Anthony Stark (Earth-21410)

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 * Image                  = Stark_Earth-21410.jpg
 * ImageSize              = 250px
 * RealName               = Anthony Edward Stark
 * Title                  = Patient Zero
 * CurrentAlias           = Iron Man
 * Aliases                = Tony Stark, Metal Man, Tin Man, The Merchant of Death, The Mechanic, Howardson, Metal Man, The Legionnaire, The Futurist, Patient Zero, Creeper, The One Who Started It All, Almost Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Stark
 * Identity               = Public
 * AlienRace              = Humans
 * Alignment              = Neutral
 * Affiliation            = Avengers, Illuminati (co-founder; defunct); formerly Stark Enterprises
 * Relatives              = Isaac Stark (ancestor), Howard Stark (father; deceased), Maria Stark (mother; deceased), Arno Stark (brother; deceased), Pepper Potts (ex-fiancee; deceased)
 * Universe               = Earth-21410
 * BaseOfOperations       = Stark Mansion; formerly Avengers Tower
 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 6'1"
 * Height2                = (without armor); 6'6" (including armor)
 * Weight                 = 225 lbs
 * Weight2                = (without armor); Formerly 250 lbs (including armor)
 * Eyes                   = Blue
 * Hair                   = Black
 * UnusualFeatures        = Has an Arc Reactor implanted in his chest, which maintains his body functions
 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Adventurer, Inventor, Industrialist, founder of the Maria Stark foundation, president emeritus of Stark Industries; former United States Secretary of Defense, CEO of Stark Enterprises, Stark Enterprises, Stark Solutions, Circuits Maximus & Stark International, computer technician
 * Education              =
 * Origin                 = Human cyborg using armor technology, infected with the Nightmare's Dream
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Long Island, New York
 * Creators               =
 * First                  = Modern Comics: Fear Incarnate Vol 1 1
 * Last                   =
 * Quote                  = You know, when that mystic virus of your old friend first hit me... I thought I was afraid at first... But no... No, no, no... It simply made me realize: there's nothing to be afraid of, if you will just simply... Embrace it... So I did. I embraced the miserable, f**ed-up failure that I was.. And the same miserable, f**ed-up failure that I still am...
 * Speaker                = Iron Man
 * HistoryText            =

Early Years
Anthony "Tony" Stark was born to parents Howard and Maria Stark. In his parents' untimely demise, Tony subsequently inherited his father's legacy that was the renowned Stark Industries, an unparalleled mega-conglomerate which mostly manufactured weapons for the United States military under Tony's directorship. Growing up as a brash but brilliant inventor, Stark was self-described as a genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist. With his immeasurable wealth and exceptional technical knowledge, Stark was one of the world's most intelligent and powerful men, and enjoyed the playboy lifestyle for many years. During a conflict in Afghanistan, however, Stark was captured by terrorists and, with a piece of shrapnel in his heart, was about to die. Constructing a suit of iron armor that would also help with his recovery, Stark broke out of captivity and journeyed back home to the United States where he built an advanced suit of armor and become the heroic armored avenger, Iron Man.

A Mystical Alliance
Throughout his great journey to heroism as Iron Man, Stark became a publicly-renowned figure across the globe, especially after he and other heroes first formed the team now famously known as the Avengers in pursuit to stop Loki, his Masters of Evil, and their army of the extraterrestrial Chitauri, to which they were thankfully successful in defeating which subsequently saved the world from the worst case scenario of cataclysmic destruction, almost at the cost of his own life. Due to the battle, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, leading him to create the Iron Legion to safeguard the world and help him while he recovers from the great trauma he had to experience from that point on forward. Unfortunately, Stark would also devastate his relationship with his friends, family, which had sadly broken his friendship with Jim Rhodes and even caused his engagement with his fiancee Pepper Potts to end after a series of tormenting bickering and bitter arguments, something that Potts couldn't handle to deal with watching her own loved one slowly descend into madness believing it would be better that she and Stark "take a break" while Stark recovers. Unfortunately, as much as Potts would have wanted her love recover in her momentary absence, the effects of her leaving had Stark distraught, rendering him to alcoholism and return into his play-boyish persona once more.

Nevertheless of his slow and painful recovery and his depressing isolation, the selfless incident in New York which the world had witnessed would eventually lead to an unexpected alliance between Stark and the mystic sorcerer Doctor Stephen Strange, in which the latter along with his master, the Ancient One, had suddenly come for the former's help in a clandestine quest to deal with a powerful entity of arcane universal origins with Stark's intelligence and technology. Initially skeptic at the existence of magic and sorcery, Stark would eventually come in terms of agreement secretly helping Strange and the rest of the Masters of Mystic Arts against the interdimensional entity that was simply named Nightmare as a desperate way of distracting himself from realizing how mentally and emotionally torn he was on the inside, making up an arrogant facade that he wanted to simply explore magic and debunk its mysteriousness with science and technology.

However, little did Stark himself knew, Strange was secretly sensing something dark and corrupted within the superhero's soul, making Strange question whether he and the Ancient One had made the morally righteous decision of recruiting the emotionally-fragile hero in such a mystically-threatening mission a few weeks after the latter was only starting to recover from a nerve-racking trauma afflicted by the Chitauri Attacks. Stark inside was aware that he was having such difficulty handling his near-death experience in his battle with Loki, but he doubted his thoughts and feelings nonetheless in favor of "doing something productive" in preference over helping himself recover through his regularly-scheduled psychological treatment, which he arrogantly deemed "redundant" and "unnecessary" when it comes in the "hero business," something that he claims to be be his first and only priority after he distanced himself from everyone else that he knew.

Facing Nightmare
After that point, Stark primarily focused studying and preparing ever tech and equipment needed for his battle against Nightmare in the latter's own dimension. Stark continued his mission for days helping Strange and the Ancient One, finding Nightmare as the mastermind behind the reason why Stark himself was still worsening in his mental and emotional state even in his stages of recovering. Eventually, Stark and Strange defeated Nightmare, albeit at the cost of the Ancient One and other sorcerers' life and Stark almost losing his sanity in the process trying to escape Nightmare's hellish, fear-inducing mind games.

In the final moments of the battle of Nightmare's home dimension, Stark destroyed all of his armors (all were manually-powered with magic) with the once-disposed Clean Slate Protocol which seemingly obliterated Nightmare's true, celestial form in the end and finally killed him for good. In the wake of Nightmare's defeat, Strange originally had Stark be unwillingly immersed under a spell to make him forget every single trace of memory about the existence of Nightmare and magic altogether, only for Stark to tell his new ally moments before Strange would have done what he was meant to do, something that convinced the sorcerer to change his mind and overall decision.

Moreover, Stark convinced Strange to form a clandestine alliance not even the Master of Mystic Arts or the Avengers would be aware of its existence. Together, they formed the covert initiative named the Illuminati, which was a team of heroes tasked with sharing information and strategy, operating relatively successfully initially, despite their unique traits and considerable differences in nearly every way with the same goal of secretly protecting the Earth from such cosmic threats they deem too serious and too risky for the whole world to know, just like Nightmare's villainy of absolute terror. Strange was amused with Stark's heroic proposal, confirming the official formation of the Illuminati.

Nightmare's Dream
Returning back into the normal world after the battle of Nightmare's World, Stark continued his abusive life of alcohol and debauchery, arrogant enough to fully cancel all of his plans to fully recover via any psychological treatment and instead "party as if there was no tomorrow," emotionally overwhelmed with hubris from his success in dealing with the cosmic entity Nightmare and his very realm. For days until a week has passed, Stark felt as if he had never felt anything displeasing or simply bad in his life, believing that he never needed the very people who had recently left him, such as Rhodey and Potts, the same people who were basically his family before the great trauma of the Chitauri Attacks had inadvertent changed his life for the worse.

That phase of so-called "greatness," as Stark had once phrased it would only last for that same week, in which one night after a sensual session with his fellow Avenger and good friend Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark himself would suddenly and fearfully realize how alone he was due to his reckless, unintelligible actions. This was the moment a sense of fear had stricken into Tony as if it was a perfectly-sharpened spear thrown directly into his heart. At the same spot, Stark greatly bled with tears knowing it was too late for him to fix everything. Romanoff tried to console with an emotionally-broken Stark.


 * Powers                 = Seemingly those of Anthony Stark of Earth-61615.


 * Abilities              = Seemingly those of Anthony Stark of Earth-61615.
 * Strength               =
 * Class 10+ (with armor)
 * Class 5 (without armor)
 * Weaknesses             = Seemingly those of Anthony Stark of Earth-61615.
 * Equipment              = Seemingly those of Anthony Stark of Earth-61615.
 * Transportation         =
 * Weapons                = Seemingly those of Anthony Stark of Earth-61615.
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