Move over Tony Stark, there’s a new Iron Man in town. Or is that Iron Woman?

Marvel comics has announced that a new character – Riri Williams – will take over for Stark after the events of the comic series’ “Civil War II” finale. And for now, you can still refer to her as “Iron Man” until she figures out a name for herself. Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis spoke to Time about the new character who will be stepping into the Iron Man suit.

“I think what’s most important is that the character is created in an organic setting,” he tells Time. “We never had a meeting saying, ‘we need to create this character.’ It’s inspired by the world around me and not seeing that represented enough in popular culture.” Riri joins an increasingly diverse cast of Marvel comics characters including the Muslim Ms. Marvel, and Miles Morales, the Spider-man of Black Hispanic descent.

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“There are fans who say, ‘Show us the new stuff,’ and then there are fans who say, ‘Don’t do anything different from when I was a kid.’ So when you’re introducing new characters, you’re always going to have people getting paranoid about us ruining their childhood,” Bendis remarks on how Riri might be received. “As we’ve been slowly and hopefully very organically adding all these new characters to the Marvel Universe, it just seemed that sort of violence inspiring a young hero to rise up and act, and using her science acumen, her natural born abilities that are still raw but so ahead of where even Tony Stark was at that age, was very exciting to me,” Bendis says of the new character.

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And just who is Riri Williams?

She’s a science genius who enrolled in MIT at age 15 with an eye for detail when it comes to science and engineering. Williams designs her very own Iron Man suit in her dorm by reverse-engineering one of Stark’s old armours. Of course, her science skills can’t escape Stark’s radar for too long, who clocks in on her passion and skills for technology and science.

“He’s aware that this young woman is flying by him in terms of how quickly she’s doing it,” Bendis says of Stark’s relationship to Williams. “Her brain is maybe a little better than his. She looks at things from a different perspective that makes the armour unique. He can’t help but go ‘Maybe I should buy her out.'”

But fans won’t have to wait too long to meet Riri Williams. In that latest issue of Iron Man, Stark has just become aware of the gifted MIT student.

The big screen Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., tweeted his welcome to the new comic book character.