History ComicBook / IronMan2020Ongoing

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Korvac tries to convince [[spoiler: the Original Human Torch]] to join his quest for godhood. When spurned, Korvac resigns to just use the Controller to turn him into a slave to his cult instead.

* BreatherEpisode: The conclusion of the nineteen-issue "Books of Korvac" arc, in which [[spoiler: Korvac takes his own life and Tony checks into rehab for his morphine addiction]], is immediately followed by a story in which Tony fights a disgruntled talking gorilla.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Tony continues his tradition, this time with old friend Comicbook/PatsyWalker aka Comicbook/{{Hellcat}}.

''Iron Man'' is comic book series launched in September 2020, written by Creator/ChristopherCantwell, with art by CAFU.

!The comic contains examples of:

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Tony makes most of Earth super-smart, it causes children to quit schools as they don't need educating anymore. In addition, it only makes someone as smart as Tony is. So the few people who are smarter than Tony (admittedly a short list) like Reed Richards or Bruce Banner dumber, and the peolpe who are roughly as smart (another short list) like Peter Parker or Henry Pym unchanged.
** It also causes the stock market to fluctuate wildly, struggling with super-smart traders manipulating stocks (and in a few instances tampering with it).

* OffModel: The first annual, which isn't handled by the regular creative team, noticeably has Tony's eye lenses glowing. However, an explicit design decision of his armour in this series is that the lenses do not glow and Tony's eyes are visible in extreme close-ups.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Tony makes most of Earth super-smart, it causes children to quit schools as they don't need educating anymore.

After years of drastic shifts in his life, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] has decided to streamline his life. He wants to get to the core of who Iron Man really is, so he's going back to basics. Donning some retro armor and accompanied by ComicBook/PatsyWalker, Tony's personal crisis will have to wait after a dangerous threat emerges. One whose god complex isn't too dissimilar from Tony's.

* KnowledgeIsPower: A superpower, for Tony Stark and others he encounters across the series. And it's even conferred across the Earth.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Tony ends up killing War Machine and confronts Hellcat expecting a LastStand, he breaks down in tears and collapses, realizing he's gone too far.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Tony gave the cosmic power to everyone on earth, expecting everyone to do good with it. But a lot of people wanted to use the power of their own ends, not caring if it was good or evil. Earth ends up a melting pot of superpowered citizens, on the verge of anarchy.

* HijackedByGanon: [[BigBad Dr. Fuller Tielhard aka The Other]] is really [[Characters/AvengersEnemies Korvac]] in disguise.

* AGodAmI: Korvac explicitly wants to invade Galactus’ ship to attain godhood via the Power Cosmic. [[spoiler: He succeeds but Iron Man attains it as well and manages to trap Korvac in a dead alternate universe where he can’t hurt anyone with his new powers.]]

* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard HoistByHerOwnPetard]]: Patsy Walker organizes a plan to neutralize a cosmic empowered Tony, and makes herself bait as a hostess of a pizza party. It goes okay, until Tony thanks her for seeing he's doing the right thing and not needing to mind control her. She can't swallow that, and ends up raving at him for what he's done, blowing the plan and getting her comrades in the plan killed.

* GodzillaThreshold: Hellcat recruits Doctor Doom to take down Iron Man.

* WhatTheHellHero: Patsy calls Tony out for treating her like his self-help guru, because she's going through her own shit -- particularly dark thoughts after a failed suicide attempt -- and he hasn't even bothered to think about that.

* SuperEmpowering: The insure all his friends and allies that he's not going mad with power cosmic, Tony gives everyone in New York intelligence on par with his own. They tentatively allow it to run its course, though Reed does say that he feels he might be dumber.

* NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech: Iron Man gives one to Korvac and the reader [[spoiler: after he and Korvac receive the Power Cosmic]], noting that he’s one of the greatest thinkers of Earth if not the entire universe and will act like it. Subverted in that [[spoiler: he’s likely [[spoiler: DrunkOnTheDarkSide.]]