Iron Man Armor: Mark VII

The **Mark VII Iron Man Armor** is Tony Stark's seventh Iron Man suit and the first designed for automatic deployment and assembly, with extensive flight and weapons upgrades. It was notably used by Stark in 2023 to fight the Chitauri invasion during the Battle of New York.

## History

### Battle of New York

During the Attack on the Helicarrier, in which Loki escaped imprisonment, Tony Stark's Mark VI suit was severely damaged while attempting to repair and restart the Helicarrier's damaged turbines. When Stark realized that Loki intended to carry out his plans from the top of Stark Tower, Stark repaired the Mark VI just enough for him to fly back to Stark Tower himself. Upon arriving he relinquished the Mark VI while telling J.A.R.V.I.S. to prepare the Mark VII. Though J.A.R.V.I.S. pleaded that the suit was not yet ready, Stark insisted, requiring the suit immediately.

Stark distracted Loki as J.A.R.V.I.S. prepared the Mark VII, and covertly slipped on a pair of bracelets. After Loki failed to take control of Stark's mind, he decided to dispose of him by throwing him through a window to his death. Distressed, Stark called for J.A.R.V.I.S. to deploy the Mark VII as he was thrown through the window. The Mark VII had just arrived on the elevator and quickly deployed, crashing into Loki as it followed Stark out the window. Using its thrusters, the Mark VII was able to catch Stark mid-fall and, locating his bracelets, latched onto him while assembling into the Iron Man armor, allowing Stark to fly back up to face Loki and his army as it began to emerge through a portal in the sky.

The armor was quickly put to the test against the Chitauri as it held off a large number of their Chariot flyers and distracted a Leviathan as the rest of the Avengers arrived. Fighting alongside his teammates, Stark used the suit to hold air superiority over the Chitauri and took out a Leviathan by flying through it. Unable to stop the launch himself, Nick Fury contacted Stark to intercept the missile. Putting all of the Mark VII's power into its flight capabilities he intercepted the missile and redirected it, flying it through the wormhole. However, in space, the Mark VII lost power and fell back into the wormhole's gravity field to Earth. In the end, Mark VII had been heavily damaged by the events of the battle.

## Capabilities

The Mark VII was a leap forward in the Iron Man technology, bringing together all of the groundwork and advancements made with the first six versions in addition to greatly expanding on the flight system, as well as the ordinance and laser weapon systems.

When not in use the armor takes on a form resembling a cylindrical pod in which the chest-plate forms the top and the thrusters from the boots form the bottom, which propels the pod like a rocket. On Tony Stark's command, it can be deployed by J.A.R.V.I.S. and sent to him. It uses a laser-guided system, similar to a bar-code scanner, to find a pair of bracelets worn by the user and attaches to them as it assembles around the user's body.

Like the previous models, the suit increased the physical abilities of the wearer, giving Stark superhuman strength, durability, movement speed and reflexes. In addition, the Mark VII upgraded the gauntlet repulsor and uni-beam weapons as the previous suits had. This iteration of the Iron Man armor contained an expansive assortment of weapons, including both new weapons and upgrades to weapon systems from the previous armors.
Despite all of its immediate successors, the Mark VII has demonstrated the greatest combat potential, as most of the subsequent models were either specialized variants or not yet perfected prototypes.

* **Superhuman Strength**: *To be added*
* **Superhuman Durability**: *To be added*
* **Superhuman Speed**: *To be added*
* **Superhuman Agility**: *To be added*
* **Superhuman Stamina**: *To be added*
* **Superhuman Reflexes**: *To be added*
* **Flight**: The Mark VII makes a considerable innovation to the flight system through the addition of a pair of thrusters added to the suit's back, which give the suit faster flight speed and acceleration, while also providing flight stability, allowing Stark to freely use his palm-mounted repulsors to attack enemies while in flight. The suit also has two ports in the chest plate that house thrusters to counterbalance the thrusters added to the back, and to help the suit ascend while flying without the use of the hand repulsors. The suit also contains smaller, auxiliary thrusters in the boots to provide extra thrust when trying to lift or manipulate other objects during flight.
* **Heads Up Display (HUD)**: The Heads-Up display showed important things for the suit. The Heads Up Display of the Iron Man suit was powered by J.A.R.V.I.S., Stark's artificial intelligence. The Suit also had Defensive and Offensive sections, able to switch around the sections, resorting to missiles and lasers. The HUD could also be talked to, and J.A.R.V.I.S. would reply to it. The HUD could scan people, missile identifications, make calls, and give crucial suit credentials such as power. The HUD also had navigational (GPS) support. The suit also had radio capabilities.
* **Repulsors**: Particle weapons in the palm gauntlets that fired beams or blasts of concussive and explosive force, allowing them to repel physical and energy-based attacks. It enabled him to knock down and stun Loki and takedown numerous Chitauri foot soldiers and airships with ease.
* **Unibeam**:
* **Lasers**: The Mark VII possessed an advanced version of the hand-mounted laser weapon system introduced in the Mark VI. Unlike the Mark VI's lasers, which could only be fired once, the Mark VII's lasers could fire nearly continuously by drawing power directly from the Arc Reactor. Each laser module fired three lasers with one larger, central laser, and two flanking lasers for a heavier attack. This suit also sports missile launchers on each thigh. However, it was not strong enough to penetrate a Leviathan's shell.
* **Missiles**: The Mark VII possessed a vast armament of miniature, guided air-to-air missiles that are housed in the compartments on each shoulder, that blew up numerous Chitauri ships. Like the previous suits, the Mark VII contained a small anti-armor missile in each gauntlet of the suit, he was able to use a missile hit by a repulsor to take down an attacker. Stark was also able to destroy a Leviathan by flying into its mouth and launching them throughout its body with missiles in compartments in his knees.
* **Stealth Mode:** The Mark Vll possesses the ability to camouflage around its surroundings.

## Appearances

In Order:

* The Avengers