Obadiah Stane

Obadiah Stane (d. May 19th, 2008) was the COO of Stark Industries as well as the godfather of Tony Stark. A close friend of Howard Stark's before he, Maria Stark, and Ana Jarvis were killed by the Winter Soldier, he tried to become close to Tony since to limited success, mostly because of his sexist and bigoted views. Neither Tony, his husband Bruce Wayne, nor his PA Pepper Potts viewed Obadiah in a favorable light; the fact that Obadiah had his own omega son, Zeke Stane, married off at the age of fourteen, who then subsequently died along with his child when giving birth to Obadiah's grandson because of being too young to bring a pregnancy to full-term safely only exacerbated the negative light, along with Obadiah's comments during Tony's pregnancy with Bea Wayne. Still, they put up with him, mainly because of the power Obadiah has over the company due to the amount of shares that he owns and his status as an alpha.
In May of 2008, it was revealed that not only was Obadiah double-dealing Stark Industries weapons under the table, but that he was also partially responsible for Tony being kidnapped by Zadran's Ten Rings in February of that same year. He took Tony's arc reactor over this in order to power his own suit, which was named by the media the Iron Monger, and during Tony's paralysis also revealed that he would have been the one to marry Tony if it was not for Bruce offering Howard a better marriage contract. Obadiah was then killed during his fight with Tony in their suits in New York City, ending his influence on Tony's life and Stark Industries.