Stark is left to die by Obadiah Stane. While inside his mansion , Stark attempted to answer a call from Potts when he found himself unable to move. To his horror, he found Obadiah Stane looking down on him while using a Sonic Taser. Stane confessed that he had arranged Stark's kidnapping while he ripped out the Arc Reactor from Stark's chest, causing him to go into cardiac arrest.
Stane mocked Stark by comparing him to his father while promising to kill Potts before walking away. Stark is given back his original Arc Reactor. Having regained some control of his body, Stark desperately tried to make it to his workshop to regain his original Mark I Arc Reactor to save his life. However, Stark collapsed inches away from it and was unable to move and minutes from death. Stark was then found by James Rhodes who he explained the situation to while being helped back up.
Stark prepares to confront Obadiah Stane. Having been told Potts had recruited Phil Coulson and an entire team of S. To combat this, Stark put his suit on and prepared to battle Stane. While Rhodes admired the armor which he called the coolest thing he had ever seen, Stark told him to keep the skies clear from the United States Armed Forces while he then flew out of his mansion.
Stark fights against Obadiah Stane. Stark flew straight to the Stark Industries Headquarters where he discovered Obadiah Stane was attempting to execute Pepper Potts , so he charged down and knocked Stane aside, crashing into the motorway and then through a Roxxon Corporation lorry. Stane responded by picking up a minivan holding a family and attempting to throw it at Stark, who put all his suit's power into the Arc Reactor to knock Stane back.
Having just caught the minivan and put it down, Stark was briefly run over by the family who were terrified by the experience. Stark hovers just above Obadiah Stane. As Stark recovered, Stane struck again, hitting him with a passing motorcycle and smashing him into a nearby bus.
While he was striking him, Stane still continued to mock Stark by claiming that he had built Stark Industries up from nothing back when Howard Stark had been killed. Stane then fired a missile at the bus, as Stark was consumed inside the fireball but was still protected by his suit, despite being launched high into the air.
Stark is chased down by Obadiah Stane. While Stark hovered in the air, Stane complimented him on his upgrades before noting that his armor had upgrades of its own before flying into the air to then chase Stark down. As they considered what to do, J. Stark knocks Obadiah Stane out of the sky.
As they soared higher and higher above Los Angeles , Stark soon found that the superior power of Stane's suit allowed him to quickly catch up with him. However, once Stane had managed to grab hold of Stark, claiming that his own armor was more advanced in every way, Stark revealed to him that he had not solved the icing issue his Mark II Armor had encountered, causing Stane's suit to lose power and then proceeded to fall out of the sky.
Stark is attacked by Obadiah Stane again. Losing his own power in his suit, Stark quickly returned to Stark Industries Headquarters where he attempted to get out of the suit, only to be immediately confronted by Stane yet again. Without one of the gauntlets, Stark found himself at a disadvantage as Stane got him in a bear hug and attempted to crush the suit with Stark still inside, until Stark managed to deploy his flares to briefly blind Stane, allowing him to get away for a moment.
Stark considers how to defeat Obadiah Stane. While hiding from Stane, Stark told Potts that all his current attempts to defeat Stane were not working so he decided to make a new plan. Stark ordered Potts to overload the main Arc Reactor inside the building and blast the roof with energy in an attempt to defeat Stane. While Potts made her way back into the building, Stark also told her to wait until he had gotten himself clear, promising to buy her some time by fighting Stane.
Stark damages Obadiah Stane 's armor. Stark proceeded to jump onto Stane's back and ripped out important pieces of the armor, taking out his targeting system and effectively blinding Stane.
However, Stane soon managed to rip Stark off his back and then threw him across the rooftop, taking off his own helmet as a result. Stark was then left almost defenseless with barely any power left in his suit to fight back against Stane, who opened up his armor and revealed himself.
Stark blocks Obadiah Stane 's gunshots. While he crushed Stark's helmet, Stane began mocking Stark by claiming he had finally made his father proud before shooting at him, with Stark managed to block with his gauntlet before the glass floor underneath him was destroyed.
While Stark held on, Potts told him to get off the roof. Stane noted that by trying to rid Stark Industries of weapons, Stark had inadvertently created the greatest one ever while Stane would then use to finally kill him. Stark nearly dies upon defeating Obadiah Stane. While Stane struggled to aim his missiles at him, Stark ordered Potts to overload the Arc Reactor, which caused a burst of electricity which blasted Stark out of the way while frying the Stane's armor, also killing Stane inside.
Stane then fell inside the Arc Reactor, causing a massive explosion while Stark fell unconscious from the ordeal. Stark almost died from the lack of power to his Arc Reactor, but J. In the wake of the Duel of Los Angeles as well as his own near-death experience, Stark was aided by James Rhodes who tried to get Stark into an ambulance to see if he had any internal injuries. However, the ambulance was a fake one sent by S. Now that they could finally get to talk to Stark, Phil Coulson talked to him after they had dropped him off at a small theater.
Coulson viewed Stark's fighting strategy from his fight with Obadiah Stane on a projector screen. He told him he needed to become a real fighter and that he would be trained by skilled S. The next morning, news had spread of Stark's new alter ego, dubbed "Iron Man" by the press.
Stark then held a press conference where Agent Coulson gave him a detailed fabricated cover story about his and Stane's whereabouts and advised him to state that Iron Man was his personal bodyguard. However, during the course of the conference, in a moment of self-clarity, Stark instead announced to the public that he himself was indeed Iron Man.
Stark is introduced to Director Nick Fury. That night, [19] Stark arrived home and was greeted by a visitor who was standing by the window. He revealed himself as Nick Fury , Director of S. Iron Man performed acts of heroism around the world. News outlets began crediting him as "the man who stabilized East-West relations" and Stark was chosen as "Person of the Year" by Time magazine. Unfortunately, Stark's own life was not as good as it appeared, as he was facing a double threat.
The first was in the form of his own heart: the Arc Reactor palladium core was poisoning Stark due to overuse of the Iron Man Armor. To maintain appearances, he was forced to drink homemade medicine to counteract the symptoms. Meanwhile, Stark was also aware that the United States Armed Forces were constantly looking to confiscate all his technology.
Iron Man entering at the Stark Expo conference. Six months after revealing his own identity to the world and helping maintain world peace, [25] Stark appeared as Iron Man at the grand opening of the Stark Expo in Flushing Meadows, New York City , continuing the legacy his father, Howard Stark , had started.
Treating the crowd to the Ironette Dancers and a speech in which he boasted about giving the world its longest running period of uninterrupted peace, Stark left the stage with a video of his father playing.
Stark and Happy Hogan leave the Stark Expo. Stark then left the Expo with Happy Hogan helping to keep the press at bay, signing autographs and meeting Larry Ellison and Larry King on their way out before he was then confronted by a beautiful U. Marshal who was waiting beside his car. The Marshal then informed Stark and Hogan that he was now required to attend a congressional meeting in Washington, D. Stark and Pepper Potts at the hearing. The second threat was from a senate committee hearing, this time led by Senator Stern , demanding that Stark release the technology of the Iron Man Armor for military application.
Stark refused, believing it was not in the best interest of the American people for the United States Armed Forces to possess it since they would use it as a weapon that could very well be used against America if other various countries were able to recreate the Arc Reactor technology. Stark humiliates Stern and Justin Hammer. Senator Stern tried to turn Lt. Colonel James Rhodes against Stark in an effort to force his decision.
Competitor Justin Hammer tried to plead his case on the matter; Stark took this opportunity to embarrass both Hammer and Stern with a collection of footage of Hammer Industries and other entities around the world attempting to recreate the technology.
Stark arrogantly stated that it would be years before anyone would be able to successfully recreate his tech and he had "privatized" world peace. Stark returns to his Malibu mansion.
Returning to his mansion , Stark was greeted by J. While Stark listened to the news, he pulled out his Arc Reactor and examined the damaged palladium core which was slowly killing him, with J. Uncertain of his chances of survival, Stark decided to appoint his former personal assistant Pepper Potts into the role he no longer was interested in, the CEO of Stark Industries. When Potts arrived in his workshop, she and Stark had an argument about his own lack of interest in his company and their resources ever since becoming Iron Man, at which point Stark informed her that he had decided to promote her.
Although Potts did not at first believe that he was being serious with this idea, Stark had Dum-E deliver some champagne to them as he confirmed that this would be happening and she was the perfect person to take over the job from him.
Stark and Happy Hogan box together. While doing some boxing training with Happy Hogan , during which he used dirty boxing techniques to gain the upper hand, Stark saw the arrival of Potts and a notary from the company, "Natalie Rushman", who was actually Natasha Romanoff , an Agent of S. Although Hogan hit Stark around the head, he proceeded to kick him away and beat him into surrendering before inviting Romanoff into the ring.
Stark looked into Romanoff's eyes before inviting Hogan to train with her instead. Stark and Pepper Potts discuss "Natalie Rushman". Stark then sat down with Potts to discuss "Rushman", with him bringing up her "history files" and noting that she even spoke Latin and had once been a lingerie model.
While they were speaking, Stark and Potts witnessed Romanoff using a leg move to pin Hogan to the floor, before she exited the ring and asked Stark to sign the paperwork handing Stark Industries over to Potts. Once Romanoff was gone, Stark told Potts that he needed her as his new assistant. Stark and Pepper Potts meet with Justin Hammer. There, Stark and Potts encountered Justin Hammer , who smugly tried to show off that he was being interviewed by Christine Everhart for an upcoming piece with Vanity Fair ; Stark quickly made it clear of his own romantic history with Everhart and noted that Hammer Industries had lost their contract with the United States Armed Forces due to Hammer's embarrassing performance at the senate committee hearing.
Taking some time away from Hammer, Stark excused himself to check his blood toxicity level in the bathroom. He saw that the Arc Reactor 's poisoning of his body due to the levels of palladium was now emitting into his skin.
Looking up at the mirror and seeing that he likely did not have much time left until he would eventually die from this poisoning, Stark began questioning what he would like to do with these last few months that he likely had left. Stark decides to race in the Monaco Grand Prix. Growing increasingly despondent and thrill-seeking as a direct consequence of what he believed to be his impending death, Stark decided to take the Stark Industries car intended for the track and race it at the Monaco Grand Prix.
As he stepped into the car, with all the cameras now facing him, Stark gave a look which he knew would be viewed by Hammer, much to his annoyance as Stark would once again be taking the spotlight away from him.
Stark's car is destroyed by Ivan Vanko. As Stark drove around the track, Ivan Vanko , who had successfully constructed an Arc Reactor of his own, along with whip-like energy weapons , attacked him, using the whips to cut off the front of his car and cause it to crash along with several other race cars. Stark had managed to crawl out of the car before it could be sliced in half.
Despite his best efforts to fight back, Vanko's armored weapons managed to get the better of Stark, who was defenseless. Stark considers how to escape from Ivan Vanko. As Vanko prepared to rip Stark apart, he was forced to use his own wits and cunning to escape the deadly whips Vanko was using. Managing to get behind Vanko, Stark struck him on the back of the head with a car door, but Vanko proved to be unaffected, forcing Stark to dodge out of the way of his attacks.
He then tricked Vanko into striking the whips onto gasoline, causing an explosion which separated the pair from each other for a brief time. Stark is saved by Happy Hogan 's arrival. With Vanko proving himself too strong to be beaten without his armor, Stark seemed to be running out of options as he was backed into a corner. However, he received aid with the sudden arrival of both Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan , who had driven their own car into the race track and successfully managed to crash it into Vanko, pinning him against the wall and briefly knocking him out cold.
Stark then prepared to quickly make his escape. Iron Man dons his Mark V Armor. However, while Stark moaned about Stark Industries ' seeming lack of security at the event, Vanko continued to fight despite still being pinned to the wall and began ripping Hogan's car apart with furious strikes from his electric whips.
This forced the terrified Potts to then hand Stark his portable briefcase armor , allowing him to don the Mark V Armor ready to do battle against his would-be assassin in the middle of the track, with Iron Man having the upper hand. Iron Man being electrocuted by Ivan Vanko. Using his new suit, Iron Man attempted to subdue Vanko by firing his repulsor rays at his attacker, but Vanko was able to block those blows with his own armor before using his whips to strangle Iron Man.
Vanko flung him across the racetrack into Hogan's car and then back the other way, tightening the whips around Iron Man's neck and shocking him with volts of electricity, which were slowly destroying the suit. Iron Man successfully defeats Ivan Vanko. Not allowing himself to be defeated, Iron Man managed to build up his own strength and began wrapping the whips around himself in order to get closer towards Vanko.
Once he was close enough, Iron Man punched Vanko in the face a few times before ripping the Arc Reactor out of his chest and crushing it. As Vanko was being dragged away by the police, he laughingly claimed that Iron Man had now lost while Iron Man studied Vanko's Arc Reactor, crushing it in shock.
Stark visits Ivan Vanko 's prison cell. Afterward, Stark decided to pay a visit to Ivan Vanko personally while he was being held in Batiment B3 , France to learn how he had acquired the Arc Reactor technology, being led there by Lemieux. Once they were alone, Stark commented on Vanko's armor and even suggested ways that he could improve it, thinking that he would never actually get a chance to.
Stark wondered why Vanko would use the technology to kill him rather than for more tangible personal gain. Stark and Ivan Vanko speak in private. Vanko revealed that he was the son of Anton Vanko , who had collaborated with Howard Stark on the first Arc Reactor but was deported back to the Soviet Union and died in poverty.
Vanko blamed the Stark family for his family's fate, and sought revenge, warning that Stark would die now that he proved Iron Man was not invincible. Stark retorted that Vanko would still be in prison either way. As he left, Vanko mentioned Stark's current blood poisoning, taunting that it was a terrible way to die. Stark speaks to Pepper Potts on his private jet.
Despite Ivan Vanko having been imprisoned for his crimes, the response to another man using the Arc Reactor technology was immediate, with many people, including Senator Stern , commenting on Stark's failure. While on his private jet returning to the United States , Stark made breakfast for Pepper Potts as they discussed the aftermath of the attack.
Stark even suggested that he quit being Iron Man from now on and almost confessed to Potts of his current state, but backed out. Stark is berated by James Rhodes.
Stark returned to his mansion where he and J. Stark learned Anton had worked for Stark Industries in the s before being deported under the orders of Howard Stark whilst Vanko was a Soviet physicist arrested for illegal weapons dealing. He was later visited by James Rhodes , who came to warn Stark about the military's wish to take his suits. However, he recognized Stark's unwell state and assisted him by changing the Arc Reactor's palladium core.
Rhodes then tried to convince Stark that he did not have to go through his journey alone but Stark remained skeptical. Stark shares a drink with Natasha Romanoff. The next night, feeling more depressed about his future as the poisoning neared its peak, Stark considered canceling his birthday party after learning he had only a week left to live.
He was then visited by Natasha Romanoff , undercover as "Natalie Rushman", who prepared Stark a drink and gave him a choice of watches to wear. He posed these questions to Romanoff, asking what she would do on her final birthday.
Romanoff replied that she would do whatever she wanted, with whomever she wanted to do it with. Stark openly flirts with Natasha Romanoff. Stark decided to attend what could very well be his last ever birthday party and quickly got himself very drunk, partying with the many guests who had come to celebrate. He invited Natasha Romanoff , still known to Stark as "Natalie Rushman", to wear one of his gauntlets and fire it at an ice sculpture, taking great pleasure in the destruction before joining the other attendees.
Stark then drank even more alcohol shots to become further intoxicated and even harder to keep in control. While wearing the Mark IV Iron Man Armor and indulging in many dangerous activities, such as using his repulsor blasts to destroy a watermelon, Iron Man was watched by Pepper Potts who attempted to make him stop, being advised by James Rhodes that this was a terrible time to be acting so reckless.
Despite Potts taking the microphone away from Iron Man and trying to tell the guests that it was time to go home, Iron Man would not listen to reason and instead insisted that his party keep going as he continued to misuse his suit to entertain his drunk guests within his mansion , much to Potts' and Rhodes' dismay as they looked on in concern. Iron Man faces down James Rhodes. In the end, Iron Man's actions became more and more dangerous and foolish, forcing his friend, Rhodes, to intervene.
Iron Man ignored him and instead requested that Adam Goldstein put on a good song for the incoming fight. The pair clashed as they flew through room to room, using whatever weapons they could find to try and subdue the other, including throwing heavy weights at each other before Rhodes managed to throw Iron Man into his upstairs bedroom.
Iron Man threatens to shoot James Rhodes. Eventually, after almost destroying the entire mansion in the resulting fight , Iron Man managed to subdue Rhodes by smashing his head down on the kitchen counter, before roaring at the onlookers to force them to flee the scene. After Rhodes recovered and knocked him against the fireplace, Iron Man dared his friend to take his shot as they both fired their repulsors at each other, causing a massive explosion.
Iron Man is greeted by Director Nick Fury. While he was relaxing in the morning sun, Nick Fury , Director of S. Iron Man talks with Director Nick Fury. Taking a seat inside, Iron Man once again informed Fury that he was not interested in joining the Avengers before rudely asking if he should look at Fury's eye or patch. Fury reassured Iron Man that somewhere there was a cure and he simply had not discovered it yet, despite Iron Man insisting that he had already looked everywhere and found nothing.
Stark and Nick Fury discuss Howard Stark. Returning to Stark's mansion , they discussed the history of Anton Vanko who had been working with Howard Stark in creating the Arc Reactor before he was deported for selling secrets on the black market, where he then raised his son, Ivan Vanko , in Siberia.
Before he departed, Fury revealed that Howard was one of the founders of S. Stark watches his father 's various film reels. Nick Fury gave Stark some of his father 's old material to aid in finding a cure for the palladium poisoning. Stark found several items, including Howard's notebook with drawings of a " hypercube " and two Captain America comic books.
He remained dismissive and bitter over these past relics until watching an old tape of his father, in which Stark discovered a hidden message where Howard told him that he was proud of his son and viewed Stark as his greatest creation. Stark has a meeting with Pepper Potts. Stark then drove to the Stark Industries Headquarters , buying some strawberries along the way and met with Pepper Potts , though Bambi Arbogast tried to inform him she was too busy to talk. Once Stark got her attention, he attempted to apologize in his own way, which Potts struggled to believe and insisted she needed to focus on Stark Industries ' future.
They were interrupted by Happy Hogan and Natasha Romanoff , who were both now working only for Potts. As Potts and Hogan left the office, Stark spoke with Romanoff and questioned how she could keep this lie going and she subtly insulted him before leaving.
Stark prepared to leave the office, dumping the strawberries into the bin, but first, he thought he saw a hidden message in the diorama of the Stark Expo , which proved to be a diagram of a new element 's atomic structure. Stark disassembled the model and drove it back to his mansion for further study. Stark finally discovers the secret element. Putting the model on his desk, Stark ordered J.
Eventually, Stark realized that the new element was inside Expo globe in the center and thanked his father for gifting him with it as it would soon save his life. Stark says goodbye to Phil Coulson. As Stark put the final pieces together to begin his experiment, he was greeted by Phil Coulson , who asked where he had been before discovering a prototype for Captain America's Shield which Stark took and used to straighten some of his machinery.
Coulson then informed Stark that he was leaving to head to New Mexico to investigate a mysterious object that had been found there.
Stark begins creating the new element. With the aid of his A. Stark pushed the laser into position, struggling to hold it in place as it shot through the walls while he aimed it at its target. As the laser hit the newly-designed Arc Reactor Stark had made, it finally synthesized the new element. Or that such a gesture was only ever made when Maria was in hospital ahead of her delivery?
Well actually But there may be another explanation for what Tony may be realizing, which would explain why the Howard of is far warmer than the one who raised Tony All of these questions are resolved--and the confused exchange between Tony and Howard only makes sense--once fans realize that Tony Stark was adopted all along, according to Marvel Comics.
After their biological son was born with a terrible, degenerative condition, they adopted another son, Tony, and raised him without ever telling him the truth. The plot was revealed in Kieron Gillen's Iron Man comics, with the adoption and 'substitution' part of a larger alien plot. But Tony being adopted after the Starks' first baby turned from joy to tragedy? That's definitely within the realm of possibility. When comparing Endgame to previous Marvel films, a reference to Tony's birth date not quite matching Maria's pregnancy is exactly the kind of comic book nod fans expect.
For the casual viewer it wouldn't even register. But for the comic readers who know Tony's date of birth wouldn't match up to Maria's pregnancy at all? It's a mind-blowing, inside hint. The ensuing fight between the two old friends led Steve to force Tony to admit that he had lied to him and all of their allies, when he had known about the incursions all along, but Tony also confessed that he wouldn't change a thing.
The final incursion started, and Earth 's planet Earth started approaching Earth's planet Earth while Tony and Steve kept fighting. Earth's S. When the Prime Universe was brought back to existence, any sign of Tony's moral inversion disappeared, having returned to his normal self. Eight months into the future, Tony made an unlikely ally in the allegedly reformed Victor von Doom during an adventure investigating the returned Madame Masque.
Soon after, the super hero community was divided upon learning the existence of an Inhuman named Ulysses Cain who had the ability to profile the future. Tony opposed Captain Marvel's idea of actively using Ulysses' abilities to preemptively tackle any threats, suggesting it was dangerous to take his visions for granted for several reasons.
The fact that it was possible to prevent the events Cain saw meant he didn't have access to anything set in stone, additionally, little was known about how Ulysses' powers worked, including their efficacy. Stark also brought into question the morality of stopping and punishing somebody for a disaster they could potentially cause, but might not even know they'd do.
Shortly after this first display of tensions between Captain Marvel's and Tony's ideals, Stark decided to begin a search on the identity of his biological parents. Once he ran into a dead end, Tony visited the orphanage in Sofia , Bulgaria where he had found he was adopted. Following a failed attempt to continue the research on his own that led Tony to re-encounter his old flame, Cassandra Gillespe, he was informed by the administrator of the orphanage about the discovery of hidden hospital records from Tony's mother, kept in secret by the former administrator after Tony's birth records had been taken with him.
Stark learned that his biological mother was music producer Amanda Armstrong, and he met her. Following the family reunion, the tension between Iron Man and Captain Marvel increased resulting from two different occasions when she heeded Ulysses' visions resulted in tragedy.
After Captain Marvel arrested an innocent finance banker named Alison Green based on nothing more than a vision from Ulysses that turned out to be wrong, Iron Man enlisted the help of several super heroes who opposed profiling to attack the Triskelion and rescue Green.
His body was placed in a stasis pod in the Triskelion, where Beast set out to investigate his condition. Meanwhile, Ulysses' powers had evolved beyond the ability of human comprehension, and he left the Earth to join other cosmic entities. In the aftermath of Tony's fall, Victor von Doom decided to take up Iron Man's mantle in order to both help establish his new position as a hero and carry on Stark's legacy. He disappeared from the Stark facility and went into hiding until he fully recovered, only approaching his mother once to ensure her he was safe.
After performing the necessary procedures to kick-start Rhodey's biological system, Tony returned him to life. Tony subsequently took down his own biological father, Jude, who had stepped out of the shadows after decades of keeping his resurrection at the hands of Hydra a secret.
Not long after making his return official, Tony rebranded his company as Stark Unlimited , a think tank that doubled as an ideas incubator for new suits, turning Iron Man into a collaborative project, which additionally returned to the idea of creating a specific armor depending on the situation. Despite his reinvigorated new lease on life, Tony was constantly haunted by the fear that he had lost his humanity due to the process that returned him, which reconstructed his body cell by cell.
The eScape's rogue operating system named Motherboard claimed to have discovered that there was no genetic trace of the original Tony Stark in Tony's body. After becoming merged with his own armor on a molecular level during confrontation against Ultron, [] Tony used a remotely-piloted Nano-Iron Man Armor to venture into his own body to reverse the damage, and found microscopic manufacturing labels stamped in his very own cells.
Following Ultron's defeat, Tony's brother Arno laid claim to Stark Unlimited, arguing that since the bio-restructuring pod used to create Tony's new body was of his design, Tony was of his property, as well as everything that belonged to him. Afterwards, Arno poured all of his resources into creating his own armor , taking the mantle of Iron Man from Tony as well.
After disappearing from the public eyes for weeks, Stark fully embraced his identify as an artificial intelligence. Donning a recreation of his Model 1 Armor, Tony adopted the identity of Mark One and became the secretive leader of the A. Army , a counter-movement of artificial life forms such as robots and androids fighting against rising oppression.
Tony helped the A. Army and other robots hide from prosecution through the Thirteenth Floor , a solid-light construct hideout. The A. Army's liberation efforts were regularly countered by Arno, who became the premier force of A.
Tensions came to a head when Arno intended to globally broadcast a software patch to make any robot inflected with it subservient, forcing Tony to come directly to blows against his brother.
Tony refused to believe Arno's claims, and the encounter ended with Tony plummeting to his death after managing to disable the broadcast. While Tony was coming to terms with his identity and ultimately desisted from the idea that he wasn't the real Tony Stark, [] his allies took his body to the Stark Unlimited HQ and used genetic material obtained from both of Tony's parents in combination with a bio-pod to fully restore his body, doing away with any artificial cell replacements.
After downloading his consciousness back into his body, Tony took his allies to the Stark Space Station to stop Arno's new plan to mentally control humanity instead of robots. Using his new Virtual Armor , Tony overwhelmed his brother. With robot oppression waning, Tony managed to take control back of his life, and reclaimed the mantle of Iron Man.
Driven by a desire to escape from the baggage of his previous years, Stark resigned from the board of Stark Unlimited to embark on a journey of self-discovery.
Moving away from his high-tech lifestyle and also breaking up with Wasp, Tony settled in a brownstone in Manhattan and began donning a retro-inspired Iron Man armor to take a hands-on approach in doing good in the world.
He was quickly joined by his former Avengers acquaintance Hellcat , [57] who helped Tony take the right steps in his new approach to life and became his crime-fighting partner. When the recipient of Stark's latest investment turned out to be the returned android Korvac , [] Iron Man and Hellcat found themselves locked in a pursuit to stop the villain from regaining his godhood, and in the process became romantically involved.
Tony allowed Korvac to show him the utopia he planned to create, when both Patsy and Tony rejected Korvac's vision, he lashed out at them and Tony was transported by a blue beam of light to an unknown planet. Over the days he spent helping the colony, Iron Man discovered that the planet they were on was were the Ultimos originated, Tony eventually decided to stay and help the colony. Tony Stark is, for the lack of a better word, complicated. During his early days of success, Stark was a man who only cared about fame and wealth.
He had no sense of responsibility or humility, always rubbing his success in the faces of everyone he met. After building the first Iron Man armor and escaping captivity, Stark realized the kind of person he really was, and engaged in a life of heroism to atone for his past mistakes.
Plagued by many vices, Stark is prone to womanizing, pride, and, most of all, alcoholism. The latter was an addiction developed in big part due to Howard's abuse of Tony, who forced him to take his first sip when he was a child. Despite this, Stark is devoted to truly make the world a better place. According to Reed Richards, Tony Stark is "a future man trapped in the now. A prisoner raging against the slow crawl of human evolution. He's been on the top and he's been on the bottom and he's done all 12 steps and a few more.
He knows what it's like to have a habit that eats you from the inside, like worms. And he knows there's no easy answer, but every solution to every problem has to start somewhere. He's just trying to help. Tony has also been shown to loathe taking other people's lives, and resorting to killing people only as a extreme measure, [] [] and explicitly stating he doesn't kill, [] and having claimed that's "not the way we work.
Iron Man is a hero that relies on his intellect and technological resources to defeat foes and achieve victory. Stark invariably prides himself on being one of the most intelligent people of the Marvel Universe.
Still a child, Tony was introduced to alcohol by Howard, when his adoptive father forcibly gave Tony his first drink while inebriated. During his adulthood, Tony increased his frequency of drinking once S.
Due to the machinations of Obadiah Stane, Stark relapsed. He got replaced by Rhodey as Iron Man [] and got kicked off the Avengers. Stark's condition worsened, and he became homeless. After the death of Tony's drinking partner Gretl Anders on his arms on a cold night after she gave birth, Tony found a new appreciation for life, and he finally asked for Rhodey to help him overcome his addiction. By the time of the Heroic Age , he managed to stay sober until his meeting with Odin during the Serpent War.
After the effects of the inversion spell were somehow reverted, Tony went back to abstinence, [note 2] and continued attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings when he felt it was necessary.
During a crisis involving a virtual reality of Tony's creation named the eScape , Tony was abducted and brainwashed by the eScape's rogue A. Motherboard reverted Tony's personality to his younger years, causing him to drink again. Tony Stark currently possesses no biological enhancements. At one point he had gained superhuman abilities due to interactions with certain types of technologies, namely the Extremis virus , but they have become inaccessible ever since.
The R. It enhanced his metabolism, core strength, reaction time, reflexes and intelligence up to IQ points. Extremis 3. He injected himself with it, and developed additional abilities.
He appears to no longer possess its enhancements, which were the following:. Super-Genius Intelligence: Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony Stark is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors at the age of Furthermore, this extends to his remarkable ingenuity dealing with difficult situations such as foes and deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox and effective ways, for example when he built the first Iron Man Armor in captivity.
Tony's genius allows him to act as a futurist, a person capable of intuiting the future based on current trends, to the point of foreshadowing that a situation like the superhuman Civil War was going to happen years before it did.
Stark can use his superior intellect to the levels of dividing his consciousness with the help of Stark Datashades and perfectly operate three portions of his consciousness at the same time, being able to move, fight, talk and process information in three different bodies at the same time.
Master Engineer: He is an excellent engineer and mechanic capable of fixing almost any, if not all machinery. Master Businessman: Stark is extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attentions when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up several multi-million dollar companies from virtually nothing.
He is known for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as his impeccable business ethics. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune and build it up again within a week. Stark most notably turned his father's munitions firm into a multi-national corporation that covered virtually all contemporary scientific industry when barely in his early twenties. Master Tactician: He is a brilliant tactician capable of quickly formulating battle strategies and new plans if the situation changes, like being able to elaborate different complex plans in order to defeat different enemies in difficult situations, [] [] and be victorious.
Even going as far as to simultaneously put Reed Richards in check on five different boards playing chess, a game he didn't learn until later in his life, leaving Richards totally astonished. Skilled Combatant: Stark was trained in unarmed combat by Captain America, [] Black Widow, Black Panther, and Shang-Chi, [] making him a quite physically formidable combatant on his own when the situation demands it.
He has managed to fight Hammer Industries guards, [] defeat five Skrull soldiers in single-handed combat, [] Stark Industries security guards, [] numerous Voldi gladiators, [] handle his own against Madame Hydra , [] and bare-handedly confront several ninja. Skilled Marksman: Tony knows how to handle firearms, mainly the ones he has produced.
Multilingual : Apart from English, Tony can speak different languages fluently, including Japanese, [] [] Mandarin Chinese, [] [] French, [] Russian, [] [] and Korean. Without his armor Tony Stark possesses a strength a little superior than that of a normal human, he also engages in moderate regular exercise. The armor amplifies Stark's strength to incalculable levels, enabling him to normally lift press roughly tons. Alcoholism : While Tony has quit drinking, when he used to, Stark would occasionally operate the Iron Man armor while intoxicated, compromising his efficiency.
Memory Problems : Due to his recent memory deletion and the procedure that restored him, Tony Stark can no longer remember certain points of his life and the simplest things like how to tie a tie due to the process' side-effects being greater than it was initially predicted.
Node Dependence : The Repulsor Tech node implanted in Stark's chest had the basic machine codes to keep Stark's Extremis-modified body working. So it needed to be in constant connection with him. After a world-ending event that reshaped reality, Stark no longer appeared to use the R. Armor : Iron Man wears a sophisticated suit of body armor containing various offensive weaponry.
He has a number of suits aside from the current model. Some are mission-specific or prototypes for testing, others are older models kept for nostalgia or for research. He has developed a special briefcase to carry his armor in. A few models are too big for the case and require a separate module.
As the multi-billionaire head of a global corporation and a genius-level inventor, Stark can procure or develop additional technology as needed as possible. Iron Man's primary powers mostly come from his armored suit. Metallic meshes were pulled magnetically from the adaptors to the other sections of the armor in less than two seconds. The Model 4 suit allowed for every section of the suit to be stored in the torso, with an ultrasonic signal proceeding from Stark's wristwatch and I.
The best explanation to all of this is that Tony Stark realized during his conversation with his father that he is adopted. Fans of Marvel comic books know that Marie Stark gave birth to a son who was born with a degenerative condition. In the Iron Man comics, Howard and Marie never tell Tony the truth about his adoption, and it appears with this one simple conversation in Endgame that the same thing happened in the MCU.
Of course, the movie never told the story of the biological son, the alien engineering, and the substitution.
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