Iron Man |
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Portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. |
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Full Name |
Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark |
Age |
42 |
Height |
6'1" |
Build |
Svelte, Sensual |
Eyes |
Brown |
Hair |
Black |
Factions |
Avengers |
Occupation |
CEO, Avenger, Playboy, Consultant, Iron Man |
Alignment |
Unlikely Hero |
Claim to Fame
Tony Stark is Iron Man. It ran in all the national newspapers and online news outlets. Also he's the owner and CEO of Stark Industries, a triple A celebrity and periodically people acknowledge that he's a philanthropist.
Reputation
That's a mixed bag. Some people recognize that he's trying to turn his life around and help that were harmed by his companies weapons and others only see that he still acts like a child with a giant bank account. Depending on who you ask he might be a saint or a demon.
Biography
Tony Stark was born to Howard and Maria Stark. Early in his life he showed extraordinary talents in technology and a mind sharp enough to grasp complex ideas as easily as a crossword puzzle. When his father died, Tony took over as CEO of Stark Industries creating weapons on a defense contract of the US Government. His ideas grew increasingly more intricate, often to the great joy of those to whom he sold these weapons, and more sophisticated. It was during one of the demonstrations that his world was irreversibly changed.
While in the middle east demonstrating his newest line of missiles to the defense department, Tony was kidnapped and held hostage by nationalist interested in having the weapon built for their own nefarious goals. A landmine explosion left small slivers of metal creeping towards his heart, Tony took the parts provided him to develop the weapon and created instead an arch reactor capable of powering a magnet that kept the metal from piercing his heart. Also capable of powering a suit of armor that he used to escape captivity.
Once he returned home he changed the direction of Stark Industries away from weapons, much to the disdain of the Government and stockholders. Instead focusing on clean energy, robotics, and defense projects while secretly creating the Iron Man defense platform. After using it to destroy a international terrorist organization, Tony revealed that he was the man behind the iron mask to the national news.
Since he has continued to expand on the suit, his company, and attempts to put his life back into something like normalcy. He's only human, rich, hedonistic and probably a little nuts, but… that's life..
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Character Details
Deep down, Tony wants to do the right thing. He sat blindly by while his weapons harmed people around the world, living by the adage that war is going to happen… so at least he's creating weapons that do the least amount of collateral damage humanly possible. Once he saw it first hand, he changed his opinion drastically.
He clings to people and relies on them entirely too much. He hides his emotions, fears, and failings with alcohol and depression. He battles constantly with doubt, fears and apathy.
He parties a lot to give off the impression that everything is super good in Stark World.
He's broken and really looking for a way to put himself back together.
Brilliant Mind |
Stark is one of the primere minds on the planet. From a young age he demonstrated extrodinary talents in robotics and engineering and was harald as the prodigal son of his father. When his father died, Tony had already made a name for himself in the tech world with advances in computer technology leaps ahead of its time and by eighteen was the youngest CEO of a multi billion dollar company in American history.
Demonstrating his brilliance he was able to create an arch reactor in a cave out of parts taken out of Stark tech weaponry and later turned that arch reactor into the power source of one of the most advanced armored suits in existance.
He can see things as they might exist one day, rather than how they actually are. Often viewing a single puzzle from so many different angles at once that he's creating things now that he may not use until years later when his ideas catch up to the capabilities at his disposal.
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Business |
Like his mind for technology, Stark is able to see business in much the same way. His approach to running his company often seems aloof or even foolish until the true goals become reality. His ability to see the game several moves ahead has tripled the profit of the company and turned a successful business model into a multi billion dollar public trade corperation.
To say he is every bit as dangerous in the board room as he is in the workshop is quite an understatement.
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Inventor |
Chief to Stark's talents is his ability to create things that seem impossible to just about anyone else. An Arch reactor from spare parts or the power armored suit from scraps found in a junk yard. His list of accomplishments in the tech world are second to very few and prior to his taking his company out of the weaponry business, he was one of the leading inventors of weapons on the planet. Some of which have been retooled for private use and mothballed until they become necessary.
Always an ace in the hole.
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They Seem Me Rollin' |
You would have to go pretty far to find someone who didn't know who Tony Stark is. Some people know him because of his exploits in the tabloids, some for his inventions, and others because his weapons have been responsible for as many deaths as his Iron Man suit has protected them. Whatever reason they know him, he commands a cult of personality. People like him, they want to party with him, or just sit in on a seminar where he goes into details about some insane new technology that he promises will revolutionize sphere he's working on at the moment.
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Billionare |
Seriously, he could give a thousand dollars to everyone he's ever met and would it barely dent his sizable fortune. He has raw resources, materials, homes, boats, cars and celebrity girlfriends. He's the American dream all bundled up in a happy bow of absurds amount of over head capital. At times he seems to have his mind firmly planted in reality and spends his money in ways that expand the fortune, then when he feels comfortable enough, he builds a floating party boat for the sole purpose of celebrating his birthday every day for a month.
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Stark Industries |
Stark is the CEO and owner of Stark Industries. While he could survive for the rest of his life on just the profits he's made thusfar, he has access and freedom to invent entirely on the holdings of his company. Largely they are known for technological advancement and engineering, but that's not the sole arena which brings home the bacon.
Stark Industry owns several smaller companies through which they have diversified their portfolio. They are responsible for everything from microchip manufacturing to tooth paste and provides jobs for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of American and International employees. This includes at least one satelite and the patent on a number of yet unproduced technologies that are not yet cleared for production.
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Jarvis |
Tony created Jarvis on a whim. The Artificial intelligent 'butler' is the basis for his entire Stark Tower. There is little, to nothing, Jarvis isn't directly connected to or could not access for Tony. This includes acting as the 'brain' of the Iron Man defense platforms, even capable of remotely piloting the suit in the absence of Tony personally being present to do so.
Mostly for birthday party appearances and the like.
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Pepper Potts |
Tony couldn't tie his shoes without Pepper telling him which way the laces should go. Brilliant he may be, but Pepper keeps him focused, directed, and from spending every cent on one billion party favors to be handed out simply because it's Tuesday. She's his moral center, ethical compass, and the real 'brains' behind the day to day operation of his company.
She arranges the meetings and, periodically, attends the meetings. Either because Tony was too busy, too bored, or too intoxicated to attend himself.
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Man In The Iron Mask |
One of the most impressive pieces of technology Tony has ever created was the arch reactor. A source capable of powering the Iron Man suit. Though it's name is out dated, the technology within is anything but. State of the art weaponry allow Tony to pilot the suit into situations that would prove dangerous for even the most powerful super heroes and equipment necessary to survive in almost any situation. At the end of the day it is still technology, however.
Tony always has a number of extra suits and is in a constant state of improving the original design. If the suit itself is not capable of doing something, he is more than capable of creating, within short order if one isn't already in production, whatever he needs for any given situation. The limits to what the suit is capable of is limited only by the time Tony has to expand its capabilities.
MARK VI
At this current generation, the suit is able to reach speeds of almost mock 3 in bursts and a sustained flight speed of Mock 2 indefinitely. The magnetically sealed titanium alloy overweave armor can withstand small arms fire with little concern for structural integrity, torpedoes and rockets with demenishing returns and will take considerable damaged over sustained damage of this sort.
The primary weapons are the repulsor beams built into the palms of the suit. Easily able to super heat and melt most known common metals, they can be used as continues bursts or bolt like projectiles as well as stablization in midflight. A host of secondary weapons include a miniturized missiles in the wrists and a uni-beam projectile from the Arch reactor itself.
The life support is sufficient for several hours in uninhabitable ecosystems (underwater, subarctic, outter space), though the suit is not designed for sustained flight in zero gravity…
The suit augments Tony's strength that he can easily lift fifty tons and can press himself to far more if it is necessary, though this comes at the risk of structural integrity of the suits joints.
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They Hatin' |
''EVERYBODY'' knows Tony. That means that, periodically, he'll run into someone he wronged in the business world or angered in a press conferenece or didn't call back the next day. There's also those people who just don't like the wealthy and think that he's wasting his second life by partying too much, too hard, or not sharing with the world. Whatever the case, Tony has a whole host of haters in the tabloids, the news, and the business world. Nevermind the dating scene.
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Drunk |
Tony is not an alcoholic because he isn't in the business of quitting. There's a lot of emotional issues that come with being him, scars that have never healed, anger that has no direction to outlet… he hides these flaws at the bottom of a bottle of very expensive alcohol. This has not yet caused him any physical harm, but seriously it's only a matter of time.
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Beautiful Mind |
No genius is without their quirks, Tony is no exception. At times he is like a hermit, down in his workshop working on his next toy, but that's not the extent of it either. He doesn't like to be touched or handed things by strangers. He's mildly OCD and likes his work to be perfect, often to the exclusion of important things like food and sleep.
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Broken Hearted |
Tony had several piece of metal shrapnel lodged in his chest when one of his weapons exploded. While in captivity he created a high power source that gives the juice to a high powered magnet that keeps the small slivers of metal from killing him in a painfully long agonizing way. The fact that he has not yet gone to a surgeon to have the bits removed is more a personal choice than an inability to do so. He could afford it and the surgery isn't impossible, but in some small way he keeps them there to remind himself WHY he publically came forward as Iron Man.
He wants to do good, wants to turn things around, and even though he continuously fails in his personal life, the slivers keep him focused on that goal because the alternative is that others will suffer like he does.
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I Am Iron Man |
Let's face it, when you go on the record as being the hero known as Iron Man it nets you a sum total of enemies who probably take great delight in seeing the hero dead. It wasn't one of his brightest choices, if you asked his friends, but he lives it and owns to the obvious threat that comes with it.
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Needs Help |
Tony couldn't tie his shoes without Pepper and sometimes couldn't find his way home. He leads a very eccentric and hedonistic lifestyle, so he depends on those people around him for moral, emotional, and sometimes physical support. Sometimes the smartest people are often the most dense, as he doesn't always know how horrible a position he puts them.
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Relationships
Image |
Name |
Relation |
Information |
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Pepper Potts |
Personal Assistant |
Pepper is Tony's long suffering Personal Assistant. Despite the handful he is, Pepper is his right hand and remains loyal. |
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Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes |
U.S. Air Force |
Rhodey is Tony's best friend and go-to guy. If one is getting up to something, chances are the other won't be far behind. |
Notes
MTV: Music Video
Radio: Radio Free Stark
On Stage: Singing With Sting
Character Gallery
Logs
Can I Crash With You
December 11, 2014: Evelyn visits Tony to catch up with him and ask for a favor.
(log: 20141211-can-i-crash-with-you | tags: evelyn iron_man jarvis | posted: 11 Dec 2014 20:16)
The Jerry Springer Show
IC Date: November 25, 2014 Howard comes by Stark Tower to speak with Tony. Stark drama ensues
(log: 20141126-the-jerry-springer-show | tags: howard_stark iron_man | posted: 26 Nov 2014 04:09)
How to Ruin Tony Stark's Day in One Sentence
November 25, 2014: Pepper tries to avoid it, she really does, but she still manages to ruin Tony's day with the news that she's 'taken custody' of Howard Stark from the SHIELD authorities.
(log: 20141125-how-to-ruin-a-day-in-one-sentence | tags: dummy-npc iron_man jarvis-npc pepper_potts | posted: 01 Dec 2014 05:08)
Pity Party Stark Style
November 12, 2014: Pepper finds Tony after he returns to Stark Tower from his 'meeting' with LMD Howard Stark.
(log: 20141112-pity-party-stark-style | tags: iron_man jarvis lucky pepper_potts | posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:48)
A Stark Family Reunion
November 12, 2014: Howard and Tony Stark reunite. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
(log: 20141112-a-stark-family-reunion | tags: falcon howard_stark iron_man | posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:32)
Pepper Owns Property
October 27, 2014: After rescuing Tony from his workshop, Pepper talks with her boss about the possibility of setting up a workshop for the inventor outside of Stark Tower. Pepper reveals to him the defunct coal mine that Partisan insisted on selling to her several months before.
(log: 20141027-pepper-owns-property | tags: iron_man jarvis-npc pepper_potts | posted: 01 Dec 2014 04:38)
Tour of the Tower
October 24, 2014: One Friday each month, Stark Tower hosts tours for the public. This Friday's tour is a little different.
(log: 20141024-tour-of-the-tower | tags: iron_man jarvis-npc lucky oracle pepper_potts rowan | posted: 01 Dec 2014 04:23)
Aclone with my friend
October 20th, 2014: Tony gets a lucky break, and the chance to take apart Lucky, while Lucky watches.
(log: 20141020-aclone-with-myself | tags: iron_man lucky | posted: 31 Oct 2014 00:24)
Bum Ticker
August 30, 2014: Tony and Steve discuss life and get a visit from Agent May.
(log: 20140830-bum-ticker | tags: captain_america iron_man shield the_cavalry | posted: 30 Aug 2014 09:17)
Getting with the Program 3: The Team Assembles
August 21, 2014: Sam brings in Steve and Tony to hear Jericho and May's pitch. They agree to be a part of the operation in Syria.
(log: 20140823-getting-with-the-program-3 | tags: aspect captain_america falcon iron_man shield the_cavalry | posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:56)
Things to come
August 22, 2014: Vorpal comes to see Tony for advice. Tony isn't looking too good.
(log: 20140822-things-to-come | tags: iron_man vorpal | posted: 22 Aug 2014 21:16)
Sup, Titanium... I got this friend Vibranium...
August 21, 2014: Pepper invites Mike Drakos to Stark Tower to 'consult' with Tony about his current metallurgy conundrum.
(log: 20140821-sup-titanium-i-got-this-friend-vibranium | tags: dummy-npc iron_man jarvis-npc metal pepper_potts | posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:53)
Hell Freezes Over
August 18, 2014: Hell Freezes Over; Tony Stark comes to Metropolis to Apologize.
(log: 20140818-hell-freezes-over | tags: iron_man metropolis superman | posted: 18 Aug 2014 19:08)
There's always a couple that slip through
August 16, 2014: Clark Kent is given an interview with the one and only Tony Stark, but the content takes the latter by surprise and puts the genius billionaire philanthropist on his heels.
(log: 20140816-there-s-always-a-couple-that-slip-through | tags: iron_man superman | posted: 16 Aug 2014 17:36)
The Avenging Son: Namor Attacks!
August 14, 2014: King Namor makes his proclamation - humanity keep out of the oceans! And he plans to show what happens when humans trespass!
(log: 20140814-the-avenging-son:namor-attacks | tags: cannonball captain_america deadpool gravity_kid hawkeye iron_man maria_hill namor wonder_man | posted: 15 Aug 2014 06:16)
Truth and Other Promises
August 13, 2014: Pepper comes to get Tony out of the medical wing of Triskelion, then he tells her the truth of what's going on.
(log: 20140813-truth-and-other-promises | tags: iron_man jarvis-npc pepper_potts | posted: 13 Aug 2014 07:24)
Slumming at the Y
August 13, 2014: The Upper West Side's YWCA does brisk business with not only the housewives but with law enforcement types. (A sure draw for a billionaire? The housewives, that is.)
(log: 20140813-slumming-at-the-y | tags: evelyn hawkeye iron_man paul_manning | posted: 14 Aug 2014 00:17)
The Market: Man with the Valkyrie's Mark
August 12 2014: A motley collection of 'mundanes' and magical types is drawn together at the Nowhere Market
(log: 20140812-the-market:man-with-the-valkyrie-s-mark | tags: constantine falcon fenris iron_man pepper_potts seraph | posted: 17 Aug 2014 04:26)
Rules of the Game
August 12, 2014: Tony Stark and Evelyn are recovering (or slowly and painfully dying) in a SHIELD medical wing. That's just the perfect moment for Maria Hill to drop in and start throwing some sass around. (Language warning, natch.)
(log: 20140812-rules-of-the-game | tags: darce evelyn iron_man maria_hill shield | posted: 13 Aug 2014 01:44)
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