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Antonio Stark (Earth-1610)

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Real Name
Antonio Stark
Current Alias

Aliases
Tony Stark, Monopoly Man

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation

Relatives
Howard Stark (father, deceased), Maria Cerrera Stark (mother, deceased), Morgan Stark (cousin, deceased), Antonio (uncle, deceased), unnamed uncle (deceased)

Universe

Characteristics
Gender

Height
6' 1" (unarmored), 7' (armored)

Weight
225 lbs (102 kg) (unarmored), 2000 lbs. (armored)

Eyes

Hair

Unusual Features
Rapid regenerative factor. Bacterial and chemical treatments as protection.

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Inventor, CEO, U.S. government super-operative, scientist

Origin
Origin
Born to parents Howard and Maria Stark, Tony developed an armor due to his unique physiology.

Place of Birth

First appearance

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #4; Ultimates Vol 1 #1

Contents

History


Blessed and cursed with extraordinary genius, Tony Stark is the son of inventor and defense contractor Howard Stark, and geneticist and educator Maria Stark. Howard met Maria while the two were working on an experimental biological agent that could work as body armor. The two fell in love and married. While Maria was pregnant she was bitten by a lab monkey and fatally infected with a regenerative virus. The virus mutated her unborn child, Tony, growing additional "undifferentiated" neural tissue throughout his body, as if his whole body itself is a brain, which augmented his intelligence while causing chronic pain due to the over-stimulation of the neural cells that make up his skin. Maria died during childbirth, but Howard saved Tony by coating him in their bacterial bio-armor, which consumed ordinary skin but not Tony's constantly regenerating neural flesh.

Business rival Zebediah Stane married Howard's scheming ex-wife Loni, with whom he stole Stark's company, and spent years trying to seize the bio-armor, which Howard had not patented.

As a teenager, Tony befriended fellow prep school student Jim Rhodes and began developing his own "Iron Man" armor technology. They also dealt with Zebediah's son Obadiah.

Becoming a wealthy celebrity and science prodigy, young Tony founded multi-billion dollar design and manufacturing corporation Stark International. He also became an infamous playboy, alcoholic, and womanizer, suffering from recurring depression and secretly learning he was dying from an inoperable brain tumor.

Young Tony from Ultimate Iron Man #2
Young Tony from Ultimate Iron Man #2


When Stark and his shifty cousin Morgan were taken hostage along with other civilians by Guatemalan guerrilla terrorists, their captors demanded Stark's technology in exchange for the hostages' freedom. They killed Morgan when Tony refused to cooperate. Pretending to acquiesce, Stark built makeshift armor and defeated the terrorists with it. Years later, Stark used new Iron Man armor to save the President from an assassination attempt, becoming a bigger celebrity than ever, but refusing to sell or mass-produce his armor technology. When Latverian ambassador Golog tried to steal Stark's "Irontech" with the covert approval of intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark fought off Golog's Mandroids with the aid of Spider-Man. Spurred by his tumor to make the most of whatever time he had left, Stark began doing more charitable good works, relocated to his Manhattan property and agreed to join the Ultimates, a S.H.I.E.L.D.-sponsored superhero team. Forming an unlikely friendship with anti-corporate teammate Thor, Stark helped subdue the monstrous Hulk and save Earth from the extraterrestrial Chitauri. Tony began dating teammate Natasha Romanova (Black Widow) and eventually proposed to her, creating new armor for her as an engagement gift; however, when a traitor within the ranks helped an army of foreign super-soldiers defeat the Ultimates, Natasha was apparently revealed as the traitor when she turned on Tony during the assault. Tony turned the tables on her, using the nanites he had given Natasha to control the armor against his former lover, paralyzing her and downloading information direct from her brain to his.

Stark left his penthouse in an old model suit of armor similar to the ones used by the Rocketmen. Though his support staff believed that he was heading to Washington D.C. to battle the Liberators, Stark instead set a course for an orbiting satellite. He reappeared in D.C. a short time later in a massive airborne weapons platform called Iron Man Six. With the new armor, Stark made short work of the airborne forces of the Liberators and destroyed most of the Crimson Dynamo mobile dolls. After the battle, Stark agreed to finance the now private practicing Ultimates and very quickly got over Natasha's betrayal with the help of a pretty blonde.


Powers and Abilities

Powers

Due to an accident while he was in the womb, Tony Stark possesses higher than normal body-wide "undifferentiated" neural tissue, as if his whole body itself is a brain. As a result of this, he possesses a much higher than normal intelligence and a fantastic regenerative capacity. Tony has nearly total recall and a seemingly limitless capacity for multitasking. His neural tissue is a double-edged sword, however, as it makes his entire body incredibly sensitive to pain. It also may play a role in his alcoholism, as his greater amount of neural tissue presumably multiplies the effects of alcohol.

His bacterial bio-armor fits his body like a second skin, enhances his durability, and inhibits his chronic neurological pain.

The Iron-Tech armor gives him superhuman strength, durability, and flight. It also has:

  • Repulsors
  • "Light Negativity" provides cloaking
  • "Deflector dish" emits a forcefield
  • Neuro-scrambler
  • Force Bubble for capturing foes
  • Genetic lock attempts to cut off superpowered beings from their powers.

Abilities

Tony is a phenomenal scientific genius and inventor. He is multilingual.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

Stark's body is more fragile than a normal person's, leading to the development of his armor. The armor has limited energy reserves that can be exhausted quickly in battle, though re-fueling can be performed wirelessly.


Paraphernalia

Equipment: Iron-Tech Armor.
Transportation: Iron-Tech Armor.
Weapons: Iron-Tech Armor.


Notes

  • Stark revealed in the Ultimates Vol 1 that he has a brain tumor.
  • Ultimate Iron Man was first seen in the pages of Ultimate Team-Up before his appearance in The Ultimates series. But that series is not considered canon and thus, not in strict Ultimate continuity.
Iron Man (Marvel Ultimate Alliance)
Iron Man (Marvel Ultimate Alliance)


Trivia

  • No trivia.

Appearances in Other Media

Ultimate Iron Man
Ultimate Iron Man

Born with a chemical mutation that enhanced his intellect to superhuman levels, but cursed him with chronic, neurological pain, Tony Stark is a tireless genius. Among the most brilliant of the amazing technologies he has developed is the powered armor the world knows as IRON MAN. As the invincible crime-fighter, he fills the triple role of billionaire industrialist, head of security for Stark International, and founding member of the worldwide crime fighting enterprise the Ultimates. Despite it all, he remains plagued by personal demons, for within the armor that grants him his incredible strength he is a man like any other, and more haunted than most.



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