Anthony Stark (Earth-1028)

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 * Quote                  = Following is not really my style.
 * Speaker                = Iron Man
 * Image                  = Iron Man- the boy who lived.jpg
 * ImageSize              = 250px
 * RealName               = Anthony Edward Stark
 * CurrentAlias           = Iron Man
 * Aliases                = Metal Man, Genius, Billionare, Playboy, Philanthropist, The Da Vinci Of Our Time, Merchant of Death, Robotic Wunderkind.
 * Identity               = Public
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Stark Industries, Avengers
 * Relatives              = Howard Stark (father) Maria Stark (mother) Virginia "Pepper" Potts (girlfriend)
 * Universe               = Earth-1028
 * BaseOfOperations       = Los Angeles, Stark Tower, New York City, NY.


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 5'9"
 * Weight                 = 185 lbs
 * Eyes                   = Brown
 * Hair                   = Black


 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Dating
 * Occupation             = Inventor, adventurer, industrialist, Chairman, CEO, scientist of Stark Industries
 * Education              = Multiple PhDs in physics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering


 * PlaceOfBirth           = Long Island, New York
 * Creators               = Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, Jack Kirby
 * First                  = Iron Man Invincible


 * HistoryText            =

Origins
Tony Stark, genius, playboy, billionaire, philanthropist, and the CEO of the multibillionaire company Stark Industries, Stark travelled to Afghanistan to supervise a field test for one of his weapons. During the demonstration, he and some others are ambushed by the war cartel of the Mandarin, the Ten Rings, and are taken under captivity. Stark and his accomplice Ho Yinsen are supressed by the organization to build arsenals and weapons for them.

Knowing they would never keep up their end, Stark and fellow captive Ho Yinsen instead made a plan to escape. In order to improve Stark's condition, he and Yinsen created a miniature Arc Reactor, a smaller version of the power source previously invented by his father, Howard Stark, and Anton Vanko, which they embedded into his chest to supply energy to the electromagnet protecting his heart. Together, they secretly began building an armored suit to help them escape.

Soon the pair enacted their escape plan, however, the booby trapped door the pair had rigged with an explosive was set off. Yinsen realized that they did not have enough time to power the suit before the terrorists arrived. He took a gun and held back the terrorists, but was mortally wounded. With his last words, Yinsen reassured Stark that it would be OK to leave him behind and urged him not to waste his life. Angered by Yinsen's death, Stark stepped outside; the suit protected him from the onslaught of bullets, and he used the suit's flame-throwers to kill several terrorists, destroy their stockpile of Stark Industries produced weapons, and escape, though his suit was destroyed as he crashed in the desert.

Upon being picked up by the Air Force and returned to the United States, Stark met with Pepper Potts; he asked to first be given a burger, then called a press meeting. At the meeting, Stark finished his burger and declared that his company would, for the foreseeable future, no longer manufacture weapons. This move shocked the press, many declaring that he must be suffering from PTSD. His father's friend and business partner, Obadiah Stane, told him that this move was blocked by the board members shortly after, worried that the decision would ruin the company.

n the months that followed, Stark retreated from public view, focusing on improving the design of his new armored suit, refining its size, movement, and flight capability. He asked Pepper Potts to help him take his old Arc Reactor out and to put in a stronger one that would be used to power his suits.

He eventually perfected the flight power after much trial and error and even mastered other features such as weapons inputs and other wide array of built-in optimizations. While in his suit, once, Stark saw a mugger in pursuit of an innocent lady. Using his suit of armor, Stark prohibits the mugger from doing any sort of crime. Realizing that his powers may be resourceful, Stark starts using his suit for crimefighting. Eventually, after foiling the sinister plans of Obadiah Stone, Justin Hammer, Ivan Vanko and the Crimson Dynamo, Stark exploits his identity as the Iron Man to the public, after he could no longer tolerate the pressures his consultant organization, S.H.I.E.L.D had forced him into.

Personality
Many people in the media think that Tony Stark is just an egocentric playboy. But It is shown throughout the series that Tony does care for people, especially his friends. Although he causes trouble on occasion, he is more than willing to make up for his mistakes, which is also why he became a superhero. Charming, brilliant, cocky, Tony is a classic playboy. His wealth, power and natural charms allows him to get just about any woman he wants. But despite his rather carefree and overly confident personality, inside his heart lies loneliness as Ho Yinsen pointed out, 'A man that has everything, but has nothing'.

Even though he can appear to be self-obsessed, Tony can also be a great friend and occasionally shows affection toward his teammates. Tony was the only Avenger who encouraged Bruce Banner to embrace his identity of Hulk as a blessing rather than a curse, and trusted him to make good use of Hulk's powers. And when Tony was caught up by the terrifying vision of Scarlet Witch, he was possessed with great fear of losing all his friends. During battle, he tries his hardest to protect his allies, risking his own life if he has to.

Tony is also known for being very intelligent, having built an Arc Reactor from scratch in Afghanistan. His intellect has earned him the name "The Da Vinci of our Time". Due to a strained relationship with his father, he grew to have a deep disrespect for figures of authority.

Before his kidnapping, Tony was a self centered, arrogant person who didn't care for many people. During the following years, Tony has matured, becoming more of a team player and becoming less arrogant. He even began opening up and having a real relationship with Pepper Potts. After the Battle of New York, Tony developed a strong fear, that in this new world of "gods" and "aliens", he would be unable to protect the ones he loved and he grew to become paranoid and full of anxiety.

But even after starting a new life as a superhero, his showy personality has never changed- as shown in rendering the Iron Man suit with hot-rod red and gold and in revealing his identity in public even though he was told not to. Tony also has a liking towards heavy metal and rock music groups like Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Queen.


 * Powers                 = Tony Stark does not possess any superhuman powers. He used to have a scaled-down miniaturized version of the Arc Reactor that keeps the remaining shrapnel in his heart from killing him. However, after having the shrapnel removed, he no longer needs the Arc Reactor in his chest. Nonetheless, his high-tech battle armor provides him with superhuman strength, endurance, durability, and a variety of onboard weapons. Combined with his extraordinary intelligence, it makes Tony Stark one of the most formidable superheroes on the planet and a force to be reckoned with.


 * Abilities              = Super-Genius Class Intelligence: Tony Stark is a genius inventor capable of conceiving and building technological advancements far ahead of cutting edge technology. Among his achievements are the miniaturized arc reactors that his father conceived, the J.A.R.V.I.S. artificial intelligence, his Iron Man armor suits, and various advanced weapons technologies. He also has knowledge of Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.


 * Strength               = Without his armor Tony Stark possesses the normal strength of a normal human man his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. The armor magnifies Stark's strength to superhuman levels, being able to lift up to 3 tons.
 * Weaknesses             = Obsession: Stark has an obsession with not wanting to be personally handed things by people other than his close friends. Business cards, legal documents, and other sundry items all get intercepted or redirected to others close to him.

Arc Reactor Dependence: Stark has shrapnel embedded in his chest and iss reliant on an electromagnetic implant powered by an arc reactor to keep him alive. The removal of it could cause his death in a matter of minutes. The early generations of this reactor were slowly poisoning him with the palladium leaking into his bloodstream.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Following the Battle for New York, Tony suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The mention of "New York" (as a term synonym of the Chitauri invasion) could trigger anxiety attacks. He also suffered from paranoia, believing that a danger similar to the Chitauri invasion was imminent, for which he isolated himself in his workshop for long periods of time creating new Iron Man suits. His mental illness also prevented him from proper sleep cycles, going as far as being awake for 72 hours before taking a nap, prologued sleep could make him experience nightmares.


 * Equipment              = *Arc Reactor: A power source used not only to power an electromagnet keeping shrapnel out of Tony Stark's heart, but also as a power source for his Iron Man armor.
 * Iron Man Armor: Iron Man wears a sophisticated suit of body armor containing various offensive weaponry. He has a number of suits aside from the current model. Some are mission-specific or prototypes for testing, others are older models kept for nostalgia or for research. He has developed a special briefcase to carry his armor in. As the multi-billionaire head of a global corporation and a genius-level inventor, Stark can procure or develop additional technology as needed as possible.
 * Armor Systems: The armor has remote assistance from J.A.R.V.I.S. who manages the armor's systems at Stark's command, and the armor also have a holographic HUD with heads-up displays for navigation, power level, armor status, weapons systems, vital signs with cellphone and computer connections in the helmet, and a built-in loudspeaker. The armor is powered by a miniature Arc Reactor and has an on-board generator for emergencies. The scanner systems are capable of scanning the environment, weather conditions and equipment for information.
 * Energy Conversion Power Recharge: The armor is able to absorb and convert energy sources, such as heat, kinetic energy or energy from the planet itself into electricity, directly into the batteries for recharge. Thor struck it with a full lightning blast from Mjølnir, but Stark was amazed to find that all it did was charge up the suit to 475%, allowing him to use a powerful repulsor blast and increase his strength substantially enough to give Thor a decent fight.
 * Transportation         = When not traveling in his armor or using a Quinjet as an Avenger, Stark owns a number of conventional vehicles.
 * Weapons                = Different Iron Man armor, and different hand-held weapons of his making.

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