Iron Man

The Invincible **Iron Man** is the hero persona adapted by Michael Nexima when using the eponymous armoured suit. Due to Nexima keeping his secret identity from the planet, he is widely known as "Nexima's Bodyguard".

## Biography

### Origins

Michael Nexima first heard of the PALADIN armour, which was developed simultaneously to the KNIGHT-SOLDIER programme, in 2022. As a result, he used his existing miniature SIGMA reactor designs to create his own design that will break through Nevanity's current technological limitations. While demonstrating his weapons tech in the planet Yavin-4, He was kidnapped and taken to the planet Centurion Prime, his captors wanting him to rebuild his weapons for them.

He was smart enough to deceive them, locate materials and technology from his native planet to build his 1.0 armour, fight his way out and escape his captivity, but the suit's limited flight capacity compelled him to rely on Akamori Rakesh's assistance to depart the planet through his starship.

### Upgrades

Nexima refines his armoured suit design after returning to the planet Nexonia Prime and his mansion at Obrinia. However, because he was so impressed with his first crude armour, he kept it at home as a memento and possibly an emergency armour in case his future suits were compromised. He decides to jumpstart the 2.0 suit and its creation after analysing the flaws and weaknesses of his first prototype suit. He orders his personal AI, AVIS, to suit up in the new armour and test its flight capabilities, after a lengthy creation and extensive testing of the 2.0 suit's boots and gauntlets for hovering and flight.

It has been revealed that it is unsuitable for high-altitude flight and lacks onboard weaponry. He perfectly fixes it with his 3.0 suit, a vastly improved and redesigned successor to the 2.0 suit, complete with a distinctive red and gold colour scheme, onboard weapon systems, and an upgraded exoskeleton embedded inside to superhumanly improve his abilities.

### Heroes Aren't Born, They're Built.

While testing his new 3.0 suit at Nexima Industries, Michael uses it to fend off an attack by the Barons, who have been providing weapons for the Centurion Armed Forces, and even local terrorists back in Nexonia Prime. Using his new "Signature" armour, Nexima destroys the Baron's weapons stockpiles and an armoured hovercraft. On the way home, he establishes contact with his friend Nicholas Wolfgang Bale, Jameson Lockett and reveals to them about his identity as Iron Man.

#### Adventures of the Iron Man

Michael then returns home, where Catherine Nexima discovers what he has been *doing*. Lockett then starts to help Nexima with his desires, informing him of a weapons transport in Razikstan. Michael follows the transport, destroying the weapons, defeating the villain **Schleudertrauma**, a former Nexima Robotics Corporation worker, in the process, before proceeding to the Baron's compound to destroy the rest of the weapons, and swaps to his newly made 4.0 stealth suit after infiltrating the mansion, he confronts *Dorada Masque*, who is killed when a wall falls on her. Nexima then destroys the Baron's flying fortress, ending their threat.

Following his return to Nexima Robotics Corporation, Michael repels an attack by forces led by Titaniumus, who was actually sent by Brazos to steal the Iron Man suit. He is ambushed by Brazos after discovering his affiliation with S.O.L.A.C.E. and the Centurion military of the planet Centurion Prime. Brazos steals his arc reactor to build a power source for his own armour. Lockett saves Michael and informs him that S.O.L.A.C.E. has kidnapped Catherine in order to use her as bait. He then uses his armour to save Catherine from an S.O.L.A.C.E facility and prevents the explosion of their reactor. Iron Man decides that S.O.L.A.C.E is a bigger menace than Brazos and decides to confront them first. He heads to their island and destroys their proton cannon before defeating the Melter and destroying S.O.L.A.C.E.'s space fortress, ending their menace.

Michael then returns home and battles Brazos, who has donned the "*Steel Monger*" suit. He is outmatched as his suit uses the 1.0 reactor for his power source. The battle reaches the top of Nexima Industries, Michael orders Catherine to overload the SIGMA reactor at the building. The plan works, and Brazos is killed. With all the villains gone, Michael Nexima decides to continue helping nevanity as the Iron Man, but proceeds to keep his superhero identity a secret.

### A Celebrity Hero

#### Public Reveal

Iron Man performed acts of heroism all across the planet. Afterwards, he revealed his identity to the planet and caused massive attention. Nexima was named "Person of the Year" by SUCESS OF THE TIME magazine after defeating all of the terrorists and rescuing Linda's stolen son while under blackmail from the Barons. Iron Man emerged and mercilessly crushed the terrorists after Frederick Talbotinne sent a team of Panamoan Navy SEALs to board a ship hijacked by the Barons. Nexima also assist Herschel Shepherd in rescuing the pilot of the downed PROTO SONIC jet in the Aryaine Kingdom. Nexima had recovered stolen paintings in Evalka without using his armour, all in order to obtain Feodora's phone number.

Nexima learns that the palladium core in the SIGMA reactor that keeps him alive and powers the armour is slowly poisoning him, and he cannot find a substitute. Growing increasingly reckless and despondent about his impending death, and choosing not to tell anyone about his condition, Nexima appoints his personal assistant Catherine Nexima as CEO of the Nexima Robotics Corporation and hires NRC employee Laura Smirnoff to replace her as his personal assistant. Nexima competes in the Cordonia Historic Grand Prix, where he is attacked in the middle of the race by Bulski, who wields tesla whips. Nexima dons his *Football 2.75* armour and defeats Bulski, but the suit is severely damaged. Bulski explains that his intention was to prove to the world that Iron Man is not invincible.

#### Fighting A Vendetta

Nexima's rival in technology race, Derek Tavish, is impressed with Bulski's performance and fakes Bulski's death while cleverly breaking him out of prison and urges him to construct a line of armoured suits to upstage Nexima, though Bulski decides that unmanned drones are a better idea. Nexima gets intoxicated while wearing the Iron Man armour at what he feels is his "final birthday" celebration. Disgusted, Nexima's best friend, Lieutenant Colonel Jameson Lockett of the Aerospace Panamoan Air Force, dons Nexima's prototype 2.0 armour and tries to control him (but fails and is compelled to battle despite the prototype's inferior strength). The battle concludes in a stalemate, and Lockett takes the armour for the Panamoan Air Force.

Magdalene Velveteen, director of the Black Velvet, approaches Nexima, revealing that "Valerie" is agent Laura Smirnoff. Velveteen explains that Bulski's father and Nexima invented the arc reactor together, but when Yuri Bulski tried to sell it, Nexima had him deported. The Evalkans sent Yuri to the Gulag. Velveteen gives Nexima some of his father's old material. Michael discovers a hidden message in the diorama of the 1969 NEXI-Expo; it proves to be a diagram of the atomic structure of a *new* element. With the aid of his A.I., AVIS, Nexima synthesises it. When he learns that Bulski is still alive, he places the new element in his SIGMA reactor and ends his palladium dependency.

At the current Expo, Tavish unveils Bulski's armoured drones, led by Lockett in a heavily weaponised version of the prototype 2.0 armour. Nexima arrives to warn Lockett, but Bulski takes remote control of all the drones and Lockett' armour and attacks Nexima. Tavish soon gets arrested for breaking Bulski out of prison, while Smirnoff and Nexima's bodyguard Nicholas Wolfgang Bale go after Bulski at Tavish's primary factory. Bulski escapes, but Smirnoff returns control of Lockett' armour to him. Together, Nexima, now the Iron Man and Lockett as the Firepower, defeat Bulski and his drones. Bulski commits suicide by blowing up his suit, along with the defeated drones.

### A Call to Arms: D-Day

Initially absent from the event, Michael arrived on the Sigmacarrier during the main event, unintentionally interrupting Pierson's speech. Walking onto the VIP balcony, he briefly interacted with a young girl by complementing her bag. Almost immediately after joining his teammates on stage, Mimeographer's forces began their attack on the Red Gate Bridge.

Flying out with Harðhugaðr to scout out the incident, Iron Man engaged with the group and their vehicles, reporting his findings to the team. Among his discoveries were the use of Pantheon Tanks and the use of stolen Nexima technology. Iron Man also helped minimize the damage and rescue civilians caught on the bridge, most of which caused either by the Raging Beast or Mimeographer's Sonic Charges. After Cockse and his army were dealt with, the Defenders realised the attack was merely a distraction to bring them away from the Sigmacarrier. As he headed back to help Rogers, Nexima watched in horror as the Sigmacarrier exploded and crashed down in the bay.

Nexima attempted to defend the Defenders in congressional hearings following the tragic events of D-Day after Pierson and Montgomery submitted reports indicating they were responsible. These were undermined, however, when Brickson admitted that the team posed a threat to the planet, resulting in their disbandment. Knowing that the only place he can stay now that S.O.L.A.C.E and PROJECT have taken over the city is the NRC Tower, Michael Nexima managed to keep Laura Smirnoff in his building, but he persuaded her to join the G/NEX and learn everything.

It is unknown if the rest of the Defenders have survived, not even his intellect can figure it out. Perhaps SCODOK has killed them at some point.

### PROJECT-G/NEX War

Throughout the corporate war, He has tactically assisted the G/NEX as he provides maintenance repairs for their warriors regarding armour or their cybernetic bodies. Moreover, he has discreetly opposed the megacorporation's rule, so much so that his building remains intact despite the colonisation of the Panamoan Republic. RUBICORE later entrusted him on intercepting any ships of PROJECT that intends to deliver mechas and vehicles to exert more control over their own country.

As the wars progressed, he has gained respect on ASHE-159. As Nexima, he also mentioned about her and TRISTANNA-651 barging into his building to question PSYLOCKE-832's whereabouts. He survived the war, and he switched his 3.0 Armour into the 5.0, as the latter becomes increasingly obsolete, and SCODOK was responsible for its destruction. When everything has ended, He attended Ashe's funeral and witnessed the remaining G/NEX warriors. He commented that it took them a heavy toll as most of them died.

Later, Michael Nexima would pay his respects by erecting a seemingly indestructible monument bearing Ashe's figure, an idea he got from the late hero's mother and tribe. Finally, he noticed that an unsettlingly familiar woman had visited Ashe's funeral more than several times. While flying the suit to scout her, he comes to the conclusion that Ashe may have had a daughter all along.

### Bygone: The Uprising

Iron Man would go on sponsor Nexima Robotics Corporation as the top corporation of the Panamoan Republic, and he has created the most powerful thing ever: Nextech. A crystal that served as an amalgamation of technology and magic, its true power, is limitless, and the imagination only limits its endless potential. He has notably paid OMAR-CONSTRUCT to implement Nextech in various countries such as the Aryaine Kingdom and Heliga. As expected, it gave him some controversy as SCODOK later attempts to ruin it as the Corporate Renegades have broken the tranquility of a new era, and another war is upon heroes, like him, or the new G/NEX.

As the Iron Man, he has helped more than enough times, such as during *Anti-Corporations* and *Unshakeable Revelation*, the latter tragedy wherein he managed to rebuild the heroes' headquarters within a week, and bringing back some of them together. Despite his extraordinarily, unlimited intelligence, it took him long enough to discover that Ashe, has a daughter known as Madeleine, the Lunar Frost.

Iron Man, sick of S.O.L.A.C.E. controlling the Panamoan Republic since the Legion's defeat in *Unshakeable Revelation*, decides to plan an entire scenario in order to kill SCODOK. Knowing that Lunar Frost has been apprehended in her own country, he provides Skullface with information as he continues to build his plan to end SCODOK, claiming that he has lived for far too long and has stained the planet itself. When the legionnaires had had enough time to reunite, he took the initiative to fight S.O.L.A.C.E as a one-man army, not caring if he had to make the ultimate sacrifice.

He later saw the opportunity to fight SCODOK when he witnesses Yellowjacket Wolf attempting to sabotage him, discovering that Frazier has helped him earn a place within the renegades, meaning that the soldier is none other than Gray Wolf. Afterwards, Iron Man and SCODOK had a reunion before starting the fight. The Evil Genius ultimately loses as Iron Man managed to shoot his explosive implant on his brain, blowing it and he uses his armour's strength to slam the evil leader into the floor, killing him for good. Notably, he requests the media to take a picture of it to spread their message against the renegades. Without further ado, he flew into Avarshi.

He was in disbelief when he saw the prodigy in her official outfit as a true warrior on live television, impressing him to the point sending her a message just to congratulate her and use their momentum to fight S.O.L.A.C.E. Lunar Frost even questioned his occasional engagements with the renegades, to which he implies that they're not worth fighting when using his armour. When the NEW/G finally reformed, Fiona Vance offered him a position in their ranks, which he graciously declined, confirming his independence.

It took long enough to realise that Mimeographer stole a suit of his, and he decides to enact his vengeance upon him should a final fight take place, quickly realising that it has a self destruct feature. He knew the battlefield would be none other than Avarshi itself, to which he realises that it should be a walk in the park. To take advantage of the final battle, he sets up a satellite and informs the Panamoan military that the renegades are still strong, and are on guard in the Northern lands, which in return, they mobilised.

He even seeks to ask Rachelle Palmer regarding on fighting the new war, but she rejects the request, which also happened to be the same result when he asked Wolfgang himself. Moreover, he quickly learned about LORD ANNIHILATOR, allowing himself to prepare an arsenal of armours, while he is ecstatic to see an armoured angel destined to fight her rival. This gives him the chance to achieve one thing in life that he hasn't done yet: Falling in love.

## Personality

While wearing the armour as Iron Man, Nexima lays aside his narcissism, ego, greed, and avarice with a joyful, altruistic, and energetic attitude. As a result of his caustic but amusing exterior, he is generally regarded and likeable. Notably, he is known for his fashion sense, as many can generally agree that his armours are well designed despite the fact that usefulness matters more.

## Abilities

When Michael Nexima uses on any of his Iron Man Armours, he gains access to a vast range of utilities, practically giving him superpowers through a powerful arsenal. The majority of his armours grants him immense superhuman strength, durability, speed, agility, and reflexes, with the ability to fly at supersonic speeds and have full access to onboard weapon systems.

### Moveset

* **Adaptive Combat System**: Iron Man's fighting style rapidly changes throughout the course of an entire fight, which ranges from being a ranged marksman, a bruiser and a versatile fighter that utilises melee weapons. This made him become a dangerous and unpredictable combatant.

* **Repulsive Blast**: Fires Two beams, either rapid or a constant blast of plasma into his opponents. This is done through all armours, having the signature repulsor blasters mounted on the palm.

* **Anti-Armour**: Iron Man utilises his anti-armour weaponry available in his suit through choice. Wrist mounted rocket launchers are suited for precise takedowns of armoured combatants at long distances, while shoulder mounted miniature missiles available on certain armours are suited when fighting multiple combatants.

* **MELEE MODE**: Iron Man uses his melee weapons for close combat, when hand-to-hand combat with the armour's strength is unsuitable given the current situation.

* **CHEST RT: CENTROBEAM**: The CENTROBEAM is a secondary repulsion blast that comes out of Iron Man's chest reactor, and it is the most powerful weapon on any armour. It has to be used wisely, as if it is used excessively, it can rapidly drain the suit's power. Despite the massive power requirements, once used, it unleashes a devastating beam of plasma that packs enough firepower to obliterate anything in its path.

### Powers

* **Superhuman Strength**: Iron Man, as a result of his powerful SIGMA reactor, grants the user with immense superhuman strength. His 1.0 suit can potentially lift 20 tons and strike with a similar weight or force, While his 3.0 suit massively boosts his strength to a Class-75. However, his strength is godlike when using the 5.0 armour, as it grants Class-100 strength.

* **Superhuman Durability**: His armours all provide him incredible durability. His 1.0 armour is very resistant to high-caliber rounds, blunt trauma, and a high fall. His 2.0 armour is almost bulletproof and allows the pilot to survive falls with very minor injuries, generally a headache. Iron Man's 3.0 armour makes him an invincible force on the battlefield and able to take extreme damage from blunt trauma, explosions, cannons, and a large amount of firepower. His most efficient armour, the 5.0, is three times as durable as the 3.0 Armour.

* **Superhuman Speed**: The armour grants him superhuman speed, allowing to run at the speeds of 50 to 80 miles per hour without power consumption.

* **Superhuman Agility**: The Latest models of his armour grant him unreal agility, allowing him to dodge high speed projectiles such as anti tank shells, missiles, plasma beams and so on.

* **Superhuman Reflexes**: With the armour, his response rate and reflexes are amplified, to the point where he can move and react faster than he could normally.

* **Flight**: Iron Man, regardless of armour model, has the ability of flight. His 3.0 suit, on the other hand, is partially capable of supersonic flight, whilst his stealth suit can execute supersonic flights due to an aerodynamic design and decreased weight. The 5.0, his best all-around armour, is capable of supersonic flight. His Starboost armour, on the other hand, can fly at Mach 20-30, allowing it to sail past the atmosphere and into space.

## Trivia

### General

* His 3.0 Armour is the most prominent among all suits. However, this was later replaced by the 5.0 after SCODOK has disfigured his previous armour due to a powerful beam of plasma, that charred its outer exterior that nearly toasted him from the inside.
* The majority of Nexima's normal armour grants him Class-75 to Class-85 strength, but his 5.0 armour grants him godlike Class-100 strength. His 4.0 Stealth suit, on the other hand, only grants him Class-15 strength, as the suit's armour and raw power are reduced in favour of stealth commodities such as cloaking, EMP, knives, and anti-radar technologies.
* There are a total of *sixteen* attempts to copy his armour design.
* Known for his sense of humour while in combat.
* Not accounted in the events of *Unshakeable Revelation*, Iron Man singlehandedly manhandled the troops of S.O.L.A.C.E that safely guard the ruins of the NEW/G headquarters.

### Developmental Notes

* Iron Man is clearly the same persona as the superhero from Marvel Comics. This page was designed as a twisted and fictionalised version.
* Think of this version as a "Twisted and whatever" variation.