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Tony Stark
Billionaire weapons engineer who built a suit of armour in a cave and never really took it off.
- Status
- Deceased
- Species
- Human
- First in print
- Tales of Suspense #39 (1963)
- On screen
- 10 entries
Who they are
Heir to Stark Industries and its arms business, Tony spends a decade making himself the thing he was afraid of: the only person who can be trusted with what he built. The armour is the easy part. The Avengers Initiative, Ultron, the Sokovia Accords and finally the Blip are all him trying, and repeatedly failing, to put a fence around a world that keeps getting larger.
Connections
Partner
- Pepper Potts
Character
Ally
- Happy Hogan
Character
Head of security, driver, and the closest thing to family Tony had before Pepper.
- James Rhodes
Character
Best friend since MIT; the only other person Tony trusts inside a suit.
- Steve Rogers
Character
Founding Avengers, and never quite on the same side of an argument.
- Harley Keener
Character
Mentor to
- Peter Parker
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Member of
- The Avengers
Organisation
Leads
- Stark Industries
Organisation
Created
- The Arc Reactor
Object
- J.A.R.V.I.S.
Character
- Ultron
Character
With Bruce Banner, from the code inside the Mind Stone, in three days nobody signed off on.
- The Iron Man Armour
Object
- The Iron Spider Suit
Object
- The Hulkbuster
Object
With Bruce Banner, which is the one joint project of theirs that worked.
Wields
- The Iron Man Armour
Object
Child of
- Howard Stark
Character
Enemy
- Helmut Zemo
Character
- Quentin Beck
Character
- Obadiah Stane
Character
- Ivan Vanko
Character
- Justin Hammer
Character
- Aldrich Killian
Character
Succeeded by
- Riri Williams
Character
Was there
- Tony Stark's Abduction
Event
- The Harlem Incident
Event
Turns up afterwards to talk to Ross about a team being put together.
- The Battle of New York
Event
- The Sokovia Accords
Event
Appearances
Canonical timeline · 10 entries
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
The Age of Heroes
2010-
Iron Man2008 · Major role
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Iron Man 22010 · Major role
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The Avengers2012 · Major role
After New York
2012-
Iron Man 32013 · Major role
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Avengers: Age of Ultron2015 · Major role
The Sokovia Accords
2016-
Captain America: Civil War2016 · Major role
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Spider-Man: Homecoming2017 · Major role
The Snap
2018-
Avengers: Infinity War2018 · Major role
The Endgame
2023-
Avengers: Endgame2019 · Major role
Outside time
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What If...?2021 · Cameo · 0/26 ep
Beyond the screen2 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
Extremis rewrote him
The comics Tony injects a techno-organic virus that stores the armour inside his own bones and hollow tissue. Iron Man 3 lifts the villain and the name but not the premise — which is why the film's Extremis regenerates limbs and explodes rather than turning Tony into a walking antenna.
Iron Man vol. 4 #1–6 (2005), Warren Ellis and Adi Granov
Armor Wars
Tony discovers his designs have leaked into other people's suits and goes after every one of them, including allies and government hardware, wrecking his reputation and his government contracts in the process. It is the purest version of the anxiety the films keep circling: the man who cannot stop trying to put a fence around what he built.
Iron Man #225–232 (1988), David Michelinie and Bob Layton