After the war he discovered the Tesseract. Later in life, Howard married a woman named Maria and had a son, Tony. He also co-developed the Arc Reactor with defected Soviet scientist Anton Vanko. Howard founded S.H.I.E.L.D. along with Peggy Carter and colonel Chester Phillips. Eventually, Howard would push Tony away, but did care for his son, having high hopes that Tony would change the world. Howard and Maria were killed by HYDRA, through Howard's former ally in World War II, Bucky Barnes (who by then became the Winter Soldier) who made it look like a car accident. Howard was a brilliant scientist and inventor, with a genius-level I.Q., but often puts his work above everything, family included, thus gaining his son's disrespect. As a young man, he was similar to what his son would have become; extremely brilliant and intelligent, but also a daredevil.
Publication Information
- Iron Man : Howard Stark
- Version : Iron Man
- Alter Ego :
- Known As : Howard Anthony Walter Stark
- Type :
- Brilliant inventor
- Businessman
- Former Member Of Strategic Scientific Reserve
- Relative :
- Tony Stark : Son
- Maria Stark : Wife
- Affiliation : Strategic Scientific Reserve
- Gender : Male
- Origin : United State
- Season : Iron Man
- First Appeareance : Iron Man
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer :
- Main View : Full Movies
Howard's father sold fruit and his mother sewed shirtwaists for livings. Growing up, Howard become an industrial genius, inventor and businessman, attending multiple international conferences, such as the one where he met Dr. Abraham Erskine.
Captain America : First Vengeance
Howard began a demonstration which would showcase Vibranium, a metal discovered by Stark Industries researchers in Africa. Later, Howard met with Colonel Phillips, soon after they was attacked by HYDRA assassins. Howard agreed to join Col. Phillip's newly created Strategic Scientific Reserve. Later, he welcomed Abraham Erskine as he too was recruited into the S.S.R.
Captain America : The First Avenger
During the second World War, Howard was the top weapons specialist for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. At the World Exposition of Tomorrow, he proudly showed off multiple world-changing inventions including a flying car and a prototype android. Secretly, Howard was working with the S.S.R. in order to help win World War II. Howard was present during the process that Steve Rogers under went in order become America's first super soldier after receiving the Super Soldier Serum from Dr. Abraham Erskine.
Captain America : Super Soldier
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Agent Carter
Howard is on trial for apparently selling weapons to US enemies. He asks Peggy Carter to help him clear his name. He explains that a month ago someone broke into his vault where he kept his "bad babies," the inventions too dangerous to sell. Howard offers the services of his butler, Edwin Jarvis to help her on missions.
Marvel One-Shot : Agent Carter
Stark invited Peggy Carter to join him as one of the charter members of S.H.I.E.L.D. Another charter member was Timothy Dugan, with whom Stark seemed to develop a friendship, as the former visited the latter's estate. During one of these visits, Stark explained the bikini style of swimsuit to an enamoured Dugan.
Captain America : The Winter Soldier
While creating S.H.I.E.L.D. along with Peggy Carter and Chester Phillips, Stark started a program involving "repented" Nazi scientists, used as a think tank for the newborn intelligence. Among them was Arnim Zola, who used his cover to recreate HYDRA as a parasitic organization inside S.H.I.E.L.D., without Stark realizing it.
Ant-Man Prelude
In 1963, a group of radicals in the Soviet-controlled East Berlin discovered a piece of an old HYDRA technology; the leaders of S.H.I.E.L.D. decided to send an agent to Berlin and stop them from reverse-engineering it. Howard Stark confronted Pym about giving S.H.I.E.L.D. his Ant-Man Suit. However, Pym was unwilling to give his suit to anyone else, so Agent Peggy Carter had to convince him to go to Berlin personally. After Pym liberated the prisoner in the process. Stark thanked Pym and told him that was his last mission but Pym refused realizing there were more problems in the world. Still only trusting himself to wear the Ant-Man suit, Pym decided to continue to do field missions.
Ant-Man
In 1989, Howard, Peggy Carter and Mitchell Carson were having a meeting in the Triskelion, when Hank Pym confronted him about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempts to replicate the Pym Particles. Peggy was shocked at the discovery; Howard attempted to justify the decision due to the applications of the particle and Carson noted the military benefits. Hank vowed to take the secret of the Pym Particles to his grave.
Iron Man 2 : Public Identity
Howard Stark discussed arc reactor technology with Anton Vanko. Although Anton was worried, Howard was resolute of everything working out perfectly. Later, he had Anton Vanko arrested and deported back to Russia, Obadiah Stane talked to Howard and told him that perhaps he should take Anton's treason as a some sort of sign. Years later, while checking some papers, Howard was accidentally hit by Tony's remote controlled car. He gets angry at Tony, thinking Tony was just wasting his time.
Iron Man
Sometime later, Howard and Obadiah Stane were responsible for the development of many weapons for the U.S. military. Together they participated in the Manhattan Project, the United States operation which developed the atomic bombs which ended the Second World War. Along with government associates, Howard has become a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Howard created the Stark Expo, a world wide technology fair where the world's new technology would be presented to show a bright future for mankind.
Iron Man 2
Stark, who had co-created the arc reactor technology with Anton Vanko, left Tony a message telling him that he had lacked the technology to create a new element at the time, so he embedded the atomic structure of the new element in the disguised form of the blueprint of the Stark Expo layout and assumed that future technology would be able to synthesize the material. Howard also called Tony his greatest creation. After examining the Expo model, Tony discovered the new element, noting that his father was still taking him to school even after being dead for over two decades.
The Avengers
Howard Stark's file was among the ones Rogers studied after his awakening in the present day. Howard's past association with Captain America was brought up when Tony noted that his father talked about Cap a great deal, although Tony initially expressed doubt towards Rogers' abilities until he saw the super soldier in action.
Captain America : Civil War
The Winter Soldier murdered Howard and Maria Stark on December 16, 1991, although it was made to look like an accident as seemingly no one suspected anyone involved in their deaths.
Abilities
- Genius Level-Intellect : Howard was highly intelligent, as he was one of the most intelligent individuals on the planet. His mind operates in the most efficient and rapid manner possible. He was far ahead of his time during WWII creating weapons that would be called science fiction. Howard was one of the head scientist behind "Project: Rebirth".
- Elucidation : Howard had innate understanding and comprehension of complex concepts.
- Chemical Intuition : Howard possesses innate knowledge of all types and forms of chemicals and chemistry.
- Expert Engineer : Howard was an excellent engineer and mechanic. He created Captain America's shield made of Vibranium. He built the Arc Reactor which powers the Iron Man armor.
- Computer Operation : Howard possess intuitively high skills and knowledge at operating any computers
- Expert Businessman : Howard was extremely well respected in the business world, he was able to built up Stark Industries into a multimillion dollar company from virtually nothing.
- Social Intuition : Howard intuitively determines and knows how to interact with others. He could tell exactly what to say to interact with certain people, or tell the rank of a person within a group. He has a great voice, eloquence and charisma. He has near irresistible level of charm that can be used to influence many.
- Expert Pilot : Howard was also the best civilian pilot during the war as stated by Peggy Carter.
- Professional Womanizer : Howard was well known for his womanizing skills that were so efficient that they are considered legendary, even some men have fallen victim to his charms. This skill was shown when he quickly seduced the women in Peggy's apartment, the Griffith Hotel.
- Edwin Jarvis
- Abraham Erskine
- Chester Phillips
- Peggy Carter
- Steve Rogers / Captain America
- Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Howling Commandos
- Nick Fury
- Hank Pym
- Timothy Dugan
- Obadiah Stane
- Anton Vanko
- HYDRA
- Johann Fenoff
- Dorothy Underwood
- Main Article : Tony Stark
