Iron Man

## Overview

### Partnership(s)

War Machine, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Pepper Potts, Edwin Jarvis, H.O.M.E.R, Happy Hogan

## Living Status

### Home(s)

Malibu Mansion, Avengers Mansion, Avengers Tower

### Citizenship

American, Russian, German, French, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, Chinese

### Identity

Public

Iron Man (aka Tony Stark) is considered one of the worlds first real Superheroes. He is also the Chairman of Stark Industries. In 2008, he was captured by a terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings. During this time, his original CEO, Obadiah Stane, seized Stark Industries for himself and turned it into Stane International. He collaborated with Ho Yinsen to create a suit of armor with basic weaponry, to escape the Ten Rings. After a failed flight, Tony Stark was picked up by the U.S Air Force, led by his friend Colonel James Rhodes. After this, he created his second suit of armor that he would use to test a new repulsor-based flight system. He would also use this suit to fight a robotic drone sent to kill him by Obadiah Stane, attempting to keep the company for himself. The third suit of armor would be enhanced with several H.O.M.E.R systems and given several weapons systems. He used this suit to fight Obadiah Stane in his new suit the 'Iron Monger'. In 2011, he would be drawn to an attack from a man in a suit of armor similar to Stane's who called himself Crimson Dynamo. After this, he was contacted by Nick Fury about a cosmic threat. He chose most of the members for the Avengers and fought back against Loki. After this, in 2012, his demons would come to haunt him in the form of A.I.M, led by M.O.D.O.K. He would be called back into action once again with the Avengers, who began tearing down A.I.M facilities in M.O.D.O.K's absence, which ultimately led to Hank Pym creating Ultron and getting absorbed by his creation. After defeating Ultron, the United Nations and S.H.I.E.L.D passed the Superhuman Registration Act, with Iron Man leading the Avengers (and the Mighty Avengers sub-team) against Captain America's Secret Avengers. He would then be attacked by the Ten Rings again, this time with their leader, the Mandarin revealing himself. After defeating the Mandarin, a new threat in the form of Thanos arrived. He was forced to work with Captain America once again to stop Thanos. He suffered an untimely death at the end of it all, but was revived by the collaboration of Bruce Banner, Reed Richards and Peter Parker in the form of the Strategic Tactical and Artificial Robotic Key (S.T.A.R.K) artificial intelligence. This AI eventually created a new body for itself in the form of the Endo-Sym armor which was created using the Venom symbiote combined with liquid Vibranium and Adamantium to create a technological symbiote. The S.T.A.R.K AI became corrupted by a latent Ultron virus in his system turning it evil, forcing it to kill enemies during the event dubbed the Armor War and eventually turning it into Ultron fully.

## Powers and Abilities

See the list of Iron Man armors for the individual powers each of his armors gives. Here is the basic powers using the Model XLIII:

### **Powers**

* **Superhuman Strength** - The Iron Man armor has been able to lift entire cars.
* **Superhuman Durability** - The Iron Man armor is very durable and is difficult to destroy, earning Stark the nickname "The Invincible Iron Man".
* **Superhuman Agility** - The Iron Man armor can achieve agility feats beyond that of a normal human
* **Energy Blasts** - The Iron Man armor can generate blasts of energy than can back a punch.
* **Material Analysis** - The armor, using a mobile H.O.M.E.R system can analyze materials to figure out what it's made of and its chemical composition.
* **Unibeam** - The armor has a chest module that releases a powerful beam of energy.
* **Force Field Generation** - The armor can generate a field of energy around itself that deflects attacks and shields Stark from building collapsing or debris fields (in space missions).
* **Missile Launchers** - The armor is equipped with various missile arrays.

### **Abilities**

* **Genius-level Intellect** - Tony's IQ is 270 making him an official genius and one of the smartest people in the world.
* **Expert scientist** - Tony is master in all fields of science (biology, chemistry, physics etc)
* **Expert engineer** - Tony is a master in all fields of engineering and invention.
* **Expert Weapons Handler** - Tony is an expert in handling his own weapons.
* **Peak Physical Condition** - Tony is in peak physical condition.
* **Multilingualism** - Aside from English, Tony is fluent in Russian, Japanese, French, Mandarin Chinese, Korean and various alien dialects (learned during his space missions with the Avengers.
* **Skilled Combatant** - Tony is very skilled in physical combat. He can hold his own in combat, but is easily defeated by combatants like Captain America and Black Widow.