Iron Man is a 2004 comic by Marvel Comics.
Tony Stark gets Rebuilt.
Iron Man (2004) provides examples of:
- Arc Villain: Mallen only showed up for the Extremis arc.
- Ax-Crazy: A secondary effect of the Extremis virus is increased aggressiveness, and Mallen was already a pretty ill-minded person. As a result, he is very eager to kill people.
- Body Surf: Tony's mind is taken over by the son of Ho Yinsen who is looking for revenge on the people who murdered his father.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Mallen gives one to Iron Man in their first encounter. It goes the other way in the second round.
- Dye or Die: In the "Execute Program" story arc, Tony Stark shaves off his beard and dyed his hair blond while on the run. It works, as no one recognizes him, but he feels he looks like "an idiot".
- Hate Sink: Mallen. Rooting for Iron Man to defeat him in the story is pretty damn easy.
- Healing Factor: Due to the Extremis virus, Mallen regenerates everything but head wounds.
- Killed Off for Real: Mallen never brought back afterwards, and after Extremis was dropped, there was no reason to do so.
- Off with His Head!: How Tony finally puts Mallen down for good, by blowing his head up.
- Playing with Fire: Mallen, in Breath Weapon fashion.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Mallen is a White Supremacist and has no problem saying that the Ku Klux Klan is doing a "good" job.Mallen: Regular white folks built this country. Without government or spies or regulations or people with badges who kill your family for fun.
Student: Yeah, except regular white folks did all that too.
Mallen: Don't say that. It all went wrong. I'm going to fix it. I've got this stuff inside me, see? From the future they were going to make. And I'm using it to turn back the clock.
Student: Back to lynchings and giving smallpox-infected blankets to the different looking people? You're as bad as them. - Red Eyes, Take Warning: Mallen's eyes turn red while Extremis is mutating his body.
- Science Is Bad: Inverted in the Invincible Iron Man series during the Extremis arc. Stark agrees to an interview with a journalist based on real-life Intrepid Reporter John Pilger, who wants to understand why Tony does what he does (and actually intends to peg him as a heartless profiteer of war). After being constantly railroaded by the interview, Stark cuts off the documentarian and admits yes, he creates weapons of war for use by the United States government, but goes on to explain that every microchip he manufactured for use in American smart-bombs has since being widely developed for civilian purposes; the technology itself isn't inherently 'good' or 'bad'. In short, he regards the development of weapons as an unfortunate, but necessary evil that finances his humanitarian projects.
- Shock and Awe: Mallen can shock someone directly from his hands.
- Super-Speed: The military clocked Mallen's running speed at 300mph; this probably wasn't even his top speed.
- Super-Strength: Mallen is powerful enough to break Iron Man's bones through the armor, rip said armor like tin foil, blow a protester's head with one punch and use the "razor" of a bulldozer as a baseball bat.
- Super-Toughness: Iron Man's Repulsors were powerful enough to cut metal. They barely touched Mallen. The mighty Unibeam? It hurt a little more.
