Tony Stark is a billionaire industrialist and inventor. He is the former CEO of Stark Industries, a conglomerate originally started by his father, Howard Stark. While in Afghanistan, Tony was captured by Ten Rings, and was ordered to build the Jericho missile for them. Instead, he, along with Ho Yinsen, used their resources to build a suit of armor and make their escape.
Returning to America, Tony improves his armor and becomes the superhero known as Iron Man. Tony is still human, with the exception of an Arc Reactor in his chest. However, by the end of Iron Man 3, he has the shrapnel removed, no longer needing the arc reactor. Before the start of Avengers: Infinity War, Tony created a new arc reactor that let him transform into Iron Man. He is one of the richest, smartest and most powerful men on Earth. However, his power comes from his high-tech battle suit known as the Iron Man armor, which grants him extraordinary strength, durability, flight capabilities, and various on-board weaponry. He is a founding member of the Avengers. Anthony Edward Stark was born to Howard and Maria Stark on May 29, 1970, but his early life was often dominated by the absence of his father who he would later describe as "cold" and "calculating".
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- Iron Man : Tony Stark
- Version : Iron Man 2010
- Alter Ego : Iron Man
- Known As :
- Anthony Stark
- The Consultant
- The Mechanic
- Howardson
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- Howard Stark : Father
- Maria Stark : Mother
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- Gender : Male
- Origin : United State
- Season : Iron Man
- First Appeareance : Iron Man
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Tony was also highly annoyed by Howard's constant talk about Captain America. However from an early age, he quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind. At age four he built his first circuit board, at age six his first engine, and at seventeen he graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Stark claimed that at age 14, he still had a nanny. Then his parents were killed in a car accident in 1991. Howard Stark's lifelong friend Obadiah Stane became the CEO of Stark Industries. At age twenty-one that same year, Tony became the new CEO and ushered in a new era for his father's legacy, creating smarter weapons, advanced robotics, and satellite targeting.
Iron Man
Tony skipped an award ceremony to gamble at a nightclub, forcing his friend Obadiah Stane to accept the award on his part, something Rhodey would confront him about later. When Tony was heading home, he was asked some questions by reporter Christine Everhart, but ended up sleeping with her instead. The next day he embarked on a trip he was 3 hours late for to Afghanistan. During the business trip to demonstrate the Stark Industries' new weapon, the "Jericho" cluster missile, Tony's convoy is attacked by terrorists.
Iron Man : Security Measures
When S.H.I.E.L.D. was investigating the Iron Man armor, they tried to hack Stark's home computer, but Stark detected them and tracked the signal of the S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite through a shell corporation which he blew up.
Iron Man : Fast Friends
Sometime before Tony was captured by the Ten Rings, Rhodey was present in Arizona when Tony was presenting his accelerated wave explosion. One hour later Tony went to a nightclub along with Rhodey. In the nightclub, Tony is punched in the face by a man in the club upset with him after his girlfriend left with Stark a week prior. Rhodey then intervenes, and punches the man back. After the death of Obadiah Stane, Rhodey had Tony go to the hospital. When Tony asked what hospital they were going to, Rhodey said it was a "surprise",
I Am Iron Man!
After Fury offered Stark the opportunity to join the Avengers Initiative, Stark rejected the offer and told Fury to leave, but Fury warned him that he will keep an eye on him.
Iron Man 2 : Public Identity
Sometime after revealing that he's Iron Man, Tony uses his suit to have some fun on a yacht with some girls, and he later tells his personal chauffeur and bodyguard Harold "Happy" Hogan that he missed out on the fun. Later at a party, Pepper told Tony that Colonel Rhodes wanted to speak with him, she told Rhodes to wait for Stark in his house. Stark asked her why she doesn't call him Rhodey like everyone else, but thanked her for relaying the message to him.
Iron Man 2 : Fist of Iron
As Tony was driving to a meeting on Gorani Insurance, Pepper called him telling him that he gets easily distracted; telling Tony to make to the meeting on time. When Tony asks Pepper if Evetta Gorani is taking over the company, Pepper asks him if he's talking about her because she's attractive, and Stark replies by asking if she thinks he's the type of man who would be distracted in a business meeting just because he came across an attractive vice president.
Iron Man 2 : Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
As some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discover the Ten Rings' cell control in a vessel, Iron Man arrived on the scene and destroyed the cell control and defeated many of the terrorists. Before leaving, he recorded a conversation that a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent had with Fury.
Iron Man 2
Six months after revealing his Identity to the world and has since then helped maintain world peace. Tony appears as Iron Man at the grand Opening of The Stark Expo in Flushing Meadows, New York, continuing the Legacy his Father started. Unfortunately Tony's life isn't as good as it appears. He is faced with two threats: One in the form of his own heart, it seems the Arc Reactor palladium core is poisoning him causing him a slow painful death due to over uses of the Iron Man armor.
Fury's Big Week
By the night he was fighting Rhodey at his birthday party, Stark only had around 72 hours to live.
The Incredible Hulk
After failing to capture the Hulk and the Abomination is defeated General Ross goes to a bar to drink. Tony Stark walks in and the two trade a few jabs at each other. Tony finishes by saying "We're putting together a team." Ross replies "Who's we?" He also mentions the Super Soldier Serum, saying "it was put on ice for a reason".
The Consultant
To prevent General Ross from freeing the Abomination, Coulson sent Stark to deliberately offend Ross. After the conversation that was seen in The Incredible Hulk, Ross got angry at Stark and wanted him out of the bar but Stark bought the bar instead.
Thor
Jasper Sitwell asks Phil Coulson if The Destroyer is one of Stark's latest armors when they encountered it. Coulson replies saying "I don't know. The guy never tells me anything."
The Avengers Initiative
Tony goes to Dubai and is attacked by a couple of Raiders.
Black Widow Strikes
S.H.I.E.L.D. continued to observe Stark's actions as he was seen on their computer screens.
The Avengers
Tony Stark activated an arc reactor prototype in Stark Tower, his New York residence. He is confronted by Phil Coulson, briefing him on a new re-established Avengers Initiative and the Tesseract in the wake of Loki's attack on S.H.I.E.L.D.. He aids Captain America in defeating Loki in Stuttgard, Germany and initially condescends to the Captain. When Thor appears to take Loki away, Stark and Thor find themselves in a fight which is ended by Captain America. Stark attempts to dispel any hard feeling against Thor.
Iron Man 3 Prelude
Tony reclaims the Mark II armor from Rhodey and removes all the modifications done to it by Justin Hammer. But Tony designs Rhodey a more advanced model. Since Tony was busy with the construction of Stark Tower and as a consultant to S.H.I.E.L.D. he had no time to fight against the terrorists as Iron Man. But knowing that the world expects Iron Man to be always there, he gave the armor to Rhodey to fight in his place.
Thor : The Dark World Prelude
During the battle of New York, Iron Man asked Thor if he had ever seen Game of Thrones, but Thor had no idea what he was talking about, noting that despite Earth facing its doom, Stark still had the time to make jokes. Afterwards, Thor was eaten by a Leviathan, Stark then asked Thor if he'd seen Mad Men. Once Thor had killed the Leviathan with a lightning strike, Stark admitted that it was "pretty gross".
Iron Man : The Coming of the Melter
Whilst Tony was presenting how he could charge his armor with solar energy at Stark Tower, he was suddenly attacked by a villain called the Melter. The Melter quickly defeated Iron Man and announced he was going to sell his designs in a few days. Two days later, Melter attacked again and defeated War Machine. This led Tony and Rhodey to team up and confront the Melter. They defeated him and put him in the custody of the United States Military.
Iron Man 3
Sometime after the Chitauri invasion of New York, Tony built an array of new armors, some created for specific purposes. He tested the Mark XLII, which was built so that he could summon various pieces of the armor when needed. Meanwhile, a string of bombings by terrorist The Mandarin left intelligence agencies bewildered at the lack of forensic evidence. When Happy Hogan was caught in one such attack, Tony issued a public threat to The Mandarin.
Captain America : The Winter Soldier
Nick Fury revealed to Steve Rogers that, having repaired the Helicarriers turbines during Loki's attack, Tony suggested that S.H.I.E.L.D. replace them with his repulsor technology. During a meeting between Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury, Fury promised to have Iron Man attend Pierce's niece's birthday party in exchange for a favor. Stark was also targeted by the undercover HYDRA agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. as a potential threat for their plans. During the execution of Project Insight, it was revealed that he had moved into Stark Tower following A.I.M.'s destruction of his Malibu home.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. : Nothing Personal
Maria Hill mentioned to Melinda May that Tony would be privatizing Global Security.
Avengers : Age of Ultron
With the rising threat of HYDRA, the Avengers were officially reassembled, with Stark's financial backing. Using the Avengers Tower as their headquarters, they embarked on several missions to ruin HYDRA's plans for world domination. Tony helped attack Baron Wolfgang von Strucker's HYDRA base, and while the other Avengers fought the soldiers on the ground, Stark worked on destroying the base's shields to allow the team access. When Stark swore during the mission, Steve Rogers told him to watch his language, much to Stark's amusement. Tony soon managed to disable to shields and entered the base; once inside he knocked out Dr. List before making his way through the hallways.
Captain America : Civil War
Tony was speaking at MIT. Where he gave a speech and after he tells the students he would funded all of their projects. When seeing Pepper Potts name pop out on the teleprompter, he is taken aback and abruptly ends his speech. Near an elevator, a woman introduces herself as Miriam Sharpe. She gets mad at Stark for the attack on Sokovia by Ultron and how a building dropped on her son Charles. She then retorts "You guys are only fighting for yourself. Who's going to avenge my son, Stark?". Tony looks down in regret after this.
Spider-Man : Homecoming
Tony returns Peter Parker home back to Queens after the events of "Civil War". Tony tell Peter to keep low to the ground and stay out of trouble, Tony also has Happy Hogan be Peter's primary contact as Peter continue his crime-fighting career as Spider-Man and duly relayed all of Peter's messages to himself. Peter would often called Happy to ask if Tony or the Avengers had any new mission for him.
Avengers : Infinity War
Tony and his fiance Pepper Potts are out for a jog as Tony mentions having a dream that he and Pepper were going to be expecting a child. Pepper herself doesn't seem ready for that. Doctor Strange then enters through one of his portals and tells Tony he needs to talk to him, and he brings Bruce Banner out to stress how urgent the matter is. Tony goes to the Sanctum Sanctorum where Wong explains the history of the Infinity Stones the Power, Space, Soul Stone, Time, Reality, and Mind and why Thanos might want to get his hands on them.
Avengers 4
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- Tony is an outgoing and extremely eccentric man, all the while possessing the capacity to become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight. Tony is shown to be a big fan of Australian hard rock band AC/DC, though he has been shown to listen to other 80's and 90's rock and funk music. He was renowned for being lackadaisical, casually arrogant, callous and a hedonist who enjoyed the finer things in life, namely drinking, gambling, partying and flirting with complete strangers.
- Direct Cybernetic Interface : Thanks to the state-of-the-art microchips Tony injected into his left forearm he could mentally control the Iron Man armor with his thoughts. This is similar to how Tony can instruct his armor to assemble at his own will after undergoing the Extremis process in the comics. He would later used voice commands to control his armor remotely if he is not wearing them. Tony can now manifests the armor on will thanks to the nanoparticles house in his new arc reactor. The nanoparticles can repair the armor in battle. Like when the armor was serious damage to the point where parts of it have been destroyed by Thanos, Tony instantly regenerate the armor while fighting Thanos on Titan.
- Armor Link : Tony can mentally command the armor with his thoughts even when he was fully unconscious. The Mark XLII almost attack Pepper in bed when Tony was having a nightmare. Pepper's screams woke Tony in time to shut down the armor. Tony remotely controlled the Mark XLII aboard Air Force One and battled Eric Savin. After he defeated him, the Mark XLII saved the surviving passengers and crew, while Tony was on a speed boat with Rhodey searching for Killian. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony commanded the Mark XLIII to "Sentry Mode", as he hacked into HYDRA's server in Wolfgang von Strucker's base. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony saved Peter's life when Vulture drop him into a lake. Tony control the Mark XLVII armor remotely using Wi-Fi at a party in Dubai. Using the armor's loudspeaker, Tony talk to Peter and asked him to stop pursuing the Vulture. When he disconnect the armor, F.R.I.D.A.Y. took over the armor's controls and flew away.
- Armor Summon : Thanks to the new repulsor flight system, individual pieces of the armor can self-assemble themselves on to Tony or others. Tony is able to remotely summon the Mark XLII to Pepper for her to wear after his home is attacked by the Mandarin's forces. Tony summons the Iron Legion to fight against Aldrich's Extremis solders at the oil drilling platform. Tony is forced into confronting Killian, whom he attempts to defeat by ordering the suit to assemble it's self on Killian and then activate the self-destruct. This fails to kill him. Pepper intervenes, using her new Extremis abilities to finish off Killian once and for all. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda Maximoff "hex" the Hulk, that send him on a rampage in Johannesburg. Tony summon the Hulkbuster armor that assemble itself onto the Mark XLIII.
- Weapon Materialization : In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony materialize massive magnetically levitating cannons that enable him to fire gigantic proton beams that even stagger Cull Obsidian. Tony later materialize repulsor cannons around his wrist when he fought Ebony Maw with Peter on Maw's ship. On Titan, Tony made a last stand against Thanos. Tony materialize jackhammer arms to fight Thanos, but Thanos easily withstands the blows than he brutally beats Tony breaking much of the armor. Tony regenerate the armor and created a blade and tried to kill him, but Thanos broke the blade off and stabbed Tony through the armor.
- Indomitable Will : Tony has proven time and time again why he is called Iron Man. When his back is against the wall Tony shows he has a tremendous strength of will. When the Ten Rings held Tony captive and ordered him to build them the Jericho missile, an extremely destructive, multi-warhead weapon, he begrudgingly agreed, but instead used the time to build the Mark I armor along with a miniature Arc Reactor to keep his damaged heart beating. When the Arc Reactor started to poison, him he found a cure in a diorama of the Stark Expo secretly left by his father, Howard Stark. Tony built a small particle accelerator in his workshop which he used create a new element that saved his life.
- Genius-Level Intellect : At age four Tony built his first circuit board, at age six his first engine, and at seventeen he graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Tony built the Iron Man armor; one of the most powerful weapons on earth. When Extremis soldiers Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin attacked him, he improvised using his innovative skills and knowledge various equipment, to outsmart them and seemingly escape, killing Brandt. When Aldrich kidnapped Pepper and forcefully injected her with Extremis, Tony was able to remove the Extremis from her body. With an intelligence classified as super-genius, he easily one of smartest men in the Universe among with Dr. Bruce Banner. Furthermore, this extends to his remarkable ingenuity dealing with difficult situations such as foes and deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox and effective ways, for example when he built the first Iron Man armor in captivity. He has also been able to easily hack the pentagon on a dare. Tony is known as a "futurist", he can intuit the future. Tony can use his superior intellect to the levels of dividing his consciousness and perfectly perform multiple tasks at at the same time, being able to move, fight, talk, watch a video, and process information at the same time. Tony is the world's best multitasker.
- Eidetic Memory: Tony's mind works in the same way as a computer with unlimited storage capacity, only much faster, able to perform several mental functions at once without losing focus on any of them. He can instantly recall specific information with incredible speed and accuracy, storing everything that in a photographic memory and retrieve it immediately without the typical human pause for thought.
- Expert Engineer : Tony was able to create the Mark 1 Iron Man armor and the first miniaturized Arc Reactor, "With a box of scraps!", as stated by Obadiah Stane, while being held in captivity by the Ten Rings. Iron Man 3, Tony was able to use simple supplies he got from a hardware store to build a home-made arsenal to use to infiltrate the Mandarin's mansion. He is an excellent engineer and mechanic capable of fixing any machinery.
- Mechanical Intuition : Tony possesses intuitive understanding of mechanics and electronic, he can observe random scattered "junk" and subconsciously/effortlessly create detailed schematics, then create an complex/effective creation or device using the scattered "junk". Although he tends to use better quality parts. As shown with his chest piece arc reactor, and Ironman suit.
- Mathematical Intuition : Tony intuitively understands quantitative conventions, math, logic, and deduction/inductive reasoning, and easily do all calculations in head. He can perceive and comprehend the fundamentals of probability. In any situation, he can calculate the accelerated probability & apply it in a predicament. As stated in first Ironman film when he was taking with Yinsen, his math is always right
- Elucidation : Tony is able innately understand and comprehend any complex concepts.
- Computer Operation : Tony possess intuitively high skills and knowledge at operating any computers
- Hacking Intuition : Tony possess intuitively high skills in hacking any machinery and technological systems. He knows instinctively how to hack through any mainframes of information and bypass intensively difficult levels of online security. He mentioned in Avengers: Age of Ultron that he hacked the Pentagon on a dare.
- Social Intuition : Tony 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 is extremely handsome and has near irresistible level of charm that can be used to influence many.
- Marksmanship : Tony knows how to handle firearms, albeit with not as good of aim at far ranges.
- Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant / Martial Artist : In Iron Man 2, Tony is trained in unarmed combat and has become quite formidable on his own when the situation demands it. He was able to hold his own against Rhodey, a Lieutenant Colonel Air Force Combat Pilot. In The Avengers, Tony was able to battle Thor almost to a standstill for a time while in the Mark VI. In Iron Man 3, Tony further uses his hand-to-hand combat skills and displayed using martial arts. Tony was able to take down the guards at the Mandarin's mansion with ease, with the help of a homemade arsenal. In Captain America: Civil War, it was proven that Tony is not as skilled as Steve Rogers, as he was forced to use F.R.I.D.A.Y., an A.I. he created, to analyze Steve's fighting style and create countermeasures, although Tony managed to briefly catch the latter off guard, Steve quickly changed his tactics and he was ultimately defeated by his former friend.
- Arrogance : Since becoming the CEO of Stark Industries, Tony has developed a massive ego, which has further increased after he became Iron Man and revealed his superhero identity to the public. Tony is incapable of seeing past his own ego; which was seen during the event the Avengers Civil War, this ego of his can also be used against him; Helmut Zemo knew the moment that he revealed to Tony that Bucky Barnes was responsible for his parents death, Tony would tried to kill him (regardless of the fact that he was under the influence of HYDRA at the time and was not in control of his actions) as he was aware of the latter's arrogance and massive ego, as he use it against him, he also (correctly) knew that Steve Rogers, who is a far more moral, just and honorable individual then Tony, would not allow him to kill an innocent man; as this attempt on Bucky's life, not only ended their friendship on bad terms, but it also led to the Avengers being disbanded.
- Arc Reactor : Tony, with Yinsen's help, built a miniaturized arc reactor. The arc reactor power the electromagnet that protects Tony's heart from the shrapnel inside his chest, and also the Iron Man armor. In Iron Man 2, he develops a new element for the arc reactor power source. The new arc reactor is extremely powerful. In The Avengers, Stark's arc reactor prevents Loki from taking control of his mind. In Iron Man 3, Tony finally undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart by Dr. Wu along with the arc reactor. After Tony drops his no longer needed arc reactor into the sea. In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony installed a new arc reactor in his chest that house nanoparticles. Because of new arc reactor Tony can manifests the Iron Man armor in moments.
- Iron Man armor : Tony uses high tech armor to become Iron Man. The armor allows him to fly and contains various weapons for battle. He frequently improves the armor, giving it upgrades for battles and to perfect the systems.
- Iron Man Gauntlet : Tony used a gauntlet that is watch piece of Mark XLVI. This piece was to shoot sound waves to shock opponents during fighting. It is also used for stopping guns from shooting in close combat.
- The Iron Man Armor is arguably one of the most powerful forms of technology developed by Tony. Alone, the Mark I was sufficient enough to allow him to go through armed terrorists in order to escape. The Mark II was sufficiently powerful enough to go toe to toe with a more advanced and updated version of the armor. The Mark III was able to battle the Iron Monger suit, however, with some difficulty.
- Happy Hogan : Personal driver / former body guard
- Pepper Potts : Former administrative assistant / fiancee
- Ho Yinsen : Fellow captive in Afghanistan
- J.A.R.V.I.S. : Former A.I. assistant became Vision
- F.R.I.D.A.Y : New A.I. assistant
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Avengers
- Peter Parker / Spider-Man
- Thaddeus Ross
- Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Christine Everhart
- Harley Keener
- T'Challa / Black Panther
- Scott Lang / Ant-Man
- Sam Wilson / Falcon
- Ten Rings
- The Mandarin
- Raza
- Abu Bakar
- Obadiah Stane
- Ivan Vanko
- Justin Hammer
- Loki Laufeyson
- Chitauri
- A.I.M.
- Trevor Slattery
- Aldrich Killian
- Eric Savin
- Ellen Brandt
- Maya Hansen
- Ultron
- HYDRA
- Helmut Zemo
- Adrian Toomes / Vulture
- Herman Schultz / Shocker
- Jackson "Montana" Brice
- Phineas Mason / Tinkerer
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