[u][b]Featured In:[/b][/u] Iron Man, Iron Man 2 (games) The Avengers, Iron Man 3  (movies)

[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Anthony "Tony" Stark

[u][b]Gender:[/b][/u]  Male

[u][b]Alignment:[/b][/u] Good

[u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] (At least seven sentences.)

[u][b]Powers[/b][/u] (Magical abilities. Explain where you acquired it/them in as much detail as possible, as well as the extent of those powers.  If the character doesn't have any powers, just list it as "none".)

[u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u]
- Technological aptitude: A mechanical genius, he is capable of constructing highly  advanced technology with minimal problems.
- Information Retainment:  If given enough information on a certain subject, he is  able to learn the subject matter in a matter of hours, as he showed by understanding  thermonuclear astrophysics within a night.

[u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u]
http://images.wikia.com/marvelmovies/images/4/46/Tony_Stark_Avengers_02.jpg (Outside  the suit)
http://images.wikia.com/marvelmovies/images/4/43/Collantotte-heroes-Ironman.jpg  (The  Mark VII Suit)

[u][b]Weapons:[/b][/u]  Mark 43 Armor (description after the bio) and Mark 44 Armor  (description after the bio)

[u][b]Equipment:[/u][/b] (Items that can be used in combat, but are not necessarily weapons, like medical supplies, tools, and extra armor.  Explain where you acquired it/them in as much detail as possible.  If the character doesn't have any, just list it as "none".)

[u][b]Awareness:[/b][/u] No

[u][b]History:[/b][/u] Tony Stark was the son of Howard Stark, one of the world's  foremost weapon developers.  A genius and master weapon crafter in his own time, he  was in Afghanistan promoting one of his newest weapons when he was attacked.   Severely wounded, he was forced to create weapons for a group of mercenaries known as the Ten Rings.  Guided by a fellow prisoner, Yinsen, he instead secretly crafted himself a suit of  armor and made good on his escape, but not without Yinsen's death on his conscious, and losing the first armor after his escape.

After returning home, he has expanded on his work, eventually creating newer, more  advanced power armors for personal use, and halting the development of weapons by  Stark Enterprises in exchange for Arc Reactor technology for clean energy.   Eventually, his original work got acquired by Obadiah Stane, a senior member of Stark Industries and priorly once his mentor, who despised Tony's new philanthropic direction for Stark Industries.  Using the armor, Stane copied Stark's Arc Reactor technology, and made powerhouse suit on his own, called the Iron Monger.  However, Tony still won out.  The day after defeating Stane, Tony revealed his identity to  the world with four words.  "I am Iron Man."

More time passed, and he soon found himself being poisoned by the palladium core in the very same Arc Reactor that he created to keep his heart running.  Not long after  finding out his condition, he soon found himself challenged by one Ivan Vanko, who had also created his own version of an Arc Reactor to power his "Whiplash" armor.   Eventually, Stark found a way to cure his condition with aid from S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury and undercover operative Natasha Romanov, known as the Black Widow, and fight off Vanko, as well as outing wealthy industrialist Justin Hammer as the villain's backer, along side one of his close friends, James Rhodes, who  wears his own Mark II power armor, retrofitted into the War Machine model.

After Vanko's defeat, he had to contend with more forces attempting to craft their  own versions of power armor, the closest being the Crimson Dynamo created by A.I.M. for use by one General Shalatov.  After battling Shalatov and his backer, one Kearson DeWitt, he moved onto new lines of work.

As the consultant for Director Nick Fury and his Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.), he was told to meet with one General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross about a potential super powered government agent known as Emil "The Abomination" Blonsky, which the World Security Council, higher officers in  charge of S.H.I.E.L.D., wanted to employ in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "Avengers Initiative".  Due to being sent in by the organization instead of someone more attuned to and agreeable with authority, Stark managed to completely sabotage the meeting by accident  (S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intention), "offending the general to his very core" and causing him  to refuse to release the Abomination, necessitating that S.H.I.E.L.D. find radiology expert Doctor Bruce Banner, the more vilified "Hulk", instead to join them.  Unfortunately, as a result of this solution, official backing of the Avengers Initiative was shut down due to lack of faith in the project.

(WARNING:  The next few paragraphs contains spoilers for the movies 'The Avengers'  and 'Iron Man 3', so read at your own peril.)

Some time after Stark had constructed what was to be a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy in Stark Tower, powered by an Arc Reactor.  It is during this that he once again meets with Phil Coulson, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who tells him that the Avengers Initiative has been reactivated.  Arriving in Germany, Stark is an essential part, along with Captain America, of the detainment of the Asgardian, Loki, but not without an attack by Loki's half-brother, Thor, who wishes to return Loki to Asgard to face punishment.  Arriving back on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, he begins to work alongside Dr. Bruce Banner to attempt to find the Tesseract, an Asgardian artifact with potentially unlimited  energy, all the while trying to find out the dirty secrets that S.H.I.E.L.D. is  hiding.

After subtle manipulations by Loki that led to his escape, Stark is able to save the  Helicarrier from crashing, but not without severe damage to his Mark VI armor and  learning of Agent Coulson's death.  Figuring out where Loki is heading next , he repairs his armor and returns to Stark Tower, finding that the Tesseract is being  used to create an interdimensional wormhole.  Confronting Loki without his Mark VI armor, he is there when the wormhole opens, releasing the alien army of the Chitauri upon Earth.   Donning the prototype Mark VII, he goes into battle, alongside fellow heroes Thor, Captain  America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Bruce Banner, who had transformed into the Hulk.   Fighting off waves of Chitauri, he is able to divert a nuclear strike on Midtown  Manhattan, flying through the wormhole and sending the nuke into the Chitauri Warship, ending the invasion.  Luckily, Tony fell back to Earth just before the wormhole closed, but not without scars.

After the invasion and near death experience battling the Chitauri, Stark lapses into  a reclusive state, focusing on creating numerous variants of his Iron Man armor, over thirty in a period of a few short months.  With his relationship with Pepper Potts strained, it is during this time that a new foe, known as the terrorist Mandarin, reveals himself to be both taking responsibility for several attacks as well as being the leader of the same terrorist group that had captured Tony before, the Ten Rings.  After an attack on his chauffer and friend, Happy Hogan, Tony publicly calls out the Mandarin, which leads to the destruction of his Malibu home.

Awakening in a rural Tennesse town, Tony is able to fight off a pair of soldiers treated with an experimental technology-based performance booster called Extremis.   Eventually arriving at the Mandarin's home, he finds that the man who called himself  the Mandarin was a face man for a man by the name of Aldrich Killian, a genius inventor who hated Stark for blowing off his ideas years ago.  He had abducted both Pepper Potts and the President, as well as stolen Rhodey's new "Iron Patriot" armor.  Racing to save both, he is able to do so, but not before Pepper is infected with Extremis.  After the battle, he promises to work on his relationship with Pepper, and proves this by destroying his various Iron Man suits, curing Pepper of Extremis, and after having surgery that removed the shrapnel from his heart, throws his personal arc reactor into the ocean.  However, in spite of this, he vows that he will always be Iron Man.

Months after this incident, both Stark and Pepper were repeatedly assailed by a group of women with other-worldly powers.  Seeing that they specifically targeted Pepper, and yet did not know who he was, caused Tony to grow concerned enough to go back into creating a new set of suits, this time wanting to seek out these 'Sirens', becoming more pro-active.  Tracking after these women, he is pulled through a small dark corridor and deposited, confused, in Twilight Town.



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