miles Morales, Ms Marvel, Viv Vision... All of which are clearly young teens in school.

Shuri, on the other hand, was always a young adult. She even mentors younger generation heroes, like Ironheart and Moon Girl.

Shuri's youngest ages were 18 MCU-wise (now in her 20s) or 20 comics-wise (later resting in her 20s with a mind much older since Black Panther volume 6).

Letitia Wright's BP1 interview and Black Panther 1 and 2 scripts confirming Shuri's MCU age:

616 Shuri is an adult figure. Even when she was called a "child" back then in much older volumes (where she was younger compared to now), she was in the same sentence confirmed 20:

Another aspect I find uncomfortable is how shippers (or fans in general) disregard the part where 616 Riri deals with trauma to the point of therapy and is on a healing journey. She only just recently feeling able to have friendships (and only friendships).

This is a big plot point in Ironheart volume 1, but overlooked for shipping or aesthetics...

Look, I get it. Some fans saw Riri and Shuri on the big screen, fell in love with the characters, and read their interactions with romantic lens. Although that wasn't Ryan Coogler's intention, alright.

People ship relating, chemistry-having characters with or without the canon's checkmark. It happens all the time. It's whatever. Atleast unlike the comics, MCU Riri is 19 (taking away half of the sting).

However:

The comics are not the MCU.

Characters have a story and life prior to the films or shipping based on the films.

Please respect and be conscious of that. Especially when sharing fan spaces with comic readers.

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Hey, do you mean this?

Does anyone have the video of Shuri & T'Challa meeting again and Shuri is saying how she misses him? I think it was on a Disney Cruise or somewhere at a Disney location

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I think Princess Shuri and Eden Fesi (Manifold) are highly underrated as a ship. It is almost a crime when they go so well together — an arguably perfect match. The pairing has so much potential, representation (two Indigenous, dark-skinned characters with respective cultures and spiritualism. A Black woman and a Blak man), parallelism, and story.

It's also, at the very least, semi-canon. They are official love interests!

Manifold and, by extension, his relationship with Shuri isn't as well known. However, when he is known, it's common consensus that he's a great character, and his love is Shuri. In the same vein, if you ask seasoned comic readers (Note: Black Panther and Avengers) about Shuri's love history, Eden is the only real definitive and the most promising prospect.

While many are most familiar with Manifold in his S.W.O.R.D design:

He goes way back (his first team was Secret Warriors, then the Avengers and Black Panther crew, and later X-Men adjacent teams, like S.W.O.R.D). They go back.

So, I decided to finally write an in-depth overview of their relationship thus far and why I think they're so deadly.

Comicbooks to check out with them together:

Black Panther (2016) Black Panther (2018) Shuri (2018) The Last Annihilation: Wakanda (2021)

In Shuri's title comic series that set out to revamp her character (with faithfulness to the pre-existing canon and incorporation of some Ryan Coogler and Letitia Wright MCU elements), one thing they made sure to cement was her and Manifold's blossoming romance.

From their almost kiss and Shuri blushing to the script outlining Manifold's smittenness and love for her, the two's romantic feelings were made crystal clear.

There are other moments in between:

Shuri is Eden's Reasons Why: Eden teased he stayed behind for Shuri — not T'Challa (A callback to a conversation they had in Black Panther 2016). Eden was going on a dangerous space mission specifically because Shuri asked that of him.

"I Miss You Already:" While T'Challa walks off, Eden says his goodbyes to Shuri. Shuri internally monologues about why she had T'Challa bring him along. It was a practical thing, really. Eden was her felt insurance and trusted confidence. Even so...

She knew she was not just going to miss him but miss him "almost as much as my brother," which says everything.

A goddess's Seal of Approval: Storm comments that they make a good couple, relating the love connection she has with T'Challa to the one Shuri is building with Manifold.

By the Wisdom of the Ancestors — You Love That Man: "The gravitational pull of a wormhole is nothing compared to the pulll of the heart."

However, Shuri's comic isn't when their feelings first began. The seeds were sown in Black Panther 2016 and the Intergalactic Wakanda arc!

Not So Stellar Beginnings to A Stellar Romance

Shuri and Eden's first meetings weren't orthodox or of the best of times. They first met when Shuri was between life and death. Besides that, there was an insurrection brewing in Wakanda.

Trapped in amber and experiencing a living death for almost a year, Shuri became a door. While T'Challa could see through it, Eden was the key; he was the only means to walk through and save her.

Can you say soulmatism?

Manifold had no incentive to risk his life to save Shuri or ulterior motives. He decided to help T'Challa simply because of his principles: Shuri is his family, and it is what they do — they save people.

After this, Shuri returns with a new look, power, and wisdom as Aja-Adanna, the Keeper of Lore.

What a first meeting.

From there, Shuri comes and settles back at home. Eden sticks around even after the conflict is resolved. Wakanda becoming home to him is no exaggeration. Ta-nehisi Coates, a writer for Black Panther comics (Fun fact: he also spoke with Letitia Wright and Ryan Coogler on a podcast!), pens how Manifold "found himself in Wakanda." His Hellfire Gala design reference sheet says how he feels at home in a "Wakandan palace."

Eden is trusted by Wakanda and the Panther siblings so much.

Manifold was allowed to sit in on their private meetings, stay in Wakanda as long as he wanted, have his pair of kimoyo beads, read history books in the royal library, live at the Wakandan royal palace, and fight alongside them. On one occasion, he is called "Wakanda's miracle" (from how much of an invaluable ally he was, providing security, protection, and aid — no questions ever asked or prices required). This also means a lot for Eden, who was an aimless traveler looking for "home" since his family and mentor (Gateway) died.

It can easily be assumed that Shuri and Eden seen quite a bit of each other in his stay. Shuri did confirm in her book that they have insightful conversations (e.g., she learned about the Dreaming, a belief system of his people). We have seen some of it in the 2016 Black Panther run. Shuri and Eden speak to each other in the royal library, already greeting each other with comfort and familiarity.

Space and Dates (+ Flirting On The Clock)

In the Intergalactic Wakanda arc, Shuri asks for a date! While Eden did not miss a beat (he doesn't play about his Princess!).

"Good, and Eden, assuming we live through this, I hope we can grab a moment together to reconnect." "Okay, well, now we have to live through this."

Even after Manifold goes through something traumatizing (being used as a weapon, which is something explored again in X-Men S.W.O.R.D), Shuri is the person on his mind to give his best to. Through all the trouble and turmoil he experienced, Shuri was the person his mind strayed to. Even in his suffering, Shuri is a factor in his mind. He wants to send her his good wishes when he couldn't be with her himself.

Love.

Black Panther (2018) and the Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda ends with T'Challa being coronated, and we see them together (with a considerably happy Shuri lol):

Skipping on over to the Last Annihilation: Wakanda comic, Eden is the one who flags Shuri down about a date this time around. Not missing a beat, Shuri teases back, remarking how she's still waiting for him to teleport her somewhere nice. As so many times before, Eden matches her energy and readily obliges.

"So Shuri... Our first date is stopping a magical being from conquering the universe?" "A date? Nuh-uh, I'm still waiting for you to teleport me somewhere nice." "If S.W.O.R.D. ever lets me go on holiday, you're on."

The same book also features more of Shuri and Eden's similar, gelling personalities and charming chemistry: their quippy banter and shared words.

Shuri once again is Eden's reason. Even when he initially has reservations, if Shuri asks, he will do:

Manifold also got hurt, with Shuri turning into stone and protectively covering his body with hers. She stayed at his side throughout the battle, even during the after-party!

They constantly have this unique regard and a softness concerning each other. A reciprocity of tender care.

Shuri and Eden have quite a history — and this is just their beginning!

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I said I was going to do it, gosh darn it!

No one:

Me writing a 3-part piece on Princess Shuri and Eden Fesi (Manifold) because someone had to (they're sorely underrated your honor, yet they match each other so well — spiritually, culturally, personality-wise... Not to mention, they're smarty pants and semi-canon. I am serious, they literally arranged a date.):

They even say the same things. They are soulmates to the highest, deepest degree, I'm tired of pretending that they aren't!

There's so much delicious food with these two as respective characters and as a ship that yes, I had to break it up into 3-parts.

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Day 2 of the Matriarchs of Marvel's Sketch Cards! In order: Wasp, Maria Hill, Spider-Woman, The Dryad, Mockingbird, Penance, Elektra as Daredevil, Shuri and Emma Frost!

I spotted Maria on eBay, good luck to the future owner ;)

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I loved using the Molotow Liquid Chrome marker for Shuri's background ✨

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Black Panther by Ken Lashley