Iron Maniac
Iron Maniac is a male comic supervillain that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Iron Maniac was a version of Tony Stark that lived on a different Earth located in the Multiverse. In his universe, the Avengers never disbanded and one day the Vision detected an alien ship in the mountains of Japan. They went to the scene to investigate leading to their encounter with Titannus who portrayed a sympathetic backstory namely that he and his love Amissa were fleeing the tyranny of her father and sought out great champions to depose him. Thus, they had come to get the Avengers aid and the superheroes believed them to be telling the truth. This led to them travelling to the Trellion system but upon arriving Titannus turned on them as he had been brainwashed by the ruler of the planet and given a fake backstory to make it more convincing. The purpose of the deception was to lead the famous Avengers to the planet in order to destroy them and Titannus struck as the second part of his brainwashing took effect leading to him killing the Wasp. Hank Pym was similarly believed slain and the rulers of Trellion decided to break the spirit of Tony's comrades by executing Captain America. Afterwards, they were sent to slave camps on distant worlds to harvest resources with the reserve Avengers taking five years to find and rescue the captive heroes. It took another five years to defeat the Trellion's to the point that they would never threaten Earth again. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #13)
On his world, there was a Black Widow that was Natasha Romanoff who was said to had broken his heart and he eventually killed her. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #6) During the fight, the Human Torch was noted to had burnt Stark's face and in response he killed Johnny Storm. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4)
He appeared on Earth-616 in Latveria where he intended to track down and get his revenge on Reed Richards. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #2) This saw him attack the Baxter Building where he was confused for being Doctor Doom as he battled the Fantastic Four. He stopped his attack after being confronted by the Human Torch he became confused as Johnny Storm had died on his world leading to Stark leaving the scene. Around this time, Doctor Strange had sensed Stark's arrival to this world and attempted to track him but the Iron Maniac attacked him as he came to believe the Sorcerer Supreme was responsible for his predicament. During the midst of the fighting with the Fantastic Four again, he came to realise that they referred to him as Doctor Doom and revealed his true identity as Tony Stark to them. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #3) He then battled the heroes but was forced to escape after Doctor Strange nearly had him encased in magic. After his departure, he snuck into Stark Industries and disguised himself as Earth-616's version of Tony Stark in order to gain access to the technology and equipment there. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4) He attempted to create a machine for the journey back to his world but required the necessary power. To achieve that end, he kidnapped a Mutant called Paul Patterson who had the power to generate explosive energy which Stark intended to use to energise his machine. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #5) He was then confronted by Spider-Man and X-23 where Iron Maniac believed the pair to be working for Reed Richards. They were joined by Captain America and Black Widow but they were unable to defeat Stark who was prepared to return to his world. Before he could do so, the heroes caused Patterson to detonate thus destroying the machine and defeating Stark who was rendered unconscious. The Iron Maniac was then arrested where he was placed in stasis on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #6) Whilst in custody, he was approached by the heroes after they had made their first encounter with Titannus with Stark willing to reveal about the events on his world. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #13)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Iron Maniac was an alternate version of Tony Stark who had scars on his face and wore an Iron Man Armour that partially resembled Doctor Doom. It was this reason that he was initially confused for being the Latverian dictator. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #3)
This version of Stark had become ruthless to the point that he was not above letting people die. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4)
Due to the events on his world, he came to have a deep-seated hatred of Reed Richards and wanted revenge against him. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #2) He came to see even alternate reality versions of the Fantastic Four as his enemies and attacked them. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4) He regarded his world's Captain America to had been a great man and living legend. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #6)
Powers and abilities
Similar to Iron Man, the Iron Maniac wore his own version of highly advanced Iron Man Armour that protected him from harm. The armour also protected his mind from attempts at manipulating him with it even working against mystical assaults. He had also engineered systems that allowed him to dispel certain forms of magical attacks. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4)
He could generate powerful energy blasts from his hands and emit a spherical blast from himself to deal with enemies. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4) Stark could a force that allowed him to attract objects allowing him to grab onto certain items such as depriving foes of their weapon. From his shoulder could emerge a neural scrambler that caused intense pain in the nerves of enemies around him with some rendered unconscious due to the pain. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #6) This version of Tony Stark had created a weapon that could temporarily depower superhuman foes allowing him to quickly dispatch them. (Marvel Team-Up v3 #4)
Notes
- Iron Maniac was created by Robert Kirkman and Scott Kolins where he made his first appearance in Marvel Team-Up v3 #2 (January, 2005).
Appearances
- Marvel Team-Up v3:
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