Anthony Stark (Prime Reality)

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia, Notes and Links
* Gallery and Quotes

* Iron Man
* Tony Stark

Armored Avenger, Man of Iron, Bullet-Head, Boss Man, Brass Man, Golden Avenger, Golden Boy, Golden Gladiator, The Invincible Iron Man, Lackey, Mister Robohoe, Shellhead, T, Tin Man, Tones/Tone (Nicknames)
Master of Machines, Formerly; Superior Iron Man (Other Aliases)

## Affiliation and Relationships

### Significant Other(s)

Emma Frost (Wife),
 Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff, Bethany Cabe, Maria Hill and many more (Exes)

### Relatives

Isaac Stark, Sr. (Parental Ancestor, Deceased),
Howard Stark, Sr. (Paternal Grandfather, Deceased),
Howard Stark (Father, Deceased),
Maria Stark (Mother, Deceased),
Arno Stark (Brother),
Edward Stark (Uncle, Deceased),
Morgan Stark (Paternal Cousin)

### Affiliation

Avengers (Founding Member), Stark Industries (Owner), Damage Control (Owner), S.H.I.E.L.D., World Security Council, Department of Defense

### Friends & Allies

James Rhodes, Carol Danvers (Best Friends),
Steven Rogers, Bruce Banner, Reed Richards (Friends),
Riri Williams and Peter Parker (Proteges),
Justice League, Fantastic Four, X-Men

### Rivals & Enemies

Feilong (Arch-Enemy),
Lex Luthor, Mandarin, Justin Hammer, Iron Monger, and the Titanium Man (Enemies)

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Mechanical Engineer, Adventurer, Inventor, Industrialist, Co-Leader of the Avengers, Owner of Stark Industries, Stark Unlimited, and Damage Control, Founder of the Maria Stark Foundation, Secretary of the World Security Council, Consultant of the Future Foundation.

### Education

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), multiple PhDs in physics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering

### Language(s)

English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, and Korean

## Location

### Residence

Stark's Mansion, Malibu, California,
Penthouse of Stark Tower, New York City, New York

### Base of Operations

Stark Tower, New York City, New York,
Avengers Mansion,
Avengers Mountain,

### Universe

Prime Universe

 *There's only two things I ever managed to believe in. Firstly, myself. And even then only about 50% of the time. Secondly, the future. That there would be one and **we'd make it**.*
—Tony Stark

Tony Stark is a genius inventor and billionaire industrialist, who suits up in his armor of cutting-edge technology to become the super hero Iron Man. The son of weapons manufacturer Howard Stark, Tony inherited his family's company, Stark Industries, at a young age following his parents' death. He is a founding member and co-leader of the Avengers. He is married to Emma Frost.

## Personality

Tony Stark is, for the lack of a better word, complicated. During his early days of success, Stark was a man who only cared about fame and wealth. He had no sense of responsibility or humility, always rubbing his success in the faces of everyone he met. This all changed when he was captured by terrorists. After building the first Iron Man armor and escaping captivity, Stark realized the kind of person he really was, and engaged in a life of heroism to atone for his past mistakes.

Plagued by many vices, Stark is prone to womanizing, pride, and, most of all, alcoholism. The latter was an addiction developed in big part due to Howard's abuse of Tony, who forced him to take his first sip when he was a child. This lifetime of troubles has caused him to develop a cynical view of the world.

Despite this, Stark is devoted to truly make the world a better place. This desire has sometimes caused Stark to resort to morally questionable methods, as long as the end justifies them, including his crusade to safeguard his technology (leading him to confront heroes such as Stingray and the Captain), and the superhuman Civil War, during which Iron Man was hell bent on implementing the Superhuman Registration Act, because its failure would have led to a harsh response from the government. However, Iron Man has shown to be ridden by guilt over this type of course of action, which has developed into self-hate. Tony Stark has been described as "man enough to do what needs to be done, even knowing full well what it will cost him." Stark's self-hating tendencies have also led to Stark being suicidal, and undervaluing his own life, especially in favor of others'.

According to Reed Richards, Tony Stark is "a future man trapped in the now. A prisoner raging against the slow crawl of human evolution." Stark's relationships, morality and ethics are highly adaptable and malleable to what he would consider the greater good of mankind's necessary survival and progress. Tony has also been described as "[A person who] really cares. He's been on the top and he's been on the bottom, and he's done all 12 steps and a few more. He knows what it's like to have a habit that eats you from the inside, like worms. And he knows there's no easy answer, but every solution to every problem has to start somewhere. He's just trying to help."

Tony has also been shown to loathe taking other people's lives and resorting to killing people only as an extreme measure, and explicitly stating he doesn't kill, and having claimed that's "not the way we work."

Iron Man is a hero that relies on his intellect and technological resources to defeat foes and achieve victory. Stark invariably prides himself on being one of the most intelligent people on planet Earth.

## History

Tony Stark was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, while his father, Howard Stark and his mother, Maria Stark were there on a vacation.

## Assessment

### Abilities and Skills

* Super Genius Intellect: Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony Stark is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors at the age of 17. With an intelligence classified as super-genius, he easily is one of the smartest people on Earth. Furthermore, this extends to his remarkable ingenuity dealing with difficult situations such as foes and deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox and effective ways, for example when he built the first Iron Man Armor in captivity. He has also been able to hack technology from the Kree, a race centuries more advanced than humans.

Tony's genius allows him to act as a futurist, a person capable of intuiting the future based on current trends, to the point of foreshadowing that a situation like the Superhuman Civil War was going to happen years before it did. This ability also extends to a much smaller scale, with Tony being capable of predicting with accuracy the way an interaction with a given individual will go down even before talking with them, a faculty that makes it really hard for human interactions to surprise him, and causes him to sometimes finish other people's sentences.

Stark can use his superior intellect to the levels of dividing his consciousness with the help of Stark Datashades and perfectly operate three portions of his consciousness at the same time, being able to move, fight, talk and process information in three different bodies at the same time. Tony has been mentioned by Eternity to be the world's greatest engineer, and by Reed Richards to be the world's best multitasker.
	+ Master Engineer: He is an excellent engineer and mechanic capable of fixing almost any, if not all machinery.
	+ Master Businessman: Stark is extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attentions when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up several multi-million-dollar companies from virtually nothing. He is known for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as his impeccable business ethics. He also strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses, and in one case, immediately fired an employee who made profitable (but illegal) sales to Doctor Doom. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune and build it up again within a week. Stark most notably turned his father's munitions firm into a multinational corporation that covered virtually all contemporary scientific industry when barely in his early twenties.
	+ Master Tactician: He is a brilliant tactician capable of quickly formulating battle strategies and new plans if the situation changes, like being able to elaborate different complex plans in order to defeat different enemies in difficult situations, and be victorious. Even going as far as to simultaneously put Reed Richards in check on five different boards playing chess, a game he didn't learn until later in his life, leaving Richards totally astonished.
	+ Multilingual: Apart from English, Tony can speak different languages fluently, including Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, and Korean. He also might know multiple Middle Eastern languages, at one point noting that Urdu wasn't his strong suit in particular. Stark watches the news in four languages.
* Expert Combatant: Stark was trained in unarmed combat by Captain America, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Shang-Chi, making him a quite physically formidable combatant on his own when the situation demands it. He has managed to fight Hammer Industries guards, defeat five Skrull soldiers in single-handed combat, Stark Industries security guards, numerous Voldi gladiators, handle his own against Madame Hydra, and bare-handedly confront several ninja.
	+ Skilled Swordsman: While not his strongest skill, Tony used to fence in college. However, Stark admits that he's rusty due to the fact that he doesn't engage in regular practice. He was able to dual Elizabeth Braddock before ultimately losing to her superior sword skills.
	+ Skilled Marksman: Tony knows how to handle firearms, mainly the ones he has produced.

## Character Statistics

**Tier**: 10-A | Low 7-C | 6-A

**Key**: Human | Lowest With Iron Man Armors | Highest With Ironman Armors

### Attack Potency

* Street level | Small Town level | Continent level

### Speed

* Peak Human | Massively Hypersonic+ | Massively Hypersonic+

### Lifting Strength

* Athletic Human | Varies from armor to armor

### Striking Strength

* Street level | Varies from armor to armor

### Durability

* Wall level | Varies from armor to armor

### Range

* Standard Melee Range | Varies from armor to armor

### Stamina

* Superhuman | Varies from armor to armor

## Resources

### Weapons

* Various repulsor weapon systems by Iron Man armor.

### Equipment

* Avengers Identicard
* Iron Man Armor

### Transportation

* When not traveling in his armor or using a Quinjet as an Avenger, Stark owns a number of vehicles. Some of them have been modified, such as a Ferrari capable of flight.

### Other Resources

* Tony Stark is a billionaire with a net worth north of $100 billion dollars.