History Characters / IronManEnemies

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: During the 1960s and early 70s, he made more of an effort to be a general supervillain rather than just be limited to Iron Man. He was the primary villain of the very first ''Avengers'' annual (with other Avengers-related villains, including the Enchantress and Executioner, the original Power Man, and the Living Laser serving as his minions), attacked the Fantastic Four during the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm, tried to use the Hulk as a pawn in his plans, only for Comicbook/NickFury to interfere, then briefly teamed up with the Sandman against the Hulk, abducted a famed peacekeeper in the Vietnam War who was then rescued by Captain America, and briefly tussled with Comicbook/BlackBolt and Comicbook/TheInhumans. He also did this during the ''Acts of Vengeance'' storyline, briefly brainwashing ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} into becoming his personal assassin, and fought a few members of the Comicbook/XMen. After that, he's since stuck with being Shellhead's nemesis.

-> See the '''[[Characters/ThunderboltsFoundingMembers the Thunderbolts character page]]''' for more.

* SelfDestructiveCharge: The Ghost had been trying in his first appearance to destroy a experimental generator for Stark Enterprises, since Stark Enterpise's entire future depended on it, destroying it would cause the company to go under. However, being close to the generator was screwing with the Ghost's gear, and Iron Man was worried that if the Ghost got much closer, he'd kill himself. Stark chose his employers over Ghost's life and let Ghost do his suicide run - Ghost reappeared after it.

* DaddysLittleVillain: Hammer's little villain.

* FlashyTeleportation: Her cloak enabled a form of teleportation that emits a brilliant, debilitating flash of light just prior to teleporting. She can teleport herself and her teammates anywhere.

* PragmaticVillainy: During the Armor Wars saga, Iron Man barges in on Brendan in his hotel room and demands the Mauler armor:

* DumbMuscle: Not a criminal mastermind.

** This was more of a problem with earlier versions of the armour, as the Model 4 had enhanced shielding to make it more resistant to thermal based attacks. He comes the closest in ''Demon in a Bottle'', where he and Blizzard pair their fire and ice attacks to break through Iron Man's defenses. Timely intervention by Bethany Cabe was the only thing that kept them from finishing him off.

A mutant who could use telekinesis to liquify any form of solid matter (something the original Melter needed technology to accomplish). Chris Colchiss had originally wanted to use his powers to be a superhero, and was placed in charge of the Young Masters, an AntiHeroSubstitute for the Young Avengers. Chris made mistakes with his powers that got people killed, and he began to doubt the conviction of his teammates, whose [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty tendencies]] drove the group toward Punisher style vigilantism. Shunned by the superhero community, he joined forces with the Mandarin and Ezekiel Stane, who upgraded his powers and equipment.

* AlliterativeName: '''C'''hris '''C'''olchiss.
* AscendedFanboy: Of Spider-Man, frequently wearing Spider-Man T-shirts as part of his civilian wear.
* EvilWearsBlack: Stane gave him a sleek black battlesuit.
* HeroWithAnFInGood: Wants to be a hero, but is unsure just what he needs to do in order to be one.
* LifeImitatesArt: An in-universe example. The Young Masters actually started out as an art project deconstructing superheroism, before they decided to be a real team.
* NinetiesAntiHero: Arguably closer to this than an actual villain.
* OnlySaneMan: Was chosen to lead the Young Masters because he asked the important questions like "[[ArmorPiercingQuestion what gives us the right to do what we do?]]"
* PowerIncontinence: Has the power to liquify anything solid with his mind (this includes turning living things into a disgusting goo). ''Doesn't'' have the mental discipline to pull his punches.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed his parents as a child, though [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength not intentionally]].
* UnskilledButStrong: Lacks the training and discipline to properly control his powers. Mitigated somewhat with Ezekiel Stane's upgrades.
* VigilanteMan: What he acts like the above trope.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Spymaster was hired by Roxxon Energy to take out Ghost, but ended up working with him in an EnemyMine against Iron Man. Spymaster was probably the only one who wasn't surprised when Ghost doublecrossed and killed him.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: When Stane's original "Knight" Chessman, Fletcher Higgs, is captured by Iron Man, Stane has his Bishop breaks Higgs out of prison... then has Bishop drop Higgs to his death as punishment for his failure.

* TheBigBad: Of much of Denny O'Neil's run, culminating in the ''Iron Monger'' arc.

* TheManBehindTheMan: To the Chessmen.

* ParentalAbandonment: His mother left him and his father committed suicide while playing Russian Roulette.

* BadassNormal-->EmpoweredBadassNormal: Scarlotti originally had no superpowers, no fancy technology, and no enhanced reflexes, taking on Iron Man with only his skills and his whips. After Justin Hammer upgraded his arsenal to include cybernetically controlled whips, he may have edged into EmpoweredBadassNormal territory, though only just.

* NotSoHarmless: He's a bit of a joke to some, but at the end of the day, Blacklash was a going concern in the Iron Man comics from 1968 until the early 2000s, repeatedly taking on Stark's military grade arsenal with little more than his whip, and regularly fighting him to a standstill.

* LegacyCharacter: Of Whiplash.

* UnpronounceableInYourLanguage: His real name is implied to be this.

Abe Jenkins was an aircraft mechanic with who became frustrated when his natural engineering talents were ignored by his superiors, due to his inability to afford a formal engineering degree. Creating an insectoid themed armored battlesuit, he became the costumed criminal Beetle. Initially a foe of the Fantastic Four, he would later become a persistent foe of Spider-Man, and would also lock horns with the Avengers as a member of the Masters of Evil. In constant search of that next upgrade that would finally give him the leading edge, Beetle agreed to assist Justin Hammer in several of his various plots against Iron Man. Hammer rewarded Beetle with an upgraded battlesuit that included a computer that could predict the movement of his opponents. However, it turned out that these upgrades incorporated "S-Chip" technology stolen from Stark Industries, and once Tony discovered this, he went after Beetle with a vengeance.

** Puny Snowman made Hulk mad. Puny Snowman got smashed.

'''Blizzard:''' I came here to dream, creature, and you interrupted my dreams by tramping brutishly through my world of fragile beauty! I thought I would be safe here, away from a warm-blooded world which no longer held a place for one such as I!

* {{Jobber}}: Officially becomes this in ''Demon In A Bottle'', where he is relatively useless without Whiplash supervising his actions.

-->'''Blizzard:''' [[WoundedGazelleGambit I knew feigning helplessness would cause you to lower your guard]]… and now, you costumed cretin, before you can recover… recoil before the power of Blizzard!

* TerribleTrio: Formed one in ''Demon In A Bottle'' alongside Whiplash and Melter.

A life long criminal, Donnie Gill was contracted by Justin Hammer, who gave him a version of Gregor Shapanka's Blizzard armour, and had him join his team of costumed mercenaries. Gill has been a recurring pain in Iron Man's backside since, working for Hammer, The Mandarin, and whoever else will pay the bill.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The original Blizzard was an Ivy League-educated scientist with a genius level intellect, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll but not a lick of common sense]]. Donnie has average intelligence and isn't as formally educated, but is more streetwise, and has some natural talent in electrical engineering. The latter ability is what prompts Korvac to hire him, and he proves to be the sanest and most focused of Korvac's Acolytes.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He's a refresher amongst Iron Man villains, of not being either a communist, industrialist, fanatic, former employee, thug, or an extremist. He's just in it for the money.
* PaintItBlack: After becoming one of Korvac's Acolytes, he began wearing a sleeker, darker version of his predecessor's original armor.

* VillainousFriendship: With Whirlwind, having served together in the Masters of Evil. After the [[LegionOfDoom Mandarin/Hammer/Stane collective]] falls apart, they reteam, robbing a few banks before undertaking a riskier heist on the Avengers mansion. Blizzard holds off Iron Man long enough for Whirlwind to escape.
* VillainousValor: He's extremely loyal to his friends and allies, once even allowing himself to be captured by Shield so that the rest of the supervillain crew he was working with could escape.

* AdaptationExpansion: A 2004 miniseries designed to update his origins to better fit the FloatingTimeline give him a little bit more backstory: He's Armenian, with his birth name being Anton Igorovich Vankonian. He backed the losing side of a political power struggle, which put him in bad standing with Department X (the Russian version of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and he feared they placed a spy on his team that would kill him and confiscate the armor after a successful field test. Ironically enough, he suspected the spy was Alex Nevsky.

* AlliterativeName: ''F''in ''F''ang ''F''oom
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Extremely large dragon who rivals some sky scrapers.

* VillainDecay: While Tony upgraded his technology, Gilbert did not. He was eventually defeated by Rhodey in a CurbStompBattle while Rhodey was piloting the upgraded Iron Man armor, and his successor has been defeated by the likes of ComicBook/SpiderMan, among others. Gilbert also abandoned his efforts at revolution, instead becoming a "talent agent" for fellow supervillains.

* EvilRedhead: Has [[IncrediblyLamePun flaming]] redhair.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tony had considered retiring as Iron Man after faking his death, but Taggart's continued assault on his company prompted him to suit up to take him down.

* BeardOfEvil: Features a goatee alongside his Fu Manchu.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: During the 1960s and early 70s, he made more of an effort to be a general supervillain rather than just be limited to Iron Man. He was the primary villain of the very first ''Avengers'' annual (with other Avengers-related villains, including the Enchantress and Executioner, the original Power Man, and the Living Laser serving as his minions), tried to use the Hulk as a pawn in his plans, only for Comicbook/NickFury to interfere, then briefly teamed up with the Sandman against the Hulk, abducted a famed peacekeeper in the Vietnam War who was then rescued by Captain America, and briefly tussled with Comicbook/BlackBolt and Comicbook/TheInhumans. He also did this during the ''Acts of Vengeance'' storyline, briefly brainwashing ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} into becoming his personal assassin, and fought a few members of the Comicbook/XMen. After that, he's since stuck with being Shellhead's nemesis.

Former security chief at a Start plant, he became paranoid about losing his job. So he assembled stolen tech to become a super villain. Actually defeated Iron Man in their first encounter, but not in their second one.

A master infiltrator trained by [[ComicBook/TaskmasterMarvelComics Taskmaster]], the Spymaster specialized in industrial espionage, sabotage, and assassinations, lending his services to the highest bidder. Initially clashing with Iron Man and Daredevil as leader of the Espionage Elite, Spymaster was later hired to by A.I.M. to steal technology from Stark Industries.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Spymaster was hired by Roxxon to take out Ghost, but ended up working with him in an EnemyMine against Iron Man. Spymaster was probably the only one who wasn't surprised when Ghost doublecrossed and killed him.

->'''AKA:''' Sinclair Abbot

Tony Stark's business rival who desires to take over Stark Industries by adding a new meaning to the term "hostile takeover." Abbot adopted the identity of the Spymaster, which had been used by two previous Iron Man foes, both experts in corporate espionage and sabotage. In order to prove himself to the supervillain community, he tackled Iron Man on several occasions.

->'''AKA:''' Boris Bullski, "Boris the Merciless"

* BadassBoast

* {{Mutant}}: Born deformed and hyperintelligent due to his father's exposure to gamma radiation.

** Only not really. Turns out that Calloway suspected that going up against Ghost would be suicide, so he sent an expandable proxy named Mark Sharen to take all the risk. When Sharen was killed, Calloway decided to fake his death and retire on the money Justin Hammer gave him for stealing all Iron Man tech schematics.

* BadBoss: Doublecrosses his accomplices in ''Infinity Heist'' so he could have a large cut of the profits. Also, the various decoys he has let die in his place.

* KlingonPromotion: You become Spymaster by killing the previous one.

An agent of Obadiah Stane hired for industrial sabotage and is confronted by Iron Man.

->''"You mock me, but mark me well, Comrade Quartermain! Though I am still but a child, there is nothing the Gremlin cannot do!"''

* HumongousMecha: He can piloted on occasion.

Tony Stark's business rival who desires to take over Stark Industries by adding a new meaning to the term "hostile takeover." Abbot adopted the identity of the Spymaster, which had been used by two previous Iron Man foes, both experts in corporate espionage and sabotage. In order to prove himself to the supervillain community, he tackled Iron Man on several occasions; forced to infiltrate Stark Resilient on behalf of The Mandarin, he eventually committed SuicideByCop.

* BigBadWannabe: Believes himself to be just as much of a threat as Mandarin. He has a long way to go before that happens, something he seemed to realize shortly before his death.

* SuicideByCop: Forces the police to kill him.

-->'''Firebrand:''' I'm just an all-American boy, Iron Man, one of those wide-eyed innocents who started out to make the world a better place. I sat in for Civil Rights, marched for peace, demonstrated on campus, and got chased by vicious dogs, spat on by bigots, beat on by "patriots", choked by tear gas, and blinded by mace until I finally caught on. This country doesn't want to be changed! The only way to build anything decent is to tear down what's here and start over.

->''"This is what you've done with life. I'm afraid you can't have any more."''

* HumansAreBastards: After gaining intelligence and reading War Machine's files, he begins to think this. Then Norman Osborn and Morgan Stark come along and make things worse. Cue the aforementioned assimilation plot.

* AbusiveParents: Gary's father, Simon, was an abusive control freak. [[AssholeVictime Few tears were shed when Gary killed him.]]

* AlliterativeName: Gary Gilbert.

* BaldOfEvil: His hair fell out when he saw his father commit suicide.

** PowerPalms: What he uses as blasts

A Hungarian scientist obsessed with obtaining immortality, Gregor Shapanka tried to steal from Stark Industries in order to finance his research into cryonics. He developed a suit with cold-generating powers, and became a member of Iron Man's rogues gallery under the name "Blizzard".

** Ironically enough, what made Gregor so effective in his earliest appearances was that he worked alone. He nearly ''killed'' Iron Man by spamming him with a powerful ice storm attack. Once he started working as part of a team, he could no longer use this attack, since he had to worry about SplashDamage.

* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: He had a stereotypical "lanky nerd" build before he turned to crime. After a stint in prison he's more muscular.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The original Blizzard was an Ivy League-educated scientist with a genius level intellect, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll but not a lick of common sense]]. Donnie has average intelligence and apparently isn't as formally educated, but is more streetwise, and has some natural talent in electrical engineering. The latter ability is what prompts Korvac to hire him, and he proves to be the sanest and most focused of Korvac's Acolytes.

* ChronicVillainy: A noteworthy aversion, considering how frequent this trope is in comic books. Vanko's HeelFaceTurn sticked to his death (with no resurrection), with the writers chosing to instead bring back a villainous Crimson Dynamo through the use of LegacyCharacter.

* MilitarySuperhero: Bullski's past as an agent of the KGB and the Soviet army is a defining aspect of his character.

* ShoutOut: His partership with Natasha Romanov is a shout out to ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'''s Boris and Natasha.

->''"Flee before the staggering horn of the Unicorn! Tell Iron Man I am here! Let him face me… if he dares!"''

->''"It seems we have mutual interests and mutual problems... and I think it's time to solve the one called "Stark"."''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Tomoe as the Techno Golem]]

->''"The city is great, Stark. I love the city. You're the problem."''

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Though he [[JerkassWoobie tests the limits of sympathy]], life has not been kind to this guy.

->''"Eventually, it's not enough to watch. You have to '''act'''."''

* AIIsACrapshoot: His creator says this to Tony (in the [[PurpleProse most prosaic way possible]]).

* BaldOfEvil: His radiation treatments made him lose his hair.

* SovietSuperscience: His original armor.

[[folder:Endotherm]]
!!Endotherm
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-> '''AKA:''' Thomas Wilkins
->'''Debut:''' ''Iron Man'' (Vol 1) #136
Former security chief at a Start plant, he became paranoid about losing his job. So he assembled stolen tech to become a super villain. Actually defeated Iron Man in their first encounter, but not in their second one.
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* EnergyAbsorption: Wilkins' suits allows him to fire blasts of energy, the energy is absorbed from the environment by the suit.
* GreenAndMean: His armor is green and he's a villain.
* {{Teleportation}}: Additionally, his ring enabled Endotherm to teleport. Its teleportation range is unknown, but it could even allow its bearer to travel even through realms.
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->''"I am the voice of your children, mister -- the non-meek who intend to inherit the Earth!"''

->''"No one makes mockery of my mighty horn!"''

* HumanoidAbomination: Getting zapped by Electro somehow caused his cryosuit to get stuck to him and mutate him into some snow creature with genuine cryokinetic powers and the bizarre ability to create ice golems. After the Hulk seemingly killed him and his "golems" in an avalanche, Shapanka showed up as a normal human again with no explanation.

Tony's cousin once removed, the son of Morgan Stark, and the Iron Man of an alternate version of 2020. Unlike Tony, Arno uses the armor for selfish gain, working as a mercenary.

->''"What are the lives of a few hundred, when we're developing a technology that could save millions!"''

[[caption-width-right:250:Shapanka's third Blizzard armor]]

* KilledOffForReal: In a battle with a future version of Iron Man.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: For someone who was supposed to have a PhD, he could be pretty dense.

[[caption-width-right:250:Gill in his second Blizzard armor]]

* HiredGuns: Frequently operated as a mercenary for other, better supervillains, like Zemo and Justin Hammer.
* LegacyCharacter: Two other villains have taken on The Melter's identity since Horgan's death, the second Melter is a mutant who was employed by the Mandarin and Ezekiel Stane. The third Melter bought Horgan's equipment from the Hobgoblin.