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Tony Stark
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
First appearance	Iron Man (2008)
Last appearance	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Based on	Iron Man by Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby
Adapted by	Mark Fergus Hawk Ostby Art Marcum Matt Holloway
Portrayed by	Robert Downey Jr. Davin Ransom (young)[1]
Voiced by	Mick Wingert (What If…?)[2]
In-universe information
Full name	Anthony Edward Stark[3]
Alias	Iron Man
Occupation	Benefactor and leader of the Avengers Consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. CEO of Stark Industries Weapons manufacturer
Affiliation	Avengers Damage Control S.H.I.E.L.D. Stark Industries
Weapon	Iron Man armor Arc reactor Hulkbuster armor E.D.I.T.H. glasses
Family	Howard Stark (father) Maria Stark (mother)
Spouse	Pepper Potts
Children	Morgan Stark (daughter)
Origin	Manhattan, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Abilities	Genius level intellect Proficient scientist and engineer Powered armor suit granting: Superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, and senses Energy repulsor and missile projection Regenerative life support Supersonic flight

Anthony Edward Stark, more commonly known as Tony Stark, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise—based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name—commonly known by his alias, Iron Man. Stark is initially depicted as an industrialist, genius inventor, and playboy who is CEO of Stark Industries. Initially the chief weapons manufacturer for the U.S. military, he has a change of heart and redirects his technical knowledge into the creation of mechanized suits of armor which he uses to defend against those that would threaten peace around the world. He becomes a founding member and leader of the Avengers. Following his failed Ultron Program, the internal conflict within the Avengers due to the Sokovia Accords, and Thanos successfully erasing half of all life in the Blip, Stark retires, marries Pepper Potts, and they have a daughter named Morgan. However, Stark rejoins the Avengers on a final mission to undo Thanos’ actions. He creates time travel, and the Avengers successfully restore trillions of lives across the universe. However, Stark inevitably sacrifices his life to defeat Thanos and his army. Stark chooses Peter Parker as a successor.

Stark is one of the central figures of the MCU, having appeared in eleven films as of 2022. The character and Downey’s performance have been credited with helping to cement the MCU as a multi-billion-dollar franchise, with Stark’s evolution often being considered the defining arc of the series.^[4]

Alternate versions of Stark from within the MCU multiverse appear in the animated series What If…? (2021), voiced by Mick Wingert, reprising his role from previous non-MCU animated media.

Concept and creation

Tony Stark first premiered as a comic book character, in Tales of Suspense #39 (cover dated March 1963), a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and cover-artist and character-designer Jack Kirby.^[5] Lee wanted to create the «quintessential capitalist», a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel’s readership.^[6] Lee based this playboy’s looks and personality on Howard Hughes,^[7] as «one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies’ man and finally a nutcase.»^[8] The character’s original costume was a bulky gray armored suit, replaced by a golden version in the second story (issue #40, April 1963), and redesigned as sleeker, red-and-golden armor in issue #48 (Dec. 1963) by Steve Ditko.^[9] Lee and Kirby included Iron Man in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963) as a founding member of the superhero team. In the mid-2000s, with a number of movies having been made from other Marvel properties licensed to other studios, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, which included Iron Man. Feige, a self-professed «fanboy», envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.^[10]

Jon Favreau, who was selected to direct the first Iron Man film, felt Downey’s past made him an appropriate choice for the part,^[11] and that the actor could make Stark a «likable asshole,» but also depict an authentic emotional journey once he won over the audience.^[12] Ultimately however, Downey ended up being the choice the studio made for the first character in their ever-expansive cinematic universe. Favreau was also attracted to Downey from his performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), with Downey frequently conversing with that film’s director, Shane Black, about the script and dialogue in Iron Man.^[13]

Fictional character biography

Early life

Anthony Edward «Tony» Stark was born on May 29, 1970, in Manhattan, New York to Howard Stark, a famous genius inventor and businessman, and Maria Stark, a socialite and philanthropist. Growing up under the eye of family butler Edwin Jarvis, his life was characterized by a cold and affectionless relationship with his father. Seeing that his son could achieve great things, Howard tried to inspire him with constant talks about his own role in the creation of Captain America. This instead embittered Stark, who felt that his father was taking more pride in his creations than in his family. A brilliant and unique child prodigy, Stark attended MIT for two years starting at age 14, and graduated summa cum laude at 17.^[14]

On December 16, 1991, when Stark was 21, his parents went away to the Bahamas, but planned to stop at the Pentagon to deliver Super Soldier Serum Howard had redeveloped. Instead, both are killed in a car accident—later revealed to be an assassination carried out by the Winter Soldier, who was mind-controlled by Hydra to steal the serum.^[a] As a result, Stark inherited his father’s company, becoming CEO of Stark Industries. Over the years, he became well known as a weapons designer and inventor, and lived a playboy lifestyle. At a New Year’s Eve party for the new millennium, he attended a conference in Bern where he met scientists Maya Hansen, inventor of the Extremis experimental regenerative treatment, and Aldrich Killian, rejecting an offer to work for Killian’s Advanced Idea Mechanics.^[b]

Becoming Iron Man

In 2010, Stark travels to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate Stark’s new «Jericho» missile. After the demonstration, the convoy is ambushed and Stark is critically wounded and imprisoned by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. Fellow captive Ho Yinsen, a doctor, implants an electromagnet into Stark’s chest to keep shrapnel shards from reaching his heart and killing him.

Stark and Yinsen secretly build a small, powerful electric generator called an arc reactor to power Stark’s electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings attack the workshop, Yinsen sacrifices himself to divert them while the suit is completed. The armored Stark battles his way out of the cave to find the dying Yinsen, then burns the Ten Rings’ weapons in anger and flies away, crashing in the desert. Rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home to announce that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. In his home workshop, Stark builds a sleeker, more powerful version of his improvised armor suit as well as a more powerful arc reactor.

Stark learns that Obadiah Stane has been engaged in arms trafficking to criminals worldwide, and is staging a coup to replace him as Stark Industries’ CEO. Stark, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves the villagers. Stane ambushes Stark at his home and takes the arc reactor from his chest, revealing that Stane was responsible for Stark’s captivity. Stark manages to get to his original reactor to replace it and defeats Stane. The next day, at a press conference, Stark publicly admits to being «Iron Man.»

Battling Vanko

Six months later in 2011, Stark’s fame has grown and he uses his Iron Man suit for peaceful means, resisting government pressure to sell his designs. He reinstitutes the Stark Expo to continue his father’s legacy, but discovers that the palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him. Growing increasingly reckless and despondent about his impending death, he appoints Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries.

Stark competes in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and is attacked mid-race by Ivan Vanko, who wields electrified whips powered by a miniature arc reactor. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged. At his birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Rhodes dons Stark’s Mark II prototype armor and tries to restrain him. The fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the U.S. Air Force.

Stark discovers a hidden message from his father, a diagram of the structure of a new element, which Stark synthesizes. At the Expo, Stark’s rival Justin Hammer unveils Vanko’s armored drones, led by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko remotely takes control of both the drones and Rhodes’ armor and attacks Iron Man. Stark and Rhodes together defeat Vanko and his drones. After narrowly saving Pepper Potts from a self-destructing drone, they start a relationship.

The Battle of New York

In 2012, when the Asgardian Loki arrives and begins menacing Earth, seizing the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, Fury activates the Avengers Initiative and Agent Phil Coulson visits Stark to have him review the research of Erik Selvig on the Tesseract. In Stuttgart, Steve Rogers and Loki fight briefly until Tony Stark appears in his Iron Man armor, resulting in Loki’s surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier.

The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons. Agents possessed by Loki attack the Helicarrier, disabling one of its engines in flight, which Stark and Rogers must work to restart. Loki escapes, and Stark and Rogers realize that for Loki, simply defeating them will not be enough; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a wormhole in New York City above the Avengers Tower to allow the Chitauri fleet in space to invade. Fury’s superiors from the World Security Council attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Midtown Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile, and in an apparent sacrifice of his own life, takes it through the wormhole toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the Chitauri mothership and disabling their forces on Earth. Stark’s suit runs out of power, and he falls back through the wormhole but the Hulk saves him from crashing into the ground. Stark and the other Avengers capture Loki and Thor takes custody of him.

Pursuing the Mandarin

Stark develops PTSD from his experiences during the alien invasion, resulting in panic attacks. Restless, he builds several dozen Iron Man suits, creating friction with girlfriend Pepper Potts. Seven months after the invasion, Happy Hogan is badly injured in one of a string of bombings by a terrorist known only as the Mandarin, Stark issues a televised threat to him, who destroys Stark’s Malibu home with helicopter gunships. Stark escapes in an Iron Man suit and crashes in rural Tennessee. His experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.

Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters, where he discovers the Mandarin was just an actor named Trevor Slattery. Aldrich Killian reveals himself to be the real Mandarin and captures Stark. He escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian intends to attack U.S. President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Stark saves the surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis and destroying Air Force One. Killian intends to kill Ellis on an oil platform on live television. On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts – who had been kidnapped and subjected to Extremis — as Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Potts, having survived the Extremis procedure, kills Killian. Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy all of the Iron Man suits as a sign of his devotion to Potts, and undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He pitches his obsolete chest arc reactor into the sea, musing that he will always be Iron Man.

Creating Ultron

In 2015, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility commanded by Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. While the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab and finds the scepter, along with Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him a haunting vision: the death of all the Avengers except him. Stark awakens from the vision and retrieves Loki’s scepter.

Returning to the Avengers Tower, Stark and Bruce Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepter’s gem, and secretly decide to use it to complete Stark’s «Ultron» global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron eliminates Stark’s A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. and attacks the Avengers. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron builds an army of robot drones, kills Strucker and recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents’ deaths by his company’s weapons. The Avengers find and attack Ultron in Johannesburg, but Wanda subdues most of the team with personalized, disturbing visions, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk and rampage until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.

After hiding at Clint Barton’s house, Nick Fury arrives and encourages Stark and the others to form a plan to stop Ultron, who is discovered to have forced the team’s friend Dr. Helen Cho to perfect a new body for him. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. Returning to Avengers Tower, the Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark and Banner secretly upload J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow was part of his vision. This «Vision» and the Maximoffs, now on their side, accompany Stark and the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. One of Ultron’s drones is able to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine and shatter the landmass. The Avengers establish a new base in upstate New York, and Stark leaves the team.

Sokovia Accords and the aftermath

In 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish UN oversight of the team. The Avengers are divided: Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron’s creation and Sokovia’s devastation, while Rogers has more faith in their judgment than that of a government. Circumstances lead to Rogers and fellow super-soldier Bucky Barnes—framed for a terrorist attack—going rogue, along with Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang. Stark assembles a team composed of Natasha Romanoff, T’Challa, James Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades at Leipzig/Halle Airport. However, during the battle, Rogers and Barnes are able to escape and Rhodes is paralyzed. Stark learns that Barnes was framed and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers’ destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes. They find that the other super soldiers have been killed by Helmut Zemo, who plays footage that reveals that Barnes killed Stark’s parents. Stark turns on them, dismembering Barnes’ robotic arm. After an intense fight, Rogers finally manages to disable Stark’s Iron Man armor and departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Stark returns to New York to work on exoskeletal leg braces to allow Rhodes to walk again. Steve Rogers sends a mobile phone to Stark to keep in contact if needed. When Ross calls informing him that Rogers has broken the others out of the Raft, Stark refuses to help.

Two months later, Peter Parker resumes his high school studies, with Stark telling him he is not yet ready to become a full Avenger. Stark rescues Parker from nearly drowning after an encounter with Adrian Toomes and warns Parker against further involvement with the criminals. When another weapon from Toomes malfunctions during a fight with Parker and tears the Staten Island Ferry in half, Stark helps Parker save the passengers before admonishing him for his recklessness and confiscating his suit. Parker realizes Toomes is planning to hijack a plane transporting weapons from Stark Tower to the team’s new headquarters. After Parker thwarts the plan and saves Toomes from an explosion, Stark admits he was wrong about Parker and invites him to become an Avenger full-time, but Parker declines. Potts emerges from a packed press conference, called to make the announcement, and Stark decides to use the opportunity to instead propose to Potts. At the end of the film, he returns the suit to Peter.

Infinity War

In 2018, Stark and Potts are in a New York City park discussing having children, when Banner, who had disappeared after the Battle of Sokovia, crash-lands at the New York Sanctum. Banner relays a warning to Stephen Strange, Wong, and Stark that the mad Titan Thanos plans to use the Infinity Stones to kill half of all life in the universe. Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone, prompting Strange, Stark, Wong, and Parker to confront them. Although Cull Obsidian is incapacitated, Strange is captured by Maw. Stark and Parker sneak aboard Maw’s spaceship to rescue him.

After successfully freeing Strange and killing Maw, the trio proceed to Thanos’ home planet Titan, where they meet members of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They form a plan to confront Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, but Thanos overpowers the group and stabs Stark in the abdomen. Strange surrenders the Time Stone in exchange for Thanos sparing Stark. Thanos takes the stone and departs for Earth, retrieves the final stone, and activates the Infinity Gauntlet. Stark and Nebula, stranded on Titan, watch as Parker and others are turned to dust.

Time Heist and sacrifice

Stark and Nebula are rescued from space by Carol Danvers and returned to Earth, where Stark chooses to retire and raise his daughter Morgan, with Potts. Later, He constructs a secret beach house lab in Mexico for Banner to merge his two identities and spent some time with him including making a tiki bar. In 2023, when Scott Lang hypothesizes a way to bring back the fallen, the Avengers approach Stark, who initially refuses, considering the idea dangerous. Despite this, he examines the matter privately, discovers time travel, and agrees to help. The Avengers reassemble and plan to retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past to undo Thanos’ actions. Traveling to 2012, Stark fails to retrieve the Space Stone following the Battle of New York and instead goes further back to the 1970s to steal it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where he has a meaningful conversation with a younger version of his father, Howard.

The Avengers successfully obtain all of the Infinity Stones before returning to the present. The Stones are incorporated into a gauntlet made by Stark, which Banner then uses to resurrect those that were disintegrated by Thanos. However, they are followed by an alternate version of Thanos and his army, who are summoned to 2023 by an alternate version of Nebula. During the ensuing battle, Thanos obtains Stark’s gauntlet and the two of them wrestle for control of it. Thanos is able to overpower Stark before attempting another snap but discovers that Stark has transferred the Infinity Stones to his own armor. Stark activates the Gauntlet and uses it to disintegrate Thanos and all of his forces and save the universe, but fatally injures himself in the process. He dies surrounded by Rhodes, Parker, and Potts.

Legacy

Eight months later, as the world continues to mourn Stark, Parker receives glasses that can access Stark’s artificial intelligence E.D.I.T.H., with a message that establishes him as Stark’s chosen successor. Parker is however tricked by disgruntled former Stark Industries employee Quentin Beck into giving him the glasses, as Parker sees him as a more worthy successor. Beck, leading a team of other ex-Stark Industries employees such as William Ginter Riva, and angered at being fired by Stark, seeks to fill the vacancy left by Stark as Iron Man by using the software he developed for Stark, B.A.R.F., to augment illusions of creatures known as the Elementals, presenting himself as a hero known as Mysterio in «defeating» them. He uses Stark’s glasses to conduct drone attacks in London, targeting Parker. Parker eventually foils Beck’s plots and retakes the glasses, and he designs his own Spider-Man suit using technology from Stark Industries, in a similar manner to Stark designing his first Iron Man armor.

Alternate versions

Losing the Tesseract

In an alternate 2012, Stark and the Avengers are victorious over Loki during the Battle of New York, however the time traveling Stark and Scott Lang from 2023 alter 2012-Stark’s history when they attempt to steal the briefcase containing the Tesseract. As 2012-Stark and 2012-Thor argue with Alexander Pierce and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents over custody of Loki and the Tesseract, Lang, using his Ant-Man suit, shrinks down and enters into 2012-Stark’s chest arc reactor, pulling a plug that gives him a cardiac dysrhythmia. 2012-Thor uses Mjolnir to restart the reactor, saving 2012-Stark’s life. 2023-Stark obtains the briefcase but loses it when 2012-Hulk smashes through the elevator. The Tesseract falls out, and with 2012-Stark and Thor distracted, Loki picks it up and teleports away.

What If…?

Several alternate versions of Stark appear in the animated series What If…?, in which he is voiced by Mick Wingert.

Death of the Avengers

In an alternate 2011, Stark is seemingly killed by Romanoff after she injects him with a temporary antidote to his arc reactor poisoning. Fury later deduces the culprit as Hank Pym.

Zombie outbreak

In an alternate 2018, Stark is infected with a quantum virus and is turned into a zombie along with the Avengers in San Francisco. When Bruce Banner crash-lands in the New York Sanctum to warn the heroes of Thanos’s arrival, a zombified Stark attacks him alongside Stephen Strange and Wong, but is quickly killed by Hope van Dyne.

Killmonger deception

In an alternate 2010, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens prevents Stark from being kidnapped by the Ten Rings in Afghanistan. Stark returns to the United States, where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane’s involvement in the ambush plot, and Stark names him the new COO of Stark Industries. Stark and Killmonger build a humanoid combat drone using the vibranium of N’Jobu’s ring, but Killmonger betrays and kills Stark, setting off a war between the United States and Wakanda.

Ultron’s conquest

In an alternate 2015, Ultron successfully uploads his consciousness into a new vibranium body, becoming powerful enough to kill Stark and most of the Avengers, eradicating all life on Earth.

Working with Gamora

In an alternate universe, Stark is a close ally of Gamora after the death of Thanos by her hands. When the Watcher is collecting heroes to fight a multiverse-breaking version of Ultron, he selects the Gamora of this world, but pointedly excludes Stark.

Appearances

Robert Downey Jr. portrays Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008),^[15] Iron Man 2 (2010),^[16] The Avengers (2012),^[17] Iron Man 3 (2013),^[18] Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015),^[19] Captain America: Civil War (2016),^[20] Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),^[21] Avengers: Infinity War (2018),^[19] and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[20] In addition, Downey makes an uncredited cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk (2008).^[22]

In Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Stark appears in archival footage from Captain America: Civil War,^[23] and also appears via archive footage in the Marvel One-Shot The Consultant (2011).^[24] Archival footage of the character also appears in «Glorious Purpose», the first episode of the Disney+ television series Loki.^[25]

In September 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that Downey would appear in Black Widow (2021) in his MCU role as Stark;^[26] an early version of the script included the end scene from Captain America: Civil War between Stark and Natasha Romanoff.^[27] This was not in the final film, with director Cate Shortland stating that she and Kevin Feige decided against adding Stark or any other heroes to the film in order for Romanoff to stand on her own,^[28] and screenwriter Eric Pearson adding that it was determined that the scene did not add anything new to the story.^[27]

Stark returns in the Disney+ animated series What If…?,^[29] although Mick Wingert voices the character instead; Wingert has previously provided the voice for Iron Man in multiple non-MCU video games and animated productions since 2015.^[30]

Characterization

Appearance and personality

Downey had an office next to Favreau during pre-production, which allowed him greater involvement in the screenwriting process,^[32] especially adding humor to the film.^[33] Downey explained, «What I usually hate about these [superhero] movies [is] when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you’re supposed to buy into all his ‘Let’s go do some good!’ That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he’s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they’re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.»^[34] To prepare, Downey spent five days a week weight training and practiced martial arts to get into shape,^[11] which he said benefited him because «it’s hard not to have a personality meltdown … after about several hours in that suit. I’m calling up every therapeutic moment I can think of to just get through the day.»^[35] The revelation at the end of Iron Man of Stark’s alter ego was improvised by Stark’s actor Robert Downey Jr.^{[36][37][38][39]}

For the first film, Favreau and Downey had been handed an existing script and worked from it. In contrast, for Iron Man 2, the duo were given more freedom to conceive of the story for themselves,^[16] in which Stark struggles to keep his technology out of the hands of the government and rival weapons makers. On Stark being a hero, Downey said «It’s kind of heroic, but really kind of on his own behalf. So I think there’s probably a bit of an imposter complex and no sooner has he said, ‘I am Iron Man –’ that he’s now really wondering what that means. If you have all this cushion like he does and the public is on your side and you have immense wealth and power, I think he’s way too insulated to be okay.»^[43]

The Avengers introduced Stark’s role as one of an ensemble of heroes who must come together to defend the Earth from an alien invasion led by the god Loki. Downey initially pushed director Joss Whedon to make Stark the lead of the 2012 Avengers film: «Well, I said, ‘I need to be in the opening sequence. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but Tony needs to drive this thing.’ He was like, ‘Okay, let’s try that.’ We tried it and it didn’t work, because this is a different sort of thing, the story and the idea and the theme is the theme, and everybody is just an arm of the octopus.»^[44] About the character’s evolution from previous films, Downey said, «In Iron Man, which was an origin story, he was his own epiphany and redemption of sorts. Iron Man 2 is all about not being an island, dealing with legacy issues and making space for others… In The Avengers, he’s throwing it down with the others».^[45] At the climax of the film, Stark guides a nuclear missile through an interstellar portal to destroy the main alien vessel, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice his life to save the Earth.^[46]

In Iron Man 3, Stark struggles to come to terms with his near-death experience in The Avengers,^[47] suffering from anxiety attacks. On making a third Iron Man film, Downey said, «My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field—whatever that means in the end. You can pick several different points of departure for that.»^[18] On following up The Avengers, Downey said they «tried to be practical, in a post-Avengers world. What are his challenges now? What are some limitations that might be placed on him? And what sort of threat would have him, as usual, ignore those limitations?»^[48] Screenwriter Drew Pearce compared Stark in Iron Man 3 to an American James Bond for both being «heroes with a sense of danger to them, and unpredictability» even if Stark was a «free agent» instead of an authority figure like Bond. He also likened Tony to the protagonists of 1970s films such as The French Connection (1971), where «the idiosyncrasies of the heroes is what made them exciting.»^[49]

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Stark has become the benefactor of the Avengers.^[50][51][52] On how his character evolves after the events of Iron Man 3, Downey said, «I think he realizes that tweaking and making all the suits in the world—which is what he has been doing—still didn’t work for that thing of his tour of duty that left him a little PTSD. So his focus is more on how can we make it so that there’s no problem to begin with. That, you know, there’s a bouncer at our planet’s rope. That’s the big idea.»^[53] The events of Age of Ultron lead directly into the conflict of Captain America: Civil War, in which Stark leads a faction of Avengers in support of the regulation of individuals with superpowers.^[54][55] Anthony Russo said that Stark’s egomania allowed the writers «to bring him to a point in his life where he was willing to submit to an authority, where he felt it was the right thing to do.» Joe Russo added that because of the visions Stark saw in Age of Ultron, he now has a guilt complex which «drives him to make very specific decisions», calling his emotional arc «very complicated».^[56] Downey’s personal trainer Eric Oram stated that the trick to pitting Rogers against Stark, «is to show Iron Man using the ‘minimum force’ necessary to win the fight».^[57] Marvel initially wanted Downey’s part to be smaller, but «Downey wanted Stark to have a more substantial role in the film’s plot.» Variety noted that Downey would receive $40 million-plus backend for his participation, as well as an additional payout if the film outperformed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as Marvel would attribute that success to Downey’s presence.^[20]

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Stark is Peter Parker’s mentor and is the creator of the U.S. Department of Damage Control.^[21][58] Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman Thomas Rothman noted that, beyond the commercial advantage of featuring Downey in the film, the inclusion of Stark was important due to the relationship established between him and Parker in Captain America: Civil War.^[59] Watts noted that after Stark’s actions in Civil War, introducing Parker to life as an Avenger, there are «a lot of repercussions to that. Is it a first step towards Tony as some sort of mentor figure? Is he comfortable with that?»^[60] Co-writer Jonathan Goldstein compared Stark to Ethan Hawke’s father character in Boyhood (2014).^[61]

Downey reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[19][21] Iron Man 3 director Shane Black stated in March 2013 that «There has been a lot of discussion about it: ‘Is this the last Iron Man for Robert [Downey Jr.]?’ Something tells me that it will not be the case, and [he] will be seen in a fourth, or fifth.» Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that the character of Stark would continue to be featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe regardless of Downey’s involvement.^[62] Also in March, Downey said he was open to extending his contract, stating he feels «there’s a couple other things we’ve gotta do» with the character.^[63] In June 2013, when Downey signed on to return as Iron Man in Avengers: Age of Ultron, he also signed on for a third Avengers film.^[19] In a July 2014 interview during the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Downey expressed his interest in continuing to play Iron Man. «It’s down to Kevin [Feige] and Ike [Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Entertainment] and Disney to come to us with what the proposal is, and that’s on us to agree or disagree,» Downey said. «When things are going great, there’s a lot of agreement.» He added, «It’s that thing of: Why give up the belt when it feels like you can barely get jabbed?»^[64] In April 2016, Downey expressed openness to appearing in a potential fourth Iron Man film, saying «I could do one more.»^[65] Downey’s Marvel contract expired following Avengers: Endgame, where Stark dies.^[66]

Stark’s fashion sense evolved over the course of the films, initially being described as «woefully basic… mostly saggy jeans, henleys and tank tops—with an occasional suit», but improving by the time of the first Avengers film,^[67] and becoming more sophisticated by Civil War, as Stark matured and accepted greater responsibility for the consequences of his actions.^[68] Downey expressed the desire for his wardrobe to reflect that «you still know he’s Tony Stark, and you still know that he’s the richest man in the world».^[68] Stark’s clothing has been described as alternating between «a sweet suit with some shades» in his corporate look, «or a t-shirt, jeans, and an arc reactor» in his personal time.^[69] His fashion sense has been referred to as «part Mob boss and part Big Bang Theory cast member», and alternating «between boxy pinstripe suits and faux-ironic vintage tees».^[67]

Armor and special effects

Tony Stark has worn multiple different armors in his MCU appearances. For Iron Man, Stan Winston and his company built metal and rubber versions of the armors featured in the film,^[70] while Iron Man comic book artist Adi Granov designed the Mark III with illustrator Phil Saunders.^[71] Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) created the digital armors in the film,^[72] with The Orphanage and The Embassy doing additional work. To help with animating the more refined suits, information was sometimes captured by having Downey wear only the helmet, sleeves and chest of the costume over a motion capture suit.^[70]

For Iron Man 2, ILM again did the majority of the effects, as it did on the first film, with Double Negative also working on the film.^[73] In the filming of The Avengers, Weta Digital took over duties for animating Iron Man during the forest duel from ILM.^[74] For Iron Man 3, Digital Domain, Scanline VFX and Trixter each worked on separate shots featuring the Mark 42 armor, working with different digital models. The studios shared some of their files to ensure consistency between the shots. For the Mark 42 and Iron Patriot armors, Legacy Effects constructed partial suits that were worn on set.^[75]

Differences from the comics

The origin story of Iron Man has been updated for the films. In the comics, Stark becomes Iron Man following an experience in the Vietnam War, which is changed to the War in Afghanistan.^[76] Jarvis, in the comics, is the family butler, while in the films J.A.R.V.I.S. is an artificial intelligence created by Stark,^[77] though still inspired by the butler from Stark’s childhood, Edwin Jarvis, who is revealed to have died by the time the first film takes place.^[76] Stark also proceeds through the early iterations of his armor to reach the now-familiar red and gold color scheme much more quickly. Stark’s personality more closely resembles the Ultimate Comics version.^[76]

The AI version of J.A.R.V.I.S. is eventually uploaded by Stark to an artificial body and becomes Vision. In the films, Vision is created by Stark and Banner as a counter to Ultron. In the comics, however, Ultron is created by a different member of the Avengers, Hank Pym, and aspects of Pym’s personality are integrated into this version of Ultron, such as a desire for peace.^[78] Another difference in the films is the romance between Stark and Pepper Potts. In the comics, Potts has unrequited feelings for Stark, and ultimately becomes involved with Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard, Happy Hogan.^[77][78]

A new approach not seen in comics is Stark’s mentorial relationship with Peter Parker. In the Ultimate Comics, Stark and Parker do not go past the normal trainer-trainee relationship. In the MCU, Stark is also the creator of two iterations of Parker’s Spider-Man suits, unlike in the comics where he only creates the Iron Spider Armor, while Parker creates other suits by himself.^[79] Stark is also shown to have a history with Parker’s foes Vulture and Mysterio; both are depicted as having turned into villains due to unforeseen consequences of actions by Stark. While he does not end up facing them, his protégé does.^[80][81]

The Mandarin, a recurring Iron Man villain in the comics, turns out to be just an actor portraying the character, with the real criminal mastermind behind the acts claimed by «the Mandarin» being Aldrich Killian—a minor character in the comics.^[78][82] The Mandarin is revealed to be a real person in the Marvel One-Shot All Hail the King;^[83] this version is instead portrayed as the father and enemy of Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).^[84]

Reception

Downey’s portrayal of the character has been widely praised by fans and critics. Roger Ebert praised Downey’s performance in Iron Man, stating «At the end of the day it’s Robert Downey Jr. who powers the lift-off separating this from most other superhero movies».^[85] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, a one-time Marvel Comics writer, commended that Iron Man 2 «doesn’t find a changed man. Inside the metal, imperfect humanity grows even more so, as thought-provoking questions of identity meet techno-fantasy made flesh».^[86]

For The Avengers, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal—despite complimenting Downey’s performance—favored his work in Iron Man over his acting in The Avengers: «His Iron Man is certainly a team player, but Mr. Downey comes to the party with two insuperable superpowers: a character of established sophistication—the industrialist/inventor Tony Stark, a sharp-tongued man of the world—and his own quicksilver presence that finds its finest expression in self-irony».^[87] In his review of Avengers: Endgame, Morgenstern lauded both actor and character, praising «Robert Downey Jr.’s startlingly smart Tony Stark» who, along with Chris Evans’ Captain America and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, contributed to that film’s «feeling of family … because the debuts of its most prominent members remain vivid to this day.»^[88]

In 2015, Empire named Tony Stark the 13th greatest film character of all time.^[89] In 2019, following Stark’s death in Avengers: Endgame, a statue representing the character in his Iron Man armor was erected in Forte dei Marmi, Italy.^[90]

Accolades

Downey has received numerous nominations and awards for his portrayal of Tony Stark. He notably won the Saturn Award for Best Actor three times,^[91][92][93] making him a record four-time winner (he had previously won the award for 1993’s Heart and Souls);^[94] it is also the record for most wins for portraying the same character, tied with Mark Hamill for playing Luke Skywalker.^[95][96][97]

Year	Film	Award	Category	Result	Ref(s)
2008	Iron Man	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Nominated	[98]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Won	[99]
Best Superhero	Nominated	[100]
2009	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Male Action Star	Nominated	[101]
Favorite Male Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Superhero	Nominated
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[102]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance	Nominated	[103]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[91]
2010	Iron Man 2	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi	Nominated	[104]
Choice Movie: Dance	Nominated
Choice Movie: Fight (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated	[105]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Nominated	[106]
Best Superhero	Won	[107]
2011	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[108]
Favorite Action Star	Nominated
Favorite On-Screen Team (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Biggest Badass Star	Nominated	[109]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[110]
2012	The Avengers	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[111]
Choice Summer Movie Star: Male	Nominated
2013	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Won	[112]
Favorite Action Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Movie Superhero	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[113]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Nominated	[114]
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[115]
MTV Movie Awards	Best On-Screen Duo (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[116]
Best Fight (with cast)	Won
Best Hero	Nominated
Iron Man 3	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Won	[117]
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
2014	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[118]
Favorite Movie Duo (with Gwyneth Paltrow)	Nominated
Favorite Action Movie Star	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[119]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Won	[120]
Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Best Hero	Nominated	[121]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[92]
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[122]
2016	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[123]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Nominated
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[124]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Fight (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[125]
Captain America: Civil War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[126]
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with cast)	Nominated	[127]
2017	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[128]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Won
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[129]
Favorite Frenemies (with Chris Evans)	Nominated
#Squad (with cast)	Nominated
2018	Avengers: Infinity War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[130]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2018	Nominated	[131]
2019	Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Superhero	Won	[132]
Avengers: Endgame	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Hero	Won	[133]
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[134]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[93]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2019	Won	[135]
Action Movie Star of 2019	Nominated

See also

• Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Iron Man in other media

Notes

References

External links

• Tony Stark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel.com

«Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe)» redirects here. For the 2008 film, see Iron Man (2008 film).

Tony Stark
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
First appearance	Iron Man (2008)
Last appearance	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Based on	Iron Man by Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby
Adapted by	Mark Fergus Hawk Ostby Art Marcum Matt Holloway
Portrayed by	Robert Downey Jr. Davin Ransom (young)[1]
Voiced by	Mick Wingert (What If…?)[2]
In-universe information
Full name	Anthony Edward Stark[3]
Alias	Iron Man
Occupation	Benefactor and leader of the Avengers Consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. CEO of Stark Industries Weapons manufacturer
Affiliation	Avengers Damage Control S.H.I.E.L.D. Stark Industries
Weapon	Iron Man armor Arc reactor Hulkbuster armor E.D.I.T.H. glasses
Family	Howard Stark (father) Maria Stark (mother)
Spouse	Pepper Potts
Children	Morgan Stark (daughter)
Origin	Manhattan, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Abilities	Genius level intellect Proficient scientist and engineer Powered armor suit granting: Superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, and senses Energy repulsor and missile projection Regenerative life support Supersonic flight

Anthony Edward Stark, more commonly known as Tony Stark, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise—based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name—commonly known by his alias, Iron Man. Stark is initially depicted as an industrialist, genius inventor, and playboy who is CEO of Stark Industries. Initially the chief weapons manufacturer for the U.S. military, he has a change of heart and redirects his technical knowledge into the creation of mechanized suits of armor which he uses to defend against those that would threaten peace around the world. He becomes a founding member and leader of the Avengers. Following his failed Ultron Program, the internal conflict within the Avengers due to the Sokovia Accords, and Thanos successfully erasing half of all life in the Blip, Stark retires, marries Pepper Potts, and they have a daughter named Morgan. However, Stark rejoins the Avengers on a final mission to undo Thanos’ actions. He creates time travel, and the Avengers successfully restore trillions of lives across the universe. However, Stark inevitably sacrifices his life to defeat Thanos and his army. Stark chooses Peter Parker as a successor.

Stark is one of the central figures of the MCU, having appeared in eleven films as of 2022. The character and Downey’s performance have been credited with helping to cement the MCU as a multi-billion-dollar franchise, with Stark’s evolution often being considered the defining arc of the series.^[4]

Alternate versions of Stark from within the MCU multiverse appear in the animated series What If…? (2021), voiced by Mick Wingert, reprising his role from previous non-MCU animated media.

Concept and creation

Tony Stark first premiered as a comic book character, in Tales of Suspense #39 (cover dated March 1963), a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and cover-artist and character-designer Jack Kirby.^[5] Lee wanted to create the «quintessential capitalist», a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel’s readership.^[6] Lee based this playboy’s looks and personality on Howard Hughes,^[7] as «one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies’ man and finally a nutcase.»^[8] The character’s original costume was a bulky gray armored suit, replaced by a golden version in the second story (issue #40, April 1963), and redesigned as sleeker, red-and-golden armor in issue #48 (Dec. 1963) by Steve Ditko.^[9] Lee and Kirby included Iron Man in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963) as a founding member of the superhero team. In the mid-2000s, with a number of movies having been made from other Marvel properties licensed to other studios, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, which included Iron Man. Feige, a self-professed «fanboy», envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.^[10]

Jon Favreau, who was selected to direct the first Iron Man film, felt Downey’s past made him an appropriate choice for the part,^[11] and that the actor could make Stark a «likable asshole,» but also depict an authentic emotional journey once he won over the audience.^[12] Ultimately however, Downey ended up being the choice the studio made for the first character in their ever-expansive cinematic universe. Favreau was also attracted to Downey from his performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), with Downey frequently conversing with that film’s director, Shane Black, about the script and dialogue in Iron Man.^[13]

Fictional character biography

Early life

Anthony Edward «Tony» Stark was born on May 29, 1970, in Manhattan, New York to Howard Stark, a famous genius inventor and businessman, and Maria Stark, a socialite and philanthropist. Growing up under the eye of family butler Edwin Jarvis, his life was characterized by a cold and affectionless relationship with his father. Seeing that his son could achieve great things, Howard tried to inspire him with constant talks about his own role in the creation of Captain America. This instead embittered Stark, who felt that his father was taking more pride in his creations than in his family. A brilliant and unique child prodigy, Stark attended MIT for two years starting at age 14, and graduated summa cum laude at 17.^[14]

On December 16, 1991, when Stark was 21, his parents went away to the Bahamas, but planned to stop at the Pentagon to deliver Super Soldier Serum Howard had redeveloped. Instead, both are killed in a car accident—later revealed to be an assassination carried out by the Winter Soldier, who was mind-controlled by Hydra to steal the serum.^[a] As a result, Stark inherited his father’s company, becoming CEO of Stark Industries. Over the years, he became well known as a weapons designer and inventor, and lived a playboy lifestyle. At a New Year’s Eve party for the new millennium, he attended a conference in Bern where he met scientists Maya Hansen, inventor of the Extremis experimental regenerative treatment, and Aldrich Killian, rejecting an offer to work for Killian’s Advanced Idea Mechanics.^[b]

Becoming Iron Man

In 2010, Stark travels to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate Stark’s new «Jericho» missile. After the demonstration, the convoy is ambushed and Stark is critically wounded and imprisoned by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. Fellow captive Ho Yinsen, a doctor, implants an electromagnet into Stark’s chest to keep shrapnel shards from reaching his heart and killing him.

Stark and Yinsen secretly build a small, powerful electric generator called an arc reactor to power Stark’s electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings attack the workshop, Yinsen sacrifices himself to divert them while the suit is completed. The armored Stark battles his way out of the cave to find the dying Yinsen, then burns the Ten Rings’ weapons in anger and flies away, crashing in the desert. Rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home to announce that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. In his home workshop, Stark builds a sleeker, more powerful version of his improvised armor suit as well as a more powerful arc reactor.

Stark learns that Obadiah Stane has been engaged in arms trafficking to criminals worldwide, and is staging a coup to replace him as Stark Industries’ CEO. Stark, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves the villagers. Stane ambushes Stark at his home and takes the arc reactor from his chest, revealing that Stane was responsible for Stark’s captivity. Stark manages to get to his original reactor to replace it and defeats Stane. The next day, at a press conference, Stark publicly admits to being «Iron Man.»

Battling Vanko

Six months later in 2011, Stark’s fame has grown and he uses his Iron Man suit for peaceful means, resisting government pressure to sell his designs. He reinstitutes the Stark Expo to continue his father’s legacy, but discovers that the palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him. Growing increasingly reckless and despondent about his impending death, he appoints Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries.

Stark competes in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and is attacked mid-race by Ivan Vanko, who wields electrified whips powered by a miniature arc reactor. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged. At his birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Rhodes dons Stark’s Mark II prototype armor and tries to restrain him. The fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the U.S. Air Force.

Stark discovers a hidden message from his father, a diagram of the structure of a new element, which Stark synthesizes. At the Expo, Stark’s rival Justin Hammer unveils Vanko’s armored drones, led by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko remotely takes control of both the drones and Rhodes’ armor and attacks Iron Man. Stark and Rhodes together defeat Vanko and his drones. After narrowly saving Pepper Potts from a self-destructing drone, they start a relationship.

The Battle of New York

In 2012, when the Asgardian Loki arrives and begins menacing Earth, seizing the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, Fury activates the Avengers Initiative and Agent Phil Coulson visits Stark to have him review the research of Erik Selvig on the Tesseract. In Stuttgart, Steve Rogers and Loki fight briefly until Tony Stark appears in his Iron Man armor, resulting in Loki’s surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier.

The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons. Agents possessed by Loki attack the Helicarrier, disabling one of its engines in flight, which Stark and Rogers must work to restart. Loki escapes, and Stark and Rogers realize that for Loki, simply defeating them will not be enough; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a wormhole in New York City above the Avengers Tower to allow the Chitauri fleet in space to invade. Fury’s superiors from the World Security Council attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Midtown Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile, and in an apparent sacrifice of his own life, takes it through the wormhole toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the Chitauri mothership and disabling their forces on Earth. Stark’s suit runs out of power, and he falls back through the wormhole but the Hulk saves him from crashing into the ground. Stark and the other Avengers capture Loki and Thor takes custody of him.

Pursuing the Mandarin

Stark develops PTSD from his experiences during the alien invasion, resulting in panic attacks. Restless, he builds several dozen Iron Man suits, creating friction with girlfriend Pepper Potts. Seven months after the invasion, Happy Hogan is badly injured in one of a string of bombings by a terrorist known only as the Mandarin, Stark issues a televised threat to him, who destroys Stark’s Malibu home with helicopter gunships. Stark escapes in an Iron Man suit and crashes in rural Tennessee. His experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.

Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters, where he discovers the Mandarin was just an actor named Trevor Slattery. Aldrich Killian reveals himself to be the real Mandarin and captures Stark. He escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian intends to attack U.S. President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Stark saves the surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis and destroying Air Force One. Killian intends to kill Ellis on an oil platform on live television. On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts – who had been kidnapped and subjected to Extremis — as Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Potts, having survived the Extremis procedure, kills Killian. Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy all of the Iron Man suits as a sign of his devotion to Potts, and undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He pitches his obsolete chest arc reactor into the sea, musing that he will always be Iron Man.

Creating Ultron

In 2015, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility commanded by Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. While the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab and finds the scepter, along with Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him a haunting vision: the death of all the Avengers except him. Stark awakens from the vision and retrieves Loki’s scepter.

Returning to the Avengers Tower, Stark and Bruce Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepter’s gem, and secretly decide to use it to complete Stark’s «Ultron» global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron eliminates Stark’s A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. and attacks the Avengers. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron builds an army of robot drones, kills Strucker and recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents’ deaths by his company’s weapons. The Avengers find and attack Ultron in Johannesburg, but Wanda subdues most of the team with personalized, disturbing visions, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk and rampage until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.

After hiding at Clint Barton’s house, Nick Fury arrives and encourages Stark and the others to form a plan to stop Ultron, who is discovered to have forced the team’s friend Dr. Helen Cho to perfect a new body for him. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. Returning to Avengers Tower, the Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark and Banner secretly upload J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow was part of his vision. This «Vision» and the Maximoffs, now on their side, accompany Stark and the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. One of Ultron’s drones is able to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine and shatter the landmass. The Avengers establish a new base in upstate New York, and Stark leaves the team.

Sokovia Accords and the aftermath

In 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish UN oversight of the team. The Avengers are divided: Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron’s creation and Sokovia’s devastation, while Rogers has more faith in their judgment than that of a government. Circumstances lead to Rogers and fellow super-soldier Bucky Barnes—framed for a terrorist attack—going rogue, along with Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang. Stark assembles a team composed of Natasha Romanoff, T’Challa, James Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades at Leipzig/Halle Airport. However, during the battle, Rogers and Barnes are able to escape and Rhodes is paralyzed. Stark learns that Barnes was framed and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers’ destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes. They find that the other super soldiers have been killed by Helmut Zemo, who plays footage that reveals that Barnes killed Stark’s parents. Stark turns on them, dismembering Barnes’ robotic arm. After an intense fight, Rogers finally manages to disable Stark’s Iron Man armor and departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Stark returns to New York to work on exoskeletal leg braces to allow Rhodes to walk again. Steve Rogers sends a mobile phone to Stark to keep in contact if needed. When Ross calls informing him that Rogers has broken the others out of the Raft, Stark refuses to help.

Two months later, Peter Parker resumes his high school studies, with Stark telling him he is not yet ready to become a full Avenger. Stark rescues Parker from nearly drowning after an encounter with Adrian Toomes and warns Parker against further involvement with the criminals. When another weapon from Toomes malfunctions during a fight with Parker and tears the Staten Island Ferry in half, Stark helps Parker save the passengers before admonishing him for his recklessness and confiscating his suit. Parker realizes Toomes is planning to hijack a plane transporting weapons from Stark Tower to the team’s new headquarters. After Parker thwarts the plan and saves Toomes from an explosion, Stark admits he was wrong about Parker and invites him to become an Avenger full-time, but Parker declines. Potts emerges from a packed press conference, called to make the announcement, and Stark decides to use the opportunity to instead propose to Potts. At the end of the film, he returns the suit to Peter.

Infinity War

In 2018, Stark and Potts are in a New York City park discussing having children, when Banner, who had disappeared after the Battle of Sokovia, crash-lands at the New York Sanctum. Banner relays a warning to Stephen Strange, Wong, and Stark that the mad Titan Thanos plans to use the Infinity Stones to kill half of all life in the universe. Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone, prompting Strange, Stark, Wong, and Parker to confront them. Although Cull Obsidian is incapacitated, Strange is captured by Maw. Stark and Parker sneak aboard Maw’s spaceship to rescue him.

After successfully freeing Strange and killing Maw, the trio proceed to Thanos’ home planet Titan, where they meet members of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They form a plan to confront Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, but Thanos overpowers the group and stabs Stark in the abdomen. Strange surrenders the Time Stone in exchange for Thanos sparing Stark. Thanos takes the stone and departs for Earth, retrieves the final stone, and activates the Infinity Gauntlet. Stark and Nebula, stranded on Titan, watch as Parker and others are turned to dust.

Time Heist and sacrifice

Stark and Nebula are rescued from space by Carol Danvers and returned to Earth, where Stark chooses to retire and raise his daughter Morgan, with Potts. Later, He constructs a secret beach house lab in Mexico for Banner to merge his two identities and spent some time with him including making a tiki bar. In 2023, when Scott Lang hypothesizes a way to bring back the fallen, the Avengers approach Stark, who initially refuses, considering the idea dangerous. Despite this, he examines the matter privately, discovers time travel, and agrees to help. The Avengers reassemble and plan to retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past to undo Thanos’ actions. Traveling to 2012, Stark fails to retrieve the Space Stone following the Battle of New York and instead goes further back to the 1970s to steal it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where he has a meaningful conversation with a younger version of his father, Howard.

The Avengers successfully obtain all of the Infinity Stones before returning to the present. The Stones are incorporated into a gauntlet made by Stark, which Banner then uses to resurrect those that were disintegrated by Thanos. However, they are followed by an alternate version of Thanos and his army, who are summoned to 2023 by an alternate version of Nebula. During the ensuing battle, Thanos obtains Stark’s gauntlet and the two of them wrestle for control of it. Thanos is able to overpower Stark before attempting another snap but discovers that Stark has transferred the Infinity Stones to his own armor. Stark activates the Gauntlet and uses it to disintegrate Thanos and all of his forces and save the universe, but fatally injures himself in the process. He dies surrounded by Rhodes, Parker, and Potts.

Legacy

Eight months later, as the world continues to mourn Stark, Parker receives glasses that can access Stark’s artificial intelligence E.D.I.T.H., with a message that establishes him as Stark’s chosen successor. Parker is however tricked by disgruntled former Stark Industries employee Quentin Beck into giving him the glasses, as Parker sees him as a more worthy successor. Beck, leading a team of other ex-Stark Industries employees such as William Ginter Riva, and angered at being fired by Stark, seeks to fill the vacancy left by Stark as Iron Man by using the software he developed for Stark, B.A.R.F., to augment illusions of creatures known as the Elementals, presenting himself as a hero known as Mysterio in «defeating» them. He uses Stark’s glasses to conduct drone attacks in London, targeting Parker. Parker eventually foils Beck’s plots and retakes the glasses, and he designs his own Spider-Man suit using technology from Stark Industries, in a similar manner to Stark designing his first Iron Man armor.

Alternate versions

Losing the Tesseract

In an alternate 2012, Stark and the Avengers are victorious over Loki during the Battle of New York, however the time traveling Stark and Scott Lang from 2023 alter 2012-Stark’s history when they attempt to steal the briefcase containing the Tesseract. As 2012-Stark and 2012-Thor argue with Alexander Pierce and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents over custody of Loki and the Tesseract, Lang, using his Ant-Man suit, shrinks down and enters into 2012-Stark’s chest arc reactor, pulling a plug that gives him a cardiac dysrhythmia. 2012-Thor uses Mjolnir to restart the reactor, saving 2012-Stark’s life. 2023-Stark obtains the briefcase but loses it when 2012-Hulk smashes through the elevator. The Tesseract falls out, and with 2012-Stark and Thor distracted, Loki picks it up and teleports away.

What If…?

Several alternate versions of Stark appear in the animated series What If…?, in which he is voiced by Mick Wingert.

Death of the Avengers

In an alternate 2011, Stark is seemingly killed by Romanoff after she injects him with a temporary antidote to his arc reactor poisoning. Fury later deduces the culprit as Hank Pym.

Zombie outbreak

In an alternate 2018, Stark is infected with a quantum virus and is turned into a zombie along with the Avengers in San Francisco. When Bruce Banner crash-lands in the New York Sanctum to warn the heroes of Thanos’s arrival, a zombified Stark attacks him alongside Stephen Strange and Wong, but is quickly killed by Hope van Dyne.

Killmonger deception

In an alternate 2010, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens prevents Stark from being kidnapped by the Ten Rings in Afghanistan. Stark returns to the United States, where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane’s involvement in the ambush plot, and Stark names him the new COO of Stark Industries. Stark and Killmonger build a humanoid combat drone using the vibranium of N’Jobu’s ring, but Killmonger betrays and kills Stark, setting off a war between the United States and Wakanda.

Ultron’s conquest

In an alternate 2015, Ultron successfully uploads his consciousness into a new vibranium body, becoming powerful enough to kill Stark and most of the Avengers, eradicating all life on Earth.

Working with Gamora

In an alternate universe, Stark is a close ally of Gamora after the death of Thanos by her hands. When the Watcher is collecting heroes to fight a multiverse-breaking version of Ultron, he selects the Gamora of this world, but pointedly excludes Stark.

Appearances

Robert Downey Jr. portrays Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008),^[15] Iron Man 2 (2010),^[16] The Avengers (2012),^[17] Iron Man 3 (2013),^[18] Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015),^[19] Captain America: Civil War (2016),^[20] Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),^[21] Avengers: Infinity War (2018),^[19] and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[20] In addition, Downey makes an uncredited cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk (2008).^[22]

In Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Stark appears in archival footage from Captain America: Civil War,^[23] and also appears via archive footage in the Marvel One-Shot The Consultant (2011).^[24] Archival footage of the character also appears in «Glorious Purpose», the first episode of the Disney+ television series Loki.^[25]

In September 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that Downey would appear in Black Widow (2021) in his MCU role as Stark;^[26] an early version of the script included the end scene from Captain America: Civil War between Stark and Natasha Romanoff.^[27] This was not in the final film, with director Cate Shortland stating that she and Kevin Feige decided against adding Stark or any other heroes to the film in order for Romanoff to stand on her own,^[28] and screenwriter Eric Pearson adding that it was determined that the scene did not add anything new to the story.^[27]

Stark returns in the Disney+ animated series What If…?,^[29] although Mick Wingert voices the character instead; Wingert has previously provided the voice for Iron Man in multiple non-MCU video games and animated productions since 2015.^[30]

Characterization

Appearance and personality

Downey had an office next to Favreau during pre-production, which allowed him greater involvement in the screenwriting process,^[32] especially adding humor to the film.^[33] Downey explained, «What I usually hate about these [superhero] movies [is] when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you’re supposed to buy into all his ‘Let’s go do some good!’ That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he’s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they’re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.»^[34] To prepare, Downey spent five days a week weight training and practiced martial arts to get into shape,^[11] which he said benefited him because «it’s hard not to have a personality meltdown … after about several hours in that suit. I’m calling up every therapeutic moment I can think of to just get through the day.»^[35] The revelation at the end of Iron Man of Stark’s alter ego was improvised by Stark’s actor Robert Downey Jr.^{[36][37][38][39]}

For the first film, Favreau and Downey had been handed an existing script and worked from it. In contrast, for Iron Man 2, the duo were given more freedom to conceive of the story for themselves,^[16] in which Stark struggles to keep his technology out of the hands of the government and rival weapons makers. On Stark being a hero, Downey said «It’s kind of heroic, but really kind of on his own behalf. So I think there’s probably a bit of an imposter complex and no sooner has he said, ‘I am Iron Man –’ that he’s now really wondering what that means. If you have all this cushion like he does and the public is on your side and you have immense wealth and power, I think he’s way too insulated to be okay.»^[43]

The Avengers introduced Stark’s role as one of an ensemble of heroes who must come together to defend the Earth from an alien invasion led by the god Loki. Downey initially pushed director Joss Whedon to make Stark the lead of the 2012 Avengers film: «Well, I said, ‘I need to be in the opening sequence. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but Tony needs to drive this thing.’ He was like, ‘Okay, let’s try that.’ We tried it and it didn’t work, because this is a different sort of thing, the story and the idea and the theme is the theme, and everybody is just an arm of the octopus.»^[44] About the character’s evolution from previous films, Downey said, «In Iron Man, which was an origin story, he was his own epiphany and redemption of sorts. Iron Man 2 is all about not being an island, dealing with legacy issues and making space for others… In The Avengers, he’s throwing it down with the others».^[45] At the climax of the film, Stark guides a nuclear missile through an interstellar portal to destroy the main alien vessel, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice his life to save the Earth.^[46]

In Iron Man 3, Stark struggles to come to terms with his near-death experience in The Avengers,^[47] suffering from anxiety attacks. On making a third Iron Man film, Downey said, «My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field—whatever that means in the end. You can pick several different points of departure for that.»^[18] On following up The Avengers, Downey said they «tried to be practical, in a post-Avengers world. What are his challenges now? What are some limitations that might be placed on him? And what sort of threat would have him, as usual, ignore those limitations?»^[48] Screenwriter Drew Pearce compared Stark in Iron Man 3 to an American James Bond for both being «heroes with a sense of danger to them, and unpredictability» even if Stark was a «free agent» instead of an authority figure like Bond. He also likened Tony to the protagonists of 1970s films such as The French Connection (1971), where «the idiosyncrasies of the heroes is what made them exciting.»^[49]

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Stark has become the benefactor of the Avengers.^[50][51][52] On how his character evolves after the events of Iron Man 3, Downey said, «I think he realizes that tweaking and making all the suits in the world—which is what he has been doing—still didn’t work for that thing of his tour of duty that left him a little PTSD. So his focus is more on how can we make it so that there’s no problem to begin with. That, you know, there’s a bouncer at our planet’s rope. That’s the big idea.»^[53] The events of Age of Ultron lead directly into the conflict of Captain America: Civil War, in which Stark leads a faction of Avengers in support of the regulation of individuals with superpowers.^[54][55] Anthony Russo said that Stark’s egomania allowed the writers «to bring him to a point in his life where he was willing to submit to an authority, where he felt it was the right thing to do.» Joe Russo added that because of the visions Stark saw in Age of Ultron, he now has a guilt complex which «drives him to make very specific decisions», calling his emotional arc «very complicated».^[56] Downey’s personal trainer Eric Oram stated that the trick to pitting Rogers against Stark, «is to show Iron Man using the ‘minimum force’ necessary to win the fight».^[57] Marvel initially wanted Downey’s part to be smaller, but «Downey wanted Stark to have a more substantial role in the film’s plot.» Variety noted that Downey would receive $40 million-plus backend for his participation, as well as an additional payout if the film outperformed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as Marvel would attribute that success to Downey’s presence.^[20]

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Stark is Peter Parker’s mentor and is the creator of the U.S. Department of Damage Control.^[21][58] Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman Thomas Rothman noted that, beyond the commercial advantage of featuring Downey in the film, the inclusion of Stark was important due to the relationship established between him and Parker in Captain America: Civil War.^[59] Watts noted that after Stark’s actions in Civil War, introducing Parker to life as an Avenger, there are «a lot of repercussions to that. Is it a first step towards Tony as some sort of mentor figure? Is he comfortable with that?»^[60] Co-writer Jonathan Goldstein compared Stark to Ethan Hawke’s father character in Boyhood (2014).^[61]

Downey reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[19][21] Iron Man 3 director Shane Black stated in March 2013 that «There has been a lot of discussion about it: ‘Is this the last Iron Man for Robert [Downey Jr.]?’ Something tells me that it will not be the case, and [he] will be seen in a fourth, or fifth.» Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that the character of Stark would continue to be featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe regardless of Downey’s involvement.^[62] Also in March, Downey said he was open to extending his contract, stating he feels «there’s a couple other things we’ve gotta do» with the character.^[63] In June 2013, when Downey signed on to return as Iron Man in Avengers: Age of Ultron, he also signed on for a third Avengers film.^[19] In a July 2014 interview during the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Downey expressed his interest in continuing to play Iron Man. «It’s down to Kevin [Feige] and Ike [Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Entertainment] and Disney to come to us with what the proposal is, and that’s on us to agree or disagree,» Downey said. «When things are going great, there’s a lot of agreement.» He added, «It’s that thing of: Why give up the belt when it feels like you can barely get jabbed?»^[64] In April 2016, Downey expressed openness to appearing in a potential fourth Iron Man film, saying «I could do one more.»^[65] Downey’s Marvel contract expired following Avengers: Endgame, where Stark dies.^[66]

Stark’s fashion sense evolved over the course of the films, initially being described as «woefully basic… mostly saggy jeans, henleys and tank tops—with an occasional suit», but improving by the time of the first Avengers film,^[67] and becoming more sophisticated by Civil War, as Stark matured and accepted greater responsibility for the consequences of his actions.^[68] Downey expressed the desire for his wardrobe to reflect that «you still know he’s Tony Stark, and you still know that he’s the richest man in the world».^[68] Stark’s clothing has been described as alternating between «a sweet suit with some shades» in his corporate look, «or a t-shirt, jeans, and an arc reactor» in his personal time.^[69] His fashion sense has been referred to as «part Mob boss and part Big Bang Theory cast member», and alternating «between boxy pinstripe suits and faux-ironic vintage tees».^[67]

Armor and special effects

Tony Stark has worn multiple different armors in his MCU appearances. For Iron Man, Stan Winston and his company built metal and rubber versions of the armors featured in the film,^[70] while Iron Man comic book artist Adi Granov designed the Mark III with illustrator Phil Saunders.^[71] Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) created the digital armors in the film,^[72] with The Orphanage and The Embassy doing additional work. To help with animating the more refined suits, information was sometimes captured by having Downey wear only the helmet, sleeves and chest of the costume over a motion capture suit.^[70]

For Iron Man 2, ILM again did the majority of the effects, as it did on the first film, with Double Negative also working on the film.^[73] In the filming of The Avengers, Weta Digital took over duties for animating Iron Man during the forest duel from ILM.^[74] For Iron Man 3, Digital Domain, Scanline VFX and Trixter each worked on separate shots featuring the Mark 42 armor, working with different digital models. The studios shared some of their files to ensure consistency between the shots. For the Mark 42 and Iron Patriot armors, Legacy Effects constructed partial suits that were worn on set.^[75]

Differences from the comics

The origin story of Iron Man has been updated for the films. In the comics, Stark becomes Iron Man following an experience in the Vietnam War, which is changed to the War in Afghanistan.^[76] Jarvis, in the comics, is the family butler, while in the films J.A.R.V.I.S. is an artificial intelligence created by Stark,^[77] though still inspired by the butler from Stark’s childhood, Edwin Jarvis, who is revealed to have died by the time the first film takes place.^[76] Stark also proceeds through the early iterations of his armor to reach the now-familiar red and gold color scheme much more quickly. Stark’s personality more closely resembles the Ultimate Comics version.^[76]

The AI version of J.A.R.V.I.S. is eventually uploaded by Stark to an artificial body and becomes Vision. In the films, Vision is created by Stark and Banner as a counter to Ultron. In the comics, however, Ultron is created by a different member of the Avengers, Hank Pym, and aspects of Pym’s personality are integrated into this version of Ultron, such as a desire for peace.^[78] Another difference in the films is the romance between Stark and Pepper Potts. In the comics, Potts has unrequited feelings for Stark, and ultimately becomes involved with Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard, Happy Hogan.^[77][78]

A new approach not seen in comics is Stark’s mentorial relationship with Peter Parker. In the Ultimate Comics, Stark and Parker do not go past the normal trainer-trainee relationship. In the MCU, Stark is also the creator of two iterations of Parker’s Spider-Man suits, unlike in the comics where he only creates the Iron Spider Armor, while Parker creates other suits by himself.^[79] Stark is also shown to have a history with Parker’s foes Vulture and Mysterio; both are depicted as having turned into villains due to unforeseen consequences of actions by Stark. While he does not end up facing them, his protégé does.^[80][81]

The Mandarin, a recurring Iron Man villain in the comics, turns out to be just an actor portraying the character, with the real criminal mastermind behind the acts claimed by «the Mandarin» being Aldrich Killian—a minor character in the comics.^[78][82] The Mandarin is revealed to be a real person in the Marvel One-Shot All Hail the King;^[83] this version is instead portrayed as the father and enemy of Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).^[84]

Reception

Downey’s portrayal of the character has been widely praised by fans and critics. Roger Ebert praised Downey’s performance in Iron Man, stating «At the end of the day it’s Robert Downey Jr. who powers the lift-off separating this from most other superhero movies».^[85] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, a one-time Marvel Comics writer, commended that Iron Man 2 «doesn’t find a changed man. Inside the metal, imperfect humanity grows even more so, as thought-provoking questions of identity meet techno-fantasy made flesh».^[86]

For The Avengers, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal—despite complimenting Downey’s performance—favored his work in Iron Man over his acting in The Avengers: «His Iron Man is certainly a team player, but Mr. Downey comes to the party with two insuperable superpowers: a character of established sophistication—the industrialist/inventor Tony Stark, a sharp-tongued man of the world—and his own quicksilver presence that finds its finest expression in self-irony».^[87] In his review of Avengers: Endgame, Morgenstern lauded both actor and character, praising «Robert Downey Jr.’s startlingly smart Tony Stark» who, along with Chris Evans’ Captain America and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, contributed to that film’s «feeling of family … because the debuts of its most prominent members remain vivid to this day.»^[88]

In 2015, Empire named Tony Stark the 13th greatest film character of all time.^[89] In 2019, following Stark’s death in Avengers: Endgame, a statue representing the character in his Iron Man armor was erected in Forte dei Marmi, Italy.^[90]

Accolades

Downey has received numerous nominations and awards for his portrayal of Tony Stark. He notably won the Saturn Award for Best Actor three times,^[91][92][93] making him a record four-time winner (he had previously won the award for 1993’s Heart and Souls);^[94] it is also the record for most wins for portraying the same character, tied with Mark Hamill for playing Luke Skywalker.^[95][96][97]

Year	Film	Award	Category	Result	Ref(s)
2008	Iron Man	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Nominated	[98]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Won	[99]
Best Superhero	Nominated	[100]
2009	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Male Action Star	Nominated	[101]
Favorite Male Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Superhero	Nominated
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[102]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance	Nominated	[103]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[91]
2010	Iron Man 2	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi	Nominated	[104]
Choice Movie: Dance	Nominated
Choice Movie: Fight (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated	[105]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Nominated	[106]
Best Superhero	Won	[107]
2011	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[108]
Favorite Action Star	Nominated
Favorite On-Screen Team (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Biggest Badass Star	Nominated	[109]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[110]
2012	The Avengers	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[111]
Choice Summer Movie Star: Male	Nominated
2013	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Won	[112]
Favorite Action Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Movie Superhero	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[113]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Nominated	[114]
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[115]
MTV Movie Awards	Best On-Screen Duo (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[116]
Best Fight (with cast)	Won
Best Hero	Nominated
Iron Man 3	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Won	[117]
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
2014	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[118]
Favorite Movie Duo (with Gwyneth Paltrow)	Nominated
Favorite Action Movie Star	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[119]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Won	[120]
Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Best Hero	Nominated	[121]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[92]
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[122]
2016	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[123]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Nominated
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[124]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Fight (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[125]
Captain America: Civil War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[126]
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with cast)	Nominated	[127]
2017	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[128]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Won
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[129]
Favorite Frenemies (with Chris Evans)	Nominated
#Squad (with cast)	Nominated
2018	Avengers: Infinity War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[130]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2018	Nominated	[131]
2019	Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Superhero	Won	[132]
Avengers: Endgame	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Hero	Won	[133]
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[134]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[93]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2019	Won	[135]
Action Movie Star of 2019	Nominated

See also

• Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Iron Man in other media

Notes

References

External links

• Tony Stark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel.com

«Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe)» redirects here. For the 2008 film, see Iron Man (2008 film).

Tony Stark
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
First appearance	Iron Man (2008)
Last appearance	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Based on	Iron Man by Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby
Adapted by	Mark Fergus Hawk Ostby Art Marcum Matt Holloway
Portrayed by	Robert Downey Jr. Davin Ransom (young)[1]
Voiced by	Mick Wingert (What If…?)[2]
In-universe information
Full name	Anthony Edward Stark[3]
Alias	Iron Man
Occupation	Benefactor and leader of the Avengers Consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. CEO of Stark Industries Weapons manufacturer
Affiliation	Avengers Damage Control S.H.I.E.L.D. Stark Industries
Weapon	Iron Man armor Arc reactor Hulkbuster armor E.D.I.T.H. glasses
Family	Howard Stark (father) Maria Stark (mother)
Spouse	Pepper Potts
Children	Morgan Stark (daughter)
Origin	Manhattan, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Abilities	Genius level intellect Proficient scientist and engineer Powered armor suit granting: Superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, and senses Energy repulsor and missile projection Regenerative life support Supersonic flight

Anthony Edward Stark, more commonly known as Tony Stark, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise—based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name—commonly known by his alias, Iron Man. Stark is initially depicted as an industrialist, genius inventor, and playboy who is CEO of Stark Industries. Initially the chief weapons manufacturer for the U.S. military, he has a change of heart and redirects his technical knowledge into the creation of mechanized suits of armor which he uses to defend against those that would threaten peace around the world. He becomes a founding member and leader of the Avengers. Following his failed Ultron Program, the internal conflict within the Avengers due to the Sokovia Accords, and Thanos successfully erasing half of all life in the Blip, Stark retires, marries Pepper Potts, and they have a daughter named Morgan. However, Stark rejoins the Avengers on a final mission to undo Thanos’ actions. He creates time travel, and the Avengers successfully restore trillions of lives across the universe. However, Stark inevitably sacrifices his life to defeat Thanos and his army. Stark chooses Peter Parker as a successor.

Stark is one of the central figures of the MCU, having appeared in eleven films as of 2022. The character and Downey’s performance have been credited with helping to cement the MCU as a multi-billion-dollar franchise, with Stark’s evolution often being considered the defining arc of the series.^[4]

Alternate versions of Stark from within the MCU multiverse appear in the animated series What If…? (2021), voiced by Mick Wingert, reprising his role from previous non-MCU animated media.

Concept and creation

Tony Stark first premiered as a comic book character, in Tales of Suspense #39 (cover dated March 1963), a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and cover-artist and character-designer Jack Kirby.^[5] Lee wanted to create the «quintessential capitalist», a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel’s readership.^[6] Lee based this playboy’s looks and personality on Howard Hughes,^[7] as «one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies’ man and finally a nutcase.»^[8] The character’s original costume was a bulky gray armored suit, replaced by a golden version in the second story (issue #40, April 1963), and redesigned as sleeker, red-and-golden armor in issue #48 (Dec. 1963) by Steve Ditko.^[9] Lee and Kirby included Iron Man in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963) as a founding member of the superhero team. In the mid-2000s, with a number of movies having been made from other Marvel properties licensed to other studios, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, which included Iron Man. Feige, a self-professed «fanboy», envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.^[10]

Jon Favreau, who was selected to direct the first Iron Man film, felt Downey’s past made him an appropriate choice for the part,^[11] and that the actor could make Stark a «likable asshole,» but also depict an authentic emotional journey once he won over the audience.^[12] Ultimately however, Downey ended up being the choice the studio made for the first character in their ever-expansive cinematic universe. Favreau was also attracted to Downey from his performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), with Downey frequently conversing with that film’s director, Shane Black, about the script and dialogue in Iron Man.^[13]

Fictional character biography

Early life

Anthony Edward «Tony» Stark was born on May 29, 1970, in Manhattan, New York to Howard Stark, a famous genius inventor and businessman, and Maria Stark, a socialite and philanthropist. Growing up under the eye of family butler Edwin Jarvis, his life was characterized by a cold and affectionless relationship with his father. Seeing that his son could achieve great things, Howard tried to inspire him with constant talks about his own role in the creation of Captain America. This instead embittered Stark, who felt that his father was taking more pride in his creations than in his family. A brilliant and unique child prodigy, Stark attended MIT for two years starting at age 14, and graduated summa cum laude at 17.^[14]

On December 16, 1991, when Stark was 21, his parents went away to the Bahamas, but planned to stop at the Pentagon to deliver Super Soldier Serum Howard had redeveloped. Instead, both are killed in a car accident—later revealed to be an assassination carried out by the Winter Soldier, who was mind-controlled by Hydra to steal the serum.^[a] As a result, Stark inherited his father’s company, becoming CEO of Stark Industries. Over the years, he became well known as a weapons designer and inventor, and lived a playboy lifestyle. At a New Year’s Eve party for the new millennium, he attended a conference in Bern where he met scientists Maya Hansen, inventor of the Extremis experimental regenerative treatment, and Aldrich Killian, rejecting an offer to work for Killian’s Advanced Idea Mechanics.^[b]

Becoming Iron Man

In 2010, Stark travels to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate Stark’s new «Jericho» missile. After the demonstration, the convoy is ambushed and Stark is critically wounded and imprisoned by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. Fellow captive Ho Yinsen, a doctor, implants an electromagnet into Stark’s chest to keep shrapnel shards from reaching his heart and killing him.

Stark and Yinsen secretly build a small, powerful electric generator called an arc reactor to power Stark’s electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings attack the workshop, Yinsen sacrifices himself to divert them while the suit is completed. The armored Stark battles his way out of the cave to find the dying Yinsen, then burns the Ten Rings’ weapons in anger and flies away, crashing in the desert. Rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home to announce that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. In his home workshop, Stark builds a sleeker, more powerful version of his improvised armor suit as well as a more powerful arc reactor.

Stark learns that Obadiah Stane has been engaged in arms trafficking to criminals worldwide, and is staging a coup to replace him as Stark Industries’ CEO. Stark, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves the villagers. Stane ambushes Stark at his home and takes the arc reactor from his chest, revealing that Stane was responsible for Stark’s captivity. Stark manages to get to his original reactor to replace it and defeats Stane. The next day, at a press conference, Stark publicly admits to being «Iron Man.»

Battling Vanko

Six months later in 2011, Stark’s fame has grown and he uses his Iron Man suit for peaceful means, resisting government pressure to sell his designs. He reinstitutes the Stark Expo to continue his father’s legacy, but discovers that the palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him. Growing increasingly reckless and despondent about his impending death, he appoints Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries.

Stark competes in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and is attacked mid-race by Ivan Vanko, who wields electrified whips powered by a miniature arc reactor. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged. At his birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Rhodes dons Stark’s Mark II prototype armor and tries to restrain him. The fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the U.S. Air Force.

Stark discovers a hidden message from his father, a diagram of the structure of a new element, which Stark synthesizes. At the Expo, Stark’s rival Justin Hammer unveils Vanko’s armored drones, led by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko remotely takes control of both the drones and Rhodes’ armor and attacks Iron Man. Stark and Rhodes together defeat Vanko and his drones. After narrowly saving Pepper Potts from a self-destructing drone, they start a relationship.

The Battle of New York

In 2012, when the Asgardian Loki arrives and begins menacing Earth, seizing the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, Fury activates the Avengers Initiative and Agent Phil Coulson visits Stark to have him review the research of Erik Selvig on the Tesseract. In Stuttgart, Steve Rogers and Loki fight briefly until Tony Stark appears in his Iron Man armor, resulting in Loki’s surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier.

The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons. Agents possessed by Loki attack the Helicarrier, disabling one of its engines in flight, which Stark and Rogers must work to restart. Loki escapes, and Stark and Rogers realize that for Loki, simply defeating them will not be enough; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a wormhole in New York City above the Avengers Tower to allow the Chitauri fleet in space to invade. Fury’s superiors from the World Security Council attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Midtown Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile, and in an apparent sacrifice of his own life, takes it through the wormhole toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the Chitauri mothership and disabling their forces on Earth. Stark’s suit runs out of power, and he falls back through the wormhole but the Hulk saves him from crashing into the ground. Stark and the other Avengers capture Loki and Thor takes custody of him.

Pursuing the Mandarin

Stark develops PTSD from his experiences during the alien invasion, resulting in panic attacks. Restless, he builds several dozen Iron Man suits, creating friction with girlfriend Pepper Potts. Seven months after the invasion, Happy Hogan is badly injured in one of a string of bombings by a terrorist known only as the Mandarin, Stark issues a televised threat to him, who destroys Stark’s Malibu home with helicopter gunships. Stark escapes in an Iron Man suit and crashes in rural Tennessee. His experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.

Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters, where he discovers the Mandarin was just an actor named Trevor Slattery. Aldrich Killian reveals himself to be the real Mandarin and captures Stark. He escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian intends to attack U.S. President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Stark saves the surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis and destroying Air Force One. Killian intends to kill Ellis on an oil platform on live television. On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts – who had been kidnapped and subjected to Extremis — as Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Potts, having survived the Extremis procedure, kills Killian. Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy all of the Iron Man suits as a sign of his devotion to Potts, and undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He pitches his obsolete chest arc reactor into the sea, musing that he will always be Iron Man.

Creating Ultron

In 2015, Stark and the Avengers raid a Hydra facility commanded by Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. While the team fights outside, Stark enters the lab and finds the scepter, along with Chitauri ships from the Battle of New York under construction. Wanda sneaks up behind him and uses her mind manipulation powers to give him a haunting vision: the death of all the Avengers except him. Stark awakens from the vision and retrieves Loki’s scepter.

Returning to the Avengers Tower, Stark and Bruce Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepter’s gem, and secretly decide to use it to complete Stark’s «Ultron» global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron eliminates Stark’s A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. and attacks the Avengers. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron builds an army of robot drones, kills Strucker and recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents’ deaths by his company’s weapons. The Avengers find and attack Ultron in Johannesburg, but Wanda subdues most of the team with personalized, disturbing visions, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk and rampage until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.

After hiding at Clint Barton’s house, Nick Fury arrives and encourages Stark and the others to form a plan to stop Ultron, who is discovered to have forced the team’s friend Dr. Helen Cho to perfect a new body for him. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. Returning to Avengers Tower, the Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark and Banner secretly upload J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow was part of his vision. This «Vision» and the Maximoffs, now on their side, accompany Stark and the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. One of Ultron’s drones is able to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine and shatter the landmass. The Avengers establish a new base in upstate New York, and Stark leaves the team.

Sokovia Accords and the aftermath

In 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish UN oversight of the team. The Avengers are divided: Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron’s creation and Sokovia’s devastation, while Rogers has more faith in their judgment than that of a government. Circumstances lead to Rogers and fellow super-soldier Bucky Barnes—framed for a terrorist attack—going rogue, along with Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang. Stark assembles a team composed of Natasha Romanoff, T’Challa, James Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades at Leipzig/Halle Airport. However, during the battle, Rogers and Barnes are able to escape and Rhodes is paralyzed. Stark learns that Barnes was framed and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers’ destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes. They find that the other super soldiers have been killed by Helmut Zemo, who plays footage that reveals that Barnes killed Stark’s parents. Stark turns on them, dismembering Barnes’ robotic arm. After an intense fight, Rogers finally manages to disable Stark’s Iron Man armor and departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Stark returns to New York to work on exoskeletal leg braces to allow Rhodes to walk again. Steve Rogers sends a mobile phone to Stark to keep in contact if needed. When Ross calls informing him that Rogers has broken the others out of the Raft, Stark refuses to help.

Two months later, Peter Parker resumes his high school studies, with Stark telling him he is not yet ready to become a full Avenger. Stark rescues Parker from nearly drowning after an encounter with Adrian Toomes and warns Parker against further involvement with the criminals. When another weapon from Toomes malfunctions during a fight with Parker and tears the Staten Island Ferry in half, Stark helps Parker save the passengers before admonishing him for his recklessness and confiscating his suit. Parker realizes Toomes is planning to hijack a plane transporting weapons from Stark Tower to the team’s new headquarters. After Parker thwarts the plan and saves Toomes from an explosion, Stark admits he was wrong about Parker and invites him to become an Avenger full-time, but Parker declines. Potts emerges from a packed press conference, called to make the announcement, and Stark decides to use the opportunity to instead propose to Potts. At the end of the film, he returns the suit to Peter.

Infinity War

In 2018, Stark and Potts are in a New York City park discussing having children, when Banner, who had disappeared after the Battle of Sokovia, crash-lands at the New York Sanctum. Banner relays a warning to Stephen Strange, Wong, and Stark that the mad Titan Thanos plans to use the Infinity Stones to kill half of all life in the universe. Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone, prompting Strange, Stark, Wong, and Parker to confront them. Although Cull Obsidian is incapacitated, Strange is captured by Maw. Stark and Parker sneak aboard Maw’s spaceship to rescue him.

After successfully freeing Strange and killing Maw, the trio proceed to Thanos’ home planet Titan, where they meet members of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They form a plan to confront Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, but Thanos overpowers the group and stabs Stark in the abdomen. Strange surrenders the Time Stone in exchange for Thanos sparing Stark. Thanos takes the stone and departs for Earth, retrieves the final stone, and activates the Infinity Gauntlet. Stark and Nebula, stranded on Titan, watch as Parker and others are turned to dust.

Time Heist and sacrifice

Stark and Nebula are rescued from space by Carol Danvers and returned to Earth, where Stark chooses to retire and raise his daughter Morgan, with Potts. Later, He constructs a secret beach house lab in Mexico for Banner to merge his two identities and spent some time with him including making a tiki bar. In 2023, when Scott Lang hypothesizes a way to bring back the fallen, the Avengers approach Stark, who initially refuses, considering the idea dangerous. Despite this, he examines the matter privately, discovers time travel, and agrees to help. The Avengers reassemble and plan to retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past to undo Thanos’ actions. Traveling to 2012, Stark fails to retrieve the Space Stone following the Battle of New York and instead goes further back to the 1970s to steal it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where he has a meaningful conversation with a younger version of his father, Howard.

The Avengers successfully obtain all of the Infinity Stones before returning to the present. The Stones are incorporated into a gauntlet made by Stark, which Banner then uses to resurrect those that were disintegrated by Thanos. However, they are followed by an alternate version of Thanos and his army, who are summoned to 2023 by an alternate version of Nebula. During the ensuing battle, Thanos obtains Stark’s gauntlet and the two of them wrestle for control of it. Thanos is able to overpower Stark before attempting another snap but discovers that Stark has transferred the Infinity Stones to his own armor. Stark activates the Gauntlet and uses it to disintegrate Thanos and all of his forces and save the universe, but fatally injures himself in the process. He dies surrounded by Rhodes, Parker, and Potts.

Legacy

Eight months later, as the world continues to mourn Stark, Parker receives glasses that can access Stark’s artificial intelligence E.D.I.T.H., with a message that establishes him as Stark’s chosen successor. Parker is however tricked by disgruntled former Stark Industries employee Quentin Beck into giving him the glasses, as Parker sees him as a more worthy successor. Beck, leading a team of other ex-Stark Industries employees such as William Ginter Riva, and angered at being fired by Stark, seeks to fill the vacancy left by Stark as Iron Man by using the software he developed for Stark, B.A.R.F., to augment illusions of creatures known as the Elementals, presenting himself as a hero known as Mysterio in «defeating» them. He uses Stark’s glasses to conduct drone attacks in London, targeting Parker. Parker eventually foils Beck’s plots and retakes the glasses, and he designs his own Spider-Man suit using technology from Stark Industries, in a similar manner to Stark designing his first Iron Man armor.

Alternate versions

Losing the Tesseract

In an alternate 2012, Stark and the Avengers are victorious over Loki during the Battle of New York, however the time traveling Stark and Scott Lang from 2023 alter 2012-Stark’s history when they attempt to steal the briefcase containing the Tesseract. As 2012-Stark and 2012-Thor argue with Alexander Pierce and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents over custody of Loki and the Tesseract, Lang, using his Ant-Man suit, shrinks down and enters into 2012-Stark’s chest arc reactor, pulling a plug that gives him a cardiac dysrhythmia. 2012-Thor uses Mjolnir to restart the reactor, saving 2012-Stark’s life. 2023-Stark obtains the briefcase but loses it when 2012-Hulk smashes through the elevator. The Tesseract falls out, and with 2012-Stark and Thor distracted, Loki picks it up and teleports away.

What If…?

Several alternate versions of Stark appear in the animated series What If…?, in which he is voiced by Mick Wingert.

Death of the Avengers

In an alternate 2011, Stark is seemingly killed by Romanoff after she injects him with a temporary antidote to his arc reactor poisoning. Fury later deduces the culprit as Hank Pym.

Zombie outbreak

In an alternate 2018, Stark is infected with a quantum virus and is turned into a zombie along with the Avengers in San Francisco. When Bruce Banner crash-lands in the New York Sanctum to warn the heroes of Thanos’s arrival, a zombified Stark attacks him alongside Stephen Strange and Wong, but is quickly killed by Hope van Dyne.

Killmonger deception

In an alternate 2010, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens prevents Stark from being kidnapped by the Ten Rings in Afghanistan. Stark returns to the United States, where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane’s involvement in the ambush plot, and Stark names him the new COO of Stark Industries. Stark and Killmonger build a humanoid combat drone using the vibranium of N’Jobu’s ring, but Killmonger betrays and kills Stark, setting off a war between the United States and Wakanda.

Ultron’s conquest

In an alternate 2015, Ultron successfully uploads his consciousness into a new vibranium body, becoming powerful enough to kill Stark and most of the Avengers, eradicating all life on Earth.

Working with Gamora

In an alternate universe, Stark is a close ally of Gamora after the death of Thanos by her hands. When the Watcher is collecting heroes to fight a multiverse-breaking version of Ultron, he selects the Gamora of this world, but pointedly excludes Stark.

Appearances

Robert Downey Jr. portrays Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008),^[15] Iron Man 2 (2010),^[16] The Avengers (2012),^[17] Iron Man 3 (2013),^[18] Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015),^[19] Captain America: Civil War (2016),^[20] Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),^[21] Avengers: Infinity War (2018),^[19] and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[20] In addition, Downey makes an uncredited cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk (2008).^[22]

In Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Stark appears in archival footage from Captain America: Civil War,^[23] and also appears via archive footage in the Marvel One-Shot The Consultant (2011).^[24] Archival footage of the character also appears in «Glorious Purpose», the first episode of the Disney+ television series Loki.^[25]

In September 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that Downey would appear in Black Widow (2021) in his MCU role as Stark;^[26] an early version of the script included the end scene from Captain America: Civil War between Stark and Natasha Romanoff.^[27] This was not in the final film, with director Cate Shortland stating that she and Kevin Feige decided against adding Stark or any other heroes to the film in order for Romanoff to stand on her own,^[28] and screenwriter Eric Pearson adding that it was determined that the scene did not add anything new to the story.^[27]

Stark returns in the Disney+ animated series What If…?,^[29] although Mick Wingert voices the character instead; Wingert has previously provided the voice for Iron Man in multiple non-MCU video games and animated productions since 2015.^[30]

Characterization

Appearance and personality

Downey had an office next to Favreau during pre-production, which allowed him greater involvement in the screenwriting process,^[32] especially adding humor to the film.^[33] Downey explained, «What I usually hate about these [superhero] movies [is] when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you’re supposed to buy into all his ‘Let’s go do some good!’ That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he’s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they’re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.»^[34] To prepare, Downey spent five days a week weight training and practiced martial arts to get into shape,^[11] which he said benefited him because «it’s hard not to have a personality meltdown … after about several hours in that suit. I’m calling up every therapeutic moment I can think of to just get through the day.»^[35] The revelation at the end of Iron Man of Stark’s alter ego was improvised by Stark’s actor Robert Downey Jr.^{[36][37][38][39]}

For the first film, Favreau and Downey had been handed an existing script and worked from it. In contrast, for Iron Man 2, the duo were given more freedom to conceive of the story for themselves,^[16] in which Stark struggles to keep his technology out of the hands of the government and rival weapons makers. On Stark being a hero, Downey said «It’s kind of heroic, but really kind of on his own behalf. So I think there’s probably a bit of an imposter complex and no sooner has he said, ‘I am Iron Man –’ that he’s now really wondering what that means. If you have all this cushion like he does and the public is on your side and you have immense wealth and power, I think he’s way too insulated to be okay.»^[43]

The Avengers introduced Stark’s role as one of an ensemble of heroes who must come together to defend the Earth from an alien invasion led by the god Loki. Downey initially pushed director Joss Whedon to make Stark the lead of the 2012 Avengers film: «Well, I said, ‘I need to be in the opening sequence. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but Tony needs to drive this thing.’ He was like, ‘Okay, let’s try that.’ We tried it and it didn’t work, because this is a different sort of thing, the story and the idea and the theme is the theme, and everybody is just an arm of the octopus.»^[44] About the character’s evolution from previous films, Downey said, «In Iron Man, which was an origin story, he was his own epiphany and redemption of sorts. Iron Man 2 is all about not being an island, dealing with legacy issues and making space for others… In The Avengers, he’s throwing it down with the others».^[45] At the climax of the film, Stark guides a nuclear missile through an interstellar portal to destroy the main alien vessel, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice his life to save the Earth.^[46]

In Iron Man 3, Stark struggles to come to terms with his near-death experience in The Avengers,^[47] suffering from anxiety attacks. On making a third Iron Man film, Downey said, «My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field—whatever that means in the end. You can pick several different points of departure for that.»^[18] On following up The Avengers, Downey said they «tried to be practical, in a post-Avengers world. What are his challenges now? What are some limitations that might be placed on him? And what sort of threat would have him, as usual, ignore those limitations?»^[48] Screenwriter Drew Pearce compared Stark in Iron Man 3 to an American James Bond for both being «heroes with a sense of danger to them, and unpredictability» even if Stark was a «free agent» instead of an authority figure like Bond. He also likened Tony to the protagonists of 1970s films such as The French Connection (1971), where «the idiosyncrasies of the heroes is what made them exciting.»^[49]

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Stark has become the benefactor of the Avengers.^[50][51][52] On how his character evolves after the events of Iron Man 3, Downey said, «I think he realizes that tweaking and making all the suits in the world—which is what he has been doing—still didn’t work for that thing of his tour of duty that left him a little PTSD. So his focus is more on how can we make it so that there’s no problem to begin with. That, you know, there’s a bouncer at our planet’s rope. That’s the big idea.»^[53] The events of Age of Ultron lead directly into the conflict of Captain America: Civil War, in which Stark leads a faction of Avengers in support of the regulation of individuals with superpowers.^[54][55] Anthony Russo said that Stark’s egomania allowed the writers «to bring him to a point in his life where he was willing to submit to an authority, where he felt it was the right thing to do.» Joe Russo added that because of the visions Stark saw in Age of Ultron, he now has a guilt complex which «drives him to make very specific decisions», calling his emotional arc «very complicated».^[56] Downey’s personal trainer Eric Oram stated that the trick to pitting Rogers against Stark, «is to show Iron Man using the ‘minimum force’ necessary to win the fight».^[57] Marvel initially wanted Downey’s part to be smaller, but «Downey wanted Stark to have a more substantial role in the film’s plot.» Variety noted that Downey would receive $40 million-plus backend for his participation, as well as an additional payout if the film outperformed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as Marvel would attribute that success to Downey’s presence.^[20]

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Stark is Peter Parker’s mentor and is the creator of the U.S. Department of Damage Control.^[21][58] Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman Thomas Rothman noted that, beyond the commercial advantage of featuring Downey in the film, the inclusion of Stark was important due to the relationship established between him and Parker in Captain America: Civil War.^[59] Watts noted that after Stark’s actions in Civil War, introducing Parker to life as an Avenger, there are «a lot of repercussions to that. Is it a first step towards Tony as some sort of mentor figure? Is he comfortable with that?»^[60] Co-writer Jonathan Goldstein compared Stark to Ethan Hawke’s father character in Boyhood (2014).^[61]

Downey reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[19][21] Iron Man 3 director Shane Black stated in March 2013 that «There has been a lot of discussion about it: ‘Is this the last Iron Man for Robert [Downey Jr.]?’ Something tells me that it will not be the case, and [he] will be seen in a fourth, or fifth.» Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that the character of Stark would continue to be featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe regardless of Downey’s involvement.^[62] Also in March, Downey said he was open to extending his contract, stating he feels «there’s a couple other things we’ve gotta do» with the character.^[63] In June 2013, when Downey signed on to return as Iron Man in Avengers: Age of Ultron, he also signed on for a third Avengers film.^[19] In a July 2014 interview during the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Downey expressed his interest in continuing to play Iron Man. «It’s down to Kevin [Feige] and Ike [Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Entertainment] and Disney to come to us with what the proposal is, and that’s on us to agree or disagree,» Downey said. «When things are going great, there’s a lot of agreement.» He added, «It’s that thing of: Why give up the belt when it feels like you can barely get jabbed?»^[64] In April 2016, Downey expressed openness to appearing in a potential fourth Iron Man film, saying «I could do one more.»^[65] Downey’s Marvel contract expired following Avengers: Endgame, where Stark dies.^[66]

Stark’s fashion sense evolved over the course of the films, initially being described as «woefully basic… mostly saggy jeans, henleys and tank tops—with an occasional suit», but improving by the time of the first Avengers film,^[67] and becoming more sophisticated by Civil War, as Stark matured and accepted greater responsibility for the consequences of his actions.^[68] Downey expressed the desire for his wardrobe to reflect that «you still know he’s Tony Stark, and you still know that he’s the richest man in the world».^[68] Stark’s clothing has been described as alternating between «a sweet suit with some shades» in his corporate look, «or a t-shirt, jeans, and an arc reactor» in his personal time.^[69] His fashion sense has been referred to as «part Mob boss and part Big Bang Theory cast member», and alternating «between boxy pinstripe suits and faux-ironic vintage tees».^[67]

Armor and special effects

Tony Stark has worn multiple different armors in his MCU appearances. For Iron Man, Stan Winston and his company built metal and rubber versions of the armors featured in the film,^[70] while Iron Man comic book artist Adi Granov designed the Mark III with illustrator Phil Saunders.^[71] Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) created the digital armors in the film,^[72] with The Orphanage and The Embassy doing additional work. To help with animating the more refined suits, information was sometimes captured by having Downey wear only the helmet, sleeves and chest of the costume over a motion capture suit.^[70]

For Iron Man 2, ILM again did the majority of the effects, as it did on the first film, with Double Negative also working on the film.^[73] In the filming of The Avengers, Weta Digital took over duties for animating Iron Man during the forest duel from ILM.^[74] For Iron Man 3, Digital Domain, Scanline VFX and Trixter each worked on separate shots featuring the Mark 42 armor, working with different digital models. The studios shared some of their files to ensure consistency between the shots. For the Mark 42 and Iron Patriot armors, Legacy Effects constructed partial suits that were worn on set.^[75]

Differences from the comics

The origin story of Iron Man has been updated for the films. In the comics, Stark becomes Iron Man following an experience in the Vietnam War, which is changed to the War in Afghanistan.^[76] Jarvis, in the comics, is the family butler, while in the films J.A.R.V.I.S. is an artificial intelligence created by Stark,^[77] though still inspired by the butler from Stark’s childhood, Edwin Jarvis, who is revealed to have died by the time the first film takes place.^[76] Stark also proceeds through the early iterations of his armor to reach the now-familiar red and gold color scheme much more quickly. Stark’s personality more closely resembles the Ultimate Comics version.^[76]

The AI version of J.A.R.V.I.S. is eventually uploaded by Stark to an artificial body and becomes Vision. In the films, Vision is created by Stark and Banner as a counter to Ultron. In the comics, however, Ultron is created by a different member of the Avengers, Hank Pym, and aspects of Pym’s personality are integrated into this version of Ultron, such as a desire for peace.^[78] Another difference in the films is the romance between Stark and Pepper Potts. In the comics, Potts has unrequited feelings for Stark, and ultimately becomes involved with Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard, Happy Hogan.^[77][78]

A new approach not seen in comics is Stark’s mentorial relationship with Peter Parker. In the Ultimate Comics, Stark and Parker do not go past the normal trainer-trainee relationship. In the MCU, Stark is also the creator of two iterations of Parker’s Spider-Man suits, unlike in the comics where he only creates the Iron Spider Armor, while Parker creates other suits by himself.^[79] Stark is also shown to have a history with Parker’s foes Vulture and Mysterio; both are depicted as having turned into villains due to unforeseen consequences of actions by Stark. While he does not end up facing them, his protégé does.^[80][81]

The Mandarin, a recurring Iron Man villain in the comics, turns out to be just an actor portraying the character, with the real criminal mastermind behind the acts claimed by «the Mandarin» being Aldrich Killian—a minor character in the comics.^[78][82] The Mandarin is revealed to be a real person in the Marvel One-Shot All Hail the King;^[83] this version is instead portrayed as the father and enemy of Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).^[84]

Reception

Downey’s portrayal of the character has been widely praised by fans and critics. Roger Ebert praised Downey’s performance in Iron Man, stating «At the end of the day it’s Robert Downey Jr. who powers the lift-off separating this from most other superhero movies».^[85] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, a one-time Marvel Comics writer, commended that Iron Man 2 «doesn’t find a changed man. Inside the metal, imperfect humanity grows even more so, as thought-provoking questions of identity meet techno-fantasy made flesh».^[86]

For The Avengers, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal—despite complimenting Downey’s performance—favored his work in Iron Man over his acting in The Avengers: «His Iron Man is certainly a team player, but Mr. Downey comes to the party with two insuperable superpowers: a character of established sophistication—the industrialist/inventor Tony Stark, a sharp-tongued man of the world—and his own quicksilver presence that finds its finest expression in self-irony».^[87] In his review of Avengers: Endgame, Morgenstern lauded both actor and character, praising «Robert Downey Jr.’s startlingly smart Tony Stark» who, along with Chris Evans’ Captain America and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, contributed to that film’s «feeling of family … because the debuts of its most prominent members remain vivid to this day.»^[88]

In 2015, Empire named Tony Stark the 13th greatest film character of all time.^[89] In 2019, following Stark’s death in Avengers: Endgame, a statue representing the character in his Iron Man armor was erected in Forte dei Marmi, Italy.^[90]

Accolades

Downey has received numerous nominations and awards for his portrayal of Tony Stark. He notably won the Saturn Award for Best Actor three times,^[91][92][93] making him a record four-time winner (he had previously won the award for 1993’s Heart and Souls);^[94] it is also the record for most wins for portraying the same character, tied with Mark Hamill for playing Luke Skywalker.^[95][96][97]

Year	Film	Award	Category	Result	Ref(s)
2008	Iron Man	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Nominated	[98]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Won	[99]
Best Superhero	Nominated	[100]
2009	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Male Action Star	Nominated	[101]
Favorite Male Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Superhero	Nominated
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[102]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance	Nominated	[103]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[91]
2010	Iron Man 2	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi	Nominated	[104]
Choice Movie: Dance	Nominated
Choice Movie: Fight (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated	[105]
Scream Awards	Best Science Fiction Actor	Nominated	[106]
Best Superhero	Won	[107]
2011	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[108]
Favorite Action Star	Nominated
Favorite On-Screen Team (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Biggest Badass Star	Nominated	[109]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[110]
2012	The Avengers	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[111]
Choice Summer Movie Star: Male	Nominated
2013	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Won	[112]
Favorite Action Movie Star	Nominated
Favorite Movie Superhero	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[113]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Nominated	[114]
Empire Awards	Best Actor	Nominated	[115]
MTV Movie Awards	Best On-Screen Duo (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[116]
Best Fight (with cast)	Won
Best Hero	Nominated
Iron Man 3	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Action	Won	[117]
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Don Cheadle)	Nominated
2014	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[118]
Favorite Movie Duo (with Gwyneth Paltrow)	Nominated
Favorite Action Movie Star	Won
Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Actor in an Action Movie	Nominated	[119]
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Male Buttkicker	Won	[120]
Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Best Hero	Nominated	[121]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[92]
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[122]
2016	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[123]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Nominated
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[124]
MTV Movie Awards	Best Fight (with Mark Ruffalo)	Nominated	[125]
Captain America: Civil War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy	Nominated	[126]
Choice Movie: Chemistry (with cast)	Nominated	[127]
2017	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[128]
Favorite Action Movie Actor	Won
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	Nominated	[129]
Favorite Frenemies (with Chris Evans)	Nominated
#Squad (with cast)	Nominated
2018	Avengers: Infinity War	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[130]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2018	Nominated	[131]
2019	Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Superhero	Won	[132]
Avengers: Endgame	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Hero	Won	[133]
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action Movie Actor	Won	[134]
Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Won	[93]
People’s Choice Awards	Male Movie Star of 2019	Won	[135]
Action Movie Star of 2019	Nominated

See also

• Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Iron Man in other media

Notes

References

External links

• Tony Stark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Tony Stark on Marvel.com

Background

1963 — 1984: Tony Stark

Anthony Edward Stark was born on May 27, 1963 in Manhattan, New York City, to Howard & Maria Stark. He became good friends with Edwin Jarvis, the butler of Stark’s family, who watched over Tony throughout all of his childhood. His early life was often dominated by the absence of his father. While loved unconditionally by Maria, Tony suffered from a strained relationship with his father, both due to the contrast of Tony’s sensitive & reclusive nature with the cold & calculating Howard. Howard constantly talked about his admiration for Captain America, which caused Tony to develop hatred & resentment towards the super soldier.

This caused Tony to turn to electronics as a coping mechanism at a young age, as he started to believe hardware to be comprehensible & reliable, whereas people were unpredictable & hard to understand. Tony’s world couldn’t find order but the things he built did. He was eventually admitted early into Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he met James Rhodes & they became lifelong best friends. At seventeen, he graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Tony continued to excel in school, adding many doctorates to his accomplishments.

On December 16, 1984, his parents prepared to go away for a few days over the Christmas holiday & leave him home alone. On their way out, Tony got in a bad argument with his father, who remained skeptical about how he would be while they were gone. On their way to the airport, the couple would be killed in a car crash, leaving Stark in grief & struggling to process this tragedy.

The day after their deaths, Obadiah Stane became interim CEO of Stark Industries until Tony took over the next year. Upon taking the role, he became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history at the age of 21. To keep busy, he created an A.I. system that helped out in the house. He named the system «Just a Rather Very Intelligent System,» shortened J.A.R.V.I.S., in tribute to Edwin Jarvis, whom had passed away recently.

1984 — 1996: Tony Stark

Stark made most of fortune off of military contracts. As his friend James Rhodes joined the United States Air Force, he became the liaison between Stark Industries & the United States Armed Forces. Under Stark’s leadership, the company quickly thrived & became one of the most advanced companies in the world. His newest weapon, the Jericho missile, later took him to Afghanistan for a demonstration. After leaving the presentation, Stark’s convoy was attacked by insurgents. While all the soldiers were gunned down, one of Stark Industries’ bombs landed next to him. The explosion embedded several pieces of shrapnel into his chest, with several fragments dangerously close to his heart.

When Tony came to consciousness, he found himself captured alongside another captive, Ho Yinsen. The man saved Tony’s life by attaching an electromagnet to his chest to prevent the shrapnel from reaching his heart. The two are ordered to build another Jericho missile & they’ll be let go. Knowing that their captors would never keep up their end of the deal, Stark & Yinsen instead made a plan to escape. Because Tony was in no condition to fight, the two built a miniature Arc Reactor & battle suit.

After two months, the duo finally finished but Yinsen realized there was not enough time for them to get out & sacrificed his life to hold off their captors. Angered by Yinsen’s death, Stark killed several terrorists & their Stark Industries produced weapons. His suit received damage from the various bullets, forcing him to escape with a jetpack. His flight ended up on the radar of the US Department of Defense, who sent James Rhodes to pick up Stark & bring him home.

During the press meeting following his arrival, Stark declared that his company would now no longer manufacture military weapons for the foreseeable future. As the companies’ stock market plummeted, Stane advised him to reconsider the decision but Stark refused. For the following months, Tony continued building & tweaking a suit of armor based on the one him & Yinsen built. He soon learned his weapons were being used by terrorists. Upon confronting Stane, he reveals that he has filed an injunction against him. Shortly after, Tony’s long time assistant Pepper Potts reveals that Stane was collaborating with the Ten Rings, the mercenaries that captured him. 

Tony again confronts Stane, who confessed that he had arranged Stark’s kidnapping while he ripped out the Arc Reactor from Stark’s chest, causing him to go into cardiac arrest. Luckily, he is saved by Rhodes minutes before his death. Putting on his armor, he & Stane eventually come to blows in their respective armors. As nothing he did stopped Stane in his armor, he has Pepper overload the reactor, leading to a tremendous amount of energy expelling upward.  The burst of electricity caused Stane to fall inside, triggering a massive explosion of the industrial Arc Reactor & killing Stane.

News began to circulate of their battle, with Tony’s alter ego being dubbed as Iron Man due to his armor. In the aftermath, Stark holds a press conference where he is to lie that Iron Man was his personal bodyguard. Though S.H.I.E.L.D. gave him an alibi for the events, Stark instead announced that he is Iron Man.​​​​​

1996 — 2000: Iron Man

Missing data.

2000 — 2010: Avengers

Missing data.

Romantic Relationships

• Bethany Cabe: Dated (1995)
• Christine Everhart: One Night Stand (1996)
• Lina Loveness: Dated (1996)
• Evetta Gorani: One Night Stand (1997)
• Joanna Nivena: Girlfriend (1997)
• Pepper Potts: Girlfriend (1998 — 2005); Fiancée (2005 — 2006); Wife (2006 — )

Personality

Tony Stark is complicated. During his early days, he was a man who only cared about fame & wealth. Plagued by many vices, Stark was most prone to womanizing & pride. 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 & engaged in a life of heroism to atone for his past mistakes.

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. He has been described as «man enough to do what needs to be done, even knowing full well what it will cost him.» Even though he can appear to be self-obsessed, Stark could also be a reliable friend & occasionally showed affection toward his teammates.

Over the following years, Tony matured & gradually becoming more of a team player, less arrogant & not as cynical. He even began opening up & began a real relationship with Pepper Potts. His exploits as Iron Man have lead him to reevaluate his life, thus Tony now strives to use his inventions in a more responsible & considerate way. He never fully let go of his character flaws but used them to push him forward as a reminder to do better & often making self-deprecating jokes or comments. Despite this attitude, Tony is an exceptionally brave & selfless individual.

Powers & Abilities

• Genius Level Intellect: Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony Stark is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy. 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 & deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox & effective ways, for example when he built the first Iron Man Armor in captivity. Tony’s genius allows him to act as a futurist, a person capable of intuiting the future based on current trends. 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 & causes him to sometimes finish other people’s sentences. Tony has been mentioned by Reed Richards to be the world’s best multitasker.
  • Polymath: He is proficient in mechanical engineering, computers, business, strategy, piloting, linguistic & various scientific fields.
  • Business Management: 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 also strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune & 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.
  • Engineering: He is an excellent engineer & mechanic capable of fixing almost any, if not all machinery.
  • Multilingualism: Tony can fluently speak in various languages including English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Russian & Korean. He also knows multiple Middle Eastern languages.
  • Tactical Analysis: While a somewhat brash tactician, every so often made many split-second tactical decisions that either saved people’s lives or overpowered his adversaries, though he usually had J.A.R.V.I.S. or F.R.I.D.A.Y.’s assistance. He is a brilliant tactician capable of quickly formulating battle strategies & new plans if the situation changes.
  • Wealth: His official net worth stands on $12.4 billion.
• Hand to Hand Combat: Stark was trained in unarmed combat by Phil Coulson & Happy Hogan, and became quite formidable on his own without the Iron Man armor when the situation demanded it. He further refined his hand tohand combat skills & became highly skilled in martial arts by training with Captain America, Black Widow & Black Panther.
• Firerams: Tony knows how to handle firearms, mainly the ones he has produced.
• Iron Man Armor: With the exception of the Mark I Iron Man armor, almost all of the Iron Man suits shared a common design & capability set. The suit was a powered exoskeleton with armored plating, capable of enhancing the wearer’s strength, speed, agility & endurance. The suit was powered by a miniaturized Arc Reactor, either using the one surgically installed in Tony Stark’s chest or else built into the chest-piece of the armor itself.

Weaknesses

Missing data.

Ratings

• Acumen: 7 — Master / Elite
• Might: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Quickness: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Mysticism: 1 — Nonexistent
• Gadgetry: 5 — High / Exceptional
• Projection: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Tactics: 6 — Expert / Advanced
• Battle: 5 — High / Exceptional
• TOTAL: 140 — Power Level 3 / General Threat (Tony Stark); 200 — Power Level 5 / Elevated Threat (Iron Man)

Trivia

• Tony’s father, Howard Stark, helped Steve Rogers become Captain America.
• His father was good friends with Nathaniel Richards, the father of Reed Richards. Because of this, they had met in their youth.
• His parents died on December 16, 1984.
• After seeing Clint & his family at their farmhouse, Tony was prompted to build the Stark Eco-Compound as a secondary & secluded residence for his family. The two houses are less than 30 minutes apart.
• He is an atheist. While he acknowledges the existence of gods, he refuses to believe in them.
• Tony is the owner of the Roswell Army Air Field, a location mistakenly associated with Area 51.
• His blood type is A positive.
• He once went to a fan convention posed as Iron Man cosplayer.
• Tony has his own Google-like search engine, called «Starkle.»
• He has set up a scholarship program for aliens, dimensional travelers, clones, artificial intelligences & other students outside the norm.
• «Stark» means «strong» in several languages, including German & Swedish.
• One of his cars had the license plate STARK1. The car with the STARK2 plate was later gifted to Pepper Potts prior to their relationship.
• Stark has his own flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream called Stark Raving Hazelnuts.

Notes

• The original character of Iron Man belongs to the Marvel Universe.
• His marriage to Pepper, family dynamic & the cabin house are nods to the MCU.

Background

1963 — 1984: Tony Stark

Anthony Edward Stark was born on May 27, 1963 in Manhattan, New York City, to Howard & Maria Stark. He became good friends with Edwin Jarvis, the butler of Stark’s family, who watched over Tony throughout all of his childhood. His early life was often dominated by the absence of his father. While loved unconditionally by Maria, Tony suffered from a strained relationship with his father, both due to the contrast of Tony’s sensitive & reclusive nature with the cold & calculating Howard. Howard constantly talked about his admiration for Captain America, which caused Tony to develop hatred & resentment towards the super soldier.

This caused Tony to turn to electronics as a coping mechanism at a young age, as he started to believe hardware to be comprehensible & reliable, whereas people were unpredictable & hard to understand. Tony’s world couldn’t find order but the things he built did. He was eventually admitted early into Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he met James Rhodes & they became lifelong best friends. At seventeen, he graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Tony continued to excel in school, adding many doctorates to his accomplishments.

On December 16, 1984, his parents prepared to go away for a few days over the Christmas holiday & leave him home alone. On their way out, Tony got in a bad argument with his father, who remained skeptical about how he would be while they were gone. On their way to the airport, the couple would be killed in a car crash, leaving Stark in grief & struggling to process this tragedy.

The day after their deaths, Obadiah Stane became interim CEO of Stark Industries until Tony took over the next year. Upon taking the role, he became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history at the age of 21. To keep busy, he created an A.I. system that helped out in the house. He named the system «Just a Rather Very Intelligent System,» shortened J.A.R.V.I.S., in tribute to Edwin Jarvis, whom had passed away recently.

1984 — 1996: Tony Stark

Stark made most of fortune off of military contracts. As his friend James Rhodes joined the United States Air Force, he became the liaison between Stark Industries & the United States Armed Forces. Under Stark’s leadership, the company quickly thrived & became one of the most advanced companies in the world. His newest weapon, the Jericho missile, later took him to Afghanistan for a demonstration. After leaving the presentation, Stark’s convoy was attacked by insurgents. While all the soldiers were gunned down, one of Stark Industries’ bombs landed next to him. The explosion embedded several pieces of shrapnel into his chest, with several fragments dangerously close to his heart.

When Tony came to consciousness, he found himself captured alongside another captive, Ho Yinsen. The man saved Tony’s life by attaching an electromagnet to his chest to prevent the shrapnel from reaching his heart. The two are ordered to build another Jericho missile & they’ll be let go. Knowing that their captors would never keep up their end of the deal, Stark & Yinsen instead made a plan to escape. Because Tony was in no condition to fight, the two built a miniature Arc Reactor & battle suit.

After two months, the duo finally finished but Yinsen realized there was not enough time for them to get out & sacrificed his life to hold off their captors. Angered by Yinsen’s death, Stark killed several terrorists & their Stark Industries produced weapons. His suit received damage from the various bullets, forcing him to escape with a jetpack. His flight ended up on the radar of the US Department of Defense, who sent James Rhodes to pick up Stark & bring him home.

During the press meeting following his arrival, Stark declared that his company would now no longer manufacture military weapons for the foreseeable future. As the companies’ stock market plummeted, Stane advised him to reconsider the decision but Stark refused. For the following months, Tony continued building & tweaking a suit of armor based on the one him & Yinsen built. He soon learned his weapons were being used by terrorists. Upon confronting Stane, he reveals that he has filed an injunction against him. Shortly after, Tony’s long time assistant Pepper Potts reveals that Stane was collaborating with the Ten Rings, the mercenaries that captured him. 

Tony again confronts Stane, who confessed that he had arranged Stark’s kidnapping while he ripped out the Arc Reactor from Stark’s chest, causing him to go into cardiac arrest. Luckily, he is saved by Rhodes minutes before his death. Putting on his armor, he & Stane eventually come to blows in their respective armors. As nothing he did stopped Stane in his armor, he has Pepper overload the reactor, leading to a tremendous amount of energy expelling upward.  The burst of electricity caused Stane to fall inside, triggering a massive explosion of the industrial Arc Reactor & killing Stane.

News began to circulate of their battle, with Tony’s alter ego being dubbed as Iron Man due to his armor. In the aftermath, Stark holds a press conference where he is to lie that Iron Man was his personal bodyguard. Though S.H.I.E.L.D. gave him an alibi for the events, Stark instead announced that he is Iron Man.​​​​​

1996 — 2000: Iron Man

Missing data.

2000 — 2010: Avengers

Missing data.

Romantic Relationships

• Bethany Cabe: Dated (1995)
• Christine Everhart: One Night Stand (1996)
• Lina Loveness: Dated (1996)
• Evetta Gorani: One Night Stand (1997)
• Joanna Nivena: Girlfriend (1997)
• Pepper Potts: Girlfriend (1998 — 2005); Fiancée (2005 — 2006); Wife (2006 — )

Personality

Tony Stark is complicated. During his early days, he was a man who only cared about fame & wealth. Plagued by many vices, Stark was most prone to womanizing & pride. 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 & engaged in a life of heroism to atone for his past mistakes.

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. He has been described as «man enough to do what needs to be done, even knowing full well what it will cost him.» Even though he can appear to be self-obsessed, Stark could also be a reliable friend & occasionally showed affection toward his teammates.

Over the following years, Tony matured & gradually becoming more of a team player, less arrogant & not as cynical. He even began opening up & began a real relationship with Pepper Potts. His exploits as Iron Man have lead him to reevaluate his life, thus Tony now strives to use his inventions in a more responsible & considerate way. He never fully let go of his character flaws but used them to push him forward as a reminder to do better & often making self-deprecating jokes or comments. Despite this attitude, Tony is an exceptionally brave & selfless individual.

Powers & Abilities

• Genius Level Intellect: Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony Stark is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy. 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 & deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox & effective ways, for example when he built the first Iron Man Armor in captivity. Tony’s genius allows him to act as a futurist, a person capable of intuiting the future based on current trends. 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 & causes him to sometimes finish other people’s sentences. Tony has been mentioned by Reed Richards to be the world’s best multitasker.
  • Polymath: He is proficient in mechanical engineering, computers, business, strategy, piloting, linguistic & various scientific fields.
  • Business Management: 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 also strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune & 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.
  • Engineering: He is an excellent engineer & mechanic capable of fixing almost any, if not all machinery.
  • Multilingualism: Tony can fluently speak in various languages including English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Russian & Korean. He also knows multiple Middle Eastern languages.
  • Tactical Analysis: While a somewhat brash tactician, every so often made many split-second tactical decisions that either saved people’s lives or overpowered his adversaries, though he usually had J.A.R.V.I.S. or F.R.I.D.A.Y.’s assistance. He is a brilliant tactician capable of quickly formulating battle strategies & new plans if the situation changes.
  • Wealth: His official net worth stands on $12.4 billion.
• Hand to Hand Combat: Stark was trained in unarmed combat by Phil Coulson & Happy Hogan, and became quite formidable on his own without the Iron Man armor when the situation demanded it. He further refined his hand tohand combat skills & became highly skilled in martial arts by training with Captain America, Black Widow & Black Panther.
• Firerams: Tony knows how to handle firearms, mainly the ones he has produced.
• Iron Man Armor: With the exception of the Mark I Iron Man armor, almost all of the Iron Man suits shared a common design & capability set. The suit was a powered exoskeleton with armored plating, capable of enhancing the wearer’s strength, speed, agility & endurance. The suit was powered by a miniaturized Arc Reactor, either using the one surgically installed in Tony Stark’s chest or else built into the chest-piece of the armor itself.

Weaknesses

Missing data.

Ratings

• Acumen: 7 — Master / Elite
• Might: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Quickness: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Mysticism: 1 — Nonexistent
• Gadgetry: 5 — High / Exceptional
• Projection: 4 — Trained / Learned (Tony); 6 — Expert / Advanced (Iron Man)
• Tactics: 6 — Expert / Advanced
• Battle: 5 — High / Exceptional
• TOTAL: 140 — Power Level 3 / General Threat (Tony Stark); 200 — Power Level 5 / Elevated Threat (Iron Man)

Trivia

• Tony’s father, Howard Stark, helped Steve Rogers become Captain America.
• His father was good friends with Nathaniel Richards, the father of Reed Richards. Because of this, they had met in their youth.
• His parents died on December 16, 1984.
• After seeing Clint & his family at their farmhouse, Tony was prompted to build the Stark Eco-Compound as a secondary & secluded residence for his family. The two houses are less than 30 minutes apart.
• He is an atheist. While he acknowledges the existence of gods, he refuses to believe in them.
• Tony is the owner of the Roswell Army Air Field, a location mistakenly associated with Area 51.
• His blood type is A positive.
• He once went to a fan convention posed as Iron Man cosplayer.
• Tony has his own Google-like search engine, called «Starkle.»
• He has set up a scholarship program for aliens, dimensional travelers, clones, artificial intelligences & other students outside the norm.
• «Stark» means «strong» in several languages, including German & Swedish.
• One of his cars had the license plate STARK1. The car with the STARK2 plate was later gifted to Pepper Potts prior to their relationship.
• Stark has his own flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream called Stark Raving Hazelnuts.

Notes

• The original character of Iron Man belongs to the Marvel Universe.
• His marriage to Pepper, family dynamic & the cabin house are nods to the MCU.

Anthony Edward Stark, Or Tony Stark for short is known as Iron Man. Tony is a billionaire, genius, former playboy, philantropist and is also well-known as famous superhero Iron Man, owns Stark Industries — formerly acting as its CEO — lives in his house in Malibu, and is one of the founding and lead members of The Avengers.

Appearance

Tony is a middle-aged man of average height. He is American, has Caucasian skin, and brown eyes. He has black hair, which is mostly kept in a rough-edged manner on some occasions, especially when he works.

He is very well groomed when it comes to special occasions, and he usually wears either very formal or simple clothing in a way that matches his wealth. Tony has a mustache that runs all the way down to his cheeks, then straight to his chin making an enclosed form, with a small goatee as well on his upper chin.

In the films, Tony has been seen wearing many types of clothing, one of which is his famous Black Sabbath shirt, which is a black shirt with the name of the famous old band called Black Sabbath, a band in the Real World.

Other clothing he has worn include a black tuxedo, a white tuxedo, and other clothing.

Special Suit

In Iron Man 3, Tony makes a special type of shirt to go with the all the new suits that he has created. It is presumed to be made out of drifit, and other strong materials, as it could withstand heat and blasts and was very durable as seen in the movie.

This shirt, was mainly colored dark blue, with grey on the sleeves and the collar portion of the shirt. As seen in the film, it was thin enough to allow the light of his Vibranium Arc Reactor to pass through, allowing it to be connected to his armor more easily.

So far, this clothing has been the signature clothing for Tony, and has been the best one yet seen as far as the films go.

Personality

While initially a carefree playboy, throughout the series, Tony’s personality changes through the actions of Iron Man, becoming a more serious and caring character, though remaining charismatic.

Tony has a problem when being handed «things». As seen in the films, whenever he is being handed something, he asks to have the item placed somewhere or handed to a trusted person, as he does not like being handed things.

He is also loves to drink Vegetable Juice every morning as seen in the first two Iron Man films.

Powers and Abilities

Without Armor

Captain America: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off and what are you?

Tony: Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist.

Tony Stark and Captain America arguing in The Avengers.

Tony has very high-level intellect. He attended MIT and graduated summa cum laude (with the highest honors) at age 17. During his undergraduate education he worked on robotics and developed the clumsy armed robot seen in his garage throughout the films, and won a robotics competition at MIT with it. He knows almost everything when it comes to science and technology. He is a professional engineer, and can create, fix or tinker with any kind of mechanical device. Tony also likes to describe himself as a «Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist» when Cap questions what he «is» without his armor.

As Iron Man

As the armored superhero, Iron Man, Tony gains several abilities while wearing the armor, all of which have a wide range and variety for any situation he is present in.

• Superhuman Strength: When using his Iron Man suits, Tony gains incredible amounts of strength. Able to lift up cars, trucks, heavy objects and debris, as well as destroy a lot of things.
• Superhuman Speed: Tony can fly at very extreme speeds, with the highest known recorded speed being over the excess of Mach 5, using the Mark 40.
• Flight: Tony has proprietory repulsors on his hand gauntlets, his boots and occasionally other parts of his armor, which allows him to achieve flight and venture to any place he desires, including higher parts of the atmosphere.
• Heavy Firepower: When in his armor, Tony has access to a variety of weapons and other firepower that he can use at his own will.

Equipment

Tony has a wide range and variety of equipment, especially with technology, in which he holds and creates the most advanced technological weapons and devices available on earth from his own multi-billion dollar company, Stark Industries. (Note: Marks 51-84 are missing)

Iron Man Suits

• Mark I (1)
• Mark II (2)
• Mark III (3)
• Mark IV (4)
• Mark V (5)
• Mark VI (6)
• Mark VII (7)
• Mark VIII (8)
• Mark IX (9)
• Mark X (10)
• Mark XI (11)
• Mark XII (12)
• Mark XIII (13)
• Mark XIV (14)
• Mark XV (15)
• Mark XVI (16)
• Mark XVII (17)
• Mark XVIII (18)
• Mark XIX (19)
• Mark XX (20)
• Mark XXI (21)
• Mark XXII (22)
• Mark XXIII (23)
• Mark XXIV (24)
• Mark XXV (25)
• Mark XXVI (26)
• Mark XXVII (27)
• Mark XXVIII (28)
• Mark XXIX (29)
• Mark XXX (30)
• Mark XXXI (31)
• Mark XXXII (32)
• Mark XXXIII (33)
• Mark XXXIV (34)
• Mark XXXV (35)
• Mark XXXVI (36)
• Mark XXXVII (37)
• Mark XXXVIII (38)
• Mark XXXIX (39)
• Mark XL (40)
• Mark XLI (41)
• Mark XLII (42)
• Mark XLIII (43)
• Mark XLIV (44)
• Mark XLV (45)
• Mark XLVI (46)
• Mark XLVII (47)
• Mark XLVIII (48)
• Mark XLIX (49)
• Mark L (50)
• Mark LXXXV (85)

Weapons

• Makeshift Bombs: In Iron Man, Tony and Ho Yinsen created a makeshift bomb to buy them time to bring the Mark I armor online. They set it on the door of their cell and it killed two terrorists when they opened the door. In Iron Man 3, Tony created another makeshift bomb to kill Ellen Brandt out of a microwave, dog tags, and a gas valve.
• Hand Mounted Repulsor: After the events of The Avengers, Tony created a hand mounted repulsor powered by his Arc Reactor to use against enemies when he had no Iron Man suit. Tony uses it against Eric Savin, but the repulsor withered away after one use.
• Ornament Bombs: After advice from Harley Keener, Tony made bombs out of ornaments to use in his infiltration of The Mandarin’s house. He used them all getting in.
• Nail Gun: After advice from Harley Keener, Tony created a powerful nail gun to infiltrate the Mandarin’s house and used up all of the nails along the way.
• Taser: After advice from Harley Keener, Tony created a makeshift taser to infiltrate the Mandarin’s house.
• Guns: In Iron Man 3 when he has no access to armor such as when he’s held captive and infiltrating the Roxoo Norcon oil rig, Tony uses a variety of guns, but proves to be a lousy shot unless his target is right in front of him.

Personal life

As a billionaire and a former playboy, Tony has a very high profile regarding his personal life. Tony owns fourteen cars, most of which are sports and old fashioned types. He also has two unnamed bikes, and also lives in his large mansion in Malibu, California, which is commonly referred to as the Malibu Mansion. Tony owns a company called Stark Industries, directly inherited from his father. 

Occupations

Tony has several occupations as well in his life. His main one is being the super hero known as Iron Man. Other than saving the world from crimes and evil, Tony has a very famous and well known occupation as his normal self. Tony is famous for his industrial work, and as an Industrial Business man and Entrepreneur.

• Iron Man: As Iron Man, Tony is known as a famous and powerful super hero.
• Industrial Businessman and Entrepreneur: Tony’s main occupation is being an industrial business man and entrepreneur.
• Weapons Supplier: Tony was formerly the main weapons supplier to the United States Military. He would supply them with powerful weapons and advanced technology. An example of which was the Jericho Missile. However he quit being a weapons supplier following the severe heart injury he had in Iron Man.

Cars Owned

Tony owns about 14 cars throughout the course of the movie series. Below are the list of cars he’s owned so far in the film series.

• Audi R8 (2008)
• Saleen S7
• Tesla Roadster
• Ford Flathead Roadster (1932)
• Shelby Cobra (1967)
• Audi R8 Spyder
• Rolls Royce Phantom
• Ghia Cadillac (1953)
• Mercury Coupe (1949)
• Wolf WR Ford Replica (1978)
• Acura NSX
• White Audi R8 e-tron
• Red Audi R8 e-tron
• Bugatti Veyron SS

Stark Industries

Tony owns the multi-billion dollar company, inherited directly from his father. Tony was formerly the CEO of his company and headed everything the company does, before relinquishing his position to Pepper Potts (he still maintains a high level of authority within the company, however). He creates designs for the products of the company and is the president of the board.

Below lists all of the products Tony designed and created for Stark Industries.

• Products Designed and Created:
  • Jericho Missile
  • Beretta 92FS INOX
  • Stark Medical Scanner

Relationships

Tony has a vast amount of relationships with a lot of people, ranging from all those closest to him — such as his family and friends — up to the famous celebrities in the world.

All of Tony’s important and known relationships are listed below.

James Rhodes

Rhodey is Tony’s best friend. The two met a long time before the events of the first Iron Man film. Rhodey is protective of Tony and he serves as the liaison between Tony and the US Military, who want Tony’s armor for their own use and purpose.

Pepper Potts

Pepper was formerly Tony’s assistant until they started a relationship. Tony found a love for Pepper, since she was one of the few people in his life. Over the course of the film franchise, the relationship between Tony and Pepper grew but were sometimes strained because of some of the actions Tony did being Iron Man. In Iron Man 3, Pepper finally becomes Tony’s girlfriend and she moves in with Tony in his house. Prior to the events of Captain America: Civil War, however, they broke up due to Tony’s obsession with his Iron Man persona. They would eventually reconcile prior to the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming, with Tony proposing (off-screen) during a press conference, and they later married and had a daughter, Morgan, during the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Howard Stark

Tony’s relationship with his father was cold and strained. Tony did not talk much with his father, as he was busy and always working. Howard was presumed to have never spent any time with his son and always made sure that Tony stayed away from his work. Tony would describe his father as «cold and calculating» and that he never said he loved him, and he never said he cared about him. Tony later discovered a video in which his father had admitted to loving him greatly and left him a clue to a new element derived from the Space Stone which managed to save Tony’s life. Following this, Tony’s opinion of his father improved somewhat, to the point that, when he went back in time to 1970 and ended up accidentally bumping into Howard during his mission, he hugged and thanked the man.

Maria Stark

Maria is Tony’s mother.

Although little was seen of Tony and Maria’s relationship, they had a very good one. Upon discovering that James «Bucky» Barnes had murdered his mother, he attempted to attack and likely kill the super soldier out of revenge, despite knowing Barnes was not in control of his actions during the event. This shows he was blinded by rage at the news that the man before him had been the one to kill Maria.

Obadiah Stane

Obadiah was jealous of Tony, being the heir to lead Stark Industries. He had long planned to overthrown Tony and claim the company as his own. Acting as Tony’s guide and mentoring him, Tony had no clue Obadiah was the mastermind behind his ambush and terrorist capture. Obadiah’s true side was revealed when he took Tony’s Arc Reactor and left him to die.

Aldrich Killian

A man who Tony met on New Year’s Eve 1999. Tony promised to meet him on the roof to discuss his plans but blew him off, leading to Killian’s desperation and villainy. Killian attempted to kill him several times, kidnapping and nearly killing Pepper in the process before she ultimately killed him instead.

Maya Hansen

Tony had only met Maya during the Science Conference in Switzerland, and he already grew a relationship with her. The two quickly liked each other, after Maya showed Tony her research. Tony had sex with her overnight after New Year’s Eve of 1999. He later accused her of losing her soul to help Killian and she attempted to save him from Killian as a result. It resulted in her death.

Ivan Vanko

Ivan Vanko hated Tony for what Howard Stark did to his family. He repeatedly tried to kill Tony but was defeated by Tony and James Rhodes.

Ho Yinsen

Yinsen was the man who saved Tony’s life when he was near-death after shrapnel from a bomb was lodged in his chest. Yinsen removed some of the shrapnel and installed an electromagnet that Tony used until he managed to get the rest of the shrapnel removed. Yinsen became his friend and assistant in building the first Arc Reactor and the Mark I suit. Yinsen sacrificed himself to allow Tony to escape and asked Tony not to waste his life. Tony took his words to heart, stopping selling weapons, becoming Iron Man and even saving Yinsen’s village from the Ten Rings.

Happy Hogan

Happy Hogan was a close friend and employee of Tony’s, acting first as his personal bodyguard and later as his personal chauffeur and head of security at Stark Industries. Tony was deeply shaken when Happy was severely injured after he was caught in the explosion of Jack Taggart (an Extremis user). While Happy was very proud of his position as Head of Security, Tony often teased him about it. Tony later trusted Happy to keep tabs on Peter Parker, and had also entrusted him with an engagement ring he planned to eventually propose to Pepper with, which Happy stated he had been carrying around for years.

Trevor Slattery

Slattery was an actor who posed as the Mandarin during the events of Iron Man 3. His job was to take credit for the explosions caused by Extremis users, passing them off as terrorist attacks by the Ten Rings. After Tony and Colonel James Rhodes broke into the supposed Mandarin’s home and held Slattery at gunpoint, the man conceded out of fear that he was just an actor and immediately gave up important information about Killian’s plans, and Tony and Rhodes displayed disdain at his blatant cowardice.

Peter Parker

Deducing the young man was secretly Spider-Man in his spare time, Tony went to meet with him. They bonded over their scientific backgrounds, with Tony becoming something of a father figure/mentor to Peter. He recruited the teenager to help with the airport battle in Berlin, fashioning a newer, better suit for him, and cared enough about him to save his life on more than one occasion. He was distraught after the events of Avengers: Infinity War, having held the boy who was as good as a son to him as he died and turned to dust; it was ultimately the thought of bringing Peter back that convinced Tony to try to bring everyone back via time travel, as suggested by Scott Lang, Natasha Romanoff, and Steve Rogers. Peter was shown to be just as distraught as Tony following the death of his mentor.

Morgan Stark

Morgan was the daughter of Pepper Potts and Tony. Born sometime during the time jump in Avengers: Endgame, she and her father seemed very close and liked to joke around together, e.g. when Tony joked about selling Morgan’s toys if she didn’t stay in bed. Tony showed faux-pride when bragging to Pepper that Morgan loved him «3000» («you were somewhere in the low 600-900 range»), and went on to use this line during his recorded message for Morgan following his death.

History

Early life

Anthony «Tony» Stark was born in 1970 to Howard and Maria Stark. As his father was the founder of Stark Industries, the main weapons supplier to the United States Military, Tony was the sole heir to the legacy of the company.

When he was four years old, Tony built his first Circuit Board. Three years later, when he was seven, he built his very first Engine. Years after, when he was seventeen, Tony graduated at MIT at the top of his class.

Tony was an engineering prodigy. His relationship with his father was strained and estranged. In 1991, Tony’s parents died in a car crash, and his father’s partner, Obadiah Stane, took temporary control of Stark Industries.

At the age of 21, Tony returned to inherit his father’s company, and became both famous for his professional life, and infamous for his partying, alcoholic, and playboy-like personal life.

New Years Eve of 1999

In December 31, 1999, Tony attended a Science Conference in Bern, Switzerland, during which he met a scientist paramour named Maya Hansen, and quickly developed a relationship with her. After the conference, he also met Afghan physicist Ho Yinsen, along with a Cardiologist named Dr. Wu.

When Tony arrived in the Hotel Lobby with Maya, he met a crippled scientist named Aldrich Killian, who invited Tony to join his «Privately Funded Think Tank» called A.I.M.. Tony ignored the offer, instead enjoying his New Year and spending it with Maya, humiliating Killian.

Iron Man

Present life

Years later in 2008, a presentation about Tony plays on-screen to wide audience of celebrities. Meanwhile, Tony plays in a Casino while he misses out his awarding ceremony. As Rhodey presents Tony’s award, he fails to show up. Obadiah Stane then takes his place and gives a speech. He ends with, «You know the best thing about Tony is also the worst thing. He’s always working.» After this, Tony can be seen throwing dice as he scores another win in his game.

Ambush

36 hours later, somewhere within a deserted place in Afghanistan, three Military convoys are headed back to their base. One of the trucks carry the famous billionaire and industrialist, Tony Stark. Within his truck, Tony tries to talk to the other soldiers to try and break the silence. Suddenly the convoy comes under attack and the soldiers are killed while Tony is seriously wounded by shrapnel from an RPG. His attackers take him captive and then make a broadcast about the event to Obadiah Stane.

Captured and wounded

Tony is captured by a terrorist group named the Ten Rings. Shrapnel from a bomb is embedded in his heart. The only thing keeping him alive is a car battery attached to a electromagnet. Incarcerated, Tony learns that many of his weapons are somehow in the hands of these terrorists and that they want him to provide them with the devastating Jericho Missile.

Initially despondent at the idea that he will soon die whether or not he builds the missile, fellow captive Ho Yinsen convinces Tony not to give up and he starts working to escape. He first builds a Minature Arc Reactor to power his electromagnet and then works on creating the Mark I armor. The Ten Rings’ leader Raza realizes he’s up to something and gives him only a day to complete the missile.

Escaping from captivity

Having less than 24 hours to build the Jericho Missile, Tony wastes no time trying to finish building his powerful Mark I armor. Together with the help of Yinsen, Tony works overnight building the armor’s metal platings and systems, starting with the armor’s face mask, and ending with the attachment of the body armor and systems. Together, they succeed in finishing the Mark I armor, but run out of time to power it up, so Yinsen distracts the guards. This buys Tony enough time to finish putting the armor on and he fights his way through the cave, killing many of the Ten Rings and finding a mortally wounded Yinsen who asks Tony not to waste his life before dying. Tony makes his way out of the cave and, under heavy fire, destroys the Ten Rings’ weapons stockpile before flying off. He soon crashes and his armor is destroyed, but Rhodey finds and rescues him in the desert.

Return to America

After being escorted back to America, Tony calls a press conference in which he declares that as a result of his experience, Stark Industries will no longer make and sell weapons. This causes great outrage and stock prices drop. Obadiah Stane convinces Tony to stay out of the spotlight while he handles things with the company. Tony considers using Arc Reactor technology to replace weapons for the company’s production and with the help of Pepper, he installs a new, more powerful Arc Reactor to power his electromagnet.

Refining the Iron Man Armor

Taking Yinsen’s last request to not let his life go to waste to heart, Tony decides to continue designing armors. Deciding that in the right hands, specifically his own, his new armor technology could do great good in the world, Tony tries and fails to entice Rhodey into joining him and sets to work on upgrading his Mark I design to become the new Mark II armor. While working on repulsors to act as flight stabilizers, Tony discovers that they can also be used as a weapon.

As Tony works, Obadiah Stane informs him that the Board of Directors has filed an injunction to lock him out in order to keep working on weapons. Tony brushes this off and goes back to work on his armor. After several successful tests with just his new flight systems, Tony takes the Mark II armor on a full-scale test and besides icing up when he gets too high and accidentally crashing through two floors of his own house when landing, it is a success.

Tony then designs the Mark III armor to deal with the glitches in the Mark II and as J.A.R.V.I.S. works on building the Mark III, Tony learns from a news report that he’s not been invited to his annual fireman’s charity ball and goes.

Becoming Iron Man

At the ball, Tony dances with and nearly kisses Pepper but, while getting them drinks, is approached by Christine Everhart, who reveals that his weapons are still being sold and shows him pictures of Yinsen’s village Gulmira with boxes of weapons clearly marked Stark Industries.

Tony confronts Obadiah Stane who not only admits to selling weapons to terrorists, but that he was the one that locked Tony out of his company. Later, watching a news report on the situation in Gulmira and recognizing the terrorists as his captors, the Ten Rings, Tony decides to take action and after testing out the weapons properties of his repulsors, he dons the Mark III suit and travels to Gulmira.

There, he takes out the terrorists terrorizing the villagers and leaves their leader, Abu Bakaar, at the villagers’ mercy. Tony then goes after the weapons stockpiles and destroys them and a tank. His presence and actions are detected by the Air Force and they dispatch two F-22s to stop him. After a brief confrontation with the jets, Tony calls Rhodey to get him to call off the fighters but accidentally destroys one in the process, forcing the pilot to eject. While the other jet is still ordered to engage despite Rhodey’s efforts to stop them, when Tony saves the ejected pilot from death, the attack is called off.

Confronting Stane

Feeling the need to make up for the damage his weapons do, Tony asks Pepper to hack into the company servers and find out where else they shipped weapons to so he can destroy those too. Pepper initially refuses and quits, but Tony explains his motives and how he feels its the right thing to do, Pepper agrees, telling him that he’s all she has too. Later that night, Stane paralyzes Tony with a sonic device as Pepper calls him and reveals that he was the one that hired the Ten Rings to kill him.

Stane tells Tony he was using him all the time for his ideas and that when he tried to have him killed, he worried that he was getting rid of his idea source, but that Tony came up with one final thing that will perfect weapons technology and allow them to reign supreme: the Arc Reactor. Stane, needing the Arc Reactor to power his Iron Monger suit as his scientists couldn’t duplicate the technology, steals it from Tony’s chest and leaves a helpless Tony to die.

Weak, Tony makes his way to his lab where he tries to reach his Mark I Reactor which Pepper has put into a display. Though he fails, DUM-E gives it to him and he is able to install it. Found soon afterwards by Rhodey, Tony dons the Mark III once more to stop Stane and orders Rhodey to keep fighters out of his way. Calling Pepper, she tells him Stane has gone insane and is then attacked by Stane in his Iron Monger suit which he donned after Pepper brought Phil Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to stop him. Tony, warned by J.A.R.V.I.S. that with the Mark I Reactor he has less than 50% power, arrives just in time to save Pepper and engages Iron Monger in battle.

With Stane’s superior suit and his dwindling power supply, Tony has a hard time against Stane. After saving a family in a van from being killed in Stane’s efforts to take him out, Tony leads the fight high into the atmosphere where Stane’s suit ices up as he didn’t know about or correct for the problem Tony discovered with the Mark II suit. Tony knocks Stane from the air, but runs out of power and barely manages to land on the roof of Stark Industries on back-up power.

Realizing that he can’t defeat Stane, Tony calls Pepper and orders her to overload the factory’s Arc Reactor and blast the roof with energy on his order once he’s off of it. Stane attacks Tony while he’s distracted, attempting to crush him, but Tony breaks free by distracting him with flares. Tony then rips out Stane’s HUD and weapon’s targeting systems while he’s distracted, but Stane throws him onto the skylight then repeatedly tries to blast him with machine guns and missiles, getting closer each time. With no other choice, Tony orders Pepper to activate the blast even though he is in the way.

The blast throws Tony to safety on another part of the roof while the Iron Monger suit is fried and Stane knocked unconscious. Stane and the Iron Monger suit fall into the Arc Reactor which explodes, destroying the suit and killing Stane. Tony is knocked out and his Arc Reactor temporarily knocked off-line, but he recovers.

Accepting his role

Tony builds himself a new Mark III Miniature Arc Reactor to replace the one destroyed with the Iron Monger suit and is prepared for a press conference by Pepper and Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Coulson gives him a cover story that he was on his yacht far away with many witnesses while Stane was on vacation and died in a plane crash while what the press have dubbed Iron Man was a bodyguard of his.

Tony flirts with Pepper, reminding her of the night they danced at the ball until she reminds him that he left her waiting for him on the roof. As Tony starts to address the press, Christine Everhart questions the story about Iron Man being a bodyguard. Tony at first defends that he is not the hero type, but ultimately admits that he is Iron Man to the shock of the press.

Returning home, Tony finds Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who tells him that he is not the only super hero in the world and that he wants to discuss «The Avengers Initiative.»

Iron Man 2

Stark Expo Opening

Six months after he revealed himself as Iron Man, Tony’s actions as a super hero have caused peace to break out across the world. Wanting to fulfill his father Howard’s legacy, Tony reopens the Stark Expo for the first time since 1974 to bring scientists from around the world together to share ideas all year. Tony arrives at the Expo by dropping in from a plane in his Mark IV suit and gives a speech about the Expo before playing a video recorded by his father before the last Stark Expo. Having discovered that his Palladium Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him, Tony checks his blood toxicity levels to discover that it has reached 19%. After the speech, Tony leaves, signing autographs only to be met by a process server named Marsha at his car who has a subpoena for him to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Attending the senate meeting

Following the subpoena, Tony attends the Senate hearing where Senator Stern demands he hand over the Iron Man technology, which he refers to as a weapon, to the government. Tony refuses, stating that it is not a weapon and calling it a prosthesis. Senator Stern brings in Tony’s rival Justin Hammer of Hammer Industries to testify on how they need the technology. Hammer claims that Tony is not a shield which they should hide behind. Stern then calls in Rhodey to testify how in his report he claimed that Tony as Iron Man is dangerous as he has no national allegiances which his technology falls under. Rhodey goes on to testify — against Stern’s wishes — that he had also stated that he saw Iron Man as an asset that should be utilized and worked with, not taken. Stern tries to use images of attempts to create Iron Man suits by other people, but Tony hacks into the system and shows how the efforts by Iran, North Korea and even Hammer Industries are dismal failures. After Tony tells the committee that everyone else is years away from copying his technology, Stern, humiliated, calls an end to the proceedings.

Returning home

At home, Tony is greeted by J.A.R.V.I.S. who reveals that his use of the Iron Man armor is increasing his Palladium poisoning. Tony’s blood toxicity levels are now up to 24% and his Arc Reactor core has burned out. Tony replaces with it a new core, commenting that he is burning through them fast while J.A.R.V.I.S. tells him that he has tested every known element to replace Palladium as his power source, but none are viable. As a result, the very thing that is keeping Tony alive is slowly killing him as well. As Tony is drinking an organic drink to alleviate the symptoms of the poisoning, Pepper arrives to berate Tony for donating their entire collection of modern art to the Boy Scouts and for reopening the Stark Expo which she sees as him stroking his own ego. As Pepper tries to demand his attention for things that the company needs done, Tony tells Pepper to handle it and makes her CEO so that he’ll have a successor that he can trust when he dies, though he doesn’t tell her that, simply saying that she’s the best choice he could think of to succeed him and that the company is now boring to him. Pepper is left clearly touched by his actions. The next day, while Tony is boxing with Happy, Pepper arrives with Natalie Rushman from Legal for him to officially sign the company over to her. Tony is attracted to Natalie, especially after she easily beats Happy in the ring and considers her as his new assistant to replace Pepper.

Monaco

Tony travels to Monaco on vacation to visit the Grand Prix there and while at the hotel, he reveals to an annoyed Pepper that he has hired Natalie Rushman as his new assistant. He meets up with Justin Hammer and Christine Everhart and reveals his previous relationship with Christine to Justin who tries to flaunt the fact that she is doing a news article on him to Tony. Tony further embarrasses Hammer by publicly revealing that his contract with the government has been revoked before going to the bathroom to check his blood toxicity levels. Discovering that it has now reached 53%, Tony enters the Grand Prix as a driver to the shock of everyone, especially Pepper. During the race, Tony encounters Ivan Vanko who destroys his car and repeatedly attacks him with electro-whips. Tony dodges the attacks until Pepper and Happy rescue him by ramming Vanko with their car. Despite Vanko’s repeated attacks, Tony manages to retrieve the Mark V suit from Pepper and don it. However, Vanko’s electro-whips prove powerful enough to damage the armor and deflect his repulsor blasts. Vanko snares Tony in his whips, but Tony uses them to reel in and throw down Vanko. Tony then removes Vanko’s power supply, defeating him and he is arrested yelling to Tony «you lose.» Tony is shocked to discover that the power source, which he quickly destroys, is another Arc Reactor.

Visiting Vanko

Wanting answers, Tony visits Vanko in prison. Vanko calls Tony a thief from a family of thieves and tells him that the Arc Reactor technology he used came from his father Anton Vanko who Vanko claims is the reason Tony is still alive. Tony points out that he’s still alive because Vanko missed his chance to kill him, but Vanko tells him he did that on purpose to show the world that Tony is not invincible. He plans to sit back and watch as Tony’s enemies descend on him and destroy him. As Tony leaves, Vanko reveals his knowledge of Tony’s condition, telling him that «Palladium in the chest is a painful way to die.»

On the way home, Tony cooks Pepper dinner and mutes an interview with Senator Stern who uses Vanko’s actions as proof that the Iron Man technology is out there despite Tony’s assurances and furthers his demands that Tony turn it over to the government. Wanting to enjoy the time he has left, Tony tries to convince Pepper to go to Venice instead of home and to his birthday party so he can enjoy himself, dodging her questions about what’s wrong. However, Pepper refuses, citing her new position as having too many responsibilities to do it.

Investigating Vanko and meeting with Rhodey

Returning home, Tony has J.A.R.V.I.S. investigate Anton Vanko and learns that he is a Soviet physicist who defected in 1963 only to be deported in 1967 after accusations of espionage. J.A.R.V.I.S. identifies Ivan Vanko as his son and also a physicist who sold Soviet plutonium and spent 15 years in prison for it though J.A.R.V.I.S. is unable to find anything more on them. As Tony contemplates this, Rhodey arrives, demanding answers from Tony as people are panicking over the revelation that someone else has Iron Man technology and he had to stop the National Guard from coming and taking the armors. Tony has Rhodey, who notices the infected veins on his neck from his Palladium poisoning, help him install a new core in his Arc Reactor. Tony asks Rhodey to trust him to handle it.

Tony’s Birthday

Learning that his blood toxicity levels have reached 89% and he now has a week to live, Tony takes Natalie’s suggestion of enjoying the time he has left and gets drunk at his birthday party while wearing the Mark IV suit. Pepper tries to stop the party as Tony is out of control, but he refuses and after he starts blasting objects out of the air and endangering people’s lives, Rhodey dons the Mark II to stop him. Tony doesn’t take his friend seriously and they end up fighting through Tony’s house, damaging it and scaring off the guests. Finally, Tony and Rhodey end up in a stalemate when they fire their repulsors at each other, creating a massive explosion. A disgusted Rhodey then flies off in the Mark II to deliver it to the military as Tony is no longer fit to protect the world.

Meeting with Nick Fury

The next morning, Tony is eating donuts in the giant donut of a donut shop when Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives and has a meeting with him in the shop. Fury reveals that «Natalie Rushman» is actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Natasha Romanoff who has been following him since he got sick. Fury has Romanoff inject Tony with lithium dioxide which deals with some of his symptoms, though it isn’t a cure for Tony’s condition. When Tony insists that there is no element in existence that can work instead of Palladium and insists that he has tried everything, Fury tells him there is something he hasn’t tried.

Moving the meeting to the Stark Mansion, Fury tells Tony that the Arc Reactor technology is incomplete and his father discovered something that would make the energy race outstrip the arms race and make nuclear energy look insignificant. Fury explains that Anton Vanko was his father’s partner in developing the Arc Reactor but when he tried to make profit off of it, Howard had him deported. When Vanko couldn’t give the Russians the technology, they sent him to Siberia where he spent the rest of his life in a vodka-fueled rage which was bad to raise his son in. Fury tells Stark that Howard told him that Tony was the only one with the knowledge and resources to create this new energy source which Tony finds hard to believe as his father was very distant to him. Fury reveals that he knew Howard well as he was a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D. and leaves, leaving Tony with a case of his father’s stuff and Agent Phil Coulson to ensure he keeps on track.

Rediscovering Vibranium

Tony starts to work on trying to figure out what his father discovered, going through his notes and old videos from the crate Nick Fury gave him but has no luck in figuring things out. To his surprise, the videos contain a message from his father who tells him that the diorama of the 1974 Stark Expo represents more than just the inventions being displayed of other inventors, but the key to his life’s work. Howard tells Tony that he created it for Tony but is limited in his ability to use his discoveries by the technology of his time but that Tony will be able to pick up where he left off and change the world. Howard ends his message by telling Tony that he is Howard’s greatest creation, something that stuns and touches Tony as he didn’t believe Howard cared about him at all.

Escaping from his house, Tony travels to Stark Industries, picking up strawberries for Pepper along the way. Tony tries to make up with Pepper but she is not interested and he is surprised to find her and Agent Romanoff getting along well. As Tony starts to leave, he notices something about the 1974 Stark Expo diorama which is in the office and entitled «the key to the future is here» and takes it home with him.

Studying a holographic projection of the diorama with the help of J.A.R.V.I.S., Tony realizes that part of it resembles an atom. Tony realizes what his father’s discovery is: a new element. Assembling the protons and neutrons based off of the pavilions of the Expo, Tony successfully rediscovers the element Vibranium which J.A.R.V.I.S. determines is a viable alternative for Palladium but believes is impossible to synthesize. Tony however is determined and begins building a miniature particle accelerator to try. As he works, Agent Phil Coulson approaches him to demand answers about him leaving. Tony is annoyed that Coulson is after him about that so long after it happened and is pleased to learn that Coulson is being reassigned to New Mexico. Tony has Coulson help him balance the accelerator with Captain America’s Vibranium Shield. After Coulson leaves, Tony is able to use the particle accelerator to successfully synthesize Vibranium and builds the new Mark VI suit to go with it.

Confrontation at the expo

As Tony and J.A.R.V.I.S. run tests on the new Vibranium Arc Reactor, Tony gets a call from Ivan Vanko which surprises Tony as Vanko is supposed to be dead. Tony has J.A.R.V.I.S. trace the call and Vanko promises to ruin the Stark family like Howard Stark ruined his family before hanging up. The call is only traced to Manhattan and seeing an article about Justin Hammer’s demonstration at the Stark Expo, Tony realizes what Vanko is up to and puts in his new Arc Reactor which clears up his Palladium poisoning and dons the new Mark VI armor to stop Vanko.

Tony flies to the Expo where he tries to warn Rhodey wearing the War Machine armor about Vanko, but Rhodey believes him too late and Vanko takes control of the War Machine and the Hammer Drones remotely and uses them to attack Tony. Tony quickly takes to the air to lead the drones and War Machine away while J.A.R.V.I.S. unsuccessfully tries to restore control to Rhodey. Tony works to keep the fight away from civilians, saving a young boy wearing an Iron Man mask from a drone along the way. The drones and War Machine continue to chase Tony, but he manages to destroy the drones by tricking them into crashing into a giant metal globe. However, War Machine survives and forces Tony to crash in a dome.

Tony and War Machine battle with the Mark VI getting the worst of the fight until Natasha Romanoff makes her way to Hammer Industries and reboots the War Machine suit, restoring control to Rhodey. Romanoff also detects that Tony is no longer dying which shocks Pepper who hears the conversation. Tony and Pepper argue until Romanoff warns Tony of a massive amount of drones that are on their way. Tony quickly gets Rhodey up and warns him. The two make up then prepare to fight the drones together. However, while they are figuring out their positions, the drones arrive and Tony and Rhodey fight together, destroying many but end up surrounded. Realizing they’re in danger, Tony orders Rhodey to duck then uses the Mark VI’s one-time use lasers to destroy the remaining drones. Romanoff then warns them that something bigger is coming their way and Vanko arrives in a powerful suit. Even working together, Tony and Rhodey are unable to defeat Vanko so Tony has Rhodey fire his repulsor at Tony at the same time that Tony fires at him with Vanko in the middle creating a massive explosion that destroys Vanko’s suit and defeats him. Vanko declares they lose and activates a self-destruct in his suit and all his drones. Realizing Pepper’s in danger, Tony flies off to save her as Rhodey flies off to safety. Tony reaches Pepper in time to rescue her from the explosions and flies her to a nearby roof.

Aftermath

On the roof, Pepper decides she has had enough and resigns but Tony kisses her. She is pleased and they kiss again until Rhodey interrupts them. Rhodey makes fun of them and then flies off, telling Tony he needs to keep the War Machine for awhile longer as his car got destroyed. Tony refuses, but Rhodey flies off anyway. Tony and Pepper start a relationship afterwards.

Sometime later, Tony meets with Nick Fury about his participation in the Avengers Initiative. Fury has Tony read a file that states that while they want Iron Man, they don’t want Tony because of the destructive tendencies he displayed while he thought he was dying. Tony contends that that was due to his physical and mental state at the time and he is trying to turn his life around now. Fury offers to hire Tony as a consultant but he refuses until he tells Fury he needs someone to present medals to him and Rhodey at an upcoming ceremony. Knowing who Tony has in mind, Fury promises to take care of it.

Tony and Rhodey are presented medals for their bravery by a reluctant Senator Stern who pointedly stabs Tony with the award, telling him how annoying «a little prick» can be.

Before the Avengers

After the incident at the Stark Expo, Tony immediately decides to close it, realizing that it was just a waste of time, and that he needed to focus more on other important matters such as managing his company, in which he resumed his position as CEO.

A few weeks later, he works on various projects such as improving the Mark VI’s capabilities, by adding more weapons to it and heavily modifying the armor to have the ability to go on sub-aqueous journeys.

Not long after, he begins to work on the next version of his Iron Man armor, in which he directs his attention to a suit with more firepower, which leads to the creation of the Mark VII. An armor equipped with a variety of deadly weapons, such as Heat-Seeking Missiles, Air-to-Air Missiles and Ground-to-Ground Missiles, as well as a perfected Laser Weapon, based on the Mark VI’s older «Turn and Burn» Laser Weapon, which can fire a concentrated laser beam at a target, but drains more power from the suit’s Arc Reactor.

Although it’s near completion, the Mark VII was still in it’s prototype stage. It was still awaiting more upgrades, such as the «Spinning Rims», and had not yet been tested. Along with its unique deployment system that Tony developed himself.

While working on the Mark VII, Tony also planned to replace the energy used by the Stark Tower with «clean» Vibranium energy that he used, incorporate it into an Arc Reactor, and connect it to the building’s electrical circuits, for it to be able to run on clean, reliable energy.

The Avengers (film)

Fixing the Stark Tower

Tony builds the Stark Tower and joins the Avengers in defending the world from Loki and the Chitauri army. He briefly battles Thor using the Mark VI and defends the Helicarrier from an attack by Loki and his minions. Tony saves the Helicarrier by restarting one of its engines, but the Mark VI is badly damaged in the process. After Phil Coulson is killed by Loki, Tony becomes determined to save the world and Phil finally earns his respect. Realizing Loki will launch his attack from Stark Tower, Tony travels there and confronts Loki, swearing that if they can’t save the world, the Avengers will avenge it.

As the Mark VI is too badly damaged to do much battle, Tony dons the new Mark VII which is incomplete. Tony does battle with the Chitauri army and is able to help hold them off, but more keep coming through a wormhole Loki creates with the Tesseract. Nick Fury’s desperate superiors launch a nuclear missile at Manhattan in a desperate attempt to stop the invasion.

Seizing the chance to both stop the invasion and save Manhattan, Tony flies the nuclear missile through the wormhole and into the Chitauri flagship, destroying it and disabling the forces on Earth. The Mark VII runs out of power and falls through the closing wormhole to Earth, but Tony is saved by the Hulk. Tony later repairs Stark Tower with Pepper and builds rooms for the rest of the Avengers.

Before Iron Man 3

Panic attacks

After the Battle of New York, Tony starts to have panic attacks and no longer believes that the world is safe, now knowing there are Gods and Aliens out there, and that threat is imminent.

Creating the Iron Legion

In response to this, he builds more Iron Man suits to help in every kind of situation, in case another invasion on earth ensues. This causes friction with his now girlfriend, and current Head-Chief of Stark Industries.

Iron Man 3

Recalling the Past

Tony narrates about his story and explains how his personal life was destroyed. In the background the Mark VII, Mark VI and Mark V slowly explode one by one and Tony starts by recalling an event that happened way back in Berlin, Switzerland 1999.

In a flashback in the New Year’s Eve of 1999, Tony attends a Science Conference in Berlin Switzerland and spends his New Year there. He books himself with his bodyguard Happy Hogan, in a hotel and later on meets a scientist paramour named Maya Hansen during the conference, whom he quickly develops a relationship with.

After the conference, he goes with Maya through the crowd together with his bodyguard, Happy Hogan as the people celebrate the incoming New Year. Happy tells him that it was only half an hour before New Year as Tony talks with Maya regarding the conference and her research. While passing by to go the hotel, he meets up with Physicist Ho Yinsen and Cardiologist Dr. Wu.

The two are honored to meet him, and Tony introduces himself to them while joking around. Yinsen tries to ask Tony if he could spend some time helping them with their research, but Tony holds the offer and ignores it after. When he leaves with Maya, Yinsen asks Tony if they could do it another time but Tony doesn’t reply, and continues to go through the crowd into the hotel.

Upon arriving in the hotel lobby, he meets crippled scientist Aldrich Killian, who works for a privately funded think-tank called Advanced Idea Mechanics or A.I.M. for short, and is it’s CEO and founder. Aldrich introduces himself to them as Tony and Maya enter the elevator. Aldrich is able to make the cut to the elevator despite it being nearly full, and Happy asks him where he would like to go. Aldrich replies to him with the «Ground Floor».

After, he tries to offer Tony a job in his think-tank and gives both Tony and Maya his contact cards. When Tony reaches his floor, he tells the others to go and then tells Aldrich that he’s heard of his think-tank and is interested. He tells Aldrcih to meet him up on the roof later on, and Aldrich agrees.

Tony leaves the elevator and goes to his room. When there, he spends time with Maya and looks at her research. Happy then touches a sample plant injected with Extremis and breaks off some off the plants leaves. Maya immediately tells him to stop touching it and Tony tells Happy not to touch it as well. Happy questions why, and Maya just answers that she doesn’t like it, and Tony agrees.

When they go into the bedroom, Maya tells Tony about her research. Tony is amazed at what she’s created — «a biological virus called Extremis, which hacks the brain’s DNA center and is able to recode it. Allowing regrowth of limbs, increased strength and instant healing of any living organism».

Tony, who is amazed by Maya’s Research, tells her that she’s «The best woman he’s ever met. In Switzerland.» Maya is surprised, and then agrees to Tony when he said that she was the best woman in Switzerland. Maya then takes off Tony’s glasses and wears it herself. Tony laughs and looks at her, and the two share a kiss.

With Happy closing the room door, Maya’s sample plant suddenly explodes and after, Maya explains to Tony that, the resulting explosion was a glitch in her work. Tony is surprised with the effect and asks here of she’s tried using an incentive to her Extremis, to which Maya questions what Tony just said.

Happy, unbeknownst to him that it was simply a glitch, runs to Tony and jumps on him. Protecting Tony, as he thought that there was bomb or an attack from the explosion. Tony reassures Happy that it was nothing and tells Happy to get off of him. Happy asks what just happened, and Maya tells him that it was just a glitch from her work. Happy helps Tony up and then the fireworks start exploding, with everybody celebrating New Year outside. The three then greet each other Happy New Year and Happy leaves the room saying Goodnight to Tony.

Tony and Maya then spend the rest of their time in the room, and later have sex over night. In the morning, Tony writes down the formula for an incentive on a piece of card taken from the conference, and leaves it on his table. He then leaves Maya in the room without saying any goodbye.

The present and Iron Man

Thirteen years later Tony has long forgotten the events in Switzerland, and now lives with his girlfriend Pepper Potts, who has moved in into his house in Malibu, California.

In the present Tony works in his workshop as he plants 47 Microchips into his arm, that will attach to his nervous system. He is about to test the newly built Mark 42 and it’s new prehensile technology. Tony asks Dummy how he got a hat with «Dunce» written on it, on him, in which Tony was the one who placed it there. He later karate chops a wooden stand then tells Dummy to clean up the blood on his floor mat and handle it.

Tony builds many more suits to fit the several situations that he feels might arise, with his latest suit being the Mark 42. He experiences panic attacks stemming from what he has learned is out there. This and his obsession with being Iron Man strain his relationship with Pepper.

A severe anxiety attack

Tony is contacted by Happy who is taking his job as the new Head of Security for Stark Industries too seriously. Tony is jealous when he learns that Pepper is meeting with Aldrich Killian. He meets with Rhodey, who he has built a new suit, the Iron Patriot, for. Tony panics and flees in the Mark VII after New York is brought up.

After Happy is badly injured in an apparent attack by «The Mandarin,» Tony issues a threat to «the Mandarin» and gives him his address to try to draw him out.

Mandarin Strikes

After a fight with Pepper about leaving and having Maya Hansen shows up, Tony’s house comes under attack by three helicopters sent by «the Mandarin.» Tony helps Pepper escape then dons the Mark 42 to try to save his house.

Though Tony manages to take out two helicopters, the Mark 42’s status as a prototype that was just being brought online limits his abilities and his house and first seven armors are destroyed as he is sent to the bottom of the ocean and believed dead. Tony survives and flies to Rose Hill, Tennessee which he had earlier determined was the location of an explosion similar to the one that nearly killed Happy. The Mark 42 runs out of power. After leaving a message for Pepper, Tony makes his way to a workshop to recharge the suit and befriends Harley Keener.

Finding the Mandarin

With Harley’s help, Tony starts repairing the suit and investigates the explosion, coming under attack by Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin, who are enhanced by Extremis. Tony manages to kill Brandt and disable Savin even without his armor and heads off to locate «the Mandarin» with the help of a file given to him by the mother of the man who exploded. Realizing that A.I.M. is behind this, Tony calls Rhodey to get his log-in to the military and hacks into the organization to learn about Extremis. Harley and J.A.R.V.I.S. locate «the Mandarin» in Miami, but Tony panics when he learns that the armor might not be ready for him in the time limit he set.

Following advice by Harley, Tony builds makeshift weapons and makes his way into «the Mandarin’s» home. The weapons are Ornament Bombs, Nail Gun, Electric glove, Tazor, and a Grappling Hook. Where he learns that «the Mandarin» is actually an actor named Trevor Slattery hired by Killian to create a cover for the explosions that his Extremis Soldiers create when their bodies reject Extremis. Tony is captured by Savin and taken to Killian who reveals he has captured Pepper and injected her with Extremis to force Tony to help him perfect it.

Tony is able to convince Maya to turn on Killian, but he simply kills her rather than release Tony. While being guarded, Tony’s borrowed watch goes off and he tries to summon the Mark 42 and gets frustrated when it doesn’t come. Finally, the right arm and left leg arrive and Tony is able to use its repulsors and guns from the guards to fight his way free before the rest of the armor arrives. Discovering Savin heading off in Iron Patriot, Tony tries to follow but discovers that the armor isn’t charged enough. Meeting up with Rhodey, he helps take out two guards and confronts Slattery about where Pepper is.

Rescuing Air Force One

Slattery reveals what he knows including that the Vice President is involved somehow and where Killian’s base is. As they have no way to get there, Tony and Rhodey take Slattery’s speedboat and Tony calls the Vice President to warn him he may be in danger. Realizing from the Vice President’s comment that Iron Patriot is with the President that the President is in danger, Tony charges the Mark 42 to 92% and then dispatches it, controlled by remote, to try to save the President.

Savin manages to destroy Air Force One and send the President to Killian in the Iron Patriot armor, but Tony kills Savin and saves thirteen people from falling to their deaths before the Mark 42 is broken into its component pieces by getting hit by a truck. Arriving at the location Slattery gave them, Tony orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to activate the «House Party Protocol»‘ and infiltrates the base with a nervous Rhodey who doesn’t like the idea of Tony with a gun without armor.

Battle at the oil rig

The two end up pinned down, but the rest of Tony’s Iron Man armors, now the Iron Legion arrive to help, taking on the Extremis Soldiers. Donning an armor, Tony goes to rescue Pepper while Rhodey heads off to rescue the President. Tony battles Killian in several armors, but each is destroyed and Pepper apparently falls to her death. Finally, the repaired Mark 42 arrives and Tony tries to put it on, but fails as it falls to pieces after hitting a pole.

Desperate, Tony puts the armor on Killian and orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to cause it to self-destruct, apparently killing Killian while Tony escapes to the ground. Killian survives the blast and attacks, but Tony is saved by Pepper who survived due to her Extremis powers. The Mark VIII arrives and attacks Pepper due to her Extremis powers and Tony fails to stop the attack as he lost his earpiece, however, Pepper destroys the suit’s Arc reactor, disabling it to Tony’s shock.

New beginnings

As Tony watches, Pepper kills Killian with a missile and a repulsor from the suit. Tony promises to help deal with Pepper’s Extremis and orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to self-destruct the surviving Iron Man suits as a sign of his devotion to Pepper. Tony is able to stabilize Pepper’s Extremis and as part of the new life he is building, undergoes surgery to have the shrapnel removed from his chest and as thanks to Harley, upgrades his workshop to match his own. Afterwards, Tony pitches his now-obsolete arc reactor into the ocean, but muses that he will always be Iron Man even without the suits.

Ending the story

Later, it was revealed that Tony was telling the story to Bruce Banner, who fell asleep at the beginning of the story. Bruce wakes up and apologizes, Tony understands, but starts to tell a new story instead to Bruce.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Raiding the HYDRA base

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Tony’s «dark vision»

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Completing the mission

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Battle of Sokovia

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Captain America: Civil War

Break up

Following the creation and destruction of Ultron which lead to the destruction of Sokovia after becoming Iron Man to combat HYDRA and Ultron despite previously retiring as an Avenger in the aftermath of the defeat of Ultron. Sometime after Pepper Potts left Tony due to the fact that he was still Iron Man despite his promise to stop.

Consequences

When the Sokovia Accords were due to be signed, Tony was in favour of them still haunted by his creation of Ultron and the loss of life that had occurred while noting that if the Avengers did not sign, they would be viewed as villains for continually defying international law. While Steve Rogers disagreed, Rhodes, Romanoff and Vision saw Tony’s logic and signed.

When Rogers, Wilson and Barnes were all arrested and brought to the JTCT headquarters, Tony managed to work out a deal with the United Nations to legalize their actions on the condition that they sign the Accords and obey the law. Much to Tony’s frustration, Rogers refused to compromise and stormed off leaving Tony as the leader of the Avengers.

Clash of the Avengers

After Rogers and Wilson had helped Barnes escape the JTCT, Ross informed Tony that lethal force would be used to disable them. Tony managed to persuade Ross to delay the kill order for at least 36 hours to give Tony a chance to peacefully diffuse the situation. Romanoff pointed out to Tony that they were outnumbered by the renegade Avengers, Tony assured her they plenty of time to recruit people before flying off to the borough of Queens in New York City.

Having deduced that the «Spider-Man» was in fact Peter Parker, Tony went to his apartment to wait for him to return from school where he passed the time by flirting with May Parker. When Peter arrived, Stark persuaded him to trick his aunt into thinking that Peter had applied for a scholarship Stark was offering. Retreating to the young man’s room, Stark was impressed by Peter’s mechanical aptitude before finding his suit. Offering Peter a new one (and joking to tell Aunt May about Peter’s hobby), Tony convinced the young man to aid him in Germany.

Donning the Mark 46, Tony and his team confronted Rogers once again offering him a final chance to surrender peacefully lest lethal force be employed against his party for aiding a wanted criminal. Rogers refused to surrender, sparking the Clash of the Avengers. Assigning targets to his team, Tony flew off to confront Maximoff and Barton stopping them in their tracks before Maximoff managed to pin him under several cars.

Freeing himself, he caught up with his team after Ant-Man had nearly killed them. Recognizing the single mindedness that drove Rogers, Tony was forced to call in Vision in the hope that the android’s Mind Stone and logic could persuade the renegades to surrender. Stark’s gambit failed when Rogers again chose to fight.

Tony briefly engaged Captain America in melee combat before Hawkeye fired an explosive arrow at his suit, doing no damage.

Later engaged Falcon before Hawkeye fired a scatter arrow at the Avenger leader. Easily destroying the projectiles, Tony prepared to stun Clint before the left repulsor failed. Discovering Ant-Man had infiltrated his suit, he ejected him with the suit’s fire extinguisher from hundreds of feet in the air.

When it became clear that Tony would win the fight, Ant-Man became Giant-Man to buy Rogers and Barnes time to steal the Quinjet. Lang attacked Stark with an airplane wing, an attack the Mark 46 easily dodged, before Wilson fired the Redwing drone at Stark only for it to shatter on impact against the Mark 46.

Working with Spider-Man and War Machine, Stark managed to fell Lang but as the giant fell, Parker was sent falling to the ground. Quickly checking on the youth, Tony told him to go home or he would call his aunt before flying off to catch the hijacked Quinjet backed up by War Machine. The two armoured Avengers were pursued by Falcon and Rhodes ordered Vision to destroy Falcon’s flight gear. The android miscalculated however and knocked out Rhodes’ power source. Rhodes began falling from a great height and Tony was unable to catch him in time. Rhodes survived the crash and FRIDAY had already contacted the medics. Tony vented his anger on Sam blasting him in the face with a repulsor and ending the fight.

Assisting Rhodes

At Avengers’ Compound, Stark turned Rhodes over to the doctors before revealing to Romanoff he blamed her for Rhodes’ accident by letting Rogers go and that T’Challa had informed the United Nations of her betrayal. When she insisted Stark was wrong, he scoffed at her biases towards Rogers before commenting that betraying people was the only thing Natasha was good at.

Learning the truth

En route to the Raft prison, F.R.I.D.A.Y. informed Stark that she’d found proof of Helmut Zemo being behind everything. Annoyed that Rogers was correct, Stark sent the information to Ross before deciding to interrogate Sam Wilson. Although Ross did not believe Tony he allowed him to speak to the former Avenger.

While in the cells, Tony was mocked by Clint Barton who claimed everything was Tony’s fault. Tony had zero patience for the man casually stating he should have thought his actions through before he did them, leaving the archer to stew in his cell. Scott Lang then attempted to insult Tony only for the billionaire to have no idea who Lang was or what he was talking about. Stark then managed to convince Wilson to tell him where Rogers had gone before he left for Siberia, withholding the information to annoy Ross.

Arriving at Siberian HYDRA base, Tony found the two super soldiers and agreed to a temporary truce to complete their mutual goal. Discovering that the five other Winter Soldiers were all dead, Zemo revealed himself stating that he had managed to lure Stark to the base after a year of planning as revenge against the Avengers for what happened in Sokovia. Here Zemo showed Stark that Howard and Maria Stark had not perished in a car crash but had in fact been assassinated by Barnes. Already enraged by the fallout of Rogers’ actions, Tony snapped and attempted to murder Barnes.

Tony tried to force Rogers into submission but the captain refused to stay down managing to damage the suit’s left boot and its targeting system. Trapping Rogers on a lower level, Tony attempted to target Barnes with a forearm missile. As he could not lock on, he opted to instead trap Barnes within the bunker. Overpowering the Winter Soldier in seconds, Tony tried to crush him under the Mark 46’s weight before Rogers intervened sending the Avenger leader and his former teammate to main floor. Stating in no uncertain terms that he was done listening to Rogers he proceeded to overpower his former friend before Barnes intervened with Rogers’ shield. Faced with uneven odds, Tony blasted Rogers at point blank range leaving him convulsing him pain for two minutes before Barnes forced him up against a wall.

Barnes tried to remove the Mark 46’s main Arc Reactor only for Tony to simply unleash the Unibeam disintegrating Barnes’ metallic limb before seemingly killing the man. A recovered and enraged Rogers stormed Tony unleashing a relentless assault of melee attacks. Fed up with Rogers, Tony ordered FRIDAY to scan Rogers’ fighting style for patterns and weakness. Once she had done so, Tony caught and blew away Rogers’ shield before brutally beating him down. Defeated, Rogers tried to appeal to Stark only for the Avenger to declare they were now enemies as a result of Steve’s decisions. Giving his former teammate one last chance to stand down, which was refused, Tony prepared to kill him. A barely alive Barnes, grabbed the armor’s boot only for Tony to break his nose. The distraction allowed Rogers to turn the tide of the battle, breaking off the Mark 46’s helmet and damaging its main Arc Reactor. Reduced to the backups, Tony was unable to continue combat. As Rogers left, Tony mocked him that he’d succumbed to his darker aspects and the shield was Howard Stark’s property. Heeding Tony’s point, Rogers abandoned the shield and the identity of Captain America.

Picking up the pieces

Returning to the Compound, Tony developed technology that would allow Rhodes to walk again after his accident. While doing this, Rhodes assured Tony that he’d done the right thing in following the law before a mailman arrived with a package from Rogers. Within was a letter in which Rogers apologized for hiding the truth behind Tony’s parents and assuring him that if he ever needed help, the other Avengers were but a phone call away. Ross then called Tony informing him of a situation at the raft, but Tony pretended to be busy and put the man on hold revealing his hate for the evil general.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Training Spider-Man

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Avengers: Infinity War

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Avengers: Endgame

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Quotes

Other Media

Marvel’s The Avengers: Iron Man — Mark VII

In Marvel’s The Avengers: Iron Man — Mark VII, Tony appears as an interactive character that portrays and narrates the events that occured before and during each film in the Iron Man Franchise of the Marvel Cinematics Universe.

He first appears to make a log on how his Iron Man Armor was created. Tony begins with the Mark I.

Iron Man 3 — The Official Game

In Iron Man 3 — The Official Game, Tony appears as the main character, in which he uses the armors the player has to play. Tony plays a role in narrating the story as the game progresses, while the player advances to the harder parts of the game.

He helps the player get through missions and levels while giving them rewards and objectives as the story goes on. Tony was voiced by Adrian Pasdar.

Notes

• Robert Downey Jr. played the character’s role throughout the whole franchise, including The Avengers.
• Tony Stark is based on the character of the same name in the comics, which is set in the Mainstream Marvel Universe, also known as Earth-616.

Trivia

• Tony Stark is the first character to take place in the Marvel Cinematics Universe.
• Before Robert Downey Jr. was officially cast as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Tom Cruise almost landed on the role.
• Tom doesn’t like being handed things; as it is his biggest pet peeve.

Gallery

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References

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External links

• Tony Stark on Wikipedia.
• Tony Stark on the Marvel Comics Database.
• Tony Stark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki.
• Tony Stark on the Marvel Movies Wiki.
• Tony Stark at 101 Soundboards.

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Ответ:

My favourite superhero is Iron man. His real name is Tony Stark. He is very smart, brave and funny. Tony has an iron suit, which was constructed by himself.  Iron man takes part in Avengers team with Hulk, Captain America, Thor and others. Tony is a superhero because he saved the world several times. Watch this brilliant film!

Мой любимый супергерой — Железный человек. Его настоящее имя — Тони Старк. Он очень умен, отважен и весел. У Тони есть железный костюм, который сконструировал он сам. Железный человек — часть команды Мстителей вместе с Халком, Капитаном Америкой, Тором и другими. Тони — супергерой, потому что он спасал мир несколько раз. Посмотрите этот замечательный фильм!

The stories about Tony Stark (Iron Man) appeared in 1963. In 1968, Marvel filmed a separate story about him. Then there were 332 series of Iron Man more. Tony was born in the family of a wealthy owner of a huge Corporation ‘Stark Industries’. At the age of 15, this young genius entered the Massachusetts Institute, and at the age of 19 he graduated from it. After the death of his parents, when Iron Man was 21 years old,  he became the head of the Corporation with his assistant Virginia Potts (Pepper). In 1990, the film company 20th Century, Universal Studios, New Line Cinema have launched the film adaptation of this comic book.

Тони Старк (Железный Человек) появился в 1963 году.  В 1968 году Марвел снял отдельную историю о нем. Было всего 332 выпуска в этой серии о Железном Человеке, который родился в семье богатого промышленника, владельца огромной корпорации «Старк Индастриз». В возрасте 15 лет этот гений поступил в Массачусетский институт, а в 19 лет окончил его. Когда ему было 21 год Железный Человек (Тони Старк), после смерти родителей, стал главой корпорации со своей помощницей Вирджинию Поттс (Пеппер). В1990 году кинокомпании 20th Century, Universal Studios, New Line Cinema приступили к экранизации комикса.