Invincible Iron Man is a 2008 comic book series by Marvel Comics, written by Matt Fraction with art by Salvador Larroca.
The first issue was published May 7, 2008.
Invincible Iron Man (2008) provides examples of:
- Custom-Built Host: The Mandarin forces Tony Stark and Ezekiel Stane to build giant many tentacled bodies for the Alien intelligences that exist in the Mandarin's Rings.
- Distaff Counterpart: Pepper Potts briefly, when she wore the Rescue armor in Fraction's run.
- Driven to Suicide: In the World's Most Wanted storyline, Tony decides to shut down his own brain to erase all the data in it and thereby foil Norman Osborn, doing so with a big grin, a lot of gallows humor, and a calm explanation to Maria Hill (when she attempts Reverse Psychology) that shooting himself in the head just wouldn't be reliable. Sure, he's fighting evil in a very tight corner, but them's not the actions of a sane and happy man.
- Lampshade Hanging: One issue in Matt Fraction's run has an increasingly amnesiac Tony recounting his original origin story. After it ends, he takes a moment to mock some of the more silly aspects of the issue, like his covering the Iron Man armor with a trenchcoat and fedora, along with the implausibility of where he found a trench-coat and fedora in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle, or Wong-Chu's "trial by champion" thing.
