Alternative versions of Iron Man

Alternate versions of Iron Man
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby
See also	Iron Man in other media

In addition to his mainstream incarnation, Iron Man has been depicted in other fictional universes.

Earth-616

• Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark - The first Iron Man, Tony Stark a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor creates the powered suit of armor to save his life after receiving a mortal wound from a devastating weapon.
• James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes - After Stark loses his fortune to Obadiah Stane and regresses into alcoholism, long-time friend, confidant, and pilot "Rhodey" Rhodes assumes the mantle of Iron Man. Rhodes relinquishes the role to Stark after being injured by Stane, but resumes the role of Iron Man after Stark's purported death.
• Doctor Victor von Doom - Following Tony Stark's incapacitation as a result of his battle with Captain Marvel in Civil War II, Victor von Doom, whose soul was redeemed by Reed Richards at the conclusion of Secret Wars (2016), and who had since been attempting to make amends with Tony Stark, decided that his penance for his actions of the past would be to take up the mantle of Iron Man. He now uses his own version of Iron Man's armor.
• Iron Man's role has also been assumed by Happy Hogan and Eddie March at various times.

1602

1602: New World features a 17th-century Spanish Iron Man named Lord Iron. Taken captive in the Holy Land during the English / Spanish war, he is forced to make weapons for them after being tortured by David Banner, the later Hulk of that world. He needs his massive armor to survive. The armor is powered by "lightning bottles" and provides him with super-strength and invulnerability as well as several electricity-powered

With his Moorish associate, Rhodes, Lord Iron is assigned by King James to put an end to the traitors and witchbreed in the New World. Instead, he realizes he has let bitterness consume him, and makes his peace with Banner. He is last seen using his armor to power the colony's printing press.

1872

The Secret Wars War Zone tie-in 1872 reimagines Tony in the Wild West. Tony was once a respected inventor who lived in the town of Timely. When the Union army used his repeating rifle to slaughter a large group of Confederates rather than let them surrender, Tony spiraled into alcoholism. After Sheriff Steve Rogers was murdered by Mayor Wilson Fisk and his cohorts, Tony built a large suit of armor resembling the original Iron Man suit to aid Red Wolf in bringing him down. After Fisk was defeated, Tony dedicated his time to aiding the people of Timely with his new invention.

2020

Iron Man 2020 features Arno Stark as a mercenary in the employ of Sunset Bain. In 2012, Arno had traveled to the past in an effort to save his family from a madman's bomb. All he needed were the retinal patterns of the bomb maker, but he ran into the original Blizzard who mistook him for the "real" Iron Man/Tony Stark. Not having time to deal with this threat, Arno killed Blizzard. While attempting to scan the retinal patterns of the young terrorist, Spider-Man snatched the scanner with his webbing and asked IM 2020 what he was doing. The two battled one another (Arno was "against the clock") when suddenly Arno was pulled back to his time to discover the bomb had a design flaw and exploded prematurely. His wife, son, employees, and factory had all been destroyed.

2093

Tony Stark and Doctor Doom were brought to the year 2093 by Merlin to stop a plot by a primarily robotic Doom and the Iron Man of 2093, Andros Stark. Andros was a psychotic madman and used his grandfather Arno's armor. Tony defeated Andros while wielding the legendary sword Excalibur.

Andros Stark/Iron Man 2099 voiced by Alessandro Juliani would later be adopted into the second season of Iron Man: Armored Adventures with him being from the year 2099 and traveling back when Tony was a teenager before inventing an A.I. named "Vortex". Vortex doomed the entire human race with Andros donning a futuristic suit (classed "Hyperspace Mark XL") and the Extremis to kill Tony/Iron Man but went to S.H.I.E.L.D. for assistance. Andros destroyed Iron Man with his ultra-beam, afterward, Hawkeye managed to implant the virus on Andros's armor, and realized that all this was because Tony was trying to save himself by using the virus to stop Andros using his nano-virus which was actually the original seed for the Vortex virus. He traveled back in time for a short moment to warn Iron Man that his nano-virus chips were actually the Vortex virus. He quickly destroyed the last nano-virus arrow, saving Andros. As a result of this change in the timeline, the future was saved and because of this, Andros was erased from existence after saying his last words to his grandfather.

Secret Wars (2015) 2099

In the Marvel 2099 line, the new Iron Man of that era was a man named Sonny Frisco. Despite piloting a normal-sized suit of Iron Man armor, Frisco actually suffered from dwarfism. He was a member of the Alchemax corporation's team of Avengers and secretly used the help of Vision, a woman with precognitive abilities.

3030

The Iron Man of 3030 was Tony Stark's biracial granddaughter, Rhodey Stark (named after Stark's close friend James Rhodes). She traveled to the present to help the Avengers save Earth from a rogue planet that had been fired from the future, and departed after warning her grandfather that his life was in danger.

Adam Warlock

In Adam Warlock #2 (1972), Peter Parker's counterpart on Counter-Earth mentioned that "the heart of Tony Stark beats unscathed".

Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse, Tony Stark was an agent of the Human High Council. The injury that compromised his heart was caused by the attack of a mutant.

Age of X

Main article: Age of X

Officially code-named Iron Man, he preferred the name Steel Corpse. Iron Man was infected by a disease, thought to be of mutant origin, that bonded him permanently to his armor. Not only could he never remove the armor, the disease was causing the armor to slowly consume his flesh, meaning that one day Tony Stark would cease to exist and only the armor would be left. He worked with this reality's version of the Avengers to exterminate all mutants, but eventually rebelled against his purpose when a 'Trojan horse' in the armor nearly drove him to kill innocent mutant children, forcing his teammates to kill him.

Avataars

In the sword and sorcery world of the Avataars: Covenant of the Shield miniseries, Iron Man's counterpart was Ironheart, one of the Champions of the Realm. A powerful warrior, he wore a huge suit of grey armor.

Bullet Points

In Bullet Points, Iron Man was Steve Rogers, who, due to the assassination of Dr. Abraham Erskine occurring earlier than in the mainstream Marvel universe, never received the Super-Soldier formula. Instead, he agreed to be bonded to the prototype 'Iron Man' armor despite the intense physical pain and discomfort this would cause. Rogers was later killed fighting an alternative version of the Hulk. Tony Stark, in this reality a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., expressed a desire to continue in Rogers' footsteps as Iron Man, but was rejected owing to a heart condition. He later disobeyed this command and adopted the mantle upon the arrival of Galactus.

Contest of Champions

The 2015 Contest of Champions series featured a version of Tony Stark who won Civil War with nearly everything working out in his favor. Five years later, Tony donned the Iron Patriot armor and was the President of the United States. He and his Mighty Avengers team were kidnapped by Maestro and placed onto Battleworld, where Maestro altered their memories to believe the remaining heroes were unregistered and needed to be taken in. Their fight was interrupted by that universe's Thunderbolts (led by Steve Rogers). In the next issue, the Mighty Avengers battled the Thunderbolts and Renegade Champions, during which Tony killed Steve and revealed that the reason the Civil War went completely in his favor was because he used the Reality Gem from the Infinity Gauntlet. When he tried to use it again on Battleworld, it didn't work because he was in a different dimension, and he was killed by Maestro.

Earth X

In the alternative reality of Earth X, Tony Stark built a headquarters that protected him from a plague that granted all humans superpowers. Afterwards, he built the Iron Avengers. His headquarters was revealed to be a giant armor, based on the old Godzilla fighting mecha, the Red Ronin, which he used to delay the Celestial attack until the coming of Galactus, sacrificing his life in the process. In Paradise X, he became part of the angelic Avenging Host of Marvel's "Paradise", with an Iron Man motif.

Earth-691

In the continuity of Earth-691, Tony Stark was devastated by the horrors of the Martian invasion and jettisoned his technology into space. It was found by a primitive alien race who used it to become an interstellar menace calling themselves the Stark, who subsequently clashed with the Guardians of the Galaxy in the 31st century. "Standard" continuity Iron Man (Earth-616) encountered his "creations" when a cadre of rational, scientific members of the Stark called the Programmers brought Tony Stark to the future to help them solve various planet-wide problems.

Earth-2122

In the continuity of Earth-2122, the home of Crusader X, where the British won the American Revolution and still controlled North America, Anthony Stark was a member of a group called the Sons of Liberty. In this reality, Stark was willing to kill innocent people.

Earth-3490

In the continuity of Earth-3490, Tony Stark was born a woman (Natasha Stark) rather than a man; Stark's superhero alter-ego in this universe is Iron Woman. The Civil War between superheroes in Earth-3490 was averted due to the fact that Stark and Steve Rogers (Captain America) were romantically involved, and had since married.

Exiles

• In Exiles, a villainous alternative Iron Man of Earth-2020 was a member of Weapon X, the more ruthless team of reality fixers. After ending up at the 'Crystal Palace' (the Exiles' headquarters) and fighting them there, he was eventually exposed and sent back to his own timeline where he was arrested by the Army for starting a world war.
• In one alternative reality Tony Stark had become the absolute ruler of the entire planet Earth, and killed many of that Earth's heroes and mutants. Weapon X arrived on this reality to help him conquer Attilan, though their true purpose was to cause his downfall. Tony was eventually killed by Susan Storm.
• In one alternative reality he was partners with both Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Octopus before he created the Iron Man suit.
• On an alternative world devastated by the Hulk's Annihilation Wave, Iron Man was one of those killed in the attack. When the Exiles arranged for the dead heroes to be replaced by alternatives, Iron Man's replacement was a version of Spitfire, on the grounds that they had never gotten along with any alternative Tony Starks.
• The Sons of Iron were a group of armor-wearing warriors from an Earth shared by humans and reptilian humanoids. Because they were completely concealed by the Iron Man armor, no-one could tell which they were.

Fantastic Four: The End

In the miniseries Fantastic Four: The End, which was set in a future where Reed Richards' technology had launched humanity into a golden age, Tony Stark had died long ago - but his consciousness survived, 'hopping' from artificial body to artificial body. Most of the bodies shown in the miniseries resembled Iron Man armors, often being identical to existing armors. One notable exception was the bulky, stocky space-armor which played an important role in the battle of humanity's heroes versus several alien armadas.

House of M

Born to Howard and Maria Stark, the heads of the powerful business conglomerate Stark Industries, Tony Stark grew to be an imaginative and brilliant inventor. He worked with his father from an early age, and surpassed his father's technical brilliance by the age of 16. Stark became the key supplier of hi-tech weaponry used to fight mutants, and was on the verge of a technological breakthrough when the Mutant-Human war came to an end. The suits were powered down to become part of a game called Robo Death Match, a television sport with giant robots fighting each other. Stark Industries scored its biggest victory when it secured the Sentinel production contracts, pushing major competitor, Jason Wyngarde, out of business. Erik Magnus and Sebastian Shaw awarded Tony the contract under the condition that he would hire Beast and Forge as observers. McCoy became a key contributor along with Doctor Pym on The Vision project. Tony secretly worked on a special project beneath Stark Industries: a brand new suit of hi-tech armor he planned to use as his new Robo Death Match suit.

Iron Man: The End

In the one-shot Iron Man: The End, an aging Tony Stark worked on his greatest creation, a space elevator called "Big Jump." Stark faced retirement due to age and the physical toll of an illness, no longer allowing him to run his business "Stark Universal" and continue to be Iron Man. This led to the need to groom a replacement.

Iron Maniac

Iron Maniac is an evil alternative universe version of Iron Man from Earth-5012. He first appeared in Marvel Team-Up (vol. 3) #2, wearing armor that resembled that of Doctor Doom's. He came from an alternative reality where most of the Avengers were killed when they encountered the vicious alien Titannus in space. While the team was rescued by the reserve Avengers five years later, it took another five years to fight back the Trellions, the alien race that had brainwashed Titannus. During that time, a power-hungry Reed Richards turned his back on the surviving heroes. Scarred for life due to an attack from the Human Torch, Iron Man set his own operation base in Latveria to "take over the world to save it from Richards." Richards somehow managed to banish him into Earth-616. Other differences between his world and Earth-616 included that there was no Spider-Man, and that Hank Pym was another version of the Hulk.

After being transported to Earth-616, Iron Maniac fought the Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange, all of whom mistook him for their Doctor Doom. After unmasking himself, they learned his true identity, shortly before he managed to temporarily negate the FF's powers and escape, concluding that he had no reason to trust that they would not turn on him like the FF of his world did. Capturing a recently discovered mutant, the alternative Iron Man attempted to return to his home dimension by using the mutant as a power source, but was attacked by Spider-Man and X-23 as they investigated the situation. After the appearance of Captain America and Black Widow, he realized that he was in an alternative world, but continued to fight the heroes, calling them all 'Richards' lackeys', proclaiming that he could not trust that they would not turn into 'villains' just as his own former allies did. He was defeated thanks to Spider-Man and X-23's use of their own version of the fastball special to destroy his equipment, shortly after 'warning' the other heroes of the Titannus War (by saying that he would not kill them now because it would be a kindness).

While the alternative Tony Stark was kept locked up and drugged in the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, he was briefly visited by his counterpart in this universe, although he was unaware of the visit. Shortly after the alternative Stark was transferred to a conventional cell, Titannus soon arrived and fought the heroes, this time confronting a new group of Defenders assembled by Doctor Strange. When Titannus' comatose lover was revived, she told him that she never loved him and that he was insane, causing Titannus to kill himself. The alternative Iron Man later discovered from Spider-Man and Wolverine that the Avengers had never been massacred in space in this reality because the group had been disassembled, thus never encountering Titannus and averting the so-called 'Titannus War'.

He subsequently broke free from captivity, having immunized himself to the gas that was used to keep him sedated on board the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. In the process, he gained the unwilling alliance of the LMD Diamondback. Having convinced her that he was the "real" Tony, the AU Tony Stark erased her memories, reshaping the former LMD into an advanced suit of armor. This armor, even more advanced than the pre-Extremis suit Iron Man wore at that time, was able to replicate any weapon from the wearer's memory. He subsequently battled Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America and Luke Cage, but was only defeated after the sacrifice of rookie hero Freedom Ring, who kept Iron Maniac occupied long enough for Captain America to knock him out with a shield thrown at the back of his neck.

The name Iron Maniac was what he called himself, due to being the "sole survivor of a sane world living in a backwards, insane world".

Iron Maniac is known to be at least partially cyberized, with armor plating implanted in his chest (revealed during his escape from the Helicarrier, when he was shot). It is unknown whether the rest of his body was similarly armored or if he possessed other cybernetic enhancements.

He has been briefly mentioned as being held in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier recently in The Irredeemable Ant-Man.

Iron Man Noir

In Iron Man Noir, Tony Stark was an industrialist in the 1930s. He was also an adventurer, whose exploits were recorded in Marvels: A Magazine Of Men's Adventure. He was initially accompanied by his associate James Rhodes, his personal assistant Giulietta Nefaria and his biographer Vergil Munsey. When Nefaria was revealed to be working with the Nazis (specifically Baron Zemo and Baron von Strucker) and Vergil was killed, their role in the story was taken by Stark's new biographer Pepper Potts. His heart having been damaged on an earlier adventure, Stark kept it going with repulsor technology installed and recharged by Stark Industries engineer Edwin Jarvis.

While investigating a mysterious power source in the ruins of Atlantis, Pepper Potts was kidnapped by the Nazis and taken to their stronghold in Norway. To rescue her, Stark and Rhodes donned suits of bulky power armor built by Jarvis, but were shocked to discover that 'Baron Zemo' was actually Tony's missing father Howard Stark, brainwashed by a unique chemical compound to serve the Nazis. Despite his depleted power supply, Tony managed to destroy the various suits of armor that Zemo had built for the Nazis, concluding that his father had died long ago, before returning to the USA.

Inter-company crossovers

In Marvel and DC's Amalgam Comics, Stark was merged with the Green Lantern Hal Jordan into the Iron Lantern. "Hal Stark" wore a suit resembling a green Iron Man armor, powered by a Green Lantern battery.

In the miniseries JLA/Avengers, Iron Man aided the Avengers in the battle against Starro the Conqueror. Afterwards, he created a dimensional alarm in order to tell when invaders from another dimension came into their universe. After a brief scuffle with the JLA in the Savage Land, the Avengers were confronted by Metron, who gave Tony a Mother Box. Using this, Tony was able to get the Avengers to Metropolis, where the Avengers confronted the JLA again. The Avengers escaped, but Tony and Hawkeye managed to take Green Lantern's Power Battery before they left, with Tony able to stop the Flash in his tracks. The two later took down Captain Atom and Green Arrow in order to collect the Casket of Ancient Winters. Tony then left and arrived to save Photon and Quasar from Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, allowing them to take the Spear of Destiny. After the battle in the Savage Land, Tony was one of the Avengers and was clueless as to the dimensional shifts that were happening around him. After Cap and Superman attacked each other, Tony ended up in Metropolis. When the two worlds were briefly corrected by the Grandmaster, Tony was shown his true future with his alcoholism and his defeat by Obadiah Stane. Accepting this, he aided the JLA and the Avengers in the final battle and helped build the ship that took them to Krona's base. During the battle, he teamed up with Kyle Rayner to create a weapon to use against their enemies and the two were shown to be impressed by one another, Kyle expressing his awe at Tony's engineering prowess and Tony asking Kyle where he could get a Green Lantern ring.

Mangaverse

In the Marvel Mangaverse reality, Tony Stark created the original armor together with Dr. Ho Yinsen and acted as Iron Man for a time, but eventually vanished after a battle with Namor, the Submariner. He was succeeded by Antoinette (Toni) Stark, his twin sister, a former agent of SHIELD, who turned Iron Man into a massive operation - a veritable army of Iron Men in many forms, with herself as Iron Woman. After she died in battle against the Hulk, Tony Stark revealed himself again; he had gone underground after spinal cancer reduced him to a disembodied head hooked up to a life support system. However, he had designed a new armor, and a body that he could integrate with.

He had also designed four massive vehicles for the Avengers of his world to use, which could combine (in a manner resembling old-fashioned combining super robots like Combattler V and Voltes V) into a skyscraper-sized Iron Man-mecha (dubbed Ultimate Iron Man in its first appearance, then the Iron Avenger in its battle with the Hulk and finally simply called "the Avenger's mecha" in Volume 2 of the series). Unfortunately, it was quickly destroyed by that world's Hulk. Apparently, however, it was rebuilt again by the time of the second volume, this time as a single robotic unit without transformation (or, if it was capable of transformation, it was never demonstrated). This unit helped fight off the giant Galactus spores, but was later destroyed, along with most of the Avengers, single-handedly by the Mangaverse version of Dr. Doom.

Marvel Adventures

The Marvel Adventures Iron Man was very similar to the Earth-616 Iron Man, but with some changes. Instead of suffering damage to his heart due to a booby trap in Vietnam, Tony Stark's heart was damaged when an experimental plane he was flying was brought down by AIM. AIM wanted Stark to build weapons and devices for them. Dr. Gia-Bao Yinsen aided Tony in escaping AIM, but Yinsen died saving his country from AIM. Iron Man did not seem to have problems with alcoholism, since the Marvel Adventures was aimed at a younger demographic. Iron Man's armor resembled his Extremis armor, although Iron Man had other armors that fit over his regular armor, as in the case of his underwater armor.

Marvel Apes

The version of Iron Man appearing in the Marvel Apes mini-series was a mandrill, appropriately being named the Iron Mandrill. He was a member of the Apevengers. At one point, he was attacked by the zombified Wasp of the Marvel Zombies universe and infected, though he was later apparently cured when these events were undone via time travel.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Further information: Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999), this version of Tony Stark / Iron Man is played by actor Robert Downey Jr..

Marvel Zombies

The first series

In the Marvel Zombies universe, Tony Stark had been infected by the zombie virus. Alongside a horde of starving undead superhuman zombies, Iron Man attacked the Silver Surfer. The attack was successful, but one of the Surfer's energy bolts hit Iron Man's lower torso, cutting him in half. The zombie "survived" this wound and later gained cosmic powers (including flight) by eating part of the Surfer's corpse. When Galactus arrived, Iron Man and the five other surviving zombies devoured him. They were able to absorb Galactus' power, and called themselves "The Galacti".

Marvel Zombies 2

He also appeared in Marvel Zombies 2, one of the small group of super-powered zombies that had eaten their way across all known space. Here Stark had had his entire lost lower body replaced with cybernetics. He also appeared to have forgotten he had some design in the machine which opened a link to the Ultimate Universe. He was shocked to see Forge, one of the surviving X-Men, wearing his Mark I armored suit. The zombified Hulk killed Iron Man when he stomped through the armor, forcing Tony Stark's flesh and blood through any openings left in the armor. However, Iron Man had recently revived next issue, but only as a cameo, in Marvel Zombies 3.

Marvel Zombies Return

In the final issue of Marvel Zombies 2, the remaining zombies were transported to another universe. At the point where the zombies reached this new reality, the period was nearly identical to the one where Tony Stark was an alcoholic. Zombie Giant Man infected Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts and a number of other people at Stark Industries. A drunken Tony Stark lacked the willpower to become Iron Man despite Pepper Potts' requests, so James Rhodes donned the suit to save him. Crucial to the fate of the multiverse were the nanites that Stark had accidentally created, which destroyed damaged flesh and tissue as a cure for cancer, and proved to be a potent weapon against the zombies. This was grafted onto Flint Marko's body. He sacrificed himself to kill several zombies in Stark Tower, with Rhodes permanently succeeding him in the role of Iron Man. His nanites were then used by his successor, now a member of the New Avengers, years later to kill the remaining super-powered zombies and end the inter-dimensional zombie threat.

MC2

In the alternative future of MC2, Tony Stark retired after the loss of many heroes in battle, but eventually created the armored computer program Mainframe, which joined the next generation of Avengers.

Mini Marvels

Iron Man was a recurring character in "Mini Marvels". He appeared in story arcs like "The Armored Avengers" & "World War Hulk". He was portrayed as conceited and thought himself the best of the team. He had a friendly rivalry with Hawkeye.

Newuniversal

In the alternative world of newuniversal, Tony Stark was one of three humans altered by the Fireworks on April 26, 1953, gaining abilities associated with the Cipher glyph. Prior to the Fireworks, Stark was unexceptional, but he then became a technological genius. His discoveries revitalized his father's company, Stark Industries, and were "five years ahead of everything everyone else is working on". There were suggestions that he was capable of more, but was not making all of his discoveries public.

Stark's transformation was noticed by the National Security Agency's Project Spitfire, which was discreetly monitoring the superhumans created by the Fireworks. In March 1959, Stark's plane crashed in North Vietnam and he was imprisoned. He escaped by constructing an Iron Man suit from "spare parts" and flying out of the country.

On April 4, 1959, when he returned to the US, the NSA took Stark to a San Diego naval base, ostensibly to debrief him. Stark was then shot dead by Philip L. Voight, a Project Spitfire agent, to prevent him from making contact with the other superhumans.

The Iron Man suit was seized by Project Spitfire and reverse-engineered by Doctor Joe Swann, eventually becoming the basis of the project's H.E.X suit, an exoskeleton designed for combat with superhumans.

Ruins

In the two-issue Warren Ellis series Ruins, Tony Stark was a rich industrialist who supplied weapons for the US military in an attempt to win the Vietnam War. This version of Iron Man was injured while mediating between US forces and pro-secessionist Californians by a piece of shrapnel thrown by the National Guard. This embittered Stark who formed a revolutionary cell named the Avengers. This version of Iron Man was betrayed by Scarlet Witch who provided the United States military information to crush the Avengers. Tony Stark was presumably killed.

Spider-Verse

In the Amazing Spider-Man comic's event Spider-Verse, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Scarlet Spider (Kaine) and Spider-man (Ben Reily) met and fought a clone of Tony Stark (Earth-802) as Iron Man serving one of the Inheritors, Jennix.

Spider-Island

In a Secret Wars Warzone version of Spider-Island, he was mutated into one of the Spider Queen's spider minions and battled Agent Venom and the now monstrous Avengers. Venom sprayed Tony with Norman Osborn's Green Goblin formula, freeing Tony from the Queen, but slowly making him insane. He modified Norman's armor and became the Iron Goblin to aid the resistance. When they were surrounded by a number of spider creatures (including Giant Man) with few means of escape, Tony sacrificed himself using the Black Knight's Ebony Blade so he could aid them and die before the Goblin formula completely took him over.

Spider-Gwen

In Spider-Gwen Tony Stark of Earth-65 was an arms dealer, the owner of global private military company WAR MACHINE, and owner of the coffee chain StarkBucks.

Spider-Man: Life Story

In Spider-Man: Life Story, Tony Stark/Iron Man did not face a traumatizing experience that led him to stop weapons manufacturing as his Earth-616 counterpart did. Instead, he continued to produce them and played a key role in the Vietnam War and a World War III-esque conflict known as "The Russian War" as well as participating in Secret Wars while on Battleworld. Iron Man also became Secretary of Defense in the United States government and was one of the two leaders alongside Captain America in the Superhuman Civil War.

Squadron Supreme

In the Squadron Supreme series, the equivalent of Iron Man was Tucker Ford. Tucker was a very intelligent boy from his early years, however, having been raised by his strong-willed mother and never going to school with anyone his own age, Tucker had difficulty making any meaningful personal relationships and because of this, he became very introverted. As he grew up, he had built an imaginative world where he was a superhero. When trying to explain his imaginations to his therapist, they turned around and mocked him before their colleagues, however being unaware that Tucker had them under electronic surveillance. This experience motivated him to follow his dream and become a real superhero. As a young adult, he built a powerful, but unstable armor made from nanotechnology in order to achieve his dream, eventually meeting the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury and offering his intelligence and company to Nick Fury to help defend America. He failed to gain the affection of Nick Fury and to get a kiss from the spider-powered superhuman, Nell Ruggles, also known as Arachnophilia. He offered to build a S.H.I.E.L.D. Hellicarrier as a base for the organization and to be a member of the team in order to live out his imagination. The only person that Tucker had the closest relationship with was Nell, expressing romantic feelings towards her.

Ultimate Marvel

Main articles: Ultimate Iron Man and Iron Man (Ultimate Marvel character)

What If

Newer Fantastic Four

In the timeline of What If: Newer Fantastic Four, the Fantastic Four were killed by De'Lila (a rogue Skrull) and the Hulk, so Spider-Man, the Ghost Rider and Wolverine joined together to avenge them as the New Fantastic Four. Thanos of Titan, as in the mainline universe, came into possession of the six Infinity Gems and became ruler of all reality, before erasing half of all living beings from existence. Among those who vanished was Ghost Rider, and, being present at the battle during which he was erased, Iron Man took his place. The Newer Fantastic Four soon realized they were outmatched. Stark, with help from the Hulk, managed to salvage the empty armor of Ziran, a Celestial, and realized it could be controlled by thoughts. Stark took control of the armor and connected it to the Negative Zone, allowing him to call on all the power of that reality. Despite this, he was defeated by Thanos. Stark's sacrifice allowed Wolverine to trick Thanos into a position where the Gauntlet could be removed. Spider-Man subsequently used the Gauntlet to undo the damage Thanos had caused.

Iron Man: Demon in an Armor

In What If: Iron Man: Demon in an Armor, Tony Stark was Doom's college roommate rather than Reed Richards, inspiring Doom to develop a machine that allowed him to transfer his mind into Stark's body while leaving Stark trapped in Doom's body with no memory of his past. While Doom used Stark's connections and company to establish himself, the amnesiac Stark - believing himself to be Doom - worked to rebuild his life, creating his own company and forming his own reputation from the ground up. This culminated in a confrontation between the two wearing early versions of their respective armors - Doom having developed a green-and-silver Iron Man armor while Stark had created Doom's costume with gold and a red cloak - during which Doom revealed the truth about their switch, only for Stark to reject the offer to switch back because Doom had destroyed the name of Tony Stark while Doctor von Doom had developed an honorable reputation.

Realm of Kings

In this one-shot, Quasar, the newly resurrected Protector of the Universe, traveled into the Fault, the immense tear which had appeared in the fabric of spacetime itself after the catastrophic battle between Vulcan and Black Bolt. Reaching what he perceived to be the other end of the tunnel that is the Fault, he arrived in another universe... a dark, twisted universe, the `corpse of a universe´, possessed by Lovecraftian horrors which were worshipped by all the denizens of that universe, including Earth's mightiest heroes. Iron Man was never seen outside his armor, but he, like the others, served the "Many-angled ones" with total devotion.

X-Men Forever

In this alternative universe of X-Men Forever, Tony Stark, while still publicly the super-hero Iron Man, was also the head of the shadowy organization known as The Consortium. The scientific wing of the organization was headed by the Trask family, who turned out to be his relatives. They created newer versions of the Sentinels and kidnapped mutants to use in experimentation to find the cause of the so-called "Burnout" syndrome that caused mutants to die early. However, as part of his efforts to undermine the Consortium's anti-mutant agenda, he became Nick Fury's insider and eventually sacrificed his life along with Beast. He assisted Storm - who had been split into an amnesic child version of herself and an energy form with full memory and no body - by providing her energy self with a suit based on the now-deceased Black Panther so that her energy could maintain corporeal form, although he was subsequently killed by a twisted clone of Storm before he could reveal her existence to anyone else.

Mutant X

In Mutant X, Tony Stark was Iron Giant Man and part of the anti-mutant group the Avengers. He was later killed by X-Man Captain America along with the other Avengers.

Infinity Warps

During the Infinity Wars storyline, where the universe was combined in half, Iron Man was fused with Thor creating Iron Hammer. Sigurd Stark was the fifth richest person in the world thanks to his genius about technology; however, due to his lack of memories before five years, taunting him drove him to drink. After going through Norway, he was attacked by some Dark Elves, led by Krimson Kurse (a fusion of Crimson Dynamo and Kurse). He got poisoned by an arrow, slowly killing him and was taken by the Elves to aid their other prisoner Eitri (a fusion of Eitri and Ho Yinsen) in order to build powerful weapons for the Elves. Then, Sigurd became friends with Eitri and together they built an armor, that prevented the poison from killing Sigurd, along with a hammer in order to escape the Dark Elves. However, during their escape Eitri was killed and after Sigurd defeated the Elves and Krimson Kurse, he discovered that Krimson was his lost friend who had turned into a Thrall to be a servant to the Dark Elves and after that, he mercy-killed his friend. Sigurd then decided to go to the All-Father on Asgard to seek help in defeating Malekith (a fusion of Malekith and Mandarin) and with the help of his A.I. assistant H.E.I.M.D.A.L.L. (a fusion of Heimdall and J.A.R.V.I.S.) opened the B.I.F.R.O.S.T. and went to Asgard. When travelling, he remembered his old memories: his true name was Stark Odinson, who due to his arrogance, his father Howard Odin (a fusion of Howard Stark and Odin) banished his son to Earth where he would learn what it was like to be a mortal. Upon arriving, Malekith had trapped the Aesir and had allied with Madame Hel (a fusion of Madame Masque and Hela) and Stane Odinson (a fusion of Loki and Obadiah Stane). Luckily, Iron Hammer was able to defeat Malekith and Odin allowed his son to become a god again; however, Sigurd refused, feeling better as a human.

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