Ironheart Episode 1 Easter Eggs: Riri Williams is back at MIT after the events of Wakanda Forever, but she soon finds herself at home in Chicago. Determined to continue developing her A.I. and her suit, Riri ends up becoming acquaintances with some unsavory folks. Let's get into this Ironheart Episode 1 Easter Eggs, breakdown, and recap.
Ironheart Episode 1 Easter Eggs & Breakdown
In a flashback. Riri is heard saying she is going to be bigger than Jobs, Gates, and Stark combined. She is with her childhood best friend Natalie.
All Natalie wants is a night with Thor and his hammer.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever images are shown like Riri in Shuri's lab.
To get money for her AI, Riri is selling completed assignments to students at various colleges. Her AI is called GRIOT, which comes from the people who travel around as poets, musicians, and storytellers in parts of West Africa.
She wants to continue Iron Man’s legacy and revolutionize safety.
Jim Rash returns after his cameo in Captain America: Civil War as Professor Wilkes.
Riri gets kicked out of MIT and has to collect her things including the Ironheart suit. She calls for the built-in AI called TRVOR (a nod to Trevor Noah who voices Shuri's GRIOT in her suit/lab. TRVOR appears as a pencil with eyes looking like Clippy from Microsoft Office 97.
Riri's Student ID: 3-0-2-1-6-r-w is in reference to her first appearance in Invincible Iron ManVol. 3 #7 that came out on 3/2/2016.
Hood's gang posing as Humbolt Electric is completing a job: Rampage aka Stuart Clarke, The Blood Siblings (a twist on the Blood Brothers), John King (Parker's cousin in the comics aka Cancer), Slug, and Clown.
Parker Robbins aka Hood knows they need a replacement for Rampage. They have other jobs coming up: TNNL, Heirlum, the big job. When he sees Riri fly by in her suit he decides to approach her to be their new tech wizard.
There is a street preacher yelling about the end times probably: “THANOS was just the beginning!” and “Tony can’t save us this time!”
A hustling kid named Landon helps Riri with her suit.
Her friend Xavier comes to rescue her from her mom. In the comics Xavier King is her neighbor and likely a love interest. In the show he has a similar background but is named Xavier Washington, brother to her best friend Natalie Washington.
In the comics, Natalie also died due to a gunshot wound.
Riri is at the junkyard looking for a converter for her suit, when she meets John who pays for all her things. He gives her a business card with the location on it for Desperito's Pizza.
After arriving, Hood traps her in the elevator and calls it her interview. She has to escape before she dies.
Parker aka Hood gives her money, calling it a signing bonus for her to work with their crew.
Parker and John are talking about the next job: Sheila Zarate at TNNL.
Hood's tattoos are shown. John is tattooing him but the lines keep growing. Riri is working on her suit and attempting to make the AI. It does finally take shape and it looks like Natalie.
Episodes 1-3 of Ironheart are now streaming on Disney+.
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