Iron Man

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Tony Stark in Iron Man v6 #1.

Iron Man is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Anthony Stark was the name of a male human who was the son of Howard Stark and his wife Maria Stark. (Iron Man v1 #28) He was actually the biological son of Amanda Armstrong and a man named Jude who she had an romantic liaison with during her years as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. (International Iron Man v1 #6)

Whilst he was growing up, he regularly spoke to his fathers friend Eli Warren. (Iron Man v5 #2) At a summit, he was noted to had met Maya Hansen and Sal Kennedy who became his close friends. (Iron Man v4 #2)

Around ten years ago, he was in his final year at M.I.T. where he was in Regatta and met Sunset Bain. The two quickly embarked on a relationship where he was eager to show off to her. This included showing Stark Industries systems to her but in reality this was secretly through her manipulation of him. Afterwards, a number of corporate thefts occurred at his family's company which saw the loss of some new designs. It was then that Sunset Bain broke up with Tony Stark and left to found her own company namely Baintronics where many of the stolen designs came to find themselves in her product lines. (Iron Man v3 #19)

Years ago, he came to meet Bruce Banner where initially he was dismissive of the man before the two came to bond over their love of science. Stark later came to be involved in the Gamma Bomb project that was overseen by General Thunderbolt Ross. (Original Sin v1 #3.1)

Iron Man

Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Invincible Iron Man

Superior Iron Man

Inverted Tony Stark in Superior Iron Man v1 #1.

Later on, the Red Skull who had gained telepathy from Professor Xavier's brain which he used to mentally control and make him build special Stark Sentinels. By this time, the villain's body was destroyed in a confrontation with Magneto but his psychic essence allowed him to manifest as Onslaught. As the Red Onslaught, he set to create an Eternal Reich with Magneto calling aid from the Avengers and the Unity Squad. This saw Iron Man and the others join in confronting the villain from his camp at Genosha. Despite their numbers, they were unable to match the Red Onslaught who unleashed the Stark Sentinels as he used his enhanced powers to bring about World War Hate. Unable to fight the Stark Sentinels, the heroes orchestrated two plans where Magneto was to recruit villains to fight their foes whilst a spell was orchestrated by the Scarlet Witch to free Charles Xavier's essence trapped within the Red Skull. (Avengers & X-Men: AXIS v1 #2) The heroes and villains working together were able to delay the Red Onslaught long enough for the spell to be made seemingly depowering the Red Skull and leaving him unconscious where he was taken into custody. (Avengers & X-Men: AXIS v1 #3) Unknown to anyone, the spells effects caused an inversion of everyone's personalities at the scene. Stark himself saw all his inhibitions being removed leading to him setting up a base of operations in San Francisco where he began selling Extremis to the people. (Avengers & X-Men: AXIS v1 #4) He had tailor-made Extremis 3.0 as an app that purchasers could use to remodel their appearances per their will. However, they had to continually subscribe to the Extremis app in order to maintain the modifications. In the mean time, he began to drink alcohol again and engaged in constant parties which was met with disapproval over this change in personality. However, Stark decided to continue to indulge himself and came to craft a new Iron Man Armor that was Symbiote-infused whilst claiming that he had transformed San Francisco into a paradise overnight. (Superior Iron Man v1 #1)

Time Runs Out

Civil War II

Stark Unlimited

Overview

Personality and attributes

Due to his talents, he was sometimes referred to as the Master of Machines. (New Avengers v3 #2) Another name given to him in his superhero guise was the Armored Avenger. (Deadpool Vol 3 #7)

One of his romantic interests was Sunset Bain who was called an 'older woman' though she was barely five years older than him. Even after she broke up with him, she was still attract his interest and drove him to distraction. (Iron Man v3 #19)

A friend of his fathers was noted scientist and businessman Eli Warren. (Iron Man v5 #2)

Powers and abilities

Among his other creations included:

• Negator Pack : (Iron Man v1 #225)
• Iron Sight :
• Q.U.I.L.L. Network : a personal array of microsatellites around Earth designed to watch for any threats from space with this being named after the Star-Lord Peter Quill. (Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinite Comic v1 #1)
• Code: Helios : a one-shot hard light sunlight beam weapon laced with UV radiation able to destroy entire towns and made to combat extremely dangerous threats. (Immortal Hulk v1 #7)

One of his facilities was the Stark Orbital situated in orbit around Earth which was used as a workshop where Tony Stark could operate without distraction and was where he designed the deep-space armors. (Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinite Comic v1 #1)

Notes

• Iron Man was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck and Jack Kirby where she made her first appearance in Tales of Suspense v1 #39 (March, 1963).
• Le once commented on the character, "I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military ... So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist ... I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him... And he became very popular."

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

• In Iron Man, Iron Man appeared in the setting of the 1990s animated television series where he was voiced by actor Robert Hays.
• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Iron Man appeared in the 2010 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Eric Loomis.

Films

• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
  • In Iron Man, Tony Stark made his first live-action appearance in the 2008 film where he was portrayed by actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • In The Avengers, Tony Stark appeared in the setting of the live-action film where he was one again portrayed by actor Robert Downey Jr.

Video games

• In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Iron Man appeared as an unlockable character in the video game where he was voiced again by actor John Cygan.
• In Marvel's Avengers, Iron Man appeared as a playable character in the setting of the video game where he was voiced by actor Nolan North.

Appearances

• Tales of Suspense v1: (1963)
• Iron Man v1:
• Avengers v1:
• Iron Man v3:
• Invincible Iron Man v1:
• Iron Man:
• New Avengers v1:
• Mighty Avengers v1:
• Guardians of the Galaxy:
• Original Sin v1:
• Superior Iron Man v1:
• All-New, All-Different Avengers v1:
• International Iron Man v1:
• Invincible Iron Man:
• Tony Stark: Iron Man v1:
• Avengers v8:
• Immortal Hulk v1:
• Iron Man:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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