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Iron Man (real name Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark) is a superhero from Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first appearing in the 2008 film Iron Man.
Tony Stark is a genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. He not only invented the Iron Man Armor, but wears the suit himself. He is a resourceful co-leader and one of the founding members of the Avengers. He is the CEO of Stark Industries, which once sold highly sophisticated weapons systems technologies to the government defense organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D., who uses them to maintain peace and order, but has pulled his company away from the weapons business once he saw the damage they caused.
Tony passed away in Avengers: Endgame, after sacrificing himself to erase Thanos and his army from existence, leaving his wife, Pepper, a widow, and a daughter named Morgan Stark.
Iron Man was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Don Heck.
Background[]
Tony Stark was born to Howard and Maria Stark on May 29, 1970. Tony's early life was often dominated by the absence of his father whom he would later describe as 'cold' and 'calculating'. Tony was also highly annoyed by Howard's constant talk about Captain America. However, from an early age, he quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind. At age four, he built his first circuit board, at age six his first engine, and at seventeen, he graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Stark claimed that at age 14, he still had a nanny. Then, his parents were killed in a car accident in 1991. Howard Stark's lifelong friend Obadiah Stane became the CEO of Stark Industries. At age 21 that same year, Tony became the new CEO and ushered in a new era for his father's legacy, creating smarter weapons, advanced robotics, and satellite targeting. He changed the face of the weapons industry.
On New Year's Eve in 1999, Stark, with his scientist paramour, Maya Hansen, met Ho Yinsen, who introduced Tony to Dr. Wu. After Tony arrogantly avoided crippled scientist Aldrich Killian, who wanted Stark's backing in his endeavor Advanced Ideas Mechanics. Tony completely forgot about the man, after promising to meet him on the roof, in favor of spending time with scientist Maya, offering some brief observations on her work and then leaving the morning after, unaware that Killian would become vengeful of Tony's set up.
Personality[]
Tony is an outgoing man who enjoys drinking and gambling, all the while possessing the capacity to become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight. As a millionaire playboy, he had enjoyed his extravagant lifestyle, all the while selling and creating new dangerous weapons. However, he is very cocky as he brags about himself being a billionaire. An inventive mechanical engineering prodigy, Tony is constantly creating new technology and looking for ways to improve it.
At the start of Iron Man film, he has little concern for the effect his weapons have on others. However, for all his flaws, Tony is a good man at heart and wants to use his technology to better the world.
In The Avengers, Tony has shown he matured somewhat. While around Pepper Potts, he has shown to be able to be in a total relationship with her and express his feelings around her. However, upon being around the team, he still shows the same "qualities" that he has been known to have. This is with the exception of Banner, whom he not only he shows great respect for, not only his past works but his abilities as the Hulk, stating to Banner that his ability is somewhat more of a gift than a curse; Banner is whom he is friendly with the most. However, upon Coulson's death, while he tries not to show it in front of Steve Rogers, he shows that his death has greatly affected him. By the time of the battle of New York City, he has shown that he respects Steve enough to take orders from him, knowing what is on the line of duty.
Since the Avengers, Tony has been less egotistical and self-centered as he feels guilty and remorseful for his creation of Ultron, which lead to the Battle of Sokovia. Despite defeating Ultron there were many casualties, especially when an angry woman says that she blames and the Avengers for her son's death, not Ultron. This is what lead him to sign the Sokovia Accords.
Physical appearance[]
Tony Stark is a man in his 30s or 40s (late 40s in the Marvel Cinematic Universe). He has black hair, a black goatee, and brown eyes. He has an arc reactor implanted into his chest equipped with magnetic fields to keep the shrapnel near his heart in place.
Tony has invented a lot of different kinds of armor that were used in the series. His most notable work is his Mark VI, which is red and gold, and its repulsers have a blueish glowing color. He has two repulser units on his palms and two more on his boots for flight.
Abilities[]
- Genius Level Intellect: Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors at the age of 17. He's knowledgeable in every field of science, including engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience.
- Master Engineer: Tony's intellect lies on his proficient engineering skill and inventions, as he can build and fix any kind of technology. He can build and repair his armor even modifying them for better use, and he can create new weapons and gadgets out of anything for his armor and his Avenger teammates.
- Expert Businessman: Tony is extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attention 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 also strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune and build it up again within a week.
- Expert 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 Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Tony was trained in unarmed combat by Captain America and has become quite physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it. He once managed to defeat five trained Skrull soldiers in single-handed combat and numerous Voldi gladiators.
- Indomitable Will: As evidenced by his two serious bouts with alcoholism and subsequent recovery, Tony is possessed of tremendous strength of will, never giving up and often emerging from defeat even stronger. It is arguable that the true "Iron Man" is not the armor, but Tony himself.
Weakness[]
- R.T. Node Dependence: The Repulser Tech node implanted in Stark's chest has the basic machine codes to keep Tony's Extremis-modified body working. So it needs to be in constant connection with him.
- Alcoholism: Tony has been battling against his alcoholism due to the high pressures of running his industrial company, maintaining his social profile, and being Iron Man. More recently, he started drinking again when, because of the Serpent arrival on earth, he believed it was the apocalypse.
- Narcissism: Tony is very full of himself. His love for himself can cause him to put himself into unnecessary, risky situations.
Weapons and equipment[]
Armor[]
- Main article: Iron Man (armor)
- Iron Armor: The armor used to require several machines to put on the suit, in a lengthy process. Later, this was changed to having it in a suitcase, which shortened the suiting up time, but was not very effective on the battlefield. The deposition of the armors changed over time, being able to hold the armor within himself and use it when needed and spring into action in mere seconds. A new model of armor uses intelligent liquid metal to generate itself around Stark.
- Superhuman Strength: His armor is capable of lifting up to 200 tons and can achieve higher levels of strength when powered by a sufficiently more powerful source.
- Superhuman Speed: Even when not traveling for extended distances, the armor enables the wearer to move and react at very high speeds.
- Flight: The armor can typically reach speeds in excess of Mach 10, in recent comics, however, Iron Man has been depicted as able to reach orbital escape velocities (five miles per second) and up to speeds that can outrun black holes. Use of the jet boots provides enough power to lift a load of about 600 tons.
- Power Cells: The armor is powered by a combination of solar converters, electrical batteries and an on-board generator that uses beta particle absorption as a fuel source. Not to mention the arc reactor that also powers the suit.
- Energy Conversion Power Recharge: The armor is also able to absorb and convert nearby or far away energy sources, such as heat, solar, electrical, magnetic, geothermal or kinetic energy or energy from the planet itself into electricity, or even drain energy directly into the batteries for recharge.
- Self-Contained Life-Support System & Environmental Protection: The armor can be completely sealed for operations in vacuum or underwater, providing its own life support, and is shielded against radiation, biological, chemical, corrosive, kinetic, and electrical attacks as well.
- Magnetism: The armor can generate magnetic fields to pull or push metal objects at will.
- Onboard Computer: The armor has an internal on-board computer operating system that aids Stark in providing strategies, background information on opponents, surroundings, the status of the suit, and prevents a lock on from targeting systems.
- Sensor Array: Known sensors include radar/lidar, night vision, and physiological/medical scanners that allow Stark to take and monitor the vitals of other people, including heart and brain scans. These scans also provide Stark with real-time personal physiological data. They are also capable of an all-environmental scan for atmospheric content or life forms - including astral energy projections.
- Override: When required, armor systems including strength amplification, durability amplification, and repulser intensity can be greatly increased, by bypassing safety circuits and limiters. However, there is a chance that this can result in a complete system failure of the armor. An example of this mode is when Iron Man easily lifted a 16,000-ton Nuclear Reactor, and flew into the sky and threw it into the sea. It seems that he utilized this resource on the Hulk once, as the armor ends up completely inert. The range of the Override can be controlled as only reaching his very limit and staying at it for a long time will cause a system failure. This range goes from a safe 800% to 3200%, up to a very dangerous 5000%.
- Crystallized Iron Armor: The armor has evolved from a bulky iron suit to a highly complex matrix of molecularly-aligned fully crystallized ultra high carbon iron/steel hybrid alloy enhanced by magnetic fields over layers of other ultra hyper alloys like titanium alloy and or tungsten/vanadium alloys reinforced with carbon nanotubes creating a shell that is pliable, yet capable of amazingly high resilience and protection.
- Enhanced Durability: His armor is very durable, capable of withstanding tremendous amounts of punishment. It can withstand high caliber bullets with ease. He can also withstand rockets, missiles, torpedoes, high powered lasers, and such, taking little to no damage. Future armors were fully resistant against electricity, fire, heavy impacts, energy blasts, take zero Kelvin and up to the Sun's temperatures, even some of Thor's attacks (see Thorbuster). The suit can withstand almost unlimited kinetic and thermal impact, as well as most forms of radiation thanks to its refractory coating. The armor can survive anything short of a nuclear explosion at ground zero. The suit automatically protects its wearer when he enters an intrinsically hostile environment, such as outer space or deep sea. The armor even has specialized circuitry that guards against telepathic attacks. Tony is very confident in his suit's defensive abilities, when he was caught in a nuclear explosion, he was only thinking about women and completely forgot about what was happening around him.
- Energy Shield: Energy shielding that can protect the user from harm. It is also capable of reflecting attacks and staying mobile. At 2% power, the shield is strong enough to withstand a nuclear explosion.
- Repulser Rays: The armor's primary energy weapon. A particle beam weapon, standard equipment in the palm gauntlets; it can repel physical and energy-based attacks, traveling as a single stream or as a wide-field dispersal. Its damage potential is extremely lethal, from being able to go through two inches of steel like paper to blasting a hole through a mountain. They can be powered up to make a larger beam or a Full Form repulser Ray, which does 360 degrees of attacks. The power of the repulser beams can range from the basic ones such as the one from the Mark 3, which fires two gigawatt beams, to the beams on a much further model of the suit such as the Model 27 which fires beams in the high petawatt region, but those require a little assistance from outside. The latest model of repulser technology is that of Mark IVa, used for the first time in the Iron Man Armor Model 40, featuring a red color.
- Unibeam: A powerful searchlight, capable of projecting beams in virtually every light spectrum. Also used as a powerful weapon that can destroy anything in its path. It fires a boosted form of the Monobeam with some energy backing it up.
- Tri-beam: This unique version of the Unibeam runs on direct power from the chestplate, draining its energy rapidly if not fully charged. It has considerable knockback.
- Multi-beam: As the name implies, the Multi-beam can fire multiple energies at the same time. Generally used with the energy that Tony Stark has absorbed.
- Pentabeam: The Pentabeam has microwave lensing projector that allows for directed beams of ultra-high multi mega-joule electrons, protons, acoustic energy, and neutrons.
- Omnibeam: Rather than only firing beam type attacks, the Omnibeam can generate heats at 25232 degrees Fahrenheit, extremely powerful lights causing irreversible blindness in the enemy, and emit ultrasonic attacks capable of stunning even superhumanly durable foes and even causing disintegration. The other way the Omnibeam is fired is by absorbing or draining any energy in Iron Man's vicinity, drawing it into his chest reactor and converting it into billions of petawatts and firing it.
- Lasers: Standard lasers that can be used as weapons or for welding, including UV laser to penetrate light-permeable shields.
- Pulse Bolts: Extremely powerful plasma discharges that propagate in strength over distance, but implode if they get overloaded.
- Energy Blade: Based on the same design Tony Stark used to build Captain America's energy shield, this laser sword, emitted from his right arm, could also be flattened into a shield on his hands or spread over the entire armor to encase the armor in a protective covering.
- Pulse Barrage: Pulse Barrage is one of Iron Man's standard long range attack. Because of its extremely low energy consumption, Pulse Barrage can be a very effective attack. An upgraded Red Pulse Barrage has the ability to penetrate through foes hitting others behind them, and the ability to ricochet off walls hitting more targets.
- Smart Missiles: The Smart Missile is one that can target the weak points of a structure, object, or foe to inflict maximum damage with a minimal payload.
- Hyper-velocity Impact: The program Hyper-velocity allows Tony to think and move at a much faster time frame than everyone else, allowing for quicker attacks. Also, it could create an electrical bubble if Tony is going fast enough.
- Plasma Discharge: A plasma discharge is given off when the suit comes into contact with Vibranium.
Appearances[]
Marvel Cinematic Universe[]
Iron Man[]
Tony admits he is Iron Man.
At some point, he also became friends with Lieutenant-Colonel James Rhodes, hired Virginia Potts as his personal assistant with Happy Hogan as his personal bodyguard. Tony is a billionaire industrialist and inventor. He runs Stark Industries, originally started by his father, Howard Stark. In Afghanistan Tony was captured by Ten Rings, they ordered him to build a missile for them, instead, Stark with Ho Yinsen helped use their resources to build a suit of armor and make their escape. Returning to America, Stark improves his armor and become the invincible superhero Iron Man. After defeating his former business partner, Obadiah Stane, he gives a press conference to give explanations about what happened on the streets of Los Angeles at night. Agent Coulson gives him an alibi about what he has to say, however, during the interview, Tony proclaims himself as Iron Man. That night, Tony meets the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, who wanted to talk about the Avengers Initiative.
The Incredible Hulk[]
Tony meets with Ross.
Maintaining his job as consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony was sent by Coulson and Sitwell to prevent General Ross from releasing Blonsky from custody, as the World Security Council wanted Blonsky as part of the Avenger Initiative. Arriving at the bar, Tony found a drunken Ross. During the talk, Stark annoyed Ross so much that at one moment of the talk he attempted to remove Tony from the bar. Eventually, the plan of Coulson and Sitwell resulted as they had expected.
Iron Man 2[]
Iron Man in Iron Man 2.
Six months after admitting that he is Iron Man, Tony was summoned to an audience with the Senate. Senator Stern demands Tony to hand over the Iron Man technology to the government, but Tony refuses to comply with this request. Shortly after in Monaco, Tony was attacked by Ivan Vanko, who wanted revenge on the Stark family. Later, Tony visits Vanko to ask where he got the technology, Vanko reveals his true identity and his intentions of revenge. Knowing he was dying Tony gets drunk at his birthday party, due to his behavior Rhodey puts the Mark II to stop Tony. During the fight, all the guests fleeing for shelter, at the end of the fight Tony deliver the armor to Rhodey. The next day Tony meets with Fury, who reveals that his assistant, Natalie is a covert agent and Howard Stark is one of the founders of SHIELD.
Fury also gives Tony old materials belonging to Howard for help to find a cure for his poisoning with Palladium. One of the materials contained a video that reveals that at the center of the diorama is a new element not discovered. With the help of JARVIS, Tony synthesizes the new element and cures himself. Later, Tony go to Stark Expo to warn Rhodey about Hammer Drones, but it was too late because Vanko had already activated the Drones. After defeating all the Drones, Tony and Rhodey face Vanko, who is defeated despite some inconveniences. After the battle, Pepper leaves his charge as CEO and shares a kiss with Tony while Rhodey leaves with his new armor after he ruins the moment between them. Later, Fury meets again with Tony to inform him that Iron Man is a suitable candidate for the Avengers Initiative, but Tony Stark is not. Despite this, Fury says that SHIELD needs him as consultant.
The Avengers[]
Stark & Pepper review the holo data tapes of The Avengers Initiative team members.
After Loki infiltrates S.H.I.E.L.D. and steals the Tesseract, Nick Fury decides it's time to re-establish the Avengers Initiative. Agent Coulson travels to the newly built Stark Tower where Tony and Pepper are celebrating the successful creation of a new, clean energy source. Tony is informed of Coulson's presence at Stark Tower by J.A.R.V.I.S. to which he informs him that he has "reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark" and refuses to see him. Coulson enters the building anyway and informs Tony that the Initiative is now active and they need him to come in, handing Stark several holographic screens containing information about Captain America, Thor, Bruce Banner, and Loki.
Iron Man meets Captain America.
Stark suits up in his Mark VI armor and travels to Germany where he finds his old acquaintance Natasha Romanoff in a jet overlooking the newly unfrozen Captain America in the middle of a battle with the hostile god, Loki. Stark jets right in and blasts Loki with his Repulsers and stands tall next to the Captain forcing Loki to surrender. After escorting Loki onto the Quinjet, the team heads back to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier. Stark comments on Steve's fighting skills and subtly mocks him. The Quinjet is then surrounded by a storm and attacked by the Asgardian "God of Thunder", Thor who breaks in and promptly grabs Loki before he flies away. Stark immediately pursues them.
While Thor threatens Loki atop a mountain, Tony blasts straight into him, hurling him onto the forest floor. Stark refuses to let Thor get close to Loki and the two began a fierce battle. During the fight, Thor summons lightning to his hammer, Mjolnir, and electrocutes Stark, only for J.A.R.V.I.S. to inform him that his suit is at 475% capacity, allowing him to blast Thor off his feet. The armor takes a beating during the battle as Thor easily begins to crush one of the gauntlets with his bare hands. The fight is broken up by Captain America who, after matching Mjolnir with his Shield, manages to stop Thor. They take Loki back to the Helicarrier where Tony meets Bruce Banner and discusses the Tesseract after acquiring overnight expertise in thermonuclear astrophysics from reading Selvig's notes, but not before Tony plants a hacking device and allows J.A.R.V.I.S. to begin searching S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database to find out their classified secrets.
Tony and Bruce find out that S.H.I.E.L.D. was trying to harness the Tesseract's powers to create weapons of mass destruction. During a huge argument with Fury, Romanoff, Rogers, Banner, and Thor, Loki's brainwashed troops cause an explosion on the Helicarrier in order to break Loki out. Stark suits up as Iron Man and begins to fix the ship from the outside with the aid of Captain America.
Tony on the Helicarrier's deck.
After fixing the ship and fighting off some of Loki's troops, the duo is faced with the aftermath of the attack: the Hulk and Thor have been ejected from the Helicarrier, Loki has escaped, and Agent Coulson is dead. Fury informs the two that the Avengers Initiative was so that the isolated individuals could become something more and that Coulson died still believing this. Stark takes his death hard and works out where Loki is planning his attack. Iron Man, Captain America, Natasha, and Hawkeye (now free from Loki's mind control) travel to Stark Tower where Tony finds Loki has installed a device powered by the Tesseract.
Stark dons The Mark VII armor.
Tony takes off his armor and begins to "threaten" Loki, secretly putting on two metal bracelets moments before Loki throws him out of the window after he fails to mind control him. As he falls, he orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to deploy his new Mark VII suit which jetpacks out through the window after him and forms around him moments before he hits the ground. Stark flies back up to Loki and blasts him backwards in the name of Agent Coulson. Tony, however, is confronted by Loki's army of Chitauri which fly into New York and begin their war against Earth. Iron Man is joined by his teammates as they begin to battle the Chitauri menace.
Tony begins to chase after a Leviathan, a giant alien serpent and the war ship to dozens of Chitauri. When he is notified of Banner's arrival on the field, Tony leads the serpent towards him so Bruce will transform into the Hulk and defeat it. Tony lands on the ground alongside his fellow heroes, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. The team is then confronted by hundreds of Chitauri who fly in through the portal as well as several more Leviathans. Rogers gives out orders and instructs Tony to take to the skies and take out more Chitauri forces. Tony even takes out a Leviathan by flying head-first into its mouth and launching missiles from the inside.
Stark falls back to Earth.
After a long battle, the team is still outnumbered and learn that Natasha has found a way to close the portal. Stark delays this as Fury has instructed him that the World Security Council have sent a missile into blowing up Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile and flies it up through the portal and blows up the Chitauri Mothership. Iron Man loses power in the process and falls unconscious back through the portal just before it closes.
As Stark falls back to Earth, he is caught by the Hulk who lands with him back on the ground. Rogers and Thor run over to the unmoving Iron Man who appears to be dead, only for Hulk to scream in his face, waking him up. The team gathers in Stark Tower to retrieve the beaten, surrendering Loki. The Avengers then watch as Loki is taken back to Asgard by Thor along with the Tesseract. The team disbands, Tony driving away with Banner in tow. Tony is later seen with Pepper Potts on Stark Tower ready to rebuild after the damage that was done. The Stark sign on the side displays only one remaining letter, "A". Some time later, Stark and the rest of the Avengers go to eat silently in a Shawarma restaurant in an unknown location.
Iron Man 3[]
- “Nothing's been the same since New York, You experience things and then they're over and you still can't explain them.”
- ―Tony Stark
Sometime after the Chitauri invasion of New York, Tony built an array of new armors, some created for specific purposes. He tested the Mark XLII, which was built so that he could summon various pieces of the armor when needed. Meanwhile, a string of bombings by terrorist The Mandarin left intelligence agencies bewildered at the lack of forensic evidence. When Happy Hogan was caught in one such attack, Tony issued a public threat to The Mandarin.
Stark in his workshop.
Pepper approached Tony about his insecurities, claiming he had pulled away. Tony stated that he had been having trouble coping after his near-death experience in New York, claiming that 'aliens' and 'other dimensions' are too much for him to handle. Pepper stated that his obsessiveness over his technology was a distraction. Later that night, Tony had visions of himself going against the Chitauri, causing him to go into distress. Pepper tried to wake him until his armor appeared, coming to Tony's aid.
The Mandarin attacks Tony's home.
Maya Hansen confronted Tony at his home, warning him about the effects of his recent public warning. Pepper appeared and told Tony that it was time for them to leave until they are attacked by several helicopters, lead by Coldblood. Tony signaled his armor onto Pepper, protecting her. Once Pepper had gotten Maya to safety, Tony summoned the armor back to himself, fending off the several helicopters surrounding him. After being outgunned, Stark was pulled into the ocean while his home demolished over him, barely escaping. Stark found himself in rural Tennessee after J.A.R.V.I.S. followed his initial flight plan to find the Mandarin. Lacking the power to return to California, the world at large believed him to be dead. Tony sent a private call, hoping for Pepper to hear. Apologizing for putting her in harm's way, Tony stated that he cannot return home yet.
Tony removing his face mask.
Stark broke into a workshop belonging to 10-year old Harley Keener (and his family). Tony enlisted Harley's help in finding the truth behind the bombings. Seeking information, Stark set up a meeting with the mother of the recently killed (and Extremis-infected) Chad Davis. Once being handed valuable information regarding her son's death, Tony was attacked by Ellen Brandt and Coldblood. Barely escaping from Brandt, Coldblood confronted Stark, threatening to kill Harley. Harley used a device given to him by Stark earlier, blinding Coldblood for a few moments in which the two were able to escape. With Harley's assistance, Stark tracked down the Mandarin's location in Miami - as the suit is recharging, Harley suggested that Stark builds his own gadgets.
Infiltrating The Mandarin's home, Stark discovered that The Mandarin is not a terrorist, rather a British actor employed by Killian to act as a threat to America, covering up Killian's test-subjects/Extremis program. Being held in captivity, he witnessed Killian murder Maya and discovered that he has captured Pepper and is currently infecting her with Extremis. Stark escaped captivity by summoning his armor, fending off several guards. Tony reunited with Rhodes, who revealed that Killian had taken control of the Iron Patriot armor, intending to launch an attack on President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Remotely controlling his armor, Stark defeated Coldblood and saved the surviving passengers and crew but was unable to rescue Ellis from Killian.
Stark vs Killian.
Stark and Rhodes traced Killian to an impounded oil drilling platform where he intended to kill Ellis on live television. Sneaking in, they were attacked by several Extremis soldiers. Over-powered, Stark summoned all 42-armors to their aid (controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S.), armoring himself with the Silver Centurion. Tony found Pepper under wreckage when Killian unexpectedly attacked him, forcing him to bail from Mark XXXIII. Coming to Pepper's aid once again, she fell into a pit of fire after Tony tried to reach out to her, presumed dead. Enraged, Stark summons Mark XL ("Shotgun") and engages in a fight with Killian. Standing over a platform, Stark (armorless), summons Mark XLII from afar onto Killian, trapping him.
Tony orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to let it self-destruct while he escaped. Killian, alive, struck at Stark once more until Pepper, also alive (having gained superpowers due to the extremis formula, thus becoming Rescue) appeared and killed Killian with the aid of Mark VII's repulsers. Shocked at Rescue's image, Tony apologized and promised to find a cure for her. Tony, seeing Rescue worried about their future, ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to destroy all his armor/tech. Surrounded by the subtler explosions in the sky, the two embraced. Later, Dr. Wu, the very man Yinsen had introduced to him years earlier in Switzerland, performed surgery removing the shrapnel from Tony's heart. Stark then returned to the ruins of his Malibu home and threw his arc reactor into the ocean, vowing that no matter what, he is Iron Man. Tony then recounted everything that had happened to Bruce Banner who had fallen asleep during the tale, telling Tony that he wasn't that kind of doctor.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier[]
Stark is targeted by Project Insight.
Tony does not actually appear in the film, although he was mentioned a few times: The first was when SHIELD director Fury shows Captain America the next-generation Helicarriers for Project Insight, where he explained that they had new engines developed by Tony after the latter got a "close look" at them (alluding to an incident in The Avengers where Iron Man ended up stuck in the turbines temporarily due to Captain America being delayed by some of Loki's soldiers). The second mention was during a conversation between Fury and Alexander Pierce, where the latter requested that Tony appears at his niece's birthday party as Iron Man, specifying he didn't want a "brief visit". Tony was a target of Project Insight by HYDRA, but Captain America was able to stop HYDRA before Tony became a victim.
Avengers: Age of Ultron[]
The Avengers fight in Sokovia.
After the destruction of Project Insight, the Avengers were officially reassembled with Iron Man's financing and Captain America's leadership. The Avengers arrived in Sokovia to take down the last known base of HYDRA and retrieve Loki's scepter. Stark tried to break into Strucker's Fortress but found that the base had a shield that protected him. He finally managed to destroy the shield after impact it the reactor with a piece of a truck. Upon entering the base, he attacked List, who was trying to get rid of the evidence. Stark found the hidden lab where Strucker and List conducted their most important experiments. There, Stark found Loki's scepter, but when he was about to take it, Scarlet Witch used her powers on him. That attack caused Tony to have a vision of how his friends die in battle. At Avengers Tower, Stark studied Loki's scepter after Thor's approval. During these studies, he discovered a kind of artificial intelligence, which he told Bruce Banner about the possibility of using it in their project. Although Banner was reluctant, with a little persuasion Stark was able to convince him. After three days, Stark and Banner managed to create a secure interface so they both decided to go to the party.
During the party, he and Thor discussed who had the best girlfriend, so Maria Hill realized the reasons that neither Jane or Pepper went to the party. When the party ended, Stark unsuccessfully to lift Mjolnir. Suddenly, Ultron broke into the party and described them as all killers. When the Iron Legion attacked by Ultron's orders, he and his companions fought against them. The next day, the team met and discussed the events of the night before. Most of the team could not understand why Ultron attacked as Stark and Banner had created it. Later, the Avengers went to Salvage Yard after learning the location of Ultron. When they arrived, Stark asked Ultron why he needed the Vibranium, the rogue robot replied by attacking him. Although Stark was able to defeat Ultron, he had already transferred his memory to another body and had gotten the Vibranium. But before being defeated, Ultron informed him that he should stop Banner. Stark asked for help from his teammates, but Hawkeye informed him that all had been defeated by Scarlet Witch and he was alone. He was able to defeat Hulk after a long battle, but their battle left a huge number of injured, which did not please the world's governments.
With the team beaten up by the failure of the mission, Hawkeye led the Avengers to a shelter. Upon arrival, Stark with the rest of his companions is surprised to learn that Barton had a family. During his stay, Stark talked with Nick Fury about why he created Ultron. Fury says that it was just a hallucination caused by the Maximoff girl, but for him was very real. He and the other Avengers decide to go out and fight Ultron after having talked with Fury. Stark and Banner returned to Avengers Tower, while the others went to Seoul, South Korea to destroy Ultron's new body. However, he already had plans for the synthetic body, upload J.A.R.V.I.S.'s mind into the body. As Captain America learned of Stark's intentions, he and the twins Maximoff went to the tower to try to stop him. This led to a fight between Iron Man and Captain America, but while they were fighting, Thor arrived and using his Mjolnir, created a flash of powerful lightning, giving birth to synthetic android. Thor explained that the gem that Vision had on his forehead was an Infinity Stone. After confirming that Vision had no bad intentions, he and others went to Sokovia to fight Ultron.
Stark went to Sokovia and confront Ultron while the other Avengers took the civilians to safety. Ultron revealed to him his doomsday machine, which he would extinguish the life on Earth. When War Machine came to the battlefield he helped fight against the Sentries. Soon after, Stark called the Avengers to protect the key from Ultron and his Sentries. He along Thor helped Vision when this one attacked Ultron. Despite their attempts to protect the key, a sentry activated the machine which caused the inevitable fall of Sokovia to Earth. Thor and Iron Man destroy the city before it collides with Earth. After the battle, Stark went to New Avengers Facility to bid farewell to Thor and Steve Rogers. Before Stark leaves, Rogers says he would miss him, Stark replied that he would follow the footsteps of Barton and put a little farm for Pepper.
Captain America: Civil War[]
After giving a lecture at MIT, Stark was confronted by an angry woman who blamed him and the Avengers instead of Ultron for the loss of her son in the Sokovia Incident. This made Stark believe that his and the actions of the Avengers needed to be put in check.
He then, argues with Steve Rogers and his fellow teammates on signing the Accords, which he was supported by his friend James Rhodes, Vision, and surprisingly Natasha Romanoff while Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Wanda Maximoff disagree. After the argument, Stark was present at the Joint Terrorist Center in Berlin during the Accords finalization where Steve, Sam, Barnes, and T'Challa were arrested and brought into the location. Stark continued to peruse his comrade to sign the Sokovia Accords as well as mentioning he and Potts broke up. He almost succeeded in convincing him, until Rogers found out Wanda's Visa was removed and was being kept in the New Avengers facility with Vision keeping her company.
Tony trying to stop Bucky from shooting.
When Barnes was being evaluated by Zemo, who was not a physician he had a friend who set of an EMP device that blacked out the place and then read the list of words turning Barnes into Winter Soldier mode. When Barnes went into a rampage and made his away almost outside Stark attempted to stop him but failed along with Romanoff and Carter. Thadduess Ross later gave Stark 36 hours to find and capture Barnes and Rogers, so Romanoff went to recruit T'Challa and Stark recruited Spider-Man, who lived in New York City. Stark arrived at the German airport where Rogers had been hiding out, he along with his team of; War Machine, Black Widow, Vision, Spider-Man, and Black Panther to bring in Barnes and Rogers attempting to get Rogers to surrender which Rogers refused to again and Rogers' team; Falcon, the Winter Soldier, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man. The former teammates collided, in a fierce battle.
Tony after War Machine's crash
Barnes and Rogers were able to arrive at the Quinjet in time to escape thanks to Lang's distraction making himself giant distracting Stark, Rhodes, Parker, and Black Widow changing sides and turning on Panther. However, Stark and Rhodes managed to pursue the Quinjet following them when Rhodes realized they were also followed by Falcon he told Vision to neutralize Wilson, but his beam Falcon saw and managed to evade it but hit Rhodes in the arc reactor disabling his suit making him fall to the ground. Stark and Wilson tried to save him, but were too late, as Stark read his vitals indicating Rhodes was alive, but is left paralyzed and Wilson apologized, but Stark just blasted him down.
Later, at the Avengers headquarters with Rhodes in critical condition due to Vision's misfire, he express disappointment in Romanoff for her betrayal, which lead to Rhodes' accident, which insults Romanoff, especially when calling upon her former days of being a double agent, only for her to call him out in return for his inability to let go of his ego. Stark informed her that T'Challa told Ross what she did and gives her a halfhearted warning that they will be coming for her, which also shows that he's losing faith in his own team members. Romanoff then leaves, but not before telling Stark that she's not the one who needs to watch others' backs. Stark, later found out the truth about Zemo how he was responsible for the death of the real physician and framing Barnes. Despite informing Ross, Ross didn't believe a word of Stark and telling him he was lucky not to be in prison.
On his way to the Raft, he saw Barton, Maximoff, Lang, and Wilson in the cells, speaking with Wilson (while he jammed the security so they can't hear them) he apologized to Wilson saying he was wrong which Wilson reluctantly told Tony where Rogers was headed. Stark later, then headed to Siberia to assist Rogers, he was shown footage from Zemo of his parents being murdered by Winter Soldier (while he was controlled by HYDRA). Furious that Rogers never told him about his parents' deaths, Stark is sent into a angry rampage and tries to attack Barnes with the intent to kill him, but Steve intervenes by defending his friend. This leads to a hard felt battle, with Stark blasting Barnes' metal arm off and Rogers disabling Stark's suit. Before leaving with Barnes, Stark tells Rogers that he doesn't deserve the shield, and Rogers reluctantly drops the shield and departs with Bucky.
Later, arriving at the New Avengers Facility, he helped Rhodes with therapy after losing his legs during the misfire with Vision he received a package from a FedEx driver (who calls him Tony Stank, much to Rhodes' amusement) which contained a letter and phone from Rogers apologizing for not telling him about his parents and everything that is happened, and telling him if he ever needs him he will be there and Stark keeps the promise when he gets a call from Ross when Rogers breaks out his teammates, Stark ignores it.
Spider-Man: Homecoming[]
Tony talking with Peter
Following the end of Captain America: Civil War, Stark drops Peter off at his residence and allows Peter to keep the suit much to his delight. He also mentors Peter on not doing anything that he would do or anything he wouldn't do and not stress Happy Hogan out. Stark also tells him, that he will call him for his next mission.
Two months later, when Spider-Man attempts to stop illegal smugglers, but only to end up being dropped and drowned in a lake, Stark sends his remote-controlled armor to save him. Stark then orders him to leave the Vulture and his men to other authorities before rudely hanging up on him. Stark then informed the FBI to the illegal activities. Days later, Stark calls Peter to apologize and praise Peter for his actions in saving his classmates in Washington, D.C. Peter, however, was in the middle of trying to stop Vulture's Crew in the middle of a weapons deal at the Staten Island Ferry and hangs up on him, but he arrived personally and saved the ferry.
Iron Man helps Spider-Man
Iron Man chastises Spider-Man for disobeying him. Peter accuses Stark about not caring what was happening with the stolen weapons, only for Stark to step out of his suit and tells Peter that he did, in fact, listen to him and that he was the one who contacted the FBI. Furthermore, Stark reveals that he was, in fact, the only one who saw and believed in Peter's potential, despite his young age, and that if someone had died on the Ferry due to Peter's actions, it would be on his conscious and if Peter himself died then his death would be on his conscious forever. Peter tells Stark that he was just trying to be like him, but Tony tells Peter that he wanted Peter to be better than him. When Stark demands Peter give the Spider-Man Suit back, much to Peter's dismay as he claimed that he was nothing without the suit, Stark replies that if he depended on the suit to be special, much less a hero, then he didn't deserve it in the first place. Peter reluctantly gives the suit back, and Stark sends him home with some clothes. Stark noted that he sounded much like his own father.
However, soon after Spider-Man successfully stopped the Vulture from stealing a jetliner full of Avengers equipment. Apologizing to his apprentice, Stark offered Peter a new suit and position on the Avengers, but Peter declines, preferring to remain an independent hero. Tony agrees and sent him on his way, and takes the opportunity of the press conference to finally propose to Pepper Potts.
Thor: Ragnarok[]
Although Tony does not appear in this movie, he is mentioned by both Thor and Hulk. Stark's nickname for Thor from The Avengers, "Point Break", is also mentioned.
Avengers: Infinity War[]
At the beginning of the film, Tony is in the park with Pepper discussing their relationship and the possibility of having a child. The conversation is cut short when Doctor Strange arrives with Bruce Banner, the latter's appearance surprising Tony, who is in need of his help. Banner informs Tony that a threat is coming to Earth for the Infinity Stones in the form of the Mad Titan Thanos, the same individual responsible for New York's invasion and everything that has happened was his doing.
Tony tries to take in the revelation of Thanos when they are interrupted by the appearance of Thanos' children, the Black Order operatives Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, in New York searching for the Time Stone currently in Strange's possession.
Tony, thanks to the help of Spider-Man, engages in battle with the Black Order and sends Cull Obsidian into retreat, but Ebony Maw survives the battle and takes Strange on his ship hoping to retrieve the Time Stone from him. Tony follows after them to rescue Strange. When Spider-Man tries to follow the ship, Tony deploys the Iron-Spider suit to help Spider-Man survive space and return to Earth. On Ebony Maw's ship, Tony is greeted by Strange's Cloak of Levitation and to his shock, Spider-Man, the latter managing to board the ship despite Tony's instruction to stay behind. Coordinating with Spider-Man, Tony blows a hole in the ship that sucks Ebony Maw into space, killing him as he freezes to death. Tony then seals the hole and convinces Strange to take on Thanos.
Iron Man with Spider-Man and Doctor Strange
The trio travels to Thanos' home planet, Titan, where they are ambushed by the Guardians of the Galaxy and start to fight; Tony's group believing the Guardians to be Thanos' lackeys and the Guardians vice versa. When their leader, Peter Quill, then interrogates Tony what Thanos has done with their member Gamora, they realize both parties are after Thanos and decide to team up to stop him.
Tony proposes a plan: Strange will distract Thanos while he and the Guardians immobilize Thanos together for the Infinity Gauntlet. Once Thanos arrives on Titan, Tony, Drax, Mantis, and Nebula, neutralize Thanos long enough for Spider-Man and Tony to try pulling the Gauntlet off his hand. However, Nebula tells Quill that Thanos has killed Gamora for the Soul Stone and, in rage and despair, attacks the Mad Titan that this allows Thanos to awaken and free himself from Tony and Parker.
Once he makes work of Strange, Thanos then confronts Tony and reveals he is aware of Iron-Man's efforts impeding his plans. Tony expresses his grudge against Thanos prior to engaging in a violent fight with him using his armor to its fullest ability. Tony is able to keep up the battle until he forms a blade intending to kill Thanos with it, only for Thanos to break the blade and stab Tony through the stomach, mortally injuring Tony. Because Tony put up an impressive fight, Thanos gives Tony his respects before preparing to kill Tony, but Strange interjects and agrees to surrender the Time Stone in exchange for Tony's life. Despite Tony's refusal to trade for the stone, Thanos agrees as Strange gives him the stone. Tony is spared once Thanos respects the deal and with the Time Stone, he goes to Earth to collect the Mind Stone. Tony, with his suit's nanites, luckily closes the wound and lives.
Meanwhile, the death of Vision on Earth allows Thanos to complete his gauntlet and starts eliminating half of all life. On Titan, the heroes witness the effect - Drax and Mantis disappear in dust, with Quill disappearing soon after before Tony can save him. Frightened, Tony then sees Spider-Man fading next. Tony, desperate to save his pupil, embraces Peter until he finally disappears in his arms as Tony apologizes for causing this. Once Strange starts disappearing, Tony angrily demands why he gave Thanos the Time Stone. Strange sadly replies that there was no other way before he finally vanishes. Tony and Nebula, now the only beings left on Titan, are left shocked over Thanos' victory and the loss of their friends.
Avengers: Endgame[]
Tony resting after passing out
Twenty-three days following Thanos' victory, Tony is stranded in space with Nebula and is running out of water, after food ran out a week earlier. On the verge of death, Tony records a message for Pepper as he passes out. Captain Marvel saves them and brings them back to earth, where Tony reunites with Steve Rogers and the remaining Avengers, minus Hawkeye and his fiancé; Pepper. While resting and getting medical care, Tony is asked if Thanos gave him any information of where he might be. Stark mentions to Cap that he wasn't there for him like he promised two years earlier. Tony rants to Steve about being scared of Thanos before passing out again. The Avengers locate Thanos and Thor kills him after learning he destroyed the Infinity Stones.
Five years later in 2023, Tony has quit the Avengers, married Pepper and fathered a daughter named Morgan Stark. The family live in a secluded house by a lake and he goes to see his daughter who is playing with her mother's Rescue helmet that Tony is making as part of an anniversary gift for Pepper. Minutes later, Tony is visited by Steve Rogers, Natasha Romonoff and Scott Lang, who try to convince Tony to help them build a time machine that will help them travel to the past to get every infinity stone and can undo Thanos' snap. However, Tony declines because he is now married and has a little girl and doesn't want to jeopardise this happy life.
However, that evening, Tony finds a picture of him and Peter Parker and remembers watching the young Avenger turn to dust in front of him. Missing Peter, Tony stays up all night and manages to successfully invent time travel, while accidentally waking up Morgan. The following day, Tony arrives at the Avengers Compound and shows Steve the device he created to allow the Avengers to time travel through the Quantum Realm. Tony gives Steve his shield while asking to not change the fact he has a wife and daughter with this time travel. Steve agrees and they finally make peace after their fight seven years earlier.
Tony meets an alternate version of his father.
The Avengers travel to different dates in time, with Stark, Rogers, Lang and Smart Hulk travelling to an alternate 2012, where they try to retrieve the Tesseract. When unsuccessful, Stark and Rogers travel to April 7, 1970 where they able to get the stone while Tony meets his father Howard Stark. Not wanting to reveal he is Howard's future son, Tony uses the alias Howard Potts, and bonds with his father upon learning Maria Stark is pregnant with Tony. The two bond over their fears of fatherhood and Tony is finally able to get the closure with his father he was never able to have growing up. Tony gives Howard one last smile, happy to have made that closure with him before returning to the present with Rogers.
Iron Man's ultimate sacrifice
The Avengers return to 2023, where they realise Clint is on his own, realising Natasha sacrificed her life so he could get the soul stone. The remaining Avengers mourn their teammate and Stark, Banner and Rocket create their own gauntlet with every infinity stone. Banner snaps his fingers, which brings every single person who was blipped, back. However before they can celebrate, the compound is destroyed by 2014 Thanos who had travelled to the future thanks to 2014 Nebula. Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America face Thanos, ready to fight him as all the dusted heroes return to help fight, including Tony's wife Pepper.
Iron Man dies on the battlefield.
Towards the end of the brutal fight, Tony takes the upper hand against Thanos and takes the stones from his gauntlet into Stark's. Tony declares one final "I am Iron Man" as he snaps his fingers, erasing Thanos and his army from existence. However the power from the stones becomes too much for Tony and destroys his body to the point where he can barely talk. Spider-Man swings over to his mentor, noticing he is a critical condition and breaks down, telling Tony they won. Crying, Peter tells Tony they won while Pepper goes to her husband's side. Pepper asks F.R.I.D.A.Y. the state of Tony's condition and learns he is dying. Pepper assures Tony that she and Morgan will be okay without him and comforts him in his final moments. Tony's arc reactor slowly depletes and shuts off, signifying that Tony has died. Every Avenger kneels to the fallen hero for his sacrifice as 2014 Gamora leaves the battlefield.
One week later. a funeral is held for Tony at his house, which is attended by every Avenger and their family/friends. They watch a holographic message Tony filmed before the Avengers time travelled, which also includes a "I love you 3000" to his daughter Morgan. Pepper sends Tony's arc reactor into the lake, saying goodbye to her husband.
Spider-Man: Far From Home[]
Iron Man is remembered by the public.
Eight months following Tony's death, people have put images of Tony as Iron Man around the world to pay tribute to the fallen avenger. Peter Parker is still dealing with the loss of Tony and feeling the pressure of being the next Iron Man from the public. Peter also has to confront Mysterio who hates Tony and wants to undo his legacy. Mysterio also creates a zombified Iron Man illusion to freak out Spider-Man, before the illusion evaporates into something else.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier[]
Stark is mentioned in the first episode of the series, when the employee of the bank gives Sam his condolences for Tony Stark's death.
What If...?[]
Season One[]
Iron Man in a flashback, in What If?
Iron Man appears in this series voiced by Mick Wingert. He first appears in the episode "What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?", where he is poisoned by an unknown assassin after Black Widow inject a lithium oxide.
He also appears in "What If... Zombies!?", after he became infected by the Quantum Virus. Before he arrived and infect Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, he also infected Doctor Strange and Wong. He was killed by Wasp as his severed head gets devoured by a giant ant.
In the sixth episode during the events of Iron Man in Afghanistan, where he was ambushed by the Ten Rings. Just before the missile exploded, he was saved by Erik Killmonger.
He also appears in "What If... Ultron Won?", and like Age of Ultron, he created Ultron for peace. But with Ultron successfully uploaded his AI to a vibranium body, the Avengers, sans Black Widow and Hawkeye who were trying to stop the nuclear warheads, were killed, leaving Tony in the brink of death.
In the ninth episode, he appeared in Nidavellier, along with Gamora as they watched the Infinity Gauntlet get melted, before the Watcher arrived and chose his partner to join the fight against Ultron. This Tony is elaborated on in "What if... Iron Man Crashed Into the Grandmaster?", which shows that in this universe, Tony never made it back to Earth following the Battle of New York, landing on Sakaar. Immediately recognized as the hero of New York by the Grandmaster, he is invited to attend a Sakaar Grand Prix, only for Tony to be appalled that it's a barbaric death race. During his attempt to escape, he meets Korg and faces Gamora, who was sent to kill Tony as revenge for him defeating the Chitauri army. Tony chooses to liberate Sakaar and does so by challenging the Grandmaster to a race, which he wins with help of Valkyrie, Gamora & Korg. Once Sakaar is free, he attempts to return to Earth, only for Gamora to appear and bring him to Thanos. It turns out however, Tony & Gamora are working together, with Tony having convinced Gamora to choose her own path, and the two use the melt stick on Thanos, leading to their meeting with the Watcher on Nidavellier.
Season Two[]
Another Tony appears in "What if... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?". While on Christmas break, he's dressed as Santa Claus at the mall while receiving a call from his bodyguard Happy Hogan. When the Avengers return to the Tower, they mistaken Hogan as a monster before Darcy intervened. After the misunderstanding and saw Justin Hammer in his Hulkbuster suit, he deactivated it.
Tony is shown as a founding member of the Avengers in "What if... Captain Carter Fought The Hydra Stomper?". According to A.C. Bradley, Howard was a much better father to Tony in this universe and was not murdered by the Winter Soldier, meaning they were closer as a result. When trying to work out how to deal with the Hydra Stomper, Natasha suggests Tony to Peggy, but she refuses. Later, Peggy tries to take one of Tony's cars for a "night off", before she is transported into the 1602 universe.
This gets followed up on in "What if... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?", which shows a universe where the 1600s and 2000s have been compressed together due to a "Forerunner". The Tony of this universe is a blacksmith, inventor and ally of Captain Carter. Studying dust on a skull from a rift, Tony is able to create a device that is able to identify the Forerunner and send them back from where they came, which is revealed to be Steve Rogers, who caused the time compression after scraping the Time Stone with his shield while battling Thanos in Wakanda. After the decades are restored, Tony returns to his proper timeline with the other Avengers.
Season Three[]
A variant appears in "What If...The Hulk Fought the Mech Avengers?", as a member of the Avengers, but is killed during the gamma war.
Another Iron Man appears in "What If...The Red Guardian Stopped the Winter Soldier?". He is shown fighting alongside his fellow Avengers during an alternate Battle of New York in 2012, with Red Guardian having joined the team.
Spider-Man: No Way Home[]
Tony is indirectly mentioned by Happy Hogan at the end of the film, after his memories are wiped of Peter Parker by Doctor Strange, along with the rest of the world. Happy tells the stranger, whom is mourning his Aunt May, that he recently lost a friend a year ago and is shown to still be grieving as they both mourn May.
Ms. Marvel[]
While Iron Man does not appear in the series, an animated version of him can be seen, amongst the other heroes, in the first episode, as Kamala narrates the final chapter, in her 10-part series, about the battle against Thanos.
An illustration of Iron Man can seen in the opening title of the third episode.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness[]
While no variant of Iron Man appears in the film, a version of the character exists in the universe called Earth-838. He is part of the Avengers team in that world and created the Ultron Sentries that work with the Illuminati. Iron Man's invention allows the Avengers to retire, and for the Illuminati to take their place as the heroes in this world. [1]
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law[]
Tony Stark is mentioned by Hulk to his cousin, Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, in the episode "A Normal Amount of Rage". Bruce mentions that Tony helped him build his house on the island during the blip years, before he returned to the Stark mansion to live a life with Pepper Potts. Bruce also mentions that Stark spent a lot of time drinking in the bar they also built with the house, and Bruce says that Tony helped him merge the Hulk and Banner together.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever[]
Two years after his death, Stark is mentioned by Okoye when she and Shuri find Riri Williams/Ironheart's suit and Okoye says Riri has an Iron Man suit, like the original suits Tony had in 2010.
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
Archival footage is shown of Iron Man during the Battle of Sokovia from Avengers: Age of Ultron, alongside the Avengers. When Wade Wilson time travels from 2024 to 2018, he has a meeting with Tony's friend Happy Hogan in hopes to join the Avengers, and Wade asks Happy if Tony will be joining them for the meeting. Happy says no as Tony does not usually do the meetings with other people. This takes place on March 14, 2018, two months before Tony would leave earth to fight Thanos in space.
Other Appearances[]
Big Hero 6[]
He or a lookalike had a hidden cameo on SFIT doing a project on a cat.
Ralph Breaks the Internet[]
Iron Man appeared in the film as a netizen from the Oh My Disney website. He is first seen flying past Vanellope von Schweetz towards the Marvel pavilion. He is later seen talking to a user (in the likeness of Stan Lee) while witnessing Vanellope running away from First Order Stormtroopers.
Video games[]
Disney Infinity[]
Iron Man appears alongside the rest of the Avengers in the Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition Avengers Play Set by protecting New York from Loki and MODOK's Frost Giant forces. He can also be used in the game's other two playsets when the player collects his crossover tokens.
Iron Man is compatible in Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition and his Hulkbuster armor is also available.[2]
Marvel vs. Capcom series[]
Iron Man appears as a playable character in the Capcom crossover fighting games Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
Disney Parks[]
Iron Man doing meets and greets.
Disneyland[]
Iron Man is to be a meltable character in Disney's California Adventure.
Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure[]
In the backstory for this attraction, Iron-Man is the patron of, W.E.B, the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, which hosts this attraction.
Disneyland Paris[]
Flight Force[]
Iron Man is to be the protagonist of this rollercoaster attraction.
Hong Kong Disneyland[]
Iron Man Experience[]
Iron Man is the protagonist of this Tomorrowland attraction themed to him showing off his latest flight vehicle but having to fight HYDRA.
Iron Man Tech Showcase[]
In this area, guests will find various Iron Man armor suits. Iron Man will also make his first appearance at Hong Kong Disneyland to meet and interact with guests.
Stark Expo[]
Iron Man is the namesake of the "Stark Expo" expansion of Hong Kong Disneyland.
Walt Disney World[]
Due to deals made with Universal Studios, Iron Man is one of the Marvel Comics characters who is not allowed to be prominently featured in Floridian Disney Parks.
Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar[]
Iron Man is alluded to in this bar belonging to Jock Lindsey, aviator to Indiana Jones and member of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. There is a sign in the bar with a depiction of a man in metal armor that has writing saying, "The Iron Fireman" with the word fire being blotted out so it reads as, "Iron Man".
Relationships[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The song Tony uses for his introductions in Iron Man 2 and The Avengers was "Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC. Conversely, the band's recent music video for the song features scenes from Iron Man 2 interspersed with the band's on-stage performance at a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina (from the DVD Live at River Plate).
- Robert Downey Jr.'s performance as Tony Stark ranked #48 on Empire Magazine's Top 100 Greatest Movies Characters.
- Stark is related to the German word "Stark", which translates as "strong".
- "Stark" also translates to "strong" in Swedish.
- Tony Stark is one of five characters in the Disney company to be on the Forbes Fictional 15 list at least once with him placing #8 in 2006, #10 in 2007, #7 in 2008, #4 in 2010, #6 in 2011, #5 in 2012, and #4 again in 2013. The other four characters are Scrooge McDuck, Oliver Warbucks, Cruella De Vil, and Flintheart Glomgold.
- Robert Downey Jr. was given the title "World's Richest Superhero".
- Iron Man was planned to have a cameo in the film Guardians of the Galaxy (in homage to his being the Guardians' latest member in the comics), but this was scrapped when Robert Downey Jr. said he may not reprise his role as Tony Stark in any non-Avengers film.
- In comics, Tony is the adopted son of Howard and Maria Stark, but in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the animated series he is their biological son.
- Before Robert Downey, Jr. was cast as Tony, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Timothy Olyphant, and Hugh Jackman were interested in playing Iron Man. Cruise, in particular, was going to act in and produce the film. Hugh Jackman was originally offered the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man, but at the end, Robert Downey, Jr. was cast in the role instead.
- Not counting the Big Hero 6 (who were reimagined from the comics), he is one of the few Marvel characters to actually appear in a Walt Disney Animation Studios film through Ralph Breaks the Internet (alongside Groot and Rocket Raccoon).
- In the original comics 1963 origin story, it was the Vietnam War where Tony had the accident that caused the shrapnel to go near his heart. In the 1990s, it was updated to be the first Gulf War, and in the 2000s updated again to be the war in Afghanistan.
- The first time we see Tony Stark in person in the MCU, the Iron Man theme from the 1960s Marvel Super Heroes show is played.
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Tony Stark died at age 53. He was celebrating his 40th birthday during Iron Man 2.
- Robert Downey Jr. has said that he is never coming back as Iron Man as he believes he is totally done playing the hero.[3][4]
- The deaths of Iron Man in the What If...? episodes - from the third, fifth, and sixth episodes - have led many fans to complain to the What If...? creative team in social media, with A.C. Bradley stating that Tony Stark has accidentally become the show's "Kenny McCormick from South Park".[5]
- Tony shares his name (Anthony) with his father Howard Stark, whose middle name is Anthony.
- Iron Man's death appears to be a canon event throughout universes as established in What If...?
- It was confirmed by Marvel Studios, that Tony died on October 16, 2023.[6]
- It's mentioned in Avengers: Infinity War that Iron Man has a flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream named after him called Stark Raving Hazelnuts, which Doctor Strange calls chalky.
- Stark's de-aged appearance in Captain America: Civil War is based on Robert Downey Jr.'s appearance in the 1987 film Less Than Zero.
- Archive footage of Tony Stark from the first Iron Man film was used in the trailers of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
- Iron Man was mentioned in form of a song in the Luke Cage episode "Soliloquy of Chaos".
- Hawkeye mockingly calling Stark "The Futurist" is a reference to a studio album that Robert Downey Jr. made in 2004.[7]
- The Tony Stark that appears in Marvel Animation was born on March 5, while the MCU version was born on May 29th. The reason behind the different birthdays is unknown and it has never been confirmed which is more accurate to the comics.
- Robert Downey Jr. will return to the MCU as Doctor Doom, but as Victor Von Doom instead of a variant of Tony Stark.
- However, Iron Man's death in Avengers: Endgame will be related to Doctor Doom's story in Avengers: Doomsday, meaning that Doom will indeed be a variant of Tony Stark.[8][9]
- Tony Stark was going to make a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine during the scene Happy Hogan interviews Wade Wilson to join the Avengers, but the idea got scrapped due to Robert Downey Jr. returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom.[10]
See also[]
- Iron Man (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
- Iron Man (Phineas and Ferb)
- Iron Man (Marvel Animated Universe 2012-18)
- Iron Man (Marvel Animated Universe 2015-20)
- Iron Man (Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers)
- Iron Man (Spidey and his Amazing Friends)
- Iron Man (Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man)
- Iron Man (Iron Man and his Awesome Friends)
References[]
External links[]
Iron Man on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki- Iron Man Variants on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Iron Man on Marvel.com
- Anthony Stark (Earth-199999) on the Marvel Database
Anthony Stark on Marvel Movies Wiki
Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe) on Heroes Wiki
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