The sea, it turned out, was not too bad in the way of temperature. It was good to relax, he had told himself, during times of great confusion and peril. The two Cuban women certainly helped. Floating aimlessly in the shallow surf with attractive company made it almost feel like the old days again, before all the death and the conflict. Before the heroism. That wasn't to say Tony would take it back, his ego was sufficient that he believed the world, especially right now, needed him, or at least, needed Iron Man, but switching off from time to time was necessary, and nobody switched off better than Tony Stark. Just as he felt himself finally starting to forget the troubles of the last few days among the sapphire surf, a familiar voice chimed in through the waterproof earpiece he had on at all times, hidden within his ear, rather than similar to a headphone.
"Sir, incoming airborne humanoid, identified homo-superior, Omega-1, two minutes and counting, how shall I proceed?"
"Prep the M29, have is assemble on me. No rush." Tony replied with barely more than a whisper, for the benefit of his company, to not sound like a madman talking to himself. When he turned to relocate them, he encountered only one woman, with a rather panicked expression, and his Spanish wasn't good enough to pick up her frightened muttering. Sounded like a prayer.
A flash of blue darted across his vision and suddenly Tony's head was ringing, he collapsed into the waves before a lithe blue hand grasped his head and shoved him beneath the waves. The motion of it all prevented him from catching full view of his assailant, although his memory of his own compiled database gave him some ideas, and as to where the 'missing' girl had gone. JARVIS' voice sounded garbled in his ear, the device not able to completely remove the affect of the rushing water.
"Sir, your vital signs suggest extreme stress, I shall in fact, rush." Despite the near death scenario, Tony had enough of a moment to regret, once more, programming JARVIS with a sense of humor. It was a necessary evil really, if he was to spend all day talking to a computer, it should at least be able to hold its own. In the next moment, he felt something metallic wrap around his hand, he didn't wait any longer, pressing it to the body of whatever was attacking him, and firing the prepulsor. The weight on his head was gone, and he leapt from the surf gasping, draggin himself a few feet from the sea, before turning to face the ocean from which he had just crawled.
His previous assumption was correct, female, blue, shape-shifter. Mutant.
She was closing fast, and his efforts to hold her off with the one Iron glove in place on his hand were met with artful dodges, clearly a martial artist. Well, so was he, but he'd struggle to bend his leg that far round. She nearly had him, then the second glove came on, and two beams was too much to dodge, and she was blasted back into the surf. By the time she was up and running at him again, more cautious and ready to dodge, the rest of the suit was arriving. It wasn't as clean an assembly as when he had machines present to do it, but the M29 as one of the newer suits built itself around him almost flawlessly, there was even only the slightest slap across his face when the helmet came into place. That however, was when she surged forwards, covering the ground with a few bounds before striking into him. While she weighed far less than the metal-clad man, she struck with enough force to send them bowling into the sand. She had taken too long however, now he was safe under the iron skin, nothing would get to him. But he could get to her.
One backhand sent her into the air, before another prepulsor beam sent her further, higher, before crashing down into the sand. Snarling, she fairly impressively managed to pull herself to her knees, glaring at the target she had so nearly killed.
"You should have brought more of you, I think my reputation deserves a little more than this." He smirked beneath the helmet, and while she couldn't see, the amused contempt was clear in his voice, despite the metallic projection emitted by the suit.
"It only takes one bullet."
"Then you should have brought a gun." The suit began to hover above the ground, both hand-cannons aimed at the blue mutant, they appeared to be locked in a standoff, before the other woman, the genuinely human one, at least he thought so, screamed. Then the world exploded.
The shockwave knocked him to the ground, stabilizing without falling over, he turned to face a cataclysm of fire, wood, metal and plastic raining from the sky as smoke billowed from what once had, apparently, been his home. The holographic display within the suit began tracking dangerous rubble, before highlight two targets in the sky. Warning signs flashed and JARVIS began to list his immediate priorities.
"First things first." Tony spoke, turning his head to find his mutant assailant gone, before firing up his flight systems, momentarily darting into the surf, reemerging with a terrified Cuban woman. She didn't scream 'at' him, that was a plus, at least she realized he was helping rather than just another threat. It took him all of a few seconds to deposit her a safe distance into the treeline, before turning to face what had become of his holiday home.
"Sir, two targets, Mark 2 Sentinel Drones, bombardment formation." Sentinel drones had always been easy to identify, but hard to track to begin with, which was the initial reason why Tony had picked up on the intellectual theft of his property. Only his own technology would be able to fool JARVIS, but then be identified immediately on 'sight.' The Mark 2s were the smaller, attack dogs of the Sentinels and likely the most similar, if still inferior, to the bulk of his suits. If they hadn't got the jump on the two automated suits below, he had little doubt that they would have been able to fight off the sentinels alone. Now, with the 'life signs' of his own suits gone, it was down to him. They didn't stand much of a chance.
"Typical government ineptitude...steal my technology, yet still manage to make it terrible." He muttered to himself as he took to the skies, the suit covering the distance to the two sentinels, spread out and still pounding the ruins of his home with air-to-ground beams, they reacted too slowly, and the Iron Man tackled one head on at full speed. The suit didn't skip a beat, continuing to push the limits of its short-burst speed as Stark carried the Sentinel higher and higher, the robot starting to break up from the force, before with blasts from both hands, it fell apart. Another red warning light flashed on his HUD and Tony moved the suit a meter to the left, just in time to dodge a blast from behind him. Turning to face the remaining robot, a volley of blasts seared towards him, most were avoided, some glanced off his suit.
"My Turn." The rocket shot forth from his wrist, launching downwards and striking the Sentinel in its head, circuits frying, it nevertheless continued to head towards him, its body following the last issued command, before a moment later the rocket, drilling into its structure, exploded, sending yet more wreckage scattering onto the beach.
"Very good sir."
"Thank you JARVIS."
"There's only one problem sir."
"Why is the government trying to kill me?"
"No, where do I direct Miss Grey to now?"
"Is there a hotel nearby JARVIS?"
"Yes sir, would you like me to hire out a conference suite?"
"No JARVIS, buy the place."
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On the other side, a combination of Vanq and myself, although ideally mainly Vanq, I'd talk to her first.
YoshiSkittlez said
Jarvis: And what of Miss Potts, Sir?
She's dead?
It's in his CS, among other changes.
Subtle had never been his forte.
Prepulsor tech screamed as the humanoid figure in the sky powered towards its destination, the clear, if powerful, sea of the Caribbean stretching out before him as he blasted past the cape of Florida. But for all the noise the system itself caused, the man within didn't hear a thing, ACDC blasting over the suit's internal sound system, right into the ears of its billionaire, genius occupant. At least according to himself, although in reality, both were objective fact.
But Subtle? Not even he could claim that, even if he'd have wanted to.
The Iron Network may have meant he could talk to a set few people across the world without the government listening in, but he knew his suit would have been tracked the moment it left its hideout in Georgia. Of course he'd launched multiple suits from locations across his various properties. He'd even shot one off out of the vault SHIELD had failed to crack in the ex-Avengers tower, likely much to their chagrin. Each would head for a different location, most in small groups but as soon as the real Tony Stark touched down wherever, he knew the US government would know, might as well make it a show. Banking beneath a low cloud, Tony's suit was joined in flight by two others, automatically piloted, and somewhat earlier versions of the M29 he now flew. Cubans liked Tony Stark. Cuba did not.
There were no radio warnings, there hadn't been for years, although for all the good the element of surprise did them, the Cuban military may as well have flown a "We will shoot at you' banner. The suits picked up the oncoming missiles before they'd even left the ground, JARVIS locking on to the building heat signatures moments before they took to the skies. They would be allowed to close this time, just in case shutting them off caused some kind of ground level detonation. The red warning signs flashed in the suit before Tony could even see the missiles on the horizon, he didn't bother to zoom as he might to track a genuine threat. The countermeasures he had decided upon triggers when the offensive weapons closed to within a single second, just in time for him to smirk.
All three suits emitted a brief pulse, knocking the four missiles aside and onto a new trajectory, plummeting them to the sea below, where they would either simply sink, or detonate 'fairly' safely below the surface, depending upon the specifics of the assault. Stark didn't wait around to find out, all three suits then returning to top-flight speed as they approached the island nation, coming into sight of its sun bleached shores, rather than simply violating its air space. Once he had landed, the government wouldn't be able to take steps to deal with him, such a public attack on a global hero would not only cause international issue, but equally put them on fairly uneven footing with their own population. It had been less than a year since Stark had prevented a rogue-mutant attack on the island, the inhabitants having feared a similar event to the Manchester incident, although Stark had been sure they were not related. The suits dropped lower in the sky as they began to pass over Cuba, turning the heads of those in the vicinity to look to the sky, if only briefly, to catch a glimpse of three flying humanoids. Many cheered. It was something he would never get tired of.
The meeting place was a beach house along a very expensive stretch of shore, the nearest neighbors being several miles in either direction, although Stark had never saw fit to make his own stretch of the sand private, particularly when it came to the locals. A past exploit had once told him that God had used up all the spare 'sexy' on the Cubans, and Tony had seen little to make him doubt that, at least when it came to the sort who wanted to party on a stretch of beach owned by an American billionaire, genius, superhero. The three 'Iron Men' touched down on the large stilted platform that jutted forth from the house, out and over the sea. Two separate swimming pools and as many hot tubs co-inhabited the space, along with a number of, currently unoccupied, bars. The property itself had been 'donated' to the Avengers cause as a safe house and headquarters outside of the US, although with the dissolution of the Avengers, it 'technically' belonged to SHIELD. The thought made Tony laugh as the mask of his suit descended into it, allowing him to feel the warm sea breeze on his face, and to see the world in more than a holographic display.
"JARVIS, update on the assembly."
"Several individuals are already on their way, although some are delayed or have yet to establish plans, do you wish to send a prompt?"
"This isn't a Facebook event JARVIS, even I can wait." Stark managed to keep his impatience hidden within him, even to his artificial butler-AI as he walked over to one of the previously mentioned bars, the metallic boots of the suit clanking as he did so, removing a bottle of malt whiskey from the bar, kept cold by a refrigerator that ran on the most sustainable cooling system outside of his first home, Stark took a sip as he turned to face the view. He avoided taking more for a moment, while not an alcoholic, probably, he tried to monitor his intake. Sometimes. With that though, he trudged to the left side of the platform, looking out over the beach. He paused in thought to wave at a couple of women prancing in the waves, which earned him a few blow kisses. Chicks digged suits. Especially the Iron kind. The two unoccupied suits practically stood at attention towards the centre of the platform, although in reality, their internal AIs were busy calculating many different problems, some that were completely irrelevant to this mission.
"Might I suggest you continue to wear the Mark 29 for this meeting sir?"
"Why would that be JARVIS?"
"It seems counterproductive to produce a helmet to prevent telepathy, to then not wear it in the company of telepaths."
"It was more for the evil, maniacal telepaths JARVIS, not the beautiful resurrected ones, how can they trust me if I make an effort to hide my thoughts?"
"How can you trust them if they feel the need to read them?"
"Touche JARVIS, I'll contemplate it."
"That's all I can ask sir."
Jarvis' voice had already began to quieten as he replied, the metal innards of the suit whirring as Tony stepped out of it, already dressed in beach shorts, comically Hawaiian in style. He first looked to his own, temperature controlled and purified pools, designed specifically to his personal tastes and not to mention, incredibly expensive. Then he turned to the sea.
Women.
"Lets see how good my Spanish still is." He mused to himself, before turning to leap the banister, landing several meters below on the sand.
"Ola, Ladies."
Prepulsor tech screamed as the humanoid figure in the sky powered towards its destination, the clear, if powerful, sea of the Caribbean stretching out before him as he blasted past the cape of Florida. But for all the noise the system itself caused, the man within didn't hear a thing, ACDC blasting over the suit's internal sound system, right into the ears of its billionaire, genius occupant. At least according to himself, although in reality, both were objective fact.
But Subtle? Not even he could claim that, even if he'd have wanted to.
The Iron Network may have meant he could talk to a set few people across the world without the government listening in, but he knew his suit would have been tracked the moment it left its hideout in Georgia. Of course he'd launched multiple suits from locations across his various properties. He'd even shot one off out of the vault SHIELD had failed to crack in the ex-Avengers tower, likely much to their chagrin. Each would head for a different location, most in small groups but as soon as the real Tony Stark touched down wherever, he knew the US government would know, might as well make it a show. Banking beneath a low cloud, Tony's suit was joined in flight by two others, automatically piloted, and somewhat earlier versions of the M29 he now flew. Cubans liked Tony Stark. Cuba did not.
There were no radio warnings, there hadn't been for years, although for all the good the element of surprise did them, the Cuban military may as well have flown a "We will shoot at you' banner. The suits picked up the oncoming missiles before they'd even left the ground, JARVIS locking on to the building heat signatures moments before they took to the skies. They would be allowed to close this time, just in case shutting them off caused some kind of ground level detonation. The red warning signs flashed in the suit before Tony could even see the missiles on the horizon, he didn't bother to zoom as he might to track a genuine threat. The countermeasures he had decided upon triggers when the offensive weapons closed to within a single second, just in time for him to smirk.
All three suits emitted a brief pulse, knocking the four missiles aside and onto a new trajectory, plummeting them to the sea below, where they would either simply sink, or detonate 'fairly' safely below the surface, depending upon the specifics of the assault. Stark didn't wait around to find out, all three suits then returning to top-flight speed as they approached the island nation, coming into sight of its sun bleached shores, rather than simply violating its air space. Once he had landed, the government wouldn't be able to take steps to deal with him, such a public attack on a global hero would not only cause international issue, but equally put them on fairly uneven footing with their own population. It had been less than a year since Stark had prevented a rogue-mutant attack on the island, the inhabitants having feared a similar event to the Manchester incident, although Stark had been sure they were not related. The suits dropped lower in the sky as they began to pass over Cuba, turning the heads of those in the vicinity to look to the sky, if only briefly, to catch a glimpse of three flying humanoids. Many cheered. It was something he would never get tired of.
The meeting place was a beach house along a very expensive stretch of shore, the nearest neighbors being several miles in either direction, although Stark had never saw fit to make his own stretch of the sand private, particularly when it came to the locals. A past exploit had once told him that God had used up all the spare 'sexy' on the Cubans, and Tony had seen little to make him doubt that, at least when it came to the sort who wanted to party on a stretch of beach owned by an American billionaire, genius, superhero. The three 'Iron Men' touched down on the large stilted platform that jutted forth from the house, out and over the sea. Two separate swimming pools and as many hot tubs co-inhabited the space, along with a number of, currently unoccupied, bars. The property itself had been 'donated' to the Avengers cause as a safe house and headquarters outside of the US, although with the dissolution of the Avengers, it 'technically' belonged to SHIELD. The thought made Tony laugh as the mask of his suit descended into it, allowing him to feel the warm sea breeze on his face, and to see the world in more than a holographic display.
"JARVIS, update on the assembly."
"Several individuals are already on their way, although some are delayed or have yet to establish plans, do you wish to send a prompt?"
"This isn't a Facebook event JARVIS, even I can wait." Stark managed to keep his impatience hidden within him, even to his artificial butler-AI as he walked over to one of the previously mentioned bars, the metallic boots of the suit clanking as he did so, removing a bottle of malt whiskey from the bar, kept cold by a refrigerator that ran on the most sustainable cooling system outside of his first home, Stark took a sip as he turned to face the view. He avoided taking more for a moment, while not an alcoholic, probably, he tried to monitor his intake. Sometimes. With that though, he trudged to the left side of the platform, looking out over the beach. He paused in thought to wave at a couple of women prancing in the waves, which earned him a few blow kisses. Chicks digged suits. Especially the Iron kind. The two unoccupied suits practically stood at attention towards the centre of the platform, although in reality, their internal AIs were busy calculating many different problems, some that were completely irrelevant to this mission.
"Might I suggest you continue to wear the Mark 29 for this meeting sir?"
"Why would that be JARVIS?"
"It seems counterproductive to produce a helmet to prevent telepathy, to then not wear it in the company of telepaths."
"It was more for the evil, maniacal telepaths JARVIS, not the beautiful resurrected ones, how can they trust me if I make an effort to hide my thoughts?"
"How can you trust them if they feel the need to read them?"
"Touche JARVIS, I'll contemplate it."
"That's all I can ask sir."
Jarvis' voice had already began to quieten as he replied, the metal innards of the suit whirring as Tony stepped out of it, already dressed in beach shorts, comically Hawaiian in style. He first looked to his own, temperature controlled and purified pools, designed specifically to his personal tastes and not to mention, incredibly expensive. Then he turned to the sea.
Women.
"Lets see how good my Spanish still is." He mused to himself, before turning to leap the banister, landing several meters below on the sand.
"Ola, Ladies."
Ruby said
Sounds fine to me.Although I'm a casual fan of Physics, I thought time travel (theoretically speaking) isn't possible?
Eh, current consensus is travelling forwards in time is, travelling back isn't. Although, whether we will be able to unlock it is an entirely different matter. (Basically unlikely)
Jean, Danvers and Domino.
I'm beginning to sense Stark may have had an ulterior motive to calling this little meeting.
I'm beginning to sense Stark may have had an ulterior motive to calling this little meeting.
Ruby said
lol Please try to be more British.PLEASE.Ohthat'sfunny.
Oh you loves it.
Nightraider said
And here I was thinking that I had a nice twisty character to play. One from a future of Sentinels in America in a based RP. But silly me.......
I believe the potential issue was time travel as a plot point (something Ruby and I are both a bit iffy on, but by no means is it banned) rather than the character not fitting in.
The main point to take from this discussion is no matter what Ruby and I may offer as an opinion, it will be 'very' obvious if we're banning a character, which as you can see, we haven't.
Once I'm done drinking tea with my hall mates, I shall be writing an Iron Post.
Name: Antony Edward Stark
Age: 35
Alias: Iron Man
Appearance:
Abilities:
Tony Stark is neither mutant or metahuman, controls no powers beyond what the human form can hold, but to suggest he his somehow at a disadvantage because of this ignores recent history. He is possessed with genius level intellect and an engineering skill above and beyond what the world has already seen, outshining, in the opinion of most, even his father. In regards to his suits, which give him the name Iron Man; Most have super strength, flight, speed and repulsors and other special high-tech weaponry and gear, which he makes up for not having his own superpowers. Unknown to all but Stark himself, following the battle of Genosha, Stark Industries recovered Magneto's helmet and, following reverse engineering, newer Iron Man suits now come equipped with the same level of telepathy-dampening.
Personality:
Most who meet Tony Stark have trouble taking him seriously, largely because he seems to take nothing with anything more than sarcastic humor even at the direst of times. With somewhat of a justified reputation as a playboy, Tony has enjoyed, and continues to, a wide variety of parties and women, although has shown during certain relationships the ability to remain loyal, he is always one for wild nights and flirtation, with a disarming charm that can border simply on annoying to the wrong person. Despite his 'sins' Stark has always been a philanthropist, even in his days of building up Stark Industries as an arms producer. Many public works hold Stark's name, and many more have been bankrolled by the man who made Stark Industries the global institute that it is.
Beneath these layers of often self-centered personality quirks, Stark has finally proven, to at least anyone who's mind could be changed, that he is just as heroic as the other members of the Avengers, and most remember that it was Iron Man, not Thor or Captain America, that pushed a nuke into space, expecting no chance of return. Ever since the event, those who know him may argue that he tries even harder to hide this side of him, while, ironically, at the same time, working with the Avengers to defend the World from threats similar to Loki's invasion.
Bio:
Stark Industries has been a name of interest since the days of the Second World War, originally founded by Howard Stark, the great inventor, a man who worked very closely with the government until the drop of the atom bombs. The only public statement Howard gave after his separation, entirely, from governmental work, was the single phrase 'I could have saved them.' A statement, that the current Stark still looks into in the present day. Under Howard, Stark Industries became a successful engineering business, developing creations for the consumer that should have been years ahead of his time, although many were forced to remain the property of the rich and famous, others were designed for general use. Tony was born fairly late in his life, when Howard was 55 in the year 1979, not that an odd family dynamic would affect Tony for long, for a decade later his father would die in Ireland in one of many terrorist attacks in the North, having been there on holiday and to promote several new inventions intended to raise the standard of living in Belfast. Afterwards Tony was raised by his mother (significantly younger than his father) until she later died of cancer when Tony was 21, upon which time he was fully in control of Stark Industries, having already earned two masters degrees by this point.
Under Tony, Stark Industries soared from an engineering firm worth a couple of million dollars, to a multi-billion arms producer, the loss of both of Tony's parents throwing him into both business and his wild social life even further, potentially at the expense of the morality his father had wished for him. For the first time since the Second World War, Stark Industries began taking government contracts, but from across the world, rather than just the USA.
Things changed for Tony a number of years later when he was captured by Terrorists (The Ten Rings) in the Middle East, while showcasing a host of new weaponry for the US army to deploy in the region. With shrapnel threatening his heart, the terrorists kept him alive to produce weapons for them to annihilate any American presence in the region, before turning on the continental states in turn. Rather than obey, Tony, with the help of Ho Yinsen, created a micro-arc reactor to keep himself alive and a suit of weaponised armour to allow him to escape. Upon returning to the States, he ended all arms production contracts Stark Industries maintained and focused on the application of the technology of the arc reactor, meanwhile refining the technology of the armoured suit, to create the first Iron Man suits, becoming one of the world's first public super heroes since the fall of Captain America in the Second World War.
Despite such moves, Tony eventually discovered that Stark Industries weaponry was still finding its way across the world, including into the arms of the Ten Rings, attacking the village of the now deceased Ho Yinsen. Stark, in his latest Iron Man suit, attacks the terrorists, defeating them and destroying all the weaponry they had attained. During the flight home, Stark was attacked by US Air force jets, although after destroying one (while saving its pilot), Tony revealed his identity to James Rhodes, who eventually called off the jets, despite going against US protocols. Upon arriving home, Stark discovered his company managed, Stane, had betrayed him, having hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark (although they disobeyed orders) and had attempted to rob him of control of the company. Having stolen the best of Tony's arc reactor technology, leaving Tony with the earlier versions of his own reactor, Stane constructed his own Iron suit, having killed many Stark Industries employees to do so (including Pepper Pots). Stark eventually killed Stane by tricking him into falling into the company's first Arc Reactor. After the destructive events around Stark Industries, Tony Stark revealed to the world that he was in fact 'Iron Man.'
After this event, Stark was increasingly pressured by the US government to hand over the technology behind the Iron Man suits, stating the official reason that other nations across the world were close to developing similar technology, despite Stark disproving this as simple propaganda. While the US government had little grounds to enforce such a move, many individuals felt Stark was retaining the technology for personal glory, rather than his stated reason of not wanting it to be deployed in war zones. This culminated with James Rhodes delivering one of the Iron Man suits to the US military, fearing Stark, slowly being poisoned by the Arc Reactor keeping him alive, unfit to maintain control of the technology. This created a rift between the two, that may have healed to an extent of the intervening years, that has fostered distrust for the US military within Stark, especially after the deployment of War Machine. After Stark defeats another inventor, Vanko, trying to kill him with his own technology, Nick Fury contacted Stark about using his suits, if not him, for the Avengers Initiative, although eventually Stark is called on board after he recovered both the Tesseract and a frozen Captain America.
The events that followed the formation of the Avengers are well known. Thor's brother Loki used the Tesseract to bring an alien army to New York, where the Avengers fought them to a stand still. Acting preemptively, the US government launched a nuclear warhead at New York, hoping to destroy the invading forces access to the world. Here Stark showed his much doubted heroism, by steering said Nuke into the portal connecting the alien fleet to the world, himself disappearing into space before falling back through. Severing their connecting to the fleet, the remaining aliens were a challenge, rather than a dire threat, to mop up. Since then, Iron Man has continued to assist those in need globally, deliberately distancing himself from activities connected to the US government, although remaining a loyal citizen. Until now.
Misc.:
Age: 35
Alias: Iron Man
Appearance:
Abilities:
Tony Stark is neither mutant or metahuman, controls no powers beyond what the human form can hold, but to suggest he his somehow at a disadvantage because of this ignores recent history. He is possessed with genius level intellect and an engineering skill above and beyond what the world has already seen, outshining, in the opinion of most, even his father. In regards to his suits, which give him the name Iron Man; Most have super strength, flight, speed and repulsors and other special high-tech weaponry and gear, which he makes up for not having his own superpowers. Unknown to all but Stark himself, following the battle of Genosha, Stark Industries recovered Magneto's helmet and, following reverse engineering, newer Iron Man suits now come equipped with the same level of telepathy-dampening.
Personality:
Most who meet Tony Stark have trouble taking him seriously, largely because he seems to take nothing with anything more than sarcastic humor even at the direst of times. With somewhat of a justified reputation as a playboy, Tony has enjoyed, and continues to, a wide variety of parties and women, although has shown during certain relationships the ability to remain loyal, he is always one for wild nights and flirtation, with a disarming charm that can border simply on annoying to the wrong person. Despite his 'sins' Stark has always been a philanthropist, even in his days of building up Stark Industries as an arms producer. Many public works hold Stark's name, and many more have been bankrolled by the man who made Stark Industries the global institute that it is.
Beneath these layers of often self-centered personality quirks, Stark has finally proven, to at least anyone who's mind could be changed, that he is just as heroic as the other members of the Avengers, and most remember that it was Iron Man, not Thor or Captain America, that pushed a nuke into space, expecting no chance of return. Ever since the event, those who know him may argue that he tries even harder to hide this side of him, while, ironically, at the same time, working with the Avengers to defend the World from threats similar to Loki's invasion.
Bio:
Stark Industries has been a name of interest since the days of the Second World War, originally founded by Howard Stark, the great inventor, a man who worked very closely with the government until the drop of the atom bombs. The only public statement Howard gave after his separation, entirely, from governmental work, was the single phrase 'I could have saved them.' A statement, that the current Stark still looks into in the present day. Under Howard, Stark Industries became a successful engineering business, developing creations for the consumer that should have been years ahead of his time, although many were forced to remain the property of the rich and famous, others were designed for general use. Tony was born fairly late in his life, when Howard was 55 in the year 1979, not that an odd family dynamic would affect Tony for long, for a decade later his father would die in Ireland in one of many terrorist attacks in the North, having been there on holiday and to promote several new inventions intended to raise the standard of living in Belfast. Afterwards Tony was raised by his mother (significantly younger than his father) until she later died of cancer when Tony was 21, upon which time he was fully in control of Stark Industries, having already earned two masters degrees by this point.
Under Tony, Stark Industries soared from an engineering firm worth a couple of million dollars, to a multi-billion arms producer, the loss of both of Tony's parents throwing him into both business and his wild social life even further, potentially at the expense of the morality his father had wished for him. For the first time since the Second World War, Stark Industries began taking government contracts, but from across the world, rather than just the USA.
Things changed for Tony a number of years later when he was captured by Terrorists (The Ten Rings) in the Middle East, while showcasing a host of new weaponry for the US army to deploy in the region. With shrapnel threatening his heart, the terrorists kept him alive to produce weapons for them to annihilate any American presence in the region, before turning on the continental states in turn. Rather than obey, Tony, with the help of Ho Yinsen, created a micro-arc reactor to keep himself alive and a suit of weaponised armour to allow him to escape. Upon returning to the States, he ended all arms production contracts Stark Industries maintained and focused on the application of the technology of the arc reactor, meanwhile refining the technology of the armoured suit, to create the first Iron Man suits, becoming one of the world's first public super heroes since the fall of Captain America in the Second World War.
Despite such moves, Tony eventually discovered that Stark Industries weaponry was still finding its way across the world, including into the arms of the Ten Rings, attacking the village of the now deceased Ho Yinsen. Stark, in his latest Iron Man suit, attacks the terrorists, defeating them and destroying all the weaponry they had attained. During the flight home, Stark was attacked by US Air force jets, although after destroying one (while saving its pilot), Tony revealed his identity to James Rhodes, who eventually called off the jets, despite going against US protocols. Upon arriving home, Stark discovered his company managed, Stane, had betrayed him, having hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark (although they disobeyed orders) and had attempted to rob him of control of the company. Having stolen the best of Tony's arc reactor technology, leaving Tony with the earlier versions of his own reactor, Stane constructed his own Iron suit, having killed many Stark Industries employees to do so (including Pepper Pots). Stark eventually killed Stane by tricking him into falling into the company's first Arc Reactor. After the destructive events around Stark Industries, Tony Stark revealed to the world that he was in fact 'Iron Man.'
After this event, Stark was increasingly pressured by the US government to hand over the technology behind the Iron Man suits, stating the official reason that other nations across the world were close to developing similar technology, despite Stark disproving this as simple propaganda. While the US government had little grounds to enforce such a move, many individuals felt Stark was retaining the technology for personal glory, rather than his stated reason of not wanting it to be deployed in war zones. This culminated with James Rhodes delivering one of the Iron Man suits to the US military, fearing Stark, slowly being poisoned by the Arc Reactor keeping him alive, unfit to maintain control of the technology. This created a rift between the two, that may have healed to an extent of the intervening years, that has fostered distrust for the US military within Stark, especially after the deployment of War Machine. After Stark defeats another inventor, Vanko, trying to kill him with his own technology, Nick Fury contacted Stark about using his suits, if not him, for the Avengers Initiative, although eventually Stark is called on board after he recovered both the Tesseract and a frozen Captain America.
The events that followed the formation of the Avengers are well known. Thor's brother Loki used the Tesseract to bring an alien army to New York, where the Avengers fought them to a stand still. Acting preemptively, the US government launched a nuclear warhead at New York, hoping to destroy the invading forces access to the world. Here Stark showed his much doubted heroism, by steering said Nuke into the portal connecting the alien fleet to the world, himself disappearing into space before falling back through. Severing their connecting to the fleet, the remaining aliens were a challenge, rather than a dire threat, to mop up. Since then, Iron Man has continued to assist those in need globally, deliberately distancing himself from activities connected to the US government, although remaining a loyal citizen. Until now.
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Name: Antony Edward Stark
Age: 35
Alias: Iron Man
Appearance:
Abilities:
Tony Stark is neither mutant or metahuman, controls no powers beyond what the human form can hold, but to suggest he his somehow at a disadvantage because of this ignores recent history. He is possessed with genius level intellect and an engineering skill above and beyond what the world has already seen, outshining, in the opinion of most, even his father. In regards to his suits, which give him the name Iron Man; Most have super strength, flight, speed and repulsors and other special high-tech weaponry and gear, which he makes up for not having his own superpowers. Unknown to all but Stark himself, following the battle of Genosha, Stark Industries recovered Magneto's helmet and, following reverse engineering, newer Iron Man suits now come equipped with the same level of telepathy-dampening.
Personality:
Most who meet Tony Stark have trouble taking him seriously, largely because he seems to take nothing with anything more than sarcastic humor even at the direst of times. With somewhat of a justified reputation as a playboy, Tony has enjoyed, and continues to, a wide variety of parties and women, although has shown during certain relationships the ability to remain loyal, he is always one for wild nights and flirtation, with a disarming charm that can border simply on annoying to the wrong person. Despite his 'sins' Stark has always been a philanthropist, even in his days of building up Stark Industries as an arms producer. Many public works hold Stark's name, and many more have been bankrolled by the man who made Stark Industries the global institute that it is.
Beneath these layers of often self-centered personality quirks, Stark has finally proven, to at least anyone who's mind could be changed, that he is just as heroic as the other members of the Avengers, and most remember that it was Iron Man, not Thor or Captain America, that pushed a nuke into space, expecting no chance of return. Ever since the event, those who know him may argue that he tries even harder to hide this side of him, while, ironically, at the same time, working with the Avengers to defend the World from threats similar to Loki's invasion.
Bio:
Stark Industries has been a name of interest since the days of the Second World War, originally founded by Howard Stark, the great inventor, a man who worked very closely with the government until the drop of the atom bombs. The only public statement Howard gave after his separation, entirely, from governmental work, was the single phrase 'I could have saved them.' A statement, that the current Stark still looks into in the present day. Under Howard, Stark Industries became a successful engineering business, developing creations for the consumer that should have been years ahead of his time, although many were forced to remain the property of the rich and famous, others were designed for general use. Tony was born fairly late in his life, when Howard was 55 in the year 1979, not that an odd family dynamic would affect Tony for long, for a decade later his father would die in Ireland in one of many terrorist attacks in the North, having been there on holiday and to promote several new inventions intended to raise the standard of living in Belfast. Afterwards Tony was raised by his mother (significantly younger than his father) until she later died of cancer when Tony was 21, upon which time he was fully in control of Stark Industries, having already earned two masters degrees by this point.
Under Tony, Stark Industries soared from an engineering firm worth a couple of million dollars, to a multi-billion arms producer, the loss of both of Tony's parents throwing him into both business and his wild social life even further, potentially at the expense of the morality his father had wished for him. For the first time since the Second World War, Stark Industries began taking government contracts, but from across the world, rather than just the USA.
Things changed for Tony a number of years later when he was captured by Terrorists (The Ten Rings) in the Middle East, while showcasing a host of new weaponry for the US army to deploy in the region. With shrapnel threatening his heart, the terrorists kept him alive to produce weapons for them to annihilate any American presence in the region, before turning on the continental states in turn. Rather than obey, Tony, with the help of Ho Yinsen, created a micro-arc reactor to keep himself alive and a suit of weaponised armour to allow him to escape. Upon returning to the States, he ended all arms production contracts Stark Industries maintained and focused on the application of the technology of the arc reactor, meanwhile refining the technology of the armoured suit, to create the first Iron Man suits, becoming one of the world's first public super heroes since the fall of Captain America in the Second World War.
Despite such moves, Tony eventually discovered that Stark Industries weaponry was still finding its way across the world, including into the arms of the Ten Rings, attacking the village of the now deceased Ho Yinsen. Stark, in his latest Iron Man suit, attacks the terrorists, defeating them and destroying all the weaponry they had attained. During the flight home, Stark was attacked by US Air force jets, although after destroying one (while saving its pilot), Tony revealed his identity to James Rhodes, who eventually called off the jets, despite going against US protocols. Upon arriving home, Stark discovered his company managed, Stane, had betrayed him, having hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark (although they disobeyed orders) and had attempted to rob him of control of the company. Having stolen the best of Tony's arc reactor technology, leaving Tony with the earlier versions of his own reactor, Stane constructed his own Iron suit, having killed many Stark Industries employees to do so (including Pepper Pots). Stark eventually killed Stane by tricking him into falling into the company's first Arc Reactor. After the destructive events around Stark Industries, Tony Stark revealed to the world that he was in fact 'Iron Man.'
After this event, Stark was increasingly pressured by the US government to hand over the technology behind the Iron Man suits, stating the official reason that other nations across the world were close to developing similar technology, despite Stark disproving this as simple propaganda. While the US government had little grounds to enforce such a move, many individuals felt Stark was retaining the technology for personal glory, rather than his stated reason of not wanting it to be deployed in war zones. This culminated with James Rhodes delivering one of the Iron Man suits to the US military, fearing Stark, slowly being poisoned by the Arc Reactor keeping him alive, unfit to maintain control of the technology. This created a rift between the two, that may have healed to an extent of the intervening years, that has fostered distrust for the US military within Stark, especially after the deployment of War Machine. After Stark defeats another inventor, Vanko, trying to kill him with his own technology, Nick Fury contacted Stark about using his suits, if not him, for the Avengers Initiative, although eventually Stark is called on board after he recovered both the Tesseract and a frozen Captain America.
The events that followed the formation of the Avengers are well known. Thor's brother Loki used the Tesseract to bring an alien army to New York, where the Avengers fought them to a stand still. Acting preemptively, the US government launched a nuclear warhead at New York, hoping to destroy the invading forces access to the world. Here Stark showed his much doubted heroism, by steering said Nuke into the portal connecting the alien fleet to the world, himself disappearing into space before falling back through. Severing their connecting to the fleet, the remaining aliens were a challenge, rather than a dire threat, to mop up. Since then, Iron Man has continued to assist those in need globally, deliberately distancing himself from activities connected to the US government, although remaining a loyal citizen. Until now.
Misc.:
Age: 35
Alias: Iron Man
Appearance:
Abilities:
Tony Stark is neither mutant or metahuman, controls no powers beyond what the human form can hold, but to suggest he his somehow at a disadvantage because of this ignores recent history. He is possessed with genius level intellect and an engineering skill above and beyond what the world has already seen, outshining, in the opinion of most, even his father. In regards to his suits, which give him the name Iron Man; Most have super strength, flight, speed and repulsors and other special high-tech weaponry and gear, which he makes up for not having his own superpowers. Unknown to all but Stark himself, following the battle of Genosha, Stark Industries recovered Magneto's helmet and, following reverse engineering, newer Iron Man suits now come equipped with the same level of telepathy-dampening.
Personality:
Most who meet Tony Stark have trouble taking him seriously, largely because he seems to take nothing with anything more than sarcastic humor even at the direst of times. With somewhat of a justified reputation as a playboy, Tony has enjoyed, and continues to, a wide variety of parties and women, although has shown during certain relationships the ability to remain loyal, he is always one for wild nights and flirtation, with a disarming charm that can border simply on annoying to the wrong person. Despite his 'sins' Stark has always been a philanthropist, even in his days of building up Stark Industries as an arms producer. Many public works hold Stark's name, and many more have been bankrolled by the man who made Stark Industries the global institute that it is.
Beneath these layers of often self-centered personality quirks, Stark has finally proven, to at least anyone who's mind could be changed, that he is just as heroic as the other members of the Avengers, and most remember that it was Iron Man, not Thor or Captain America, that pushed a nuke into space, expecting no chance of return. Ever since the event, those who know him may argue that he tries even harder to hide this side of him, while, ironically, at the same time, working with the Avengers to defend the World from threats similar to Loki's invasion.
Bio:
Stark Industries has been a name of interest since the days of the Second World War, originally founded by Howard Stark, the great inventor, a man who worked very closely with the government until the drop of the atom bombs. The only public statement Howard gave after his separation, entirely, from governmental work, was the single phrase 'I could have saved them.' A statement, that the current Stark still looks into in the present day. Under Howard, Stark Industries became a successful engineering business, developing creations for the consumer that should have been years ahead of his time, although many were forced to remain the property of the rich and famous, others were designed for general use. Tony was born fairly late in his life, when Howard was 55 in the year 1979, not that an odd family dynamic would affect Tony for long, for a decade later his father would die in Ireland in one of many terrorist attacks in the North, having been there on holiday and to promote several new inventions intended to raise the standard of living in Belfast. Afterwards Tony was raised by his mother (significantly younger than his father) until she later died of cancer when Tony was 21, upon which time he was fully in control of Stark Industries, having already earned two masters degrees by this point.
Under Tony, Stark Industries soared from an engineering firm worth a couple of million dollars, to a multi-billion arms producer, the loss of both of Tony's parents throwing him into both business and his wild social life even further, potentially at the expense of the morality his father had wished for him. For the first time since the Second World War, Stark Industries began taking government contracts, but from across the world, rather than just the USA.
Things changed for Tony a number of years later when he was captured by Terrorists (The Ten Rings) in the Middle East, while showcasing a host of new weaponry for the US army to deploy in the region. With shrapnel threatening his heart, the terrorists kept him alive to produce weapons for them to annihilate any American presence in the region, before turning on the continental states in turn. Rather than obey, Tony, with the help of Ho Yinsen, created a micro-arc reactor to keep himself alive and a suit of weaponised armour to allow him to escape. Upon returning to the States, he ended all arms production contracts Stark Industries maintained and focused on the application of the technology of the arc reactor, meanwhile refining the technology of the armoured suit, to create the first Iron Man suits, becoming one of the world's first public super heroes since the fall of Captain America in the Second World War.
Despite such moves, Tony eventually discovered that Stark Industries weaponry was still finding its way across the world, including into the arms of the Ten Rings, attacking the village of the now deceased Ho Yinsen. Stark, in his latest Iron Man suit, attacks the terrorists, defeating them and destroying all the weaponry they had attained. During the flight home, Stark was attacked by US Air force jets, although after destroying one (while saving its pilot), Tony revealed his identity to James Rhodes, who eventually called off the jets, despite going against US protocols. Upon arriving home, Stark discovered his company managed, Stane, had betrayed him, having hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark (although they disobeyed orders) and had attempted to rob him of control of the company. Having stolen the best of Tony's arc reactor technology, leaving Tony with the earlier versions of his own reactor, Stane constructed his own Iron suit, having killed many Stark Industries employees to do so (including Pepper Pots). Stark eventually killed Stane by tricking him into falling into the company's first Arc Reactor. After the destructive events around Stark Industries, Tony Stark revealed to the world that he was in fact 'Iron Man.'
After this event, Stark was increasingly pressured by the US government to hand over the technology behind the Iron Man suits, stating the official reason that other nations across the world were close to developing similar technology, despite Stark disproving this as simple propaganda. While the US government had little grounds to enforce such a move, many individuals felt Stark was retaining the technology for personal glory, rather than his stated reason of not wanting it to be deployed in war zones. This culminated with James Rhodes delivering one of the Iron Man suits to the US military, fearing Stark, slowly being poisoned by the Arc Reactor keeping him alive, unfit to maintain control of the technology. This created a rift between the two, that may have healed to an extent of the intervening years, that has fostered distrust for the US military within Stark, especially after the deployment of War Machine. After Stark defeats another inventor, Vanko, trying to kill him with his own technology, Nick Fury contacted Stark about using his suits, if not him, for the Avengers Initiative, although eventually Stark is called on board after he recovered both the Tesseract and a frozen Captain America.
The events that followed the formation of the Avengers are well known. Thor's brother Loki used the Tesseract to bring an alien army to New York, where the Avengers fought them to a stand still. Acting preemptively, the US government launched a nuclear warhead at New York, hoping to destroy the invading forces access to the world. Here Stark showed his much doubted heroism, by steering said Nuke into the portal connecting the alien fleet to the world, himself disappearing into space before falling back through. Severing their connecting to the fleet, the remaining aliens were a challenge, rather than a dire threat, to mop up. Since then, Iron Man has continued to assist those in need globally, deliberately distancing himself from activities connected to the US government, although remaining a loyal citizen. Until now.
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