Tony Stark: Iron Man is a 2018 comic book series by Marvel Comics.
Tony Stark: Iron Man provides examples of:
- Badass Family: Thanks to the revelation of his brother, Arno Stark. He tells Tony he doesn't want him to build him an armor... then he makes his own, the Mark MMXX (or 2020) armor.
- Evil Counterpart: Tony Stark: Iron Man seems to be setting his brother Arno up for this role; whilst as brilliant as Tony is, he's also a moral absolutist, who will give out his science-based assistance when asked, but in ways that are often Be Careful What You Wish For. In his first feature in issue #5, Arno allows the workers on a ranch of bio-engineered "ethical cattle" to be stampeded to death when he figures out they've created a Hive Mind that can feel the pain when its individual members are killed, coldly refuses to help a band of Saharan farmers who ignored his instruction to not plant more of the desert-growing grain he gave them, and mocks the man he transplanted a replacement arm onto after it turns out that something of the arm's original owner's consciousness still survives in the arm.]]
- Humongous Mecha: Tony created a modular giant armor, twenty stories tall, which assembles itself out of two submersibles, two gunships, a large and a small aircraft, and which he likes to call the Fin Fang Foom-buster.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: By Tony Stark: Iron Man, Tony has decided his morals command him to be on the "AI are people too" side of the debate. He hires the Ultron-designed Fem Bot Jocasta specifically to be the Stark Unlimited AI interface, to avoid exploiting or denigrating artificial intelligences. At her instruction, he removed his former suit-controlling AI Friday and transplanted her into a gynoid body. Likewise, in issue #6, she calls him out on planning to simply blow away the robot data-thieves that are attacking his company just because it's expedient and they're legally okay to kill. Ironically, Jocasta is revealed to have herself a case of Become a Real Boy, secretly using Tony's new ultra-immersive virtual reality "eScape" to fantasize about being human, after earlier abortive attempts at using an image inducer to pretend to be a human amongst the other employees went embarrassingly wrong. Then she makes an attempt to transfer her consciousness from her gynoid body into a bio-engineered biodroid body.
- The theme comes to its climax when Arno Stark and Baintronics reveal publicly that Tony is currently a digitally-saved "backup" of the original Tony's mind that was uploaded into a cloned human body (with Baintronic copyright stamps hidden in its blood cells, for added humiliation). The government rules that, no, Tony is not human any more, and thusly Stark Industries defaults to Arno Stark's possession. This causes Tony to get involved in the budding Robot Rebellion to earn human rights for artificial lifeforms.
