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 continuity.
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 comics
Iron Man, not content with being clad in a military-grade armored battlesuit capable of tackling tanks and fighter jets head-on, created an even bigger battlesuit to tackle Cybertronian threats. The new battlesuit proved quite the energy guzzler, and nearly expended all its reserves during the battle prior to being dangerously supercharged by an infusion from the internal reactors of the Autobots.
Crossovers
Working with Mr. Fantastic, using alien technology, Stark built transforming battlesuits 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.
Toys
Crossovers
- 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 and originally intended to be War Machine, but was ultimately marketed simply as Iron Man trying to appear as a normal jet fighter. Note that the toy pictures on the packaging have a different color scheme than the actual toy.
Trivia
- 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
