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Iron Man (known in Spanish as the Iron Man) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, born in Sofia, Bulgaria. The character was co-created by writer-editor Stan Lee and screenwriter Larry Lieber. The artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby were in charge of the design of it. This superhero made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963) and received his own title in Iron Man #1, May 1968. In 1963, the character founded the superhero team The Avengers with Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp, and Hulk.

Anthony Edward "Tony Stark is a billionaire business magnate and philanthropist American, playboy and resourceful scientist, who suffered a severe chest injury during a kidnapping in the Middle East. When his captors tried to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction, he crafted armor instead to save his life and escape captivity. Later, Stark develops his suit, adding weapons and other technological devices that he designed through his company, Stark Industries. He uses the suit and subsequent versions to protect the world as Iron Man. Although he initially hid his true identity, Stark eventually declared who he was in a public announcement.

Initially, the creation of Iron Man was inspired by Cold War themes, particularly the role of American technology and industry in the fight against communism. Later Iron Man imaginations have moved from these motifs to contemporary issues of the time, such as terrorism, corruption and crime in general.

For most of the character's publication history, Iron Man was a member and leader of the Avengers team, has appeared in various incarnations of their various comic book series, and was also adapted for various television shows and movies animated.

Robert Downey Jr. is the one who plays this character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie saga: Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (cameo; 2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ralph Breaks the Internet (cameo; 2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) sacrificed at the end of defeating Thanos with the Infinity Stones, Spider-Man: Far From Home (cameo; 2019) and Loki (cameo; 2021). Mick Wingert voiced the character in the animated series What If...? (2021).

Iron Man was ranked 12th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011, and third on their list of "The Top 50 Avengers" in 2012.

Synopsis

Iron Man's debut was a collaboration between writer-editor Stan Lee, screenwriter Ángel Leonardo, artist Don Heck, and character designer Jack Kirby. Some evidence shows that Iron Man has roots in an earlier Iron Man created by Norvell W. Page (writing under the name "Grant Stockbridge"), who wore robotic armor and he shot beams of energy from his palms, for his novel Satan's Murder Machines, originally appearing in December 1939 in The Spider magazine. According to the official story of him, Stan Lee avidly read The Spider magazine.

In 1963, Lee had been toying with the idea of a superhero/businessman. He wanted to create the "quintessential capitalist", a character who would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel readers.Stan Lee, George Mair, Excelsior: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, Simon & Schuster (2002), Lee said, "I think I set myself a challenge. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was something they hated, it was the war, it was the army... So I took a hero who represented that. He was an arms manufacturer, he was supplying weapons to the military, he was a millionaire, he was an entrepreneur... I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody wants, that none of our readers would like, and shove them down their throats and make let him become... very popular."He set out to make the character a rich and charming Don Juan, but with a secret that will haunt and haunt him as well. Writer Gerry Conway said, "Here's this character, who on the outside is invulnerable, meaning you can't touch him, but on the inside he's pretty hurt. Stan made a big gash on his face, you know, his heart was literally broken. But there is a metaphor that happens there. And that's, I think, what made the character interesting." Lee based this look and personality on Howard Hughes, explaining, "Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a millionaire, Don Juan, and finally, a wacko. Without being crazy, he was Howard Hughes."

Fictional character biography

Origins

Anthony Edward Stark is the son of Stark Industries boss Howard Stark and his wife Maria Stark. A boy genius who enters MIT at the age of 15 to study Mechanical Engineering. After his parents are killed in a car accident, he inherits his family's company.

While observing the effects of his experimental technology on the American war effort, Tony Stark is injured by a bomb and captured by Wong-Chu, who orders him to design weapons. However, Stark's injuries are severe and shrapnel is directed at his heart. His fellow prisoner, Ho Yinsen, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work Stark had admired at school, constructs a magnetic chest plate to prevent shrapnel from reaching Stark's heart, keeping him alive. Secretly, Stark and Yinsen use the workshop to design and build mechanized armor, which Stark uses to escape. However, during the escape, Yinsen sacrifices his life to save Stark, distracting the enemy for Tony to reload. Stark takes revenge on his kidnappers and escapes to join the US forces, meeting on his way a wounded US Navy pilot, James & # 34;Rhodey & # 34; Rhodes.

After returning home, Stark discovers that the fragment of shrapnel lodged in his chest cannot be removed without killing him, and is forced to wear the chest plate under his clothing to act as a regulator for his heart. He also has to recharge the plate every day or else he risks being killed by shrapnel. The cover for Iron Man says that he is Stark's bodyguard and the mascot of his company. To that end, Iron Man battles threats to his company (such as communist opponent Natasha Romanoff, the Crimson Dynamo, and the Titanium Man), as well as independent villains like the Mandarin, who ultimately becomes Iron Man's worst enemy. he. No one suspects that Stark is Iron Man, as he cultivates the image of himself as a millionaire and businessman. Two notable cast members of the series, at this point, are his personal chauffeur, Harold & # 34;Happy & # 34; Hogan, and his secretary, Virginia & # 34; Pepper & # 34; Potts, to whom he finally reveals his secret identity. Meanwhile, James Rhodes finds his own place as Stark's personal pilot, revealing himself to be a man of extraordinary skill and daring in his own right.

The comic had an anti-communist stance in its early years, which softened as opposition to the Vietnam War mounted. This shift evolved into a series of stories in which Stark reconsiders his political views and the morality of fabrication weapons for the US Army. Stark shows himself to be arrogant from time to time, and willing to act unethically in order to 'let the ends justify the means'. This leads to personal conflicts with the people around him, both in his civilian identity as a superhero. Stark uses his vast personal fortune not only to equip his own armor, but also to develop weapons for S.H.I.E.L.D.; other technologies (for example, Quinjets used by the Avengers); and the image inducers used by the X-Men. Eventually, Stark's heart condition is resolved with an artificial heart transplant.

1970s and early 1980s

Later, Stark expands on his armor designs and begins building his arsenal of specialized armor for particular situations such as space travel and stealth. However, Stark also develops a serious dependency on alcohol, in the story of "Demon in a Bottle". The first time it becomes a problem is when Stark discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been buying a majority stake in the company from him in order to ensure Stark's continued development of weapons for them. At the same time, Tony's rival businessman Justin Hammer hired several supervillains to attack Stark. At one point, the Iron Man armor is stolen and used to assassinate a diplomat. Although Iron Man is not under suspicion, Stark, is forced to turn in his weapons to the authorities. Eventually, Stark and Rhodes, who is now his personal pilot and confidant, track down and defeat those responsible, despite the fact that Hammer would go on to harass Stark again. With the support of his then-girlfriend, Bethany Cabe, his friends, and his employees, Stark overcomes this crisis and his dependence on alcohol. These events were collected and published as Demon in a Bottle. Even as he recovers from this terrible personal trial, Stark's life is further complicated when he has a confrontation with Doctor Doom, which is interrupted by an opportunistic enemy, sending them back to the time of King Arthur. Once there, Iron Man he thwarts Doom's attempt to solicit the aid of Morgan Le Fay, and the ruler of Latveria swears deadly revenge - which he delivered shortly after the truce necessary to return to his own time. This incident was collected and published as Doomquest.

Some time later, a ruthless rival, Obadiah Stane, emotionally manipulates Stark into a serious relapse. As a result, Stark loses control of Stark International to Stane, becomes a homeless alcoholic drifter, and relinquishes his armored identity to Rhodes, who becomes the new Iron Man. he recovers and joins a new company, Circuits Maximus. Stark concentrates on new technological designs, including building a new set of armor as part of his recovery therapy. Rhodes continues to act as Iron Man, but becomes increasingly aggressive and paranoid, due to the armor not being properly calibrated for use. Rhodes eventually goes berserk and Stark has to put on a replica of his original armor to stop him. Fully recovered, Stark confronts Stane, who wears armor based on designs seized in conjunction with Stark International and has dubbed himself the 'Iron Monger'. -buy Stark International until much later; instead he creates Stark Enterprises, headquartered in Los Angeles.

Late 1980s and 1990s

In an attempt to prevent others from misusing his designs, Stark tries to disable other armored heroes and villains who are using armor based on Iron Man technology, whose designs were stolen by his enemy. Spymaster. His quest to destroy all instances of the stolen technology damages his reputation as Iron Man. After attacking and disabling a series of villains including Stilt-Man, he attacks and defeats the government agent known as Stingray. The situation worsens when Stark realizes that Stingray's armor does not incorporate any of his designs. He publicly fires Iron Man while secretly going through his routine with him. He uses the alibi of wanting to help disable the renegade Iron Man to infiltrate and disable the armor of S.H.I.E.L.D. known as the Mandroids, and also the armor of the Guards. In the process, Iron Man and Jim Rhodes allow some of the villains from the Vault to escape. This leads the United States government to declare Iron Man a danger and an outlaw, and severely corrupts Stark's relationship with Steve Rogers (Captain America, who was in his "Captain" persona at the time.). Iron Man travels to Russia, where he inadvertently causes the death of the Soviet Titanium Man during a fight. Returning to the United States, he is confronted by a government-mandated enemy called Firepower. Unable to defeat him head-on, Stark fakes Iron Man's demise, intending to remove the suit permanently. When Firepower goes rogue, Stark creates a new suit, stating that a new person is in the armor.

Shortly thereafter, Stark is nearly killed by Kathy Dare, a mentally unbalanced ex-lover. She shoots him in the center of his torso, which injures his spine, paralyzing him. Stark undergoes special surgery to have a nerve chip implanted in his spine to regain his mobility. Unknown to the industrialist, the Nerve chip is a clandestine means by which you can gain control over your body. Rival businessmen, the Marrs twins and their cohort Kearson DeWitt are behind the machinations in what became known as 'Armor Wars II'. After several successful attempts by DeWitt to manipulate Stark, Tony discovers that using his brain armor can counteract DeWitt's controls. In response, DeWitt suddenly releases his control, resulting in excruciating agony throughout Stark's entire body. The constant "battle" for control of Stark's nervous system and subsequent abdication on DeWitt's end lead to massive nerve damage throughout Tony's body. Stark's nervous system continues its slide toward failure, and he builds a "skin" for himself. formed by artificial nerve circuitry to assist him. Stark begins piloting a remote-controlled Iron Man armor, but when confronted by the Masters of Silence, the demand for telepresence is inadequate. Stark designs a more heavily armored version of the suit to wear, the "Variable Threat Response Battle Suit". Ultimately, the damage to his nervous system becomes too extensive. Faking his death, Stark is placed in suspended animation to heal while Rhodes takes over both Stark Enterprises and the mantle of Iron Man, though he wears the War Machine armor. Stark eventually makes a full recovery by using a chip to create a nervous system. artificial and resumes as Iron Man in a new telepresence armor. When Rhodes learns that Stark has manipulated his friends into faking his own death, he is enraged and the two friends part ways. Rhodes continues as War Machine in a solo career.

The plot of "The Journey/The Crossroads" shows us Iron Man as a traitor among the Avengers, because years before Kang the Conqueror had managed to mentally manipulate him. On Kang's orders, Stark kills Marilla, the nanny of Luna (the daughter of Quicksilver and Crystal), as well as Rita DeMara, the Yellow Jacket, and then Amanda Chaney, an ally of the Avengers. The limited series "Avengers Forever" he again regards these events as the work of a disguised Immortus, not Kang, and that mind control had regressed only a few months.

Needing help to defeat Stark and Kang, the team travels back in time to recruit a teenage Anthony Stark from an alternate timeline to help them. Young Stark steals an Iron Man suit to help the Avengers against his older self. The sight of his younger self shocks the older Stark enough for him to momentarily regain control of his actions, and he sacrifices his life to stop Kang.The younger Stark then builds his own suit to become the new Iron Man and remains in the present.

In the battle against the entity Onslaught, Stark, along with many other heroes, perished. Franklin Richards' powers allowed him to create an alternate universe in Heroes Reborn in which Stark is once again an adult hero; Franklin recreates the heroes in the pocket universe in forms he is more familiar with than they are in the present. The reborn adult Stark, upon returning to the normal Marvel Universe, merges with the original Stark, who had died during "The Voyage/Crossroads" but he was resurrected by Franklin Richards. This new Anthony Stark possesses the memories of both the original and the adolescent Anthony Stark, and thus considering himself to be essentially both, regains his fortune and, with Stark Enterprises sold to the Fujikawa Corporation upon Stark's death, creates a new company, Stark. Solutions. He returns from the pocket universe with a restored and healthy heart. After the reformation of the Avengers, Stark demands that a hearing be called to look into his actions just before the Onslaught incident. Cleared of wrongdoing, he rejoins the Avengers.

2000

At one point, Stark's armor becomes sentient despite the lockboxes to prevent his increasingly sophisticated computer systems from doing so. Initially, Stark welcomes this armor " live" for his enhanced tactical skills. The armor begins to become more aggressive, killing indiscriminately and eventually wanting to replace Stark entirely. In the final confrontation on a deserted island, Stark suffers another heart attack. The armor sacrifices its very existence to save the life of its creator, giving up essential components to give Stark a new, artificial heart. This new heart solves Stark's health problems, but it has no internal power source, so Stark once again becomes reliant on periodic recharging. The sentient armor incident so disturbs Stark that he temporarily reverts to an unsophisticated older model version of his armor to avoid a repeat incident. He dabbles with the use of liquid metal circuitry known as SKIN which is formed in a protective covering around his body, but he eventually reverts to more conventional hard metal armor.

The Civil War

After the actions of the rookie superheroes, the New Warriors result in the destruction of several city blocks in Stamford, Connecticut, there is a nationwide protest against the superhumans. Learning of the government's proposed plans, Tony Stark suggests a new plan to instigate a Superhuman Registration Act. The Act would require all superpowered individuals in the US to register their identity with the government and act as authorized agents. The Act would force inexperienced superhumans to undergo training on how to use and control their abilities, something Tony is a firm believer in. Since his bout with alcoholism, Stark has carried a tremendous load of guilt after nearly killing an innocent bystander while drunkenly piloting the armor. While Reed Richards and Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym agree to Stark's proposal, not all of them do. After Captain America is ordered to bring in anyone who refuses to register, he and other anti-registration superheroes disband, coming into conflict with the pro-registration heroes, led by Iron Man. The war ends when Captain America America surrenders to avoid further collateral damage and civilian casualties, though he had defeated Stark by disabling his armor. Stark is named the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and organizes a new government-sanctioned group of Avengers. Shortly afterward, Captain America is assassinated while in custody. This leaves Stark with a great deal of guilt and doubt about the cost of his victory. Later, at his funeral, he spoke a few words, "I never knew it would end like this." ». Later, Iron Man would know that Captain America will be revived in Captain America: Reborn.

Secret Invasion

To tie in with 2008's Iron Man feature film, Marvel launched a new Iron Man ongoing series, The Invincible Iron Man, with writer Matt Fraction and artist Salvador Larroca. The inaugural story of the six-part series was 'The Five Nightmares', which saw Stark targeted by Ezekiel Stane, the son of Stark's old nemesis Obadiah Stane.

In this story, after Tony Stark survives an attempt by Ultron to take over his body, Spider-Woman confronts him in the hospital, holding the corpse of a Skrull posing as Elektra. Realizing that this is the start of a Skrull invasion, Tony reveals the corpse to the Illuminati and declares that they are at war. After Black Bolt is revealed to be a Skrull and is killed by Namor, a squad of Skrulls attacked, forcing Tony to evacuate the other Illuminati members and destroy the area, killing all of the Skrulls. Realizing that they are unable to trust each other, all members split up to form individual plans for the coming invasion.

Stark is publicly discredited and vilified for his failure to anticipate or prevent the Skrull infiltration and covert invasion of Earth, and for the Skrull's disabling of his StarkTech technology, which had a virtual monopoly on world defense After the invasion, the United States government removes him as head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and disbands the Avengers, turning over control of the Initiative to Norman Osborn.

Dark Reign

With his Extremis powers failing, Stark uploads a virus to destroy all Record Act records, preventing Osborn from learning the identities of his fellow heroes and anything Osborn might use, including repulsor generators. The only copy of the database is found in Stark's brain, which he attempts to delete as he flees from Osborn, Stark goes as far as inflicting brain damage on himself in order to ensure that the relevant information is erased. When Osborn catches up with the weakened Stark and savagely beats him, Pepper Potts broadcasts the beatings around the world, costing Osborn credibility and giving Stark public sympathy. Stark enters a vegetative state, having previously granted Donald Blake (alter ego to the superhero Thor) power of attorney. his mind from its current state before his destruction of the database, and Blake and Bucky decided to use it to restore normality. Meanwhile, Stark is trapped in his subconscious, where the facts of his own mind prevent him from returning to the waking world. When the procedure doesn't work, Bucky calls Doctor Strange, who manages to restore Stark's consciousness. The backup Stark created was made before the Civil War, and as such, he does not remember anything that occurred during the event, though even after reviewing his past actions, he concludes that he would not have done anything differently. His brain damage means that he now relies on an arc reactor to maintain the autonomic functions of his body.

2010

The Siege of Asgard

In the story 'Siege', Tony Stark is under the care of Dr. Donald Blake and Maria Hill, when Asgard comes under attack. Thor is ambushed by Osborn and the Sentry, but rescued by Hill. Osborn declares martial law and releases Daken and the Sentry on Broxton to root out Thor and Hill. Hill returns to Stark's hideout to move him to a safer location and is joined by Speedy of the Young Avengers, who has a set of Iron Man MK III armor that Edwin Jarvis had given to Captain America. While Osborn is fighting the New Avengers, Stark appears and disables Osborn's Iron Patriot armor. Osborn orders the Sentry to annihilate Asgard, rather than allow the Avengers to have it. After Asgard falls, Stark stands up to his fellow heroes, as Osborn exclaims that they are all doomed and that he "was saving them from him." targeting a possessed Sentry Watcher. As the Void tears the teams apart, Loki gives them the power to fight through the Norn Stones. The Watcher kills Loki, angering Thor. Tony tells Thor to remove the void from Asgard, allowing him to drop a H.A.M.M.E.R. in the void. Thor is forced to kill the Sentry when the Watcher reappears. Some time later, the Superhuman Registration Act is repealed and Tony is returned to his company and his armor. As a symbol of his heroics and his new unity, Thor places an Asgardian tower on Stark Tower, where the Watchtower once stood.

Fear Incarnate

In the story of "Fear Itself" In 2011, Earth is attacked by the Serpent, the God of Fear and Odin's forgotten brother. In Paris, Iron Man battles Gray Gargoyle, who has become Mokk, Destroyer of Faith, one of the Worthy of the snake. Mokk knocks Iron Man unconscious and turns Detroit Steel and the citizens of Paris to stone. In order to defeat the Serpent's army, Tony drinks a bottle of wine (thus "sacrificing" his sobriety) to gain an audience with Odin, who allows Tony to enter the realm of Svartalfheim. Tony and the dwarves of Svartalfheim build enchanted weapons.Tony enhances his armor with uru-infused enchantments and delivers the finished weapons to the Avengers, who use them for the final battle against the Serpent forces. Iron Man watches as Thor kills the Serpent, but is killed in the process. After the battle is over, Tony melts down the weapons he created and repairs Captain America's shield, which had been broken by the Serpent, and returns it to Captain America. During a later argument with Odin about the lack of involvement from the gods in the recent crisis, Odin gives Tony a brief chance to see the vastness of the universe the way he sees it. As thanks for Tony's role in the recent crisis, Odin restores all the people the Gray Gargoyle killed during his rampage.

Return of the Mandarin and Marvel NOW!

In the story "Demon" and & # 34; The Long Fall & # 34;, Stark is subpoenaed by the US government after evidence of his use of the Iron Man armor while he was under the influence surfaced. Mandarin and Zeke Stane upgrade some of Iron Man's old enemies and send them to commit acts of terrorism around the world, intent on discrediting Iron Man. General Bruce Babbage forces Stark to use a technological governor, a device that allows Babbage to deactivate Stark's armor whenever he wants. To fend off him, Tony undergoes a surgical procedure that expels the Bleeding Edge technology from his body and replaces his repulsor node with a new model, forcing Babbage to remove the tech governor from his chest. He announces his retirement as Iron Man, faking Rhodes' death and giving him a new suit of armor so that he becomes the new Iron Man. This leads to the next story, 'The Future', in which the Mandarin takes He gains control of Stark's mind and uses it to create new armored bodies for the alien spirits that inhabit his rings, but Stark allies himself with some of his old enemies, who have also been imprisoned by the Mandarin, and manages to defeat him. The final issue of this story concluded the Matt Fraction series.

In the ongoing series that debuted in 2012 as part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch, Tony Stark has reached a technological ceiling. After the death of Dr. Maya Hansen and the destruction of all Extremis version 2 kits being sold on the black market, Tony decides that Earth isn't safe without him knowing more than what's on Earth. final frontier. He takes on his new suit, enhanced with an artificial intelligence called P.E.P.P.E.R. and joins Peter Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy after helping to thwart a Badoon attack on Earth.

Superior Iron Man

Tony Stark's personality is reversed due to the events of AXIS, bringing out the darker aspects of himself such as irresponsibility, selfishness, and alcoholism. Stark moves to San Francisco and builds a new all-white suit of armor. He supplies the citizens of San Francisco with the Extremis 3.0 app, a version of the tech virus that offers beauty, health, and even immortality, for free. When every person in the city saw Iron Man as a messiah for making their dreams come true, ended free trial mode and began charging a daily fee of $99.99, causing many to turn to crime as a way to pay for the upgrade. Daredevil confronts Stark in his new Alcatraz island penthouse, but is easily brushing. Iron Man uses Extremis 3.0 to temporarily restore Daredevil's eyesight, just to prove his point. Daredevil deduces that Stark had added Extremis to the water supply and the phones only transmit an activation signal, but Stark subjects Murdock to minor brain damage to prevent me from sharing this revelation with others.

After discovering that the new villain Teen Abomination is the son of Happy Hogan, Stark decides to help him, but this minor act of redemption is too late for Pepper Potts, who attacks Stark with the help of an AI based on the Stark's mind. This culminates in a confrontation between the two Starks, as Stark enlists the unwitting help of all the 'infected' in Stark's mind. with the Extremis upgrade, while the AI uses Stark's various ancient armors to attack him. Although Stark technically wins the battle while destroying his other armors and removing the backup AI, Pepper states that he plans to reveal the truth about his targets with Extremis, bluntly informing him that if he continues his Extremis upgrade project, he will have to do it alone, accepting his fate of being considered a monster by all who know him.

Time is running out

During the 'Time Outs Out' storyline, an attempt to reclaim Wakanda from the Camarilla that Namor had created to destroy the raiding Earth results in Tony being held captive in the Necropolis. After they apparently killed the Camarilla, the Illuminati free Tony, who is forced to flee due to the Illuminati's unwillingness to let Stark be with them when they meet with Rogers and the Avengers. When the Shi'ar and their allies arrive to destroy Earth, the Avengers and the Illuminati attempt to retaliate to no avail. Iron Man uses the Sun Hammer to destroy the fleet.The raids continue, and Rogers confronts Stark about what he knows. A fight ensues between them and Stark admits that he had lied and known about the raids all along. During the final raid, S.H.I.E.L.D. of Earth-1610 launches a full-scale attack on Earth-616, during which a Helicarrier crushes Stark and Rogers.

All-New, All-Different Marvel

After the events of the Secret Wars crossover, Stark returns to his normal self with no sign of his reversed personality. Eight months after the universe's return, as seen in the event & # 34; Marvel All-New, All-Different Marvel & # 34;, Tony works in his lab non-stop after that his position as an innovator has been called into question. Because some of his technology was reverse-engineered by an MIT student, Stark develops a new armor that can change shape according to the situation he finds himself in. When Stark's new AI is Friday, he informs him that Madame Mask has broken into the ruins of Castle Doom, he travels to Latveria to investigate and meets some revolutionaries who are later defeated by a man in a suit. To his surprise, the computer in Iron Man's armor identifies him as Doctor Doom with his face restored. Doctor Doom claims that he wanted to help Iron Man.

After learning from Doctor Doom that Madame Masque has taken a decoy from Watoomb's Wand, Tony Stark confronts Madame Masque. Learning that Madame Masque is not in league with Doctor Doom, Tony is attacked by her with a blast of energy that damages her armor, Friday gains control of the suit and takes Tony to safety. Iron Man tracks Madame Mask to Marina del Rey. After finding a tape recorder with his messages, Tony is attacked by several black silhouettes with swords.

Iron Man escapes from the ninjas who are attacking him and manages to defeat most of them, but they are killed before he can question them. Iron Man and Doctor Doom arrive at the last Jackpot of Mary Jane Watson's nightclub in Chicago when Madame Mascara attacks him.While Mary Jane distracts Madame Mascara by removing her mask, Iron Man and Doctor Doom discover that Madame Mascara is possessed by a demon. Doctor Doom is able to perform an exorcism on her.

Doctor Strange arrives and tells Iron Man that he is taking Madame Mask away to metaphysically fix her, then turning her over to S.H.I.E.L.D. Iron Man also informs him about the help of Doctor Doom that he had left the scene some time ago. Three days later, Iron Man offers Mary Jane a job to make up for the damage caused to his nightclub. After speaking with War Machine, Tony Stark is at a dinner with Amara Perera when they are unexpectedly joined by Doctor Doom. that he wanted to make sure that the demonic possession that affected Madame Mascara did not affect Stark or Amara. Stark shows Mary Jane the demo about the people she will be working with. They are interrupted by Friday, who tells Tony that War Machine is missing. Before going to Tokyo, Tony receives Peter Parker's emergency number from Mary Jane. In Tokyo, Spider-Man makes contact with Iron Man at the War Machine's last known location while being watched by the ninjas.

During the Civil War II storyline, Iron Man protests the logic of using precognitive powers to stop future crimes after the newly discovered Inhuman, Ulysses, predicted Thanos's attack on Project Pegasus. Three weeks later, Iron Man is summoned to the Triskelion after War Machine is killed in battle with Thanos. When Iron Man learns that War Machine and the Ultimates used Ulysses' power to ambush Thanos, he vows to stop anyone from using that power again.Iron Man infiltrates New Attilan and leaves with Ulysses. At Stark Tower, Iron Man vows to find out how Ulysses' precognition works. The Inhumans attack Stark Tower, but are stopped by the Avengers, the Ultimates, and S.H.I.E.L.D. During the confrontation, Ulysses has another vision that he projects to Iron Man and everyone present, showing the Hulk raging over the corpses of the defeated superheroes. The heroes confront Banner, who is killed by Hawkeye. Barton claims that Banner was about to transform and Banner had previously asked Hawkeye to kill him if he was to return to the Hulk. Tony is disgusted by this use of Ulysses' power. When his analysis of Ulysses's brain is complete, Tony reveals that Ulysses does not actually see the future, but merely gathers vast amounts of data to project likely outcomes. While Danvers continues to use the visions as a resource, Tony opposes the concept of profiling people. This results in a showdown when Tony's side kidnaps a woman in custody after Ulysses' visions identified her as a deep-cover HYDRA agent, despite a lack of supporting evidence.

Iron Man learns that his birth mother was actually Amanda Armstrong, who had given him up for adoption. S.H.I.E.L.D. she had Armstrong's baby adopted by Howard and Maria Stark.

Marvel NOW! 2016

In July 2016, it was announced that Tony Stark would hand over the Iron Man mantle to a 15-year-old girl named Riri Williams. Riri is an MIT student who built her own Iron Man suit out of scrap pieces, and as such, attracted Stark's attention. Early renderings of Williams's suit depict him without the Ark Reactor, but the suit's power source remains unclear. Another Iron Man-based series titled Infamous Iron Man debuted with Doctor Doom donning his version of the Iron Man armor. This is revealed to be the result of severe injuries sustained by Stark during his final confrontation with Captain Marvel. Danvers' beating leaves Stark in a coma, but he is left alive due to unspecified experiments Stark has conducted on himself over the years.

Existing as an A.I.

Following the revelation that Stark experimented on himself at the end of the Civil War II, Beast concludes that the only option is to let the experiments do their job of healing Tony and recover on his own.. In Invincible Iron Man #1, Riri Williams is sent an artificial intelligence containing a copy of Tony Stark's consciousness by a Stark employee to help her control and mentor her own version of the Iron Man armor. Iron Man. This A.I. is copied directly from Tony's brain, giving him sentience, and Williams comments that Stark exists as a "techno-ghost." As an AI, Stark can walk as a hard light object and gains the ability to remote control his vast arsenal of Iron Man suits. In Captain Marvel #3, the A.I. As Tony Stark heads to Antarctica and visits Captain Marvel with the intention of settling their Civil War II differences, she apologizes to him for his grief, reconciles with him, and they eventually become allies once more. Later in Secret Empire, the A.I. from Tony Stark suits up as Iron Man once more and learns of Captain America's betrayal of Hydra and how he ended up like this. As Hydra gains a foothold in America, the A.I. by Tony Stark A.I. he leads a team known as Underground to find the Cosmic Cubes to restore Rogers to his normal self. When things start to get complicated, Tony and his team go crazy and search for answers for the Cube. As Iron Man and the Metro search for them, they are intercepted by Captain America and his Hydra team. When both teams meet, they are captured by the Ultron/Hank Pym hybrid, forcing both teams to a table. During 'dinner', Ultron reveals information about the Hydra Avengers, such as Odinson working with Hydra to reclaim Mjolnir, the Scarlet Witch being possessed by Chthon, and the Vision being affected by a virus. AI. Ultron argues that he's doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years, with many of them obeying Captain America or Iron Man, despite past experience confirming that it's not always a family. Good idea, but Tony counters that the only reason the team failed as a family was because of Hank's abuse of Wasp. Enraged, Ultron is about to kill everyone, but Ant-Man is able to calm him down by arguing that Hank is still Ultron's own inspiration. Ultron allows the Underground to leave with the fragment, arguing that neither party should have an advantage over the other. Back in America, the Hydra Ultimate has put Namor in a position where he will be forced to sign a peace treaty that gives Rogers access to the Cosmic Cube fragment in Atlantis, but the Hydra Ultimate says he isn't worried about that. who will acquire the fragments, as he has an inner man in the subway. After the Mount was attacked by Thor and the resurrected Hulk led by Hydra, the Underground evacuated the civilians thanks to Hawkeye and the rest of the heroes. Captain America and Iron Man fight as Mount collapses around them. The Tony Stark A.I. initiates the "Clean Slate Protocol" de Monte, and explodes Monte, killing Madame Hydra, then apologizes to Steve Rogers for their past differences, but the A.I. survives and consequently helps the heroes piece together Hydra to bring it down. When Iron Man faces Hydra Ultimate, he and the other heroes are easily bested by him and watch as the original Captain America defeats himself and celebrates his victory.

Marvel Legacy

Mary Jane Watson and other Stark employees discover that Stark's body has completely vanished from his capsule, despite tests conducted just hours ago showing no signs of improvement or brain activity.

Back to life.

Tony is brought back to life by experiments he did on himself. He also brought Rhodey back to life but kept hidden, after which he returned to being a golden avenger.

Powers, abilities and equipment

Armor

Iron Man possesses powered armor that gives him superhuman strength and stamina, allows him to fly, and grants him access to a wide variety of weapons. The armor is invented and worn by Stark (with brief exceptions from casual wearers). Other people who have assumed the Iron Man identity include Stark's associate and best friend James Rhodes; close associates Harold "Happy" Hogan; Eddie March; (briefly) Michael O'Brien and Riri Williams.

The suit's weapon systems have changed over the years, while retaining Iron Man's standard weapons: repulsor beams that fire from the palms of his gauntlets. Other weapons incorporated into various incarnations of the armor include: the single beam projector on his chest; pulse bolts (which accumulate kinetic energy along the way, so the further they travel, the harder they hit); an electromagnetic pulse generator; and a defensive energy shield that can extend up to 360 degrees. Other abilities include: generating ultra-freon (i.e. a freeze beam); creating and manipulating magnetic fields; emission of sound explosions; and projecting three-dimensional holograms (to create decoys).

In addition to the general-purpose model he wears, Stark has developed several specialized suits for space travel, deep-sea diving, stealth, and other special purposes. Stark has modified costumes, such as the Hulkbuster's heavy armor. The Hulkbuster armor is made up of add-ons to his so-called modular armor, designed to increase his strength and durability enough to engage the Hulk in a fight. A later model, created with the help of Odin and the Asgardian metal uru, is similar to the Destroyer. Stark develops an electronics package during the Armor Wars that, when attached to armor using Stark's technologies, will burn out those components, rendering the suit useless. This package is not effective on later models. While typically associated with James Rhodes, the War Machine armor began as one of Stark's special armors.

The latest models of Stark's armor, beginning with the Extremis armor, are now stored in the hollow parts of Stark's bones, and the personal area network implement used to control it is implanted in his forearm and connects directly to your central nervous system.

The Extremis has since been removed, and now wears more conventional armor. Some armor still takes a liquid form, but it is not stored within your body. His Endo-Sym armor incorporates a combination of the liquid sentient metal with the alien symbiote Venom, psionically controlled by Stark.

Following the Secret Wars, Stark wears more streamlined armor that can practically 'transform' into his body. on other armor or weapons.

Power

After being seriously injured during a battle with the Extremis-enhanced Mallen, Stark injects his nervous system with modified techno-organic virus-like body restructuring machines (the Extremis process). By rewriting his own biology, Stark he is able to save his life, gain an enhanced healing factor, and is partially fused with Iron Man's armor, overcoming the need for bulky AI-controlled armor in favor of lighter designs, technopathically controlled by his own brain. His enhanced technology extends to every piece of technology, limitless and effortless due to his ability to interface with communication satellites and wireless connections to increase his 'range'. Some components of the armor sheath are now stored on Tony's body, they can be removed and removed from his own skin at will.

During the 'Secret Invasion' storyline, the Extremis pack is catastrophically shut down by a virus, forcing him once again to rely on the previous iteration of his armor and restoring him to his previous limitations. Additionally, Osborn's takeover of most of the few remaining Starktech factories, with Ezekiel Stane systematically crippling the others, limits Tony to wearing lesser, greater, and weaker armor.

After being forced to "destroy" Using his brain to prevent Norman Osborn from getting the information from him, Tony Stark is forced to have a new arc reactor, with Rand's design installed on his chest. The process greatly enhances his strength, stamina, and intellect. The procedure left him with virtually no autonomic function: As his brain was stripped of all biological function, Tony is forced to rely on a digital backup of his memories (leaving him with severe gaps and flaws in his long-term memory).) and in the Routine software in the Arc Reactor for reaction to basic stimuli, such as blinking and breathing. The Bleeding Edge armor and physical enhancement pack now has the same power, if not a more advanced version, of the old technology Extremis.

Skills

Tony Stark is an inventive genius whose expertise in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science rivals that of Reed Richards, Hank Pym, and Bruce Banner, and his expertise in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering surpasses that of theirs. He is considered to be one of the smartest characters in the Marvel Universe. He graduated with advanced degrees in physics and engineering at the age of 17 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and further developed his knowledge ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum mechanics as time progressed. His experience extends to his ingenuity in dealing with difficult situations, such as difficult enemies and deadly traps, in which he is able to use available tools, including his suit, in unorthodox but effective ways. He is highly respected in the business world, able to grab people's attention when he talks about economic issues, and over the years he has built several multi-million dollar companies with virtually nothing. He stands out for the loyalty he commands and returns to those who work for him, as well as his business ethics. Thus, he immediately fired an employee who made profitable, but illegal, sales to Doctor Doom.He strives to be environmentally responsible in his business.

At a time when Stark was unable to wear his armor for a period, he received some combat training from Captain America and has become physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it. Additionally, Stark possesses great acumen for business and politics. On multiple occasions, he has retaken control of companies from him after losing them to corporate takeovers.

Due to his membership in the Illuminati, Iron Man was given the Infinity Stone of Space to protect it. It allows the user to exist in any location (or all locations), move any object anywhere in the universe, and warp or rearrange the space.

Side characters

Iron Man's enemies

• Advanced Idea Mechanics or I.M.A.: is a terrorist organization, ex-subdivision of the Hydra organization, commonly led by cyborg MODOK. Also known as I.M.A. Advanced MechanicsAdvanced Idea Mechanics.
• Aldrich Killian: scientist who developed the Extremis virus along with Maya Hansen.
• Fin Fang Foom: Alienian Dragon of the planet Maklu IV.
• Immortus: Future version of Kang the Conqueror. Time traveler. He was responsible for manipulation over Iron Man, forcing him to perform all kinds of crimes (including murders) during the controversial series "The Journey".
• Iron Monger: A financial executive whose real name is Obadiah Stane. He took over Stark Enterprise after manipulating Stark's emotions. It is also known as Quincallero.
• Justin Hammer: Businessman and rival of Antony. He's hired multiple villains to destroy Stark Enterprise. Your daughter is Justine Hammer, who is also a supervillain.
• M.O.D.O.K.: A.I.M. genetically altered scientist with a superior intelligence (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing u Intelligent Agency Designed Exclusively for Matar)
• Mandarin: He is considered one of the greatest enemies of Iron Man and his main nemesis. The Mandarin is a Chinese monk and scientist. Its powers come from the ten rings of power that recovered from a spacecraft and its knowledge of martial arts.
• Mordecai Midas: Greek billionaire.
• Spymaster: Mercenary and specialized physicist.
• Boris Bullski/Titanium Man I: Also known as the first Titanium Man was born in Makeyevka, RSS Ukraine, Soviet Union. According to the Black Widow, he was a KGB member when he was young, and he was his combat instructor for a while. An ambitious officer of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Boris Bullski was degraded after displeasing his superiors.
• Kondrati Topalov/Titanium Man II: The second Man of Titanium was Kondrati Topalov, the mutant previously known as Gremlin, and served with the group of superheroes of the Soviet era, the Super Soldiers Soviet. The Gremlin was killed in combat with Iron Man during the first "Armor Wars" when the titanium in the suit exceeded its fuel temperature.
• Roxxon: Russian arms company, created the Crimson Dynamo suit.
• Dr. Doom: While this is the enemy of the 4 Fantastics, it has also been a powerful and great enemy of Iron Man.
• Crimson Dynamo
• Whiplash: Known as Ivan Vanko is an enemy from Russia who uses electric whips
• Eric Savin: Former United States Marine and converted into a Mercenary Cyborg with the name of Coldblood
• Thanos: from the planet Titan. He will try to get all the Infinite Gems to control the universe.
• Loki: God of deception and brother of Thor. He will face Iron Man when he tries to conquer the land.
• Madame Mascara
• Count Nefaria
• Living laser
• Tecnívoro
• Phantom

Other versions

Ultimate Iron Man

Stark has an inoperable brain tumor, and as a result, decides to do something important before he dies, so he uses his Iron Man armor to take part in righting the wrongs of the world. Stark is depicted as an alcoholic, just like his classic counterpart was. During the second series, Stark becomes engaged to Black Widow, giving her black armor as a wedding present. In his own (non-canon) limited series, Tony is shown to be susceptible to alcohol due to his brain tissue extending into many parts of his body (explaining his advanced intelligence).^{[citation needed]}

Bullet Points

In the limited series Bullet Points the Iron Man armor is worn by Steve Rogers after Doctor Erskine was assassinated a day before injecting Rogers with the super soldier formula so the government starts a new project called Iron Man to which Steve has to undergo a dangerous surgery that will keep him attached to the armor forever.

Adaptations in other media

Television

1960

Iron Man made his first television appearance in the Marvel Super Heroes series, as one of the five main superheroes and was portrayed by John Vernon.

1980

• In 1981, Iron Man appeared as guest in the animated series Spider-Man and his Surprising Friendsfor which William Marshall lent his voice. He made extraordinary appearances throughout the series, mainly in "The Origin of Spider Friends", in which Tony Stark is a central character. The Beetle stole a crime detection computer and the Power Booster invented by Tony Stark to increase its power. It was the first villain that the Spider-Friends faced together in that episode of origin. In thanks for the help of the Spider-Friends against the Beetle, Stark provided them with the crime detection technology used by heroes throughout the series.
• Iron Man made some appearances with the rest of the Avengers in the solo Spider-Man from 1981, in a cartoon in the universe in the episode "Arsenic and Aunt May", and as a costume shop in the episode "The Capture of Captain America".
• A series of Iron Man TV was one of several launches in the 1980s and an airless pilot was produced in 1980.

1990

• By the end of 1994, a new animated series entitled Iron Man in which this superhero was the main character, with the voice of Robert Hays. In the series, Iron Man was part of the Force Works group (Choque Force), made up of Century, War Machine, the Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye instead of the U.S. Agent and Spider-Woman. The origin of Iron Man was modified, instead of the damage that affected his heart, multiple astillas wounded his spine which threatened to leave him paralytic. In addition, Stark and Yinsen are not captured by General Wong Chu but by El Mandarin, to which the rings modified, giving it super strength and a green skin. The Mandarin is the leader of a group of supervillains, including M.O.D.O.K., Justin Hammer, Gárgola Gris, Torbellino and others. In the second season the theme of the series was modified to get closer to the comics, the Mandarin is defeated, MODOK flees, and his minions are sent to prison, to defeat Fing Fang Foom Tony Stark fakes his own death without warning the rest of the Force Works, because of which the group dissolves, remaining only James Rodhes and Julia Carpenter (but having a comic book). Being Iron Man alone, the plot unfolds more like in the comics, even presenting their own situations, covering topics such as the phobia that gives Jim Rhodes to the point of not wanting to wear his War Machine suit anymore, or managing emotional conflicts, as when Tony Stark comes to believe that his father was alive, being this actually a clone. More villains appear like Madame Masque, Crimson Dynamo, Firebrand, Titanium Man, even more characters like Nick Fury and Hulk. They even forget the origin of Iron Man presented in the previous season, putting in this his heart's evil and that the Armature kept him alive, just as in the comics. Despite this, the series was cancelled by low audience in 1996 after two seasons.
• Iron Man made an unspoken cameo in some episodes of the television series Fantastic Four of 1994.
• Iron Man appeared in the two parts with episodes of Venom and Carnage in the mid-1990s and episodes of the Secret Wars chapter of the 1994 Spider-Man television series. Robert Hays said the character.
• Robert Hays repeated Iron Man again in a special appearance in the animated 1996 series The Incredible Hulk in episode 4: "Helping Hand, Iron Fist."
• In the series of 13 episodes of 1999, The Avengers: United They StandFrancis Diakowsky told Iron Man. Help the Avengers frustrate the Zodiac plan to send a radioactive satellite to Earth. Like Captain America and Thor, Iron Man could not be used as a full-fledged member.

2000

• In 2007, Iron Man appeared in episode 22 The Fantastic Four: The Great Heroes of the World, "Shell Games", with the voice of David Kaye.
• In 2009, Iron Man starred Iron Man: Armored Adventures with Adrian Petriw expressing the character.
• From 2009, Iron Man appeared in The Super Hero Squad Show with Tom Kenny's voice.

2010

• Iron Man made his new appearance in The Avengers: The most powerful heroes on the planet as protagonist, with the voice of Eric Loomis. As in the comics, he is one of the founding members of the team and provides them with the Mansion of the Avengers, as well as all the technology of the team, including special ID cards and Quinjets. This Iron Man includes the elements of the comic canon and some elements of the recent series of Iron Man films, including the Arc Reactor in his chest, as well as his armor led by JARVIS AI, in opposition to the HOMER system in the comics. He is a team leader and is seen in the opening credits that monitor the team's activities on several display screens.
• As part of a collaboration to produce four series between the Japanese animation house Madhouse and Marvel, Iron Man starred in a series of 12 episodes anime that was released in Japan by the Animax signal in October 2010 and is shown in G4 in the United States. It ended with Animax after running a dozen full episodes on December 17, 2010. It is expressed by Keiji Fujiwara in Japanese and Adrian Pasdar in English. In addition, it appears in an unspoken cameo in the final episode of Marvel Anime: X-Men

• Iron Man also appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) series with Pasdar repeating his role in each episode:
  • In the first season as: "A Great Power", he is shown trying to master his suit. In "The Iron Spider Flight", it makes Spider-Man a Iron Spider suit where he and the team face the Living Laser. The episode makes several references to his playboy character. His background seems identical to the canon, with the first suit built to escape the captivity. An alternative version of it is shown briefly at the end, when the Living Laser ends in the reality of Super Hero Squad. In "The Iron Pulp," discovers Dr. Octopus who hacked his armor to attack Norman Osborn.
  • In the second season as: "Swarm", when he fires his worker Michael Tan, who has become Enjambre with one of the Spider-Man trackers, in "Deadpool Back", appears from cameo when one of his ships disappears and sees "I.O.U" by not knowing it, and "Inequalable Attack", appears from the final cameo with Thor and Captain America to join.
  • In the third season as: "The Revenge Spider Man, Part 1 and 2" appears with the Avengers by inviting Spider-Man to his team, after Loki and Doctor Octopus wreak havoc, in "The Univers-Araña, Part 2", appears as Iron Mouse, to bring Spider-Ham back with the Avengers and "Comcourse of Champions, Part 1", by team-Man
  • In the fourth season as: "Graduation Day, Part 1 and 2", attends the graduation ceremony at the Triskelion, seeing Amadeus Cho as a fan and having his creation of the Iron Spider to hire him in Stark Industries and leading them, while Tony helps the Avengers in the future or if something happened to him, after being caught up with the others in a field released from Ock

• Iron Man appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum OverloadOnce again with the voice of Adrian Pasdar.
• Iron Man appears also in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. once again expressed by Pasdar, in each episode:
  • In the first season as "Hulks Hunters", when their Anti-Hulks armors (for each as Hulk, She-Hulk, Skaar, Hulk Red and A-Bomb) are controlled by the Leader.
  • In the second season as "Guardianes de la Galaxia", appears only as a Skrull as he lures the Hulks into a trap, in "Furia en Ruedas" appears when Mainframe challenges him and the Hulks in a game for the fate of the Earth and "Planet Monstruo, Part 1 and 2" with Thor and Captain America join the Hulks to prevent the Kree from counting on Earth.

• It also appears in Phineas & Ferb: Mission Marvel (2013), with Pasdar repeating its role.
• Iron Man also appears in the series Guardians of the Galaxy, again expressed by Mick Wingert:
  • In the second season, episode "Surviving", when he and the Avengers attack the Galaxy Guardians to steal an asteroid from their headquarters, and join forces to stop a satellite out of control. In the episode, "The Rock of Evolution," they unite to stop the High Evolutionary who will use Thanos's asteroid against Earth.
  • In the third season, episode, "Back to New York Ritm," Iron Man becomes unconscious because of the symbiote attack inside the Thanos asteroid, and about to explode his ARK reactor, Ant-Man shrinks to help him.

• Iron Man appears in the animated series Avengers Assembleexpressed once again by Pasdar. Mick Wingert was supposed to take over the role in season 3, but instead Pasdar kept it. Wingert finally assumed the role in season 4, where he is absent, but will return.
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Iron Man appears briefly through archive images in the pilot episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. While Skye describes the public knowledge of the superhumans.
• Disney Channel Worldwide President Gary Marsh announced that a new series of Iron Man.
• Iron Man appears in the anime series Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.
• Iron Man appears on TV special Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers ReenssembledWith Mick Wingert's voice.
• Iron Man appears in Spider-Man (2017) again with the voice of Mick Wingert. He appeared briefly in the "Stark Expo" episode, where Peter Parker attends the Expo while Spider-Man confuses him with an intruder, and finally joins Spider-Man to defeat the Ghost.

Movies

Animation

• In the movie Next Avengers: Heroes of TomorrowTony Stark took care of the children of the Avengers of the Ultron claws.

• Iron Man is part of the Avengers in the animated film: Ultimate Avengers and his sequel Ultimate Avengers 2, produced by Marvel Entertainment and Lions Gate Filmsbased on the Ultimate universe.

• In January 2007, an animated film was released in which Iron Man was the main character, The Invincible Iron Man.

• Iron Man: Rise of Technovore is a direct video anime movie that Marvel premiered on Blu-ray and DVD on April 16, 2013 in the United States. It was produced by Madhouse in collaboration with Marvel, as well as the Marvel Anime mini-series. The Japanese animation film is written by Brandon Auman and directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, while Matthew Mercer expressed the character's voice. History revolves around Iron Man while fighting Ezekiel Stane, who has developed a new biotechnology that threatens to destroy humanity.

• Iron Man appeared along with Hawkeye, Thor, Captain Marvel, and War Machine at the end of Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, the second direct anime film for video and spin-off Iron Man: Rise of Technovore. Mercer returned to express the character's voice.

• Iron Man appeared as a cameo in the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet by Walt Disney Animation Studios, appearing on the website OhMyDisney.com during the scene where Vanellope tries to escape from the Stormtroopers.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark is a character portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and commonly known by his alter ego, Iron Man. In the films, Tony Stark is an industrialist, a genius inventor, and an accomplished playboy who is the CEO of Stark Industries. At the beginning of the series, he is a primary weapons manufacturer for the US military, until he has a change of heart and redirects his technical knowledge towards creating a powered exoskeleton, suit of armor that he wears to defend himself against those who threaten peace throughout the world.

Iron Man

Iron Man came to the big screen in 2008 in Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau. His childhood was characterized by a cold and affectionless relationship with his father, who was already famous as an inventor and entrepreneur. He was also a child prodigy, graduating from MIT, summa cum laude, at the age of 17. Stark's parents died in a car accident on December 16, 1991, and Stark inherited the company from his father, becoming CEO of Stark Industries. Over the years, he became famous as a weapons designer and inventor, and lived a playboy lifestyle.

In 2008, Stark travels to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison, Lt. Col. James Rhodes, to demonstrate the new "Jericho" of Starks. After the test of this missile before the North American military, the convoy is ambushed and Stark is seriously wounded and imprisoned by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. His fellow captive Ho Yinsen, a medic, implants an electromagnet in Stark's chest to prevent shrapnel from reaching his heart and killing him. The leader of the Ten Rings, Raza, offers Stark his freedom in exchange for building a Jericho missile, but Tony and Yinsen agree that Raza will not keep his word. Stark and Yinsen secretly build a small and powerful electrical generator called an ARK reactor to power Stark's electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings attack the workshop, Yinsen sacrifices himself to deflect them while the suit is completed. A Stark battleship bursts out of the cave to find the dying Yinsen, then burns the weapons of the Ten Rings in anger and flies away, crashing in the desert. Rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home to announce that his company will no longer make weapons. Obadiah Stane, his father's former partner and the company's manager, warns Tony that this could ruin Stark Industries and his father's legacy. With the help of his computer J.A.R.V.I.S., Stark secretly builds a sleeker and more powerful version of his makeshift suit of armor with a more powerful ARK reactor.

At a Stark Industries charity event, journalist Christine Everhart informs Tony that the Ten Rings were using his company's weapons to attack Yinsen's home village of Gulmira. Stark learns that Stane has been running weapons to criminals around the world and is staging a coup to replace him as CEO of Stark Industries. Tony, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves the villagers. Flying home, Stark is shot by two F-22 Raptor fighter jets, forcing him to call Rhodes and reveal his secret identity. Stane acquires the remains of Stark's prototype of the Ten Rings and has a massive new suit reverse-engineered. Stane's scientists are unable to duplicate Tony's miniaturized ARK reactor, so Stane ambushes Stark in his house and takes the one from his chest, revealing that Stane was responsible for Stark's captivity. Tony manages to get to his original reactor to replace it, and defeats Stane. The next day, at a press conference, Stark defies S.H.I.E.L.D. and publicly admits that he is the superhero that the press dubbed "Iron Man". In the post-credits scene, two years later, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury visits Stark at his house, telling him that Iron Man is not "the only superhero in the world"; and explains that he wants to talk about the "Avengers Initiative".

The film was a great success. It received mostly positive reviews, and was voted the second best film in its genre in a Rotten Tomatoes poll. In total it grossed $585,174,222 worldwide.

The Incredible Hulk

Robert played Tony Stark again that same year (2008) in a cameo at the end credits of The Incredible Hulk. There General Thunderbolt Ross is in a bar, when Tony arrives and tells him that "the team is forming".

Iron Man 2

The sequel, Iron Man 2 was released in 2010, also directed by Favreau.

In Russia, Ivan Vanko sees media coverage of Tony Stark's revelation of his identity as Iron Man, and begins building his own miniature ARK reactor. Six months later, Stark has become a superstar and wears his Iron Man suit by peaceful means, resisting government pressure to sell his designs. He reinstates the Stark Expo to carry on his father's legacy, but discovers that the palladium core in the ARK reactor that keeps Tony alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him. Increasingly reckless and dejected by his impending death, Stark appoints Pepper Potts as CEO of Stark Industries and hires Natalie Rushman's employee to replace her as her personal assistant. Stark is competing in the historic Monaco Grand Prix, and is attacked mid-race by Vanko, who is wielding electrified whips. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged. Vanko explains his intention to show the world that Iron Man is not invincible and when Stark visits him in his brig he taunts him about poisoning him with palladium from the ARK reactor. Tony's rival, Justin Hammer, fakes Vanko's death as he breaks him out of prison, asking him to build armored suits for Stark's stage. At his birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Rhodes wears Stark's prototype Mark II armor and tries to restrain him. The fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the United States Air Force.

Nick Fury reveals to Tony that "Rushman" is Agent Natasha Romanoff, who Howard Stark was a founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. whom Fury knew personally, and that Vanko's father Anton invented the ARK reactor with Howard Stark, but tried to sell it for a profit. Howard Stark had Anton deported, and the Soviets sent him to the gulag. Stark discovers a hidden message in the 1974 Stark Expo diorama, a diagram of the structure of a new element, which Stark synthesizes. When he finds out that Vanko is still alive, he places the new element in his ARK reactor and ends his dependence on palladium. At the Expo, Hammer introduces Vanko's armored drones, led by Rhodes in a heavily outfitted version of Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko remotely seizes control of Rhodes' armor and drones and attacks Iron Man. After Romanoff is able to return control of the Mark II armor to Rhodes, Stark and Rhodes together defeat Vanko and his drones. At a briefing, Fury informs Stark that due to his difficult personality, S.H.I.E.L.D. he attempts to use him only as a consultant and disqualifies him for the 'Avengers Initiative'. Stark and Rhodes receive medals for their heroism.

The film ends with Tony entering a "semi-stable" with Pepper, and with Fury telling her that according to reports from Agent Romanoff, Iron Man is accepted only as a consultant to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Avengers

In a 2012 film, several months later, in response to an attack by the Asgardian Loki, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson visits Stark to review Erik Selvig's research on the Tesseract. In Stuttgart, Stark, along with Captain America (Steve Rogers) and Romanoff, confront Loki, who surrenders. Thor arrives and frees Loki, but after a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, he agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier, by working with Bruce Banner/Hulk. The Avengers are divided on how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. he plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons. The agents and Hawkeye, possessed by Loki, attack the Helicarrier, and Loki escapes. After learning of Coulson's death, Stark and Rogers realize that Loki needs to publicly defeat them in order to validate himself as Earth's ruler. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a wormhole above Stark Tower in New York City and from that hole emerges an invading fleet of Chitauri from space. Stark and the others rally in defense of the city. Fury's superiors at the World Security Council attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile on Midtown Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile, and in an apparent sacrifice of his own life, leads it through the wormhole towards the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the Chitauri mothership and disabling their forces on Earth. Stark's suit runs out of power, and he falls through the wormhole, but the Hulk saves him from crashing to the ground. In the end, after the Avengers go their separate ways, Stark and Pepper begin remodeling the tower.

Iron Man 3

Here Favreau no longer repeats as director, he leaves the position to Shane Black, who will direct this Iron Man 3. They present us with a Tony Stark altered with what happened in The Avengers, with the question: is it the man who makes to the suit or is it the suit that makes the man?

In 1999 (before the events of Iron Man), he attended a conference in Bern, Switzerland, where he met scientists Maya Hansen, inventor of the experimental regenerative treatment Extremis, and Aldrich Killian, turning down an offer to work at Advanced Killian's Idea Mechanics. Today (after The Avengers) Stark develops PTSD from his experiences during the alien invasion, resulting in panic attacks and anxiety. Restless, he builds several dozen Iron Man suits, creating friction with his girlfriend Pepper Potts. When Happy Hogan is critically injured in one of a series of bombings by a terrorist known only as the Mandarin, Stark issues a televised threat to the Mandarin, who destroys Stark's home with helicopter gunships. Maya Hansen, who came to warn Stark, survives the attack along with Potts. Stark escapes in an Iron Man suit, which J.A.R.V.I.S. he pilots to rural Tennessee, following a flight plan from Stark's research on the Mandarin. Stark's experimental armor lacks enough power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.

Stark investigates the remains of a local explosion with the characteristics of a Mandarin attack. He discovers that the & # 34; bombing & # 34; they were set off by soldiers subjected to Hansen's Extremis, and that the explosions were falsely attributed to a terrorist plot to cover up Extremis's flaws. Stark tracks the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters with makeshift weapons. He discovers that the Mandarin is actually an English actor named Trevor Slattery, oblivious to the actions performed on his image; Killian, who appropriated Hansen's research, Extremis as a cure for his own disability and expanded the program to include wounded war veterans, is the true Mandarin. After capturing Stark, Killian shows Potts (whom he had kidnapped) subjected to Extremis, in order to enlist Stark's help in correcting Extremis's flaws and thus saving Potts.

Stark escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian is attempting to attack President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Stark saves the passengers and crew, but is unable to stop Killian from kidnapping Ellis and destroying the Air Force. One. Killian intends to kill Ellis on an oil rig on live TV. On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts, while Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons his Iron Man suits, remotely controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Potts, having survived the Extremis procedure, kills Killian. Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy all of Iron Man's suits as a sign of his devotion to Potts, and undergoes surgery to remove shrapnel embedded near his heart. He throws his obsolete chest Ark reactor into the sea, musing that he will always be Iron Man.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

In the 2015 film a few years later, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility in Sokovia commanded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on the brothers Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter Loki carried previously. As the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab to retrieve the scepter and finds it, along with the Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York and androids under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him an unsettling vision: the rest of the Avengers die or perish in a dark world in space, with the Captain's shield broken in half on the ground. Rogers warns him that "you could have saved us"; before he died and his words & # 34; Why didn't you do more? & # 34; are heard then sees a large fleet of Chitauri ships flying towards a gigantic portal that leads to Earth. Stark wakes up from the vision and grasps Loki's scepter firmly.

Upon returning to Stark Tower, Tony and Bruce Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the staff's gem, and decide to secretly use it to complete the "Ultron" of Starks. The unexpectedly sensitive Ultron takes out J.A.R.V.I.S. of Stark and attacks the Avengers at Stark Tower. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron builds an army of robot drones, kills Strucker, recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for the deaths of his parents for his company's weapons. The Avengers find and attack Ultron, but Wanda subdues most of the team with disturbing, custom visions, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk and drag until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.

After hiding out in a safe house for a while, Nick Fury arrives and encourages Stark and the others to come up with a plan to stop Ultron, who was found to have forced the team's friend Dr. Helen Cho., to perfect a new body for him. The Maximoffs turn on Ultron when Wanda's powers reveal his plan to destroy humanity. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. Returning to their headquarters in New York, the Avengers battle each other as Stark secretly loads J.A.R.V.I.S., still operating after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet, into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on his forehead, one of the six Infinity Stones, the most powerful objects in existence, was part of his vision. This "Vision" (the body with the infinity stone) and the Maximoffs accompany Stark and the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift part of the capital city into the sky, intending to crash it into the sky. soil to cause global extinction. One of Ultron's drones is able to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine, destroying the landmass. The Avengers leave New York City to establish a new base in the Upstate region of the state (on the grounds of former Stark Industries warehouses), and Stark leaves the team in the hands of Rogers and Romanoff.

Captain America: Civil War

In the movie Captain America: Civil War (2016), it occurs a few months after the Battle of Sokovia, United States Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to approve the Sokovia Accords, which will establish United Nations supervision of the team. The Avengers are divided: Stark supports supervision due to his role in the creation of Ultron and the devastation of Sokovia, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of a government. Circumstances lead Rogers and super-soldier Bucky Barnes (framed for a terrorist attack) to be criminals, along with Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton and Scott Lang. Stark assembles a team consisting of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision and Peter Parker to capture the renegades at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Rogers and Barnes manage to escape. Stark learns that Barnes was framed and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers' fate. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and establishes a truce with Rogers and Barnes. They find that the other super soldiers have been killed by Helmut Zemo, who plays footage that reveals Barnes as directly responsible for the death of Tony's parents. With this revelation, Stark immediately retaliates against them, especially Barnes even dismembering the latter's robotic arm when it tried to rip the Arc Reactor out of the Iron Man armor. After an intense fight, Rogers finally manages to disable Stark's Iron Man armor. and leaves with Barnes, leaving behind his circular shield. Stark returns to New York to work on orthotics to allow Rhodes to walk again. Steve Rogers sends a letter of apology and a flip phone to Stark, his former ally and friend, to keep in touch.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

In Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) he appears as the mentor of Peter Parker / Spider-Man, giving him a suit designed by him.

After the events of The Avengers, Adrian Toomes and his salvage company are under contract to clean up the city, but their operation is taken over by the Department of Damage Control (DODC), a partnership between Stark and the government of the United States. An enraged Toomes persuades his employees to keep the Chitauri technology they have already sought to create advanced weapons. Peter Parker resumes his high school studies when Stark tells him that he isn't ready to become a full Avenger yet. Stark rescues Parker from near drowning after an encounter with Adrian Toomes as the Vulture. Stark warns Parker against further involvement by criminals. Another of Toomes's gun malfunctions during a fight with Parker and rips the Staten Island Ferry in half. Stark helps Parker save the passengers before admonishing him for his recklessness and confiscating his suit. Parker figures out that Toomes plans to hijack a DODC plane carrying weapons from Stark Tower to the team's new headquarters. After Parker thwarts the plan and saves Toomes from an explosion, Stark invites him to become a full-time Avenger, but Parker declines. Pepper emerges from a packed press conference, called to make the announcement, and Stark decides to use the opportunity to propose Pepper. At the end of the movie, he returns the suit to Peter.

Avengers: Infinity War

Robert reprises the role of Iron Man in the third installment of Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Stark and Pepper, already married, are in a New York City park discussing having children, when Bruce Banner, who went missing after the Battle of Sokovia, lands in the Sanctum Sanctorum. Banner relays a warning to Stephen Strange, Wong, and Stark that the evil Titan Thanos plans to use the Infinity Stones to kill half the life in the universe, so the three go to find Stark. Thanos' agents arrive to retrieve the Time Stone, leading Strange, Stark, Wong, and Peter Parker to confront them. Strange is captured, and Stark and Parker pursue the spaceship that has carried him and rescue Strange from torture, but are unable to alter the ship's course. The trio proceed to Thanos' home planet of Titan, where they meet with members of the Guardians of the Galaxy (Star-Lord, Drax, and Mantis). They form a plan to confront Thanos and take the Infinity Gauntlet from him, but the plan goes awry due to Peter Quill's interference when he learns that Thanos murdered Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone, allowing Thanos to break free of control. and overpowers the group and impales Stark with a dagger from his armor. Just as Thanos was preparing to finish Stark off, a badly wounded Strange finally gives up and gives Thanos the Time Stone in exchange for Stark's life. Thanos takes the Stone and leaves Titan for Earth, retrieves the final Stone and activates the Infinity Gauntlet. Stark and Nebula, stranded on Titan, watch as Parker and the others turn to dust. Having seen the possible futures resulting from the conflict, Strange, before succumbing, tells Stark that "there was no other way."

Avengers: Endgame

Robert reprises the role of Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Stark is rescued 3 weeks after being stranded along with Nebula in outer space on Quill's ship Milano I by Carol Danvers and returned to Earth, where he and Pepper are reunited safely, but due to his agony of being trapped in outer space, he behaves a bit reckless with the whole team, especially Rogers due to the events in Civil War, until he is sedated by Banner and does not participate in the assault against Thanos. When five years have elapsed since the events of Thanos's snap, Stark dedicates himself to raising a daughter named Morgan along with his wife Pepper, leading an almost peaceful life, however when Scott Lang reappears from the Quantum Realm and seems to discover in it a way After traveling back in time, the Avengers approach Stark, who initially refuses, considering the idea dangerously hypothetical. Despite this, he examines the matter in private, finds out how to do it successfully and agrees to help, going to the Avengers compound he meets with Rogers where they both finally make peace and he returns the circular shield to Rogers, since he According to Tony's words, his father had designed that shield for Rogers and also wanted to prevent his daughter from using it as a sleigh. Traveling through time, Stark fails to steal the Space Stone from an earlier version of himself after the Battle of New York, instead going back to the 1970s to steal it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where he has a moving conversation with a younger version of his father, Howard Stark. The Avengers successfully obtain all of the Infinity Stones before returning to the present, which are incorporated into a Stark-made gauntlet which Banner later uses to resurrect those who were disintegrated by Thanos. However, the 2014 version of Thanos and his army, being aware of the entire plan, are transported to 2023 by the 2014 Nebula, who posed as the Nebula of the present. After a climactic battle, Stark stuffs all of the Infinity Stones into his armor's right gauntlet and disintegrates 2014 Thanos and his entire army, but succumbs to injuries caused by the destructive side effect of activating them and by the gamma radiation produced. for the gems and dies after saying goodbye to Rhodes, Parker and Potts. A funeral attended by many heroes was later held for him at his house.

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Robert appears as a cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). Months later, the world continues to mourn and idolize the late Stark with murals and graffiti drawn to honor the fallen Avenger. Parker, having resumed his studies at Midtown High School, still has sadness for his fallen mentor, as shown when Parker begins to face increased pressure from the public about whether to succeed Stark, causing him to blame his own survival on the events of Endgame come to the surface at times. Parker considers taking a break from superheroes and traveling to Europe with his classmates partly because of this. Later, Parker receives the E.D.I.T.H. (Even Dead I'm The Hero) from Nick Fury's Stark, who he claims is for Stark's successor, who will give control to all Stark Industries technology. Parker relinquishes custody to Mysterio, who poses as the hero Quentin Beck, initially Parker's ally but later revealed to be a fraud and a former Stark Industries employee who was fired by Stark due to his unstable and callous nature. During his first battle, Beck taunts Parker about his failure to be a better hero and save Stark, even creating the illusion of a zombie corpse of Stark emerging from a grave to scare and traumatize Parker. Beck tries to use E.D.I.T.H. to access Stark technology, which he intends to use to create an Avengers-level threat, but is ultimately stopped by Parker, who later accepts Stark's death.

Avengers: Kang#39;s Dynasty

Having died saving the universe from Thanos' snap and returning everything to normal, Tony was cremated in the lake where he lived with his Family. Without anyone knowing, he dumped all of his mind into a computer, being able to stay alive in AI form. This will be the AI that IronHearth will later use when he joins the fight against the villain Kang.

Video Games

Iron man appears in the following video games:

• Captain America and the Avengers (Data East, 1991)
• Avengers in Galactic Storm (Data East, 1995)
• Marvel Super Heroes (Capcom, 1995)
• Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (Acclaim, 1996)
• Invincible Iron Man (Activision, 2002)
• X-Men Legends II (Activision, 2005)
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Activision, 2006)
• Iron Man (Sega, 2008)
• Marvel Super Hero Squad (THQ, 2009)
• Iron Man 2 (Sega, 2010)
• Marvel Super Heroes 3D (Neko, 2010)
• Marvel Avengers Battle for Earth (Ubisoft, 2012)
• Iron Man 3 (Gameloft, 2013)
• Marvel Vs. Capcom
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (TT Games, 2013)
• LEGO Marvel Avengers (TT Games, 2016)
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (TT Games, 2017)
• Marvel's Avengers (Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix, 2020).
• Fortnite: Battle Royale (Epic Games, 2017)