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* [[Characters/MCUAvengersInitiative Avengers Initiative]]: '''Tony Stark / Iron Man'''.
** [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers]]: '''Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes'''.

** [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]]: Director Nicholas J. “Nick” Fury, '''Agent Phillip J. “Phil” Coulson'''.

* [[Characters/MCUAvengersInitiative Avengers Initiative: '''Tony Stark / Iron Man'''.]]
** [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers: '''Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes'''.]]
* [[Characters/MCUCitizens Citizens: Dr. Ho Yinsen.]]
* [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies: Christine Everhart.]]
** [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries: Howard Stark, '''Virginia “Pepper” Potts''', '''Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger''', Harold "Happy" Hogan, '''J.A.R.V.I.S.''', Dum-E.]]

** [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership: Director Nicholas J. “Nick” Fury, '''Agent Phillip J. “Phil” Coulson'''.]]
* [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists: Raza, Abu Bakaar.]]
* [[Characters/MCUOthers Others: Stan Lee.]]

* [[Characters/MCUAvengersInitiative Avengers Initiative]]: '''Tony Stark / Iron Man'''.
** [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers]]: '''Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes'''.
* [[Characters/MCUCitizens Citizens]]: Dr. Ho Yinsen.
* [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]]: Christine Everhart.
** [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries]]: Howard Stark, '''Virginia “Pepper” Potts''', '''Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger''', Harold "Happy" Hogan, '''J.A.R.V.I.S.''', Dum-E.

** [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]]: Director Nicholas J. “Nick” Fury, '''Agent Phillip J. “Phil” Coulson'''.
* [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists]]: Raza, Abu Bakaar.
* [[Characters/MCUOthers Others]]: Stan Lee.

* [[Characters/MCUAvengersInitiative Avengers Initiative]]: Tony Stark / Iron Man.
** [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers New Avengers]]: Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes.

** [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Leadership]]: Director Nicholas J. “Nick” Fury, Agent Phillip J. “Phil” Coulson.

* [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]]: Christine Everhart.
** [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries]]: Howard Stark, Virginia “Pepper” Potts, Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger, Happy Hogan, J.A.R.V.I.S., Dum-E.

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This page lists characters who appear in the Film/IronMan and Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films ''Film/IronMan1'', ''Film/IronMan2'' and ''Film/IronMan3''.

For characters appearing in the [[ComicBook/IronMan comic book franchise]], see the [[Characters/IronMan Iron Man comic book character sheet]].

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!Heroes
[[folder:Tony Stark (Iron Man)]]
!!''Anthony "Tony" Stark (ComicBook/IronMan)''
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-->''"You want my property? [[InsufferableGenius You can't have it]]. But I did you a big favor: [[NGOSuperpower I have successfully privatized world peace]]."''

-->'''Portrayed By''': RobertDowneyJr
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' / ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' / ''Film/IronMan2'' / ''Film/TheAvengers'' / ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' / ''Film/IronMan3''

A brilliant engineer and CEO of Stark Industries with his own self-designed PoweredArmor. After being held hostage by terrorists, and escaping, his world view and philosophy changes, leading to him shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of his company, and becoming the hero Iron Man.
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* TheAlcoholic: Definitely has the tendencies, especially in ''Iron Man 2''.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In the second film, it seems Tony thinks his father was his AlwaysSomeoneBetter. Quite aside from Howard Stark's apparent lack of parenting skills, he's been "dead for almost twenty years... still takin' [Tony] to school".
** It's not given a lot of screentime, but Tony seems to think of Steve this way. Not hard to imagine why, since he grew up hearing stories about how great Captain America is from his father. Tony sees Steve as someone who was simply born a good person while Tony still struggles with his Jerkass tendencies.
* AntiHero: Regularly lampshaded by Tony and everyone around him.
** At the end of ''Film/IronMan1'':
--->'''Tony:''' I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made... largely public...
** Early in ''Film/TheAvengers'':
--->'''Pepper:''' Is this about the Avengers? Which I know nothing about.\\
'''Tony:''' The Avengers initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.\\
'''Pepper:''' I didn't know that either.\\
'''Tony:''' Apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, and don't play well with others.\\
'''Pepper:''' That I did know.
* TheAtoner: Initially, he really didn't give much of a crap about who was blowing up what with his toys, but after being held hostage by terrorists armed almost exclusively with weapons made by his company and subsequently having his life saved by Yinsen, he became this.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Tony's eccentric nature and constantly active brain makes him prone to zoning out of what he's ''supposed'' to be doing.
--> '''Stern''': Mr. Stark? Mr. ''Stark''!
--> '''Tony''': (''turns around'') Hmm, yes dear?
* AutobotsRockOut: Tony loves him some AC/DC and Black Sabbath. He loves to blast AC/DC's "Shoot To Thrill" whenever he's making a big entrance and was seen throughout much of ''The Avengers'' wearing a Black Sabbath T-shirt.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard: More distinctive than his comic book counterpart's.
** BadassNormal: Aside from his PoweredArmor, he's just an ordinary guy. Well, a ''genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist'', to be more specific.
** BadassMustache: He's notably one of the few mainstream heroes in comics or movies that regularly sports a mustache.
* BashBrothers: With War Machine.
** [[spoiler: With Captain America after earning each other's respect through fighting side by side. Steve represents the idealism and nobility that Tony has since lost, but deep down still respects and wishes to have again.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Don't kill anyone he thinks is a better person than him. After the deaths of [[spoiler: Yinsen in ''Iron Man'' and Agent Coulson in ''The Avengers'']], he stops screwing around and immediately starts kicking ass.
** Don't use his technology or weapons to hurt the innocent. He will [[KillEmAll decimate]] you.
* BrilliantButLazy: Implied to be this pre-CharacterDevelopment in the first film. He sure built that arc reactor pretty quickly once he needed it and was said by Obadiah Stane to be more of an "idea man". Still has shades, as he's more hard working but quite hedonistic.
* BiggerStick: Claims to be America's Big Stick ''Iron Man 2'' and stopping others from abusing his sticks is a reoccuring problem for him.
* BullyHunter: There is a '''reason''' why Afghanistan is no longer a warzone in the ''Marvel Cinematic Universe'': Tony became [[TranquilFury ROYALLY fed-up with watching decent people like Yinsen suffering by the thousands]] every day, flew there and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown did something about it]]. He'll hate to admit it, but in this respect he is NotSoDifferent from Steve Rogers.
* ByronicHero
* TheCameo: Has one at the end of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''.
* TheCasanova: In ''Iron Man 1'' and ''2''. By the time of ''Film/TheAvengers'' however, he's in a monogamous relationship with Pepper.
-->'''Soldier''': Is it true that you went twelve-for-twelve with last year's Maxim cover models?\\
'''Tony Stark''': That is an excellent question. [[OffOnATechnicality Yes and no]]. March and I had a scheduling conflict but fortunately the Christmas cover was [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twins]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He certainly has some rather... ''eccentric'' behaviors.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: After his switch to TheAtoner, Tony is perfectly willing to wield the power of his money, fame, and genius for the greater good.
* CursedWithAwesome: By ''Film/TheAvengers'', this is how Tony Stark has come to view the electromagnet and the miniature arc reactor that are plugged into his chest 24/7 and are the only things keeping him alive. He spends a good deal of the film trying to convince Bruce Banner that the Hulk is a similarly awesome curse.
-->'''Tony''': It's a terrible... privilege.
** This is proven true later in the ''The Avengers'' when it's shown that the reactor basically makes Tony [[spoiler: the only person unable to be controlled by Loki's scepter because it cuts direct access to his heart.]]
* TheCynic: Which is why he finds Steve Rogers' "[[GoodIsOldFashioned outdated and irrelevant]]" idealism to be annoying.
** He also defaults to this whenever he's emotionally affected by something and wants to pretend he doesn't care, such as his reaction to Natasha's assessment of him regarding the Avengers Initiative, or [[HowDareYouDieOnMe feebly trying to dismiss]] [[spoiler: Coulson]] as an idiot for [[spoiler: taking on a god and getting killed for his efforts.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: About ninety-eight percent of his dialogue is sarcasm.
* DisabilitySuperpower: The arc reactor that powers Tony's PoweredArmor is installed in Tony's chest in the first place as (roughly) a very fancy pacemaker. Remove the arc reactor and Tony's heart will very quickly give out.
* FictionFiveHundred: Oh, ''yes.'' Forget the private jet that turns into a nightclub with flight attendants who double as exotic dancers. He has the personal resources and completely automated production facility to build a fully functional Iron Man suit in five hours ''in his garage.''
** As of ''Iron Man 2'', said garage now contains a miniature, personal Hadron Collider.
** ''The Avengers'' has him kicking it up a notch, having bought the [=MetLife=] building and given it some drastic upgrades: he completely cut it off from the city's electrical grid, equipped it with 10 stories of R&D, gave it the capability to both manufacture the Iron Man armor and remove it from Tony while he enters his apartment, and chopped the top off to rebuild it as what can only be described as a fantastic display of ego.
* {{Foil}}: To Steve Rogers, playing the selfish cynic to Steve's old-fashioned idealist. For example, while both are shown to be dolls of the public (featured at big show events complete with dancing girls), Steve is made visibly uncomfortable with the spotlight and would rather be on the front lines whereas Tony eats up the attention.
* GadgeteerGenius: To the point that, when pushed, he can revolutionize Arc Reactor technology in a cave with a box of scraps as well as build his own personal Hadron Collider by seemingly nothing more than ''rewiring his own home''.
* GoodIsNotNice: Yes, Tony Stark works hard to keep the world safe, and his heart is in the right place. But he's also still a playboy, a glory hound, and an irresponsible jerk a lot of the time. That said, he is still trying to be better.
* HeroesWantRedheads
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Rhodey.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: At least after he gets back from Afghanistan.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Oh, he cares about people and wants to make the world a better place, no doubt. Just don't expect him to ever admit it.
* InsufferableGenius: Snubs an award ceremony for technological brillance and then gives away the award like it's junk.
* InsultBackfire: Subverted. Initially he likes the title "Merchant of Death" but quickly comes to despise it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He gets called out on this quite often and with good cause.
* {{Jerkass}}: He starts out as one, but after realizing what his company has been dealing under the table while he wasn't paying attention, [[CharacterDevelopment he decides to atone and become a hero by hunting down and destroying the stockpiles of weapons owned by terrorists]].
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Tony can be jerkish and a bit of a showoff, his heart's in the right place and he works hard to make the world better. By ''Film/TheAvengers'', he's also indulging in shockingly open displays of compassion and thoughtfulness in between smug, self-aggrandizing quips.
* JerkassFacade: Implied at times to be his only way of dealing with his guilt and feelings of self-hatred and doubt.
* JetPack: On his Mark VII armor in ''The Avengers'', to allow him to use both of his [[PowerPalms repulsors]] without having to [[WeaponizedExhaust use one to stay aloft in flight]]. [[spoiler:It falls off into two engines into space when he loses power at the climax of ''Film/TheAvengers'', but he can probably just replace it.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: Tony may be living proof that becoming a hero can still be a lot of fun.
* KnightInSourArmor: Tony marinates daily in cynicism and sarcasm before setting forth to bring world peace, protect the innocent, and mock the stupid.
* TheLastDance: In ''Iron Man 2'' until [[spoiler: he manages to find a replacement element for the palladium core of his arc reactor that was [[TaintedVeins poisoning him]].]]
* TheLancer: Plays this role in ''The Avengers'' to Captain America, similar to the comics.
* LetsGetDangerous: Many people, both foes and allies, have assumed that Tony's CloudCuckoolander irreverence and ObfuscatingStupidity mean he's an UpperClassTwit who can't take anything seriously, let alone pose a threat. These people were ''very'' wrong.
* LockingMacgyverInTheStoreCupboard: How he built the Mark I Iron Man armor. Invoked in fact. The Ten Rings asked him what he needed to build a Jericho Missle and Tony told them ''exactly'' what he needed.
* LonelyRichKid: Who grew up to be a...
** MillionairePlayboy
* ManChild
* MotorMouth: The man never. Shuts. Up. Particularly in ''The Avengers''. Pepper has the singular ability to hold a conversation with him by talking right over him without pause and listening at the same time, otherwise she'd never get a word in edgewise.
* {{Narcissist}}: "Textbook...''narcissism?''" ''(sees [[DeathGlare Fury's expression]])'' "Agreed."
* TheNicknamer: Captain America is "Old Man". Thor is "Film/PointBreak". Hawkeye is "[[Film/LordOfTheRings Legolas]]". Loki is "Reindeer Games" (due to the horns on his helmet) or "Theatre/RockOfAges". Loki's scepter is the "Glowstick of Destiny".
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He is, in his own words, a "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist". With a suit of PoweredArmor.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He often acts absent-minded, easily-distracted, and excessively self-obsessed and arrogant, but is shown to be incredibly on the ball, delivering sarcastic putdowns to people who irritate him and managing to build incredible machines out of whatever he has on hand. After one night of study, he also becomes enough of an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics to discuss the specifics of the Tesseract with Bruce Banner.
* OddFriendship: With Bruce Banner in ''The Avengers'', due to them being the resident science geeks.
--> '''Tony''': Finally, ''somebody'' who speaks English!
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He seems to be an expert at high-energy physics, materials science, and aerospace engineering all at the same time. Granted, he does have an AI to help him. His in-universe nickname was "The Da Vinci" of our time" but Tony doesn't think so because he doesn't paint.
** He's a quick study. After spending a night reading S.H.I.E.L.D.'s briefing packet, he can converse fluently with Nick Fury, Bruce Banner and the rest of the Avengers about the technical details of the Tesseract.
* OnceAnEpisode: Tony's introductory scenes are accompanied by an AC/DC song: "Back in Black" in the first film, "Shoot to Thrill" in IM2 as well as ''The Avengers'', and "Let There Be Rock" in the ''Fury's Big Week'' comic.
* OneManArmy: As the baby-killing garbage of the Ten Rings found out the hard-and-painful way.
* ParentalAbandonment: Tony complains that his dad was cold, never around for him, and he seriously doubted that his father even loved him at all. [[spoiler: This is eventually shown not to be the case.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Tony's not very good at talking to other people about his problems, which leaves everyone around him confused and irritated by his strange behavior while he does things like build a suit of PoweredArmor in his basement or slowly die of palladium poisoning.
* PlayfulHacker: Among other things, he enjoys hacking other people's sound systems to play appropriate music for his dramatic entrances.
* ThePornomancer: He's the page image for a ''reason''.
* PoweredArmor
* PowerPalms: Repulsors, his main weapons, are fired from the palms of his armor's gauntlets.
* SadClown: At the end of ''Avengers'', he laughs off his near death experience and starts babbling about the KissOfLife and shawarma. By ''3'', the adrenaline's worn off and he's showing the PTSD you'd expect.
* ScienceHero
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He hides the fact he is a good-hearted man under a coat of sarcasm and conceitedness because [[TheAtoner he dosen't believe himself worthy of being seen as one yet.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: To OfficialCouple with Pepper as of the end of ''Iron Man 2''.
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* TechnologicalPacifist: Tony gradually becomes one through the first movie and is firmly seated in this trope by the end of it. He ''really'' does not want the government or military to get a hold of his technology by ''Iron Man 2'', specifically because he believes far more lives will be saved if his suits are never mass-manufactured or used in wars.
** This continues in ''Avengers'', where he is livid that SHIELD wants to create [[spoiler:weapons based on the Tesseract]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Tony doesn't like Steve. At all. [[spoiler: But there's nothing like a battle to forge a friendship between the two]].
* TricksterMentor: To Bruce Banner in ''The Avengers''. He pokes him with a cattle-prod to test how he'd react, then comments that Bruce is wrong to deny the part of him that is the Hulk, noting that the amount of gamma radiation exposure he endured would have ''killed'' anyone else. Much like Yinsen stopping the shrapnel from reaching his own heart, he believes that Bruce was kept alive for a reason.
* {{Troll}}: Tony has an unfortunate habit of using sarcastic humor as an ice-breaker in interpersonal relationships, most tellingly in his tendency to give ''everybody'' goofy nicknames and being ''absolutely'' fine about humorously discussing personal traumas, such as with Captain America's 70 year freeze and how he's a fan of the way Bruce Banner "turns into [[BuffySpeak an enormous green rage-monster.]]"
** Him "jokingly" poking Bruce with a cattle prod stands out as a fine example of how immature he can be and [[BullyingADragon how far he's willing to go for a joke]].
* WeaponizedExhaust: His primary weapon, the repulsor, wasn't designed to be a weapon, but rather a flight stabilizer. When he realized it worked as a weapon at full power, he incorporated it.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Tony's relationship with his father was strained, at best.
* TheWonka: CEO of Stark Industries that has rather strange behaviors, such as building AIs that ''snark back at him''. It's easy to see how Pepper and Rhodes get exasperated with him.
* {{Workaholic}}: If it wasn't for Pepper, Jarvis, and Rhodey, Tony would've starved or overdosed on caffeine down in his workshop years ago.
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[[folder:James Rhodes (War Machine)]]
!!''James "Rhodey" Rhodes (ComicBook/WarMachine)''
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-->''"The future of air combat... Is it manned, or unmanned? [[{{Foreshadowing}} I'll tell you in my experience, no unmanned aerial vehicle will ever trump a pilot's instinct.]]"''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle (pictured left)
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' (Portrayed by Terrence Howard) / ''Film/IronMan2'' / ''Film/IronMan3''

Tony Stark's best friend, and military liaison to Stark Industries. Uses a modified version of Iron Man's PoweredArmor as War Machine.
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* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
** ColonelBadass: Lieutenant-Colonel, to be precise.
* BaldOfAwesome: Though only the Don Cheadle version.
* BashBrothers: With Iron Man.
* BlackBestFriend: To Tony.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sucks at avoiding temptation and gets drunk ''much'' faster than Tony.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: "That's why I have to be your babysiter. You need your diaper changed, I'll get you a bottle." As much as he complains he truly cares about Tony.
* DeadpanSnarker
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tony. Aside from Pepper, Rhodey is one of the very few people Tony truly trusts and he's always trying his hardest to keep Tony from hurting himself.
* HumansAreWarriors
* MilitarySuperhero
* MomentKiller: [[spoiler:To Tony and Pepper at the end of ''Iron Man 2''. To be fair, [[ImStandingRightHere he was sitting right there]] and they didn't bother to check.]]
-->'''Rhodey''': [[GetARoom Get a roof!]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: He tries ''very'' hard to be the responsible adult around Tony. Not as easy as one might think.
* OnlySaneMan
* TheOtherDarrin: Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle for the second film. His first scene in the second film is framed in such a way that his face isn't visible until after Tony greets him, so that the audience is clear on who he is.
-->'''Tony:''' I didn't expect to see you here.\\
'''Rhodes:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's me, I'm here, deal with it, let's move on. Drop it.]]
* PoweredArmor: His piece was originally the Mark 2, the first flight-capable suit Tony made after returning from captivity. Rhodes confiscates it from Tony and [[SuperheroPackingHeat gets it upgraded by]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Justin Hammer]] in ''Iron Man 2''.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: He likes his armor less "bleeding-edge" and more "big, big guns".
** {{BFG}}: Tony seems to think he's compensating for something. Rhodey's reply is "It's called being a badass."
** GatlingGood: Shoulder-mounted and auto-targeting.
** MoreDakka
** ShoulderCannon
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: Less stoic when he gets angry with Tony or dons the War Machine armor, especially during the final battles and the finale of ''Iron Man 2''.
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[[folder:Pepper Potts]]
!!''Virginia "Pepper" Potts''
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-->''[[TheReliableOne "You know, there's only 8,011 things]] [[HypercompetentSidekick that I really need to talk to you about."]]''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Gwyneth Paltrow
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' / ''Film/IronMan2'' / ''Film/TheAvengers'' / ''Film/IronMan3''

Tony Stark's faithful personal assistant, and eventually love interest.
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* ActionSurvivor
* BeleagueredAssistant: Best example is her first scene in ''Iron Man 2''.
* DeadpanSnarker
* GirlFriday: "I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires." This includes sneaking into her boss' company and downloading files for him without alerting anyone else.
* GoodWithNumbers
* HyperCompetentSidekick: She pretty much runs Stark Industries for Tony when he's busy. By ''Iron Man 2'', she's Stark Industries CEO.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]
* RedHeadedHero
* RelationshipUpgrade: To an OfficialCouple with Tony as of the end of ''Iron Man 2''.
* TheReliableOne: To Tony.
* ServileSnarker: She's an expert at the StealthInsult. She never loses her sweet smile or polite demeanor during the following:
-->'''Pepper Potts:''' I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
-->'''Christine Everhart:''' You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
-->'''Pepper Potts:''' Indeed I am.
-->'''Christine Everhart:''' After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
-->'''Pepper Potts:''' I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including, occasionally, [[{{Paparazzi}} taking out]] [[SlutShaming the trash]]. Will that be all?
* SexySecretary
* SilkHidingSteel
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[[folder:Happy Hogan]]
!!''Harold "Happy" Hogan''
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-->''"Anything else, boss?"''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Creator/JonFavreau
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' / ''Film/IronMan2'' / ''Film/IronMan3''

Tony Stark's loyal bodyguard and chauffeur.
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* AmusingInjuries: His fight with a single guard has him mostly getting his butt kicked, though he eventually wins. Earlier, he also gets an airbag to the face, and Black Widow wipes the floor with him in boxing.
* BadassDriver: Drives through traffic and then a racetrack ''against the direction of the incoming race cars'' to save Tony, then using his car to ram Vanko.
* BattleButler: Practices boxing. While not nearly badass as Black Widow, he does try.
* ButtMonkey
* CreatorCameo: He directed the first two ''Iron Man'' movies.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: He is a pretty good boxer, unfortunately, he happens to live in a WorldOfBadass.
* ThePeepingTom: While driving, he can't resist looking through the rearview mirror and getting a peek at Black Widow changing into her SpyCatsuit. Unfortunately, he should have been thinking more about driving.
* SharpDressedMan
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[[folder:J.A.R.V.I.S.]]
!!''J.A.R.V.I.S.''
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-->''[[DeadpanSnarker "What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet."]]''

-->'''Portrayed By''': PaulBettany (voice)
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' / ''Film/IronMan2'' / ''Film/TheAvengers'' / ''Film/IronMan3''

An extremely advanced AI developed by Tony Stark . Jarvis assists Tony in just about everything the billionaire develops, has complete functional control of various terminals and robots Tony owns, and in a lot of ways ''is'' Tony's house. Jarvis also serves as the operating system for the Iron Man suit through an up-link, essentially making him the other half of Iron Man.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted. Not only is Jarvis both competent and eloquent, he's constantly having back and forth banter with Tony.
* AIRoulette: One of his robots (supposedly, Tony's first) is ''incredibly'' incompetent. Tony describes it as a "tragedy."
* DeadGuyJunior: Revealed in the canon tie-in comics: J.A.R.V.I.S. is named and programmed after the personality/voice of a once real-life Jarvis that served the Stark family when Tony was a child. [[hottip:*:It's never mentioned if the real Jarvis is still alive; though given his age in the flashback, it's unlikely.]] Tony privately admits that the human Jarvis was the only one who was ever really there for him growing up.
* DeadpanSnarker: ''Good lord'', is he ever.
-->(''Shows Tony a gold Mark III render'') \\
'''Tony:''' A little ostentatious, don't you think? \\
'''Jarvis:''' What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet. \\
'''Tony Stark:''' Tell you what, throw a little hotrod red in there. \\
'''Jarvis:''' Yes, that should help you keep a low profile.
* FunWithAcronyms: His name stands for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System".
* GadgeteerGenius: He's a computer AI, ''fully capable of engineering components himself'' and carrying out other complex tasks.
* MasterComputer: J.A.R.V.I.S. assists in just about every aspect of Tony's life. Averted in that J.A.R.V.I.S. is generally nice and compliant, albeit sarcastic as hell and prone to questioning his creator's more reckless stunts.
* MythologyGag: The name references Edwin Jarvis, the Avengers' butler in the comics.
* NiceGuy: Fiercely loyal to Tony, as shown when he asks him if he'd like to call Pepper before heading for what looks like certain death.
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[[folder:Christine Everhart]]
!!''Christine Everhart''
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-->''"What do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?"''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Leslie Bibb
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1'' / ''Film/IronMan2''

A reporter from ''Vanity Fair Magazine''. She has strong feelings against Tony Stark's weapons development, and feels he is a war profiteer. Despite this, sexual tension pops up between the two.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: It takes just a minute and a half of arguing with Tony to pull her into bed with him. However, it doesn't go anywhere past that night.
* DatingCatwoman
* FanserviceExtra: She's in ''Iron Man'' for just five minutes, two of those minutes spent in a ModestyBedsheet or just a shirt.
* HotScoop
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pretty rude to both Tony and Pepper, yet has a strong sense of right and wrong.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After Tony escapes from capture, he agrees with her that his weapons development has gotten out of hand.
* OperationJealousy: It's implied she started dating Justin Hammer in order to make Tony jealous. By then, however, he doesn't care.
* RomanticFalseLead: Gets introduced before [[GirlFriday Pepper]], who ends up being Tony's true love.
* StealthInsult: Often the victim of this, especially from Pepper. In addition to the above "trash" one...
-->'''Hammer''': [Christine]'s actually doing a big spread on me for ''Vanity Fair''. I thought I'd throw her a bone, you know. Right?
-->'''Pepper''': Right. Well, she did quite a... [[DoubleEntendre spread]] on Tony last year.
-->'''Tony''': [[LampshadeHanging And she wrote a story as well]].
* YouJustToldMe: "I never said you were a superhero."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yinsen]]
!!''Dr. Yinsen''
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-->''[[TheObiWan "So you're a man who has everything, but nothing."]]''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Shaun Toub
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1''

An Afghan physicist who saves Tony Stark's life, and brings out his true potential.
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* DeathByOriginStory
* DeathSeeker: Wanted to die so he can be reunited with his family, but not before helping Stark escape and become a better man.
* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices himself to buy Tony time to activate his first Iron Man suit.
* NiceGuy
* TheObiWan: To Tony.
* ThePowerOfActing: How he keeps Tony alive for a while when they are in captivity, acting as though he were on the side of the Ten Rings when the members are present.
* RaceLift: Is Vietnamese in the comics, even when Tony's origin isn't tied to the Vietnam war.
[[/folder]]

!Villians
[[folder:Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger)]]
!!''Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger)''
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-->''"We're [[MythologyGag iron mongers]]; we make weapons."''

-->'''Portrayed By''': JeffBridges
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1''

The CEO of Stark Industries, taking over after his friend Howard Stark died. His friendly image hides an amoral and sinister mind who seeks to use the Iron Man armor for his own ends.
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* AffablyEvil: He lives and breathes this trope. He even brought Tony pizza from New York (Tony lives in Malibu). Then again, he'd also just initiated a coup against Tony with the board of directors.
* ArchEnemy: To Tony.
* BaldOfEvil
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBad: Of the first film.
* BlackMarket: His source of income. Sells weapons to, well, anyone. [[spoiler:His plot to have Tony killed is so he can engage in his dealings without someone watching over his shoulder.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: orcastrated the hit on Tony in Afganistan and later locks him out of the company to continue his EvilPlan.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Normally calm and AffablyEvil, Obadiah seems to lose his cool after becoming the Iron Monger, and even seems to [[LampshadeHanging realize it]]: "I must admit, [[EvilFeelsGood I'm deeply enjoying the suit]]!"
* EvilMentor
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Arrange for Tony's murder and take over Stark Industries.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Definitely a part of his motivation. He thinks he's been "holding [Tony] up" for almost three decades, and resents being pushed into the background since he took over the company (literally, in the montage of magazine posters shown at the beginning of the film).
* ManipulativeBastard
* PlayingAgainstType: The Dude is now a bad guy.
* TreacherousAdvisor: Already a major early villain from the comics, Obadiah was retooled as having co-founded Stark Industries with Tony's dad, who then served as a mentor to Tony and the [[NumberTwo second-in-command of his company]] when the elder Stark died and Tony inherited the company. Naturally, this being an adaptation, Obadiah turns out to be more villainous than he lets on.
* VillainousBreakdown: The well-known "Box of scraps" scene and so on. Even his final gambit is nothing more than a desperate, insane bid to drag Tony down with him.
* WickedCultured
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raza]]
!!''Raza''
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-->''"Whoever holds the weapons manufactured by Stark Industries rules the world... [[TakeOverTheWorld and soon, it will be my turn."]]''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Faran Tahir
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan1''

A major commander in an international terrorist organization known as "The Ten Rings". He was hired by [[spoiler:Stane]] to kill Tony Stark (without really knowing it was Stark to begin with). Upon finding out that they in fact had ''the'' Tony Stark in custody, Raza got greedy and ambitious. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness It didn't end well for him]].
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* BaldOfEvil
* CanonForeigner: He was created for the first film and has yet to appear in the comics.
* ChekhovsGunman: His organization is called the Ten Rings and he expressed admiration for Genghis Khan. He's also shown wearing a prominent ring, which the novelization calls the Ring of Fire. All are references to long-time ComicBook/IronMan villain and BigBad of ''Film/IronMan3'', The Mandarin.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He is the main antagonist until a little after Tony escapes from the cave.
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]], to a degree as he was hired to kill Tony. However, he mistakenly thinks they are a BigBadDuumvirate.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: Wanted [[spoiler:Stane]] to give him Iron Man suits so he can conquer vast amounts of Asia. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He didn't get his wish]].
* EvilPlan: He wants to be a modern Genghis Khan and take over Asia with state-of-the-art weapons. He believes Tony is his ticket to acheving this.
* OutGambitted: By [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]].
* TooDumbToLive: He painfully underestimates [[spoiler:Stane]]'s treachery, and is promptly disposed off.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ivan Vanko (Whiplash)]]
!!''Ivan Vanko (Whiplash)''
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-->''"If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in him. There will be blood in the water. The sharks will come."''

-->'''Portrayed By''': Mickey Rourke
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan2''

Son of Anton Vanko, a former partner of Howard Stark, who forced his father's exile to Siberia, and a subsequently miserable life turned him to revenge against Howard's son Tony.
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* AffablyEvil: Vanko is shown to be a pretty nice guy as long as you're on his good side. And even if you aren't, he isn't above some polite conversation.
* {{Badass}}:
** BadassNormal: Electro-whips aside, Vanko's just a normal guy fighting true PoweredArmor. [[spoiler:Until his second suit, which is indeed PoweredArmor and much stronger than Tony's and Rhodey's.]]
* BigBad: In ''Iron Man 2''
* CompositeCharacter: Of Whiplash (the whips) and Crimson Dynamo (the PoweredArmor, being Russian, and his name).
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Discussed, Tony asks why he didn't take his arc reactor, inferior to his but still functional, to an enemy nation or the black market and make a fortune. He also could have lived a comfortable life on Hammer's dollar with the quality of work he was providing. In both cases, he preferred using his talents to get revenge on Tony instead of making money.
* TheComicallySerious
* EvilCounterpart: He built a miniature arc reactor out of scraps and used it to power weapons that gave Iron Man a good run for his money. The novelization even has Tony note that if their fathers had been in reversed positions and it was Howard who was deported and left to descend into drunken depression, Tony might have ended up just like Vanko.
* EvilPlan: "[[{{Revenge}} What your family did to mine in forty years, I will do to yours in forty minutes.]]"
* FakeRussian: Mickey Rourke is American, but from many reports, spoke Russian very well.
* FlunkyBoss: Hacks [[spoiler:War Machine]] and the "[[MechaMooks Hammeroids]]", sending them against Tony before he finally takes him on personally.
* GeniusBruiser: One of two people capable of making arc reactor technology and then used it to make his own PoweredArmor.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has the traditional scar down his eye.
* GreenEyedMonster: Firmly believes (and not without some measure of justification) that he should have and could have been where Tony is now, if not for Howard Stark screwing his father.
* MadeOfIron: His harness apparently gives him a good degree of protection. Happy drives a car into him and Vanko is barely stunned, and after being flung through the air onto asphalt he's still conscious, if dazed and bleeding heavily.
* TheMafiya: If his tattoos are accurate, he's a member.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He shows that he's both fluent and eloquent in his early face-to-face confrontation with Tony Stark, but speaks to Hammer in broken, barely intelligible English just [[{{Troll}} to mess with him]].
* OralFixationFixation: His toothpick.
* PetTheDog: In his only displays of kindness, he shows he likes cockatoos, even the one Hammer gets him in place of Vanko's own back in Russia.
* TheQuietOne: Vanko is notably very quiet, especially when compared with Tony or Justin. In several of his most prominient scenes, Vanko says barely anything at all; most notably, during the climax, his only words are a simple "You lose," to Tony.
* RenegadeRussian: Tried selling Soviet nuclear fuel on the black market at one point.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Why he's not using his technology for practical purposes.
* ShockAndAwe: His whips.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Tony's, specifically.
* TheStoic: Vanko is extremely calm and collected, even when held in captivity or being scolded by his billionaire employer. When Hammer tells his guards to start taking Ivan's bird and other comforts away, you can see when he stops protesting and when he starts just going with it silently. It's like flicking a switch.
* TattooedCrook: Displays tattoos that are common with Russian criminals.
* TragicVillain: All his disdain for Tony's family is well-founded. His father was cut off from the project he helped start, was deported to a winter wasteland to die in a bitter swill of alcoholism and disgrace, and he himself got wrapped up in organized crime to make a living. Beneath his cold exterior is a genius mind that even Tony Stark is impressed by.
* {{Troll}}: He clearly enjoys antagonizing Hammer just for the sake of doing it, such as telling him the drones won't be ready for the expo presentation when they most definitely are.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: His harness [[spoiler:and later his PoweredArmor]] aren't shown to have any on-board weapons like the Iron Man or War Machine armor, except for the whips. Vanko still overpowers both of them because the whips are just that effective.
* WhipItGood: And it cuts real well too.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Justin Hammer]]
!!''Justin Hammer''
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-->''[[DrivenByEnvy "I wanna make Iron Man look like an antique."]]''

-->'''Portrayed By''': SamRockwell
-->'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/IronMan2''

CEO of Hammer Industries, and a (self-perceived) rival of Tony Stark. He forges a temporary alliance with Ivan Vanko, but the latter just makes use of his resources - not taking him seriously at all. An all-around obnoxious loser.
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* BigBadWannabe: Thinks he's Tony's rival and is using Vanko to further his plans to show up Tony with the tech Vanko designs for him. The reality is pretty much the other way round.
* ChaoticStupid
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For all his villainous aspirations, he's just plain weird.
* DrivenByEnvy[=/=]EvilIsPetty: He has people killed just to get Vanko out so he can make his Hammerdrones, all for the sake of showing up Tony Stark.
* EvilPlan: Repeat: everything he does is for the sake of showing up Tony Stark.
* GreenEyedMonster: Even though he's wealthy like Tony, he definitely envies Tony's talent and success. His technology throughout the film is described as a joke and a failed knock-off of Stark's. His jealousy is even shown when he's talking to Stark or mentioning him. Heck, most of his motivation in the film is to upstage Stark.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His efforts at being either a respected businessman or a crafty villain are both such EpicFail, it's hard not to feel sorry for the poor schmuck.
* {{Jerkass}}
* LaughablyEvil
* MadeOfExplodium: His buster-bunker "Ex-Wife" miniature rocket is supposedly extremely explosive.
-->'''Hammer''': These are the Cubans, baby. This is the Cohibas, the Montecristos. This is a kinetic-kill, side-winder vehicle with a secondary cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst. It's capable of busting a bunker under the bunker you just busted. If it were any smarter, it'd write a book, a book that would make Ulysses look like it was written in crayon. It would read it to you. This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff's Third. My Pieta. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero. I call it "The Ex-Wife."
** [[spoiler:It doesn't work. ''[[EpicFail At all]]''.]]
*** It almost makes you wonder if one of the scriptwriters recently had a nasty divorce.
* MoreDakka: His armors and drones are often equipped with massive ammunition.
* MotorMouth
* NeverMyFault: As he's being dragged to jail for attempting to kill Tony Stark and allying himself with [[BigBad Vanko]], he accuses Pepper Potts of ruining his career and reputation.
* SmugSnake: One of the oilyest, most dickish characters in recent memory.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mandarin]]
!!''The Mandarin''
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--> ''"Ladies. Children. Sheep. Some people call me a terrorist, I consider myself a teacher. Lesson number one: Heroes. There is no such thing."''

-->'''Portrayed By:''' BenKingsley
-->'''Film Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

The [[BiggerBad leader]] of the international terrorist organization "The Ten Rings". After years of plotting in the shadows, he decides to come after Tony personally in ''Film/IronMan3''.
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* ArchEnemy
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
* BeardOfEvil
* BassoProfondo: Has a deep, booming, gravely voice.
* BigBad: For the third film.
** BiggerBad: For the first two films. Though the Mandarin himself never appears in them, his organization The Ten Rings kidnapped Tony in ''Iron Man'' and provided Vanko with a false passport in ''Iron Man 2''.
* DiabolicalMastermind
* EvilSoundsDeep
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite how politely he may speak, he still engineers terrorist attacks, plane crashes, and the burning of Tony's home to the ground.
* InTheHood
* KnightOfCerebus: Tony's life takes a considerably [[DarkerAndEdgier darker turn]] once he shows up.
* KnightTemplar: "Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher."
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Has a name of an imperial Chinese official, a samurai style haircut, a Middle Eastern-looking beard, brown skin, wears East Asian clothing, and wields modern weapons.
* RaceLift: In the comics, he's half-white and half-Chinese. Ben Kingsley is half-white and half-Indian. This was done partly to avoid the YellowPeril aspect of the character, and the UnfortunateImplications that trope carries.
* RingOfPower: Invoked with his 10 rings. In the comics, they actually give him mystical powers. In this version, they merely serve as a symbol of his leadership over the terrorist organization The Ten Rings.
* WhatIsEvil: Mandarin pulls the moral relativism card during his ultimatum in the first trailer.
-->'''Mandarin:''' Lesson number one: Heroes. There is no such thing.
* WickedCultured
[[/folder]]

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He seems to be an expert at high-energy physics, materials science, and aerospace engineering all at the same time. Granted, he does have an AI to help him.

*** ColonelBadass: Lieutenant-Colonel, to be precise.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Why he's not [[CutLexLuthorACheck turning a huge profit]] on his arc reactor variant.

This page lists characters who appear in the ''Film/IronMan'' and Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films ''Film/IronMan1'', ''Film/IronMan2'' and ''Film/IronMan3''.

* {{Narcissist}}: "Textbook...''narcissism?''" ''(sees Fury's expression)'' "Agreed."

* TheNicknamer: Captain America is "Old Man". Thor is "PointBreak". Hawkeye is "[[Film/LordOfTheRings Legolas]]". Loki is "Reindeer Games" (due to the horns on his helmet). Loki's scepter is the "Glowstick of Destiny".

* TheCasanova: In ''Iron Man 1'' and ''2''. By the time of ''Film/TheAvengers'' however, he's in a monogomous relationship with Pepper.

* TheNicknamer: Captain America is "Old Man". Thor is "PointBreak". Hawkeye is "[[LordOfTheRings Legolas]]". Loki is "Reindeer Games" (due to the horns on his helmet). Loki's scepter is the "Glowstick of Destiny".

* PoweredArmor: Taken from Tony and [[SuperheroPackingHeat upgraded by]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Justin Hammer]] in ''Iron Man 2''.

!Iron Man Film Characters

For characters appearing in the [[Comics/IronMan comic book franchise]], see the [[Characters/IronMan Iron Man comic book character sheet]].