History WMG / Ironman

Iron Man's AudienceAlienatingEra came in the early to mid-90s in something called "The Crossing", wherein he turned evil due to the influence of Immortus. He eventually sacrificed himself and was replaced with another Tony from another Earth -- the ill-regarded "Teen Tony". It was ''this'' Tony that gave his life to defeat Onslaught. When "Heroes Return" occurred, a new Tony that was some sort of amalgam of the original, Teen and Heroes Reborn Tonys was created, and this is the man who went down another slippery slope in ''Comicbook/CivilWar''. However, the original Tony has been dead ever since, and the man known as Iron Man is not the "real" Tony Stark.

Iron Man's DorkAge came in the early to mid-90s in something called "The Crossing", wherein he turned evil due to the influence of Immortus. He eventually sacrificed himself and was replaced with another Tony from another Earth -- the ill-regarded "Teen Tony". It was ''this'' Tony that gave his life to defeat Onslaught. When "Heroes Return" occurred, a new Tony that was some sort of amalgam of the original, Teen and Heroes Reborn Tonys was created, and this is the man who went down another slippery slope in ''Comicbook/CivilWar''. However, the original Tony has been dead ever since, and the man known as Iron Man is not the "real" Tony Stark.

This is WMG page for the [[Comicbook/IronMan comics]]. See WMG/IronManFilms for [[Film/IronMan the films]]
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[[WMG:The "Armor Wars" Main/StoryArc is actually a clever metaphor for nuclear proliferation.]]
Tony Stark (the American) is a Main/SuperHero, thanks to his Powered Armor (read: WMD. Which isn't that far off given its capabilities). At one point, a saboteur steals the tech behind that armor and distributes it to various supervillains (an analog to how the US's atomic secrets were leaked to China and the USSR). Tony doesn't like this, so he decides to unilaterally hunt down those with his tech. All goes well until he attacks certain heroes/villains who never had his tech to begin with (sound familiar?). One of those villains ends up defeating Iron Man, so to fight back he develops an even more powerful suit of armor (read: it's an arms race). Also, consider the fact that this story was written just a few years before the USSR collapsed and everybody had to worry about securing Russia's nukes, and that the original [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version of the character was a Cold War weapons manufacturer.

Tony Stark (the American) is a Main/SuperHero, thanks to his Powered Armor (read: WMD. Which isn't that far off given its capabilities). At one point, a saboteur steals the tech behind that armor and distributes it to various supervillains (an analog to how the US's atomic secrets were leaked to China and the USSR). Tony doesn't like this, so he decides to unilaterally hunt down those with his tech. All goes well until he attacks certain heroes/villains who never had his tech to begin with (sound familiar?). One of those villains ends up defeating Iron Man, so to fight back he develops an even more powerful suit of armor (read: it's an arms race). Also, consider the fact that this story was written just a few years before the USSR collapsed and everybody had to worry about securing Russia's nukes, and that the original Main/SilverAge version of the character was a Cold War weapons manufacturer.

* Technically, this has been {{Jossed}} since 2001, when an ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' annual revealed why certain characters were changed back--for all intents and purposes, Franklin Richards is the reason Tony's back as adult Tony and teen Tony were emerged into one, confirmed by Tony's grave was empty had had an energy signature and found traces of it in him as well. The resurrected Adult Tony even had the memories of his own life and death, in addition to those of his teen self and the ''Heroes Reborn'' Tony.