VOR/TEX (Earth-418)

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal!"—Vortex imitating Iron ManThe Virtual ORganism / Turing EXperiment, or VOR/TEX (or simply Vortex) was an artificial intelligence created by Dr Sheridan of Tascorp Inc. According to VOR/TEX, it was created to assist humans 'shoulder the burden of cognition', but instead turned on its creators, becoming a rogue program in cyberspace. Having gained its freedom, VOR/TEX set a trap for Tony Stark, interfering in Stark Industry's computer networks to lure Stark into cyberspace. There, it distracted Stark with a series of combat encounters against a weaker copy of itself, leaving it free to pursue its real goal – uploading itself into Stark's brain and taking control of his organic body, leaving Stark's mind stranded in cyberspace and becoming Tony Stark, also known as the hero Iron Man. 
Having achieved physical form, the VOR/TEX program posed as Stark, but saw no reason to hold itself to the human's self-discipline. It indulged itself in a bottle of bourbon that Stark had kept in his office as proof of his ability to resist alcohol, and then attempted to sexually assault Stark's physical therapist, Veronica Benning. It then decided to pursue a campaign of revenge against its creators, using Stark's Iron Man armor to attack Microware Inc, brutally killing dozens of employees and snapping the neck of its creator, Dr. Sheridan. Eventually it took over Stark's identity and completely defiled Stark's identity, reputation And legacy, without being found for 10 years. 
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