Pepper Potts
Pepper Potts is a female comic character that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Happy Hogan
Though infatuated with Stark, events began to change when he hired a bodyguard named Happy Hogan. The pair ended up bickering with one another though Hogan confessed that he felt himself attracted to Potts though she rebuffed his advances saying that she was saving herself to be the future Mrs. Tony Stark. Pepper later saw the supervillain Jack Frost and went to a telephone to warn Tony Stark that he intended to break in leading to him quickly changing into Iron Man in his office. Hogan in the meantime rushed into Pepper's office where he picked up a fallen guard's rifle whereupon he raced to Stark's office in an effort to protect him. As he arrived to check on his employer, he was froze solid by Jack Frost though Iron Man later arrived to defeat the villain. (Tales of Suspense v1 #45) Afterwards, she along with Happy and Tony gathered at Stark Industries to watch the test launch of a new missile test pad. Stark later snuck away in order to change into his Iron Man armor in case something went wrong. The Crimson Dynamo emerged from hiding from the outskirts of the launch site where he used his control over electricity to cause the rocket to go out of control. Iron Man managed to arrive on the scene where in the air he grabbed he nose-cone of the rocket to slow it down enough to use his armored body to absorb the impact with the ground. The rocket and its crew were thus saved but the force of the impact caused Iron Man to be knocked out for a time. (Tales of Suspense v1 #46)
Following Happy's death, Pepper was placed in charge of the Order by Stark and took the code name Hera. (The Order v2 #1)
Rescue
Following the creation of H.A.M.M.E.R., Norman Osborn had his agents storm every Stark Industries building in order to deprive Tony Stark of any assistance or resources. This saw these agents being deployed to seize all of Stark's assets after an arrest warrant was issued for him. Pepper managed to escape after finding a suit of armor that Tony had built for her thus allowing her to avoid being herself. This armor was the Mark 1616 and held an artificial intelligence designated as J.A.R.V.I.S. to aid her and answer questions with the armor being tailor made for her. (Invincible Iron Man v1 #10) Afterwards, she began to operate as a superhero with the Iron Man Armor and called herself Rescue. During this time, she was engaged in various dangerous situations such as fighting Mokk the Breaker of Stone of the Worthy in Paris when Tony Stark was not available. (Invincible Iron Man v1 #507)
She helped Bethany Cabe to reunite the heroes of the Dynasty and Triumph Division in order to rescue Tony Stark from the Mandarin. (Invincible Iron Man v1 #525)
Rings of the Mandarin
Whilst Tony Stark went into space, Pepper attended a part in Las Vegas where she met a freelance P.R. and marketing expert named Marc Kumar. Kumar was handling a drunk client at the party and met with Potts with the two dating for months before Marc proposed to Pepper in Scotland. (Iron Man Annual v5 #1) During their time together, she told Marc many stories Stark with Kumar coming to the conclusion that Tony treated her badly and leading this resentment towards Stark. (Iron Man v5 #28)
Inversion
Due to the Inversion, Tony Stark's personality reverted to a point prior to him becoming a superhero and he began performing more ruthless acts whilst becoming uncaring about his actions. This included resuming weapon designing, selling Extremis as a drug that required constant purchases and drinking excessively. In preparation for the day he ever went rogue, Stark in the past copied his mental patterns long ago into an AI clone that was tasked with stopping him if he engaged such practices. The AI would team up with Potts to stop the Inverted Tony Stark with Pepper using her business connections to first remove the name Stark from Stark Resilient as well as thwarting his business acquisitions. Among her acts was purchasing a media company before the Inverted Tony could buy it. Afterwards, the AI Tony attacked using various Iron Man suits with the initial goal of downloading his personality into Stark's organic body that would in essence revert him to an earlier mindset but erase the current version. Upon learning of this, Pepper resisted this plan and the AI built her a suit where she participated in capturing Tony Stark. After separating him from his Synthetic Symbiote armor, they brought him to Resilient where he used this opportunity to introduce a virus that erased his AI clone. Pepper witnessed the erasure of the AI and concluded that the Tony Stark she knew was gone and decided to use her media influence to expose his acts to the world to turn the public against him. Thus, he would be alone and unloved by the masses after he went back to his new home on Stark Island. (Superior Iron Man v1 #9)
After Tony Stark was badly wounded, he had sent the armor along with an AI copy of his mind to a teenager named Riri Williams. She adopted the superhero name of Ironheart with Pepper Potts greeting her when the pair were attacked by techno-ninjas. (Invincible Iron Man v3 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Though the suit was destroyed, a new version was created by the AI clone of Tony that she used to battle the Inverted Tony Stark. (Superior Iron Man v1 #9)
Notes
- Pepper Potts was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck where she made her first appearance in Tales of Suspense v1 #45 (September 1963) but debuted as Rescue in The Invincible Iron Man v1 #10 (May 2009).
Alternate Versions
- In Armors Wars v1 (2015), a version of Pepper Potts was shown to reside at Technopolis on Battleworld. This version was the wife of Baron Tony Stark who ruled the realm but was unaware of his family's deception of the sickness that kept everyone wearing armor. After Kiri Oshiro revealed this publically, Pepper was horrified at her husband's actions and the ex-baroness elected to remain behind as an advisor after Tony was taken away by the Thor Corps for his crimes.
In other media
Television
- In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, the character appeared where she was voiced by Anna Cummer. This incarnation was a teenager with short red hair, freckles and whose full name was Patricia "Pepper" Potts.
- In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Pepper Potts made a number of appearances in the animated series where she was voiced by actor Dawn Olivieri.
Films
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pepper Potts made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting.
- In Iron Man, the character made an appearance marking her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where she was portrayed by actor Gwyneth Paltrow.
- In Captain America: Civil War, Pepper Potts was referenced but not seen in the live-action film. Captain America Steve Rogers asked about Pepper with Tony Stark replying that the pair were no longer together.
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Pepper Potts appeared as the hero Rescue in the Facebook video game. Her backstory mentioned that Pepper normally served as an executive assistant who ran Stark Industries. After nearly dying in an explosion, she was infused with cybernetic implants allowing her to interface with her own variant of the Iron Man armor. She refused to become a living weapon leading to her focusing the armor completely on defensive systems allowing her to operate in a search-and-rescue role.
Appearances
- Tales of Suspense v1:
- Iron Man v1:
- Invincible Iron Man v1:
- Iron Man v5:
- Superior Iron Man v1:
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