Iron Man

This article is about the cool exec with a heart of steel. For the Autobot buried under England, see Man of Iron.

Iron Man is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family and the Marvel portion of the Crossovers franchise.

Skywarp realizes pushing Iron Man down a flight of stairs requires a flight of stairs.

Iron Man, aka Anthony Edward Stark, appears to be the most sensible member of his species. While a normal, squishy human would be content to walk around vulnerable to attack, he has taken the surprisingly logical step of encasing himself in a metal suit carrying advanced weapons like a proper being (or, at least, the opposite of a Pretender).

He is not G.B. Blackrock.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 comics

Iron Man, not content with being clad in a military-grade armored suit capable of tackling tanks and fighter jets head-on, created an even bigger suit to tackle Cybertronian threats. Man and Machine, Part Two The new armor proved quite the energy guzzler, nearly expending all its reserves during a battle against some Decepticons in Latveria. Man and Machine, Part Three It was then dangerously supercharged by an infusion from the internal reactors of the Autobots, causing it to shut down. Megatron severed its head with a blast from his fusion cannon. Man and Machine, Part Four

Marvel Crossovers toy bios

Working with Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man used alien technology to build transforming battle suits for the most marketable of Earth's heroes. Being a control freak, the one he built for himself has an override system allowing him to take control of the rest.

Later, Iron Man painted his battle suit black in order to disguise it as a regular fighter jet and lull his enemy, Doctor Doom, into a false sense of security. At some point, he built himself a new suit, along with one for Spider-Man. These two mechs had the ability to combine with each other.

Toys

Crossovers

Unfortunately, no booze bottle accessory.

• Iron Man (Marvel, 2008/2009)
• Accessories: Two missiles

The Marvel Crossovers Iron Man transforms into a fighter jet of madeup-make, bearing more than a passing resemblance to an F-22 Raptor with a stubby nose cone and large/stretched wings, under-slung with non-firing missiles. Each wing is also equipped with a spring-loaded missile launcher, which can be mounted on the undersides of his robot-mode forearms.

This mold was later redecoed in gray and black. Note that the toy pictures on the packaging have a different color scheme than the actual toy.

The first of many repaints.

• Iron Man (Marvel, 2009)
  • Accessories: Two missiles

A black and gray redeco of the previous Iron Man toy resembling War Machine. Early stock photos gave the toy a different deco, instead using a silverish gold color for the black parts.

When the "Iron spider" costume wasn't enough.

• Spider-Man / Iron-Man (Marvel two-pack, 2009)
  • Accessories:

This Iron Man toy transforms into a "flying wing" style stealth bomber with two firing missiles under its wings. He comes packaged with Spider-Man (who transforms into a helicopter), and can combine with him in either mode to form a "giant super bomber" or a robot mode that mostly just looks like Spider-Man wearing an Iron Man plane hat.

Notes

• Iron Man is voiced by David Kaye in the cartoon Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes as a guest character. Voice acting is a small world, yeesss.
• Reprints of Iron Man stories were run as a back-up strip in early issues of the Marvel UK Transformers comics. Further reprints featuring the present day Iron Man appeared in issues #126-129 and #146-152. The Iron Man of 2020 also appeared in a crossover with Spider-Man reprinted in issues #119-125

External links

• Iron Man at Marvel Database
• Iron Man at Wikipedia