History Characters / MCUTonyStark

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. He, The Freak, and Captain Carter variants are the only versions of Tony in ''What If…?'' to be alive and well in the Multiverse.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Tony is normally a heavy drinker who'll suck down the best liquor he can buy, but the drinks on Sakaar are apparently so disgusting that he immediately spits them out. The one drink he actually manages to swallow causes him to [[CantHoldHisLiquor instantly pass out]].

[[caption-width-right:300:''Look, I get it. I lived in my dad's shadow for a long time. I did stuff I'm not proud of. People died because of who I was and what I built. My point is, people can change, and for the better. But I'm not my father. You're not your father. I made a choice for the better, and I became Iron Man."'']]

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. He and his "Christmas" variant are the only versions of Tony in ''What If…?'' to be alive and well in the Multiverse.

* NonAnswer: When Happy asks him [[spoiler:Tony if can cure his gamma-irradiated form, Tony just laughs and pays Happy a compliment without actually answering the question.]]

[[folder:Gamora's Tony Stark]]

[[caption-width-right:300:''"And one who's about to kick your moon-shaped ugly mug."'']]

A variant of Tony Stark who was working as a MallSanta while Justin Hammer puts Avengers Tower under attack.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TemptingFate I told you, I don't want to join your super-secret boy band.]]"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"To killers."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't have to do this. I made you for peace."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"And one who's about to kick your moon-shaped ugly mug."'']]

* TheEngineer: Even when he's stranded on an alien planet in the middle of nowhere, Tony is still able to build himself a badass Iron Man suit that

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite clearly living a completely different life to his Sacred Timeline counterpart, he still has the same drive and idea that would lead to the creation of Ultron.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Becomes this in the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' series where he is slaughtered in all of his appearances... until its first season finale when a variant of him is shown in a universe in which Gamora killed Thanos and he's still alive there.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Inverted. He's the only version of Tony in ''What If…?'' to be alive and well in the Multiverse.

* AchillesHeel: As powerful as his armor is, it becomes completely useless if something prevents the arc reactor from powering it. Steve and Bucky spend most of their fight against him in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCiviWar'' trying to disable it, with Steve eventually succeeding by impaling his Vibranium shield into it.

* AchillesHeel: As powerful as his armor is, it becomes completely useless if something prevents the arc reactor from powering it. Steve and Bucky spend most of their fight against him in 'Film/CaptainAmer-icaCivilwar'' trying to disable it, with Steve eventually succeeding by impaling his Vibranium shield into it.

* TheCynic: His main front he puts in the public, to hide how emotionally affected he really is, such as his reaction to Natasha's assessment of him regarding the Avengers Initiative, finding Steve Rogers' "[[GoodIsOldFashioned outdated and irrelevant idealism]]" annoying, or [[HowDareYouDieOnMe feebly trying to dismiss]] Coulson as an idiot for taking on a god and getting killed for his efforts. The mask falls apart in the finale of ''Civil War'' when he finds out that Winter Soldier killed his parents while brainwashed, resulting in him lashing out furiously and painfully at Captain America.

* MommasBoy: A BadassBookworm GuileHero with [[GadgeteerGenius razor-edge technology of his own design]] who gravitates more toward his mom due to his abusive father. He never talks negatively about her and her death affected him more than his dad's. Note his reaction upon finding out that the Winter Soldier killed his parents: "He killed my mom."

* TraumaCongaLine: Boy, does he go through a '''lot''' in each film he appears in starting from Phase 2. He suffers from PTSD, nearly watches the love of his life die, has his creation attempt to destroy the world, briefly breaks up with said love, almost loses his best friend, is betrayed by one of his teammates and gets beaten up by him and his parents' murderer, left as one of the few operating Avengers after the team disbands, and personally fails to stop half the universe from being killed, resulting in his protégé, who he had [[LikeASonToMe come to see as a son]], [[DiedInYourArmsTonight fading to dust in his arms]].

* UltimateBlacksmith: He personally designed and makes his own armour. Even decades after he made his first, no other person on Earth has even come close to replicating it. In ''Endgame'', he even manages to make a '''fully functional Infinity Gauntlet'''. It works and holds up to handling the power of the Stones just as well as the one made by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Asgard's]] personal smiths.

** Retired Ant-Man Hank Pym resents him because his father tried to replicate his Pym Particle and passed this distrust onto his protege Scott Lang, who tells Tony in ''Civil War'' that Hank always said you can never trust a Stark. Tony doesn't seem to know who Hank is and definitely doesn't know who Scott is, so he can only respond to this with a genuinely confused, "Who are you?"

* UnskilledButStrong: While Tony has developed fighting skills over the years, there are still a number of other superheroes who are far more skilled than him in combat. In ''Captain America: Civil War'', Falcon manages to keep up with him and get the better of him a number of times because he's so much better at flight than him. One of the reasons he has trouble taking down Steve and Bucky in the same film is that they were simply much, ''much'' better-trained fighters than him.

** In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', he demands the suit he made for Peter Parker back after Peter tries to stop the Vulture on his own and nearly sinks an entire ship as a result.

* {{Workaholic}}: If it wasn't for Pepper, JARVIS, and Rhodey, Tony would've starved, blown himself up, or overdosed on caffeine down in his workshop years ago. In ''Iron Man 3'', he spends more and more time in his lab to cope with his [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] and nightmares. He's apparently completed at least 30 different Iron Man weapons in the space of ''six months''.

* YankTheDogsChain: ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' gives Tony a huge amount of emotional closure after the TraumaCongaLine of previous movies. Pepper survives the Snap which allows him a peaceful retirement with her, [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming contrary to his fears]] he's an amazing parent to Morgan, he's matured enough to reconcile with Steve Rogers, he brings back Peter, and he finally accepts that his father loved him. With the resolution of his CharacterArc, his death was inevitable.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Becomes this in the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' series where he is slaughtered in all of his appearances... until its first season finale when a variant of him is shown in a universe in which Gamora killed Thanos and he's alive and well there.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Tony's "run before you can walk" philosophy has mixed results. His first flight test nearly kills him, though confronting the icing problem helps against Iron Monger's untested suit. Telling the Mandarin "here's my home address, come and have a go" was a bit much even for him. It reaches its ultimate endpoint when his desire to protect the world and save everyone causes him to jump without any real plan or even talking things out with his teammates besides Bruce, leading to the [[AIIsACrapshoot creation]] of [[OmnicidalManiac Ultron]].

* CollapsibleHelmet: In the first film, his face plate just slides up or down as necessary. By ''Iron Man 2'', not only is the helmet of
Mark 5 collapsible, the whole suit is. Even then, the helmet is the last part of the suit to deploy. By ''Civil War'', his Mark 46 armor has a helmet that can fully retract into the suit. In ''Infinity War'', the helmet is made out of nanomachines, and a new one can reform if the first one is torn off, which happens while he's fighting Thanos.

* ActionDad: In ''Endgame'', Tony has a daughter with Pepper, the little Morgan Stark. Although he's officially retired, he participates in a last Avengers mission, but with the higher stakes in that he now has Morgan to return to. He does not.

* AdaptationalBadass: With the Mark L, Tony ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFwvr6l2mM fought Thanos]]'' when he first met him in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', while in the comics, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OTdKAGXP8S0/VssAJF_ZaoI/AAAAAAAANXM/aT5-o-ImR04/s1600-Ic42/RCO014.jpg Tony was beaten easily]] by the Mad Titan when they first met.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: One of the most significant changes to Tony's personality in the first ''Iron Man'' movie was to make him a DeadpanSnarker and have him deliver a ton of {{One Liner}}s while the comics make him a more serious guy without such quips. In the first two ''Avengers'' movies, most of the humor is generated by Tony's quips. Later movies [[DownplayedTrope downplay]] this.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Tony Stark is a genius in all versions of his character, but his original comic rendition has him only specializing in engineering and physics. The MCU version, on the other hand, is a master engineer, physicist, chemist, hacker and computer scientist, a skilled biologist, knowledgeable in neuroscience, and a master businessman. {{Justified|Trope}} in that MCU Tony Stark is a CompositeCharacter, with Reed Richards' intelligence being a major part of his combined character.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in terms of his father, though[[invoked]]. WordOfGod notes that he's even more brilliant than his late father Howard Stark.

* AscendedFanboy: To [[Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}} Bruce Banner]] as seen in their first meeting in ''The Avengers''. He's a fan of Bruce Banner's scientific work and also the way he loses control and turns into an [[BuffySpeak enormous green rage monster]]. They become close friends.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He certainly has some rather... ''eccentric'' behaviors, including threatening his mechanical lab assistants and AI systems, purposefully poking Bruce Banner in order to evoke the Hulk (and expressing excitement over the idea of the Hulk running rampant), dropping dissonant remarks both inside and outside of combat (such as when he discovers a new element in ''Iron Man 2;'' he destroys a good portion of his lab in the process, and gives a gleeful "Oops!" as the laser is cutting things in half.). He also [[TheNicknamer gives nicknames]] to everyone and everything.

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: The ending of the first ''Iron Man'' is one of the few instances when he's referred to as "Iron Man". Everybody just calls him Tony Stark.

* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Tony is one of the good guys, but has a DarkAndTroubledPast as an arms dealer and has made a few questionable decisions since then (e.g., the creation of Ultron). However, he wants Peter to surpass him and use his gifts for good before he ever gets the chance to screw up like Tony did.
-->'''Peter:''' I just wanted to be like you!\\
'''Tony:''' And I wanted you to be ''better.''

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. After the TimeSkip in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', he finally forgives Steve for his part in their falling out, represented by giving back Captain America's shield. However, judging by how he refuses to mention [[TheScottishTrope his parents' death by name]] and is uncomfortable referring to it even obliquely, he's not fully forgotten it.

* ItsAllMyFault: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He's a textbook case of how fine a line there is between this and ItsAllAboutMe, and how they can be equally destructive; he constantly attempts to assuage his guilt and self-loathing with superheroism, only for his altruism to be scorned as ''his'' self-gratification[[labelnote:*]]''You think you fight for us? You only fight for yourself.''[[/labelnote]], and ''his'' efforts to assuage ''his'' guilt[[labelnote:*]]''That's why I'm here. When I realized what my weapons were capable in the wrong hands, I shut it down, stopped manufacturing.''[[/labelnote]]. As of ''Civil War'', Pepper has left him because being Iron Man has consumed his life to the point of leaving no room left for self-indulgent romance. This continues in ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'' where he tries to be a responsible mentor for Peter Parker so the kid stays out of trouble that he can't handle and grows into a better superhero than he himself, but at times it sounds like he is trying to vicariously fix his own troubled relationship with his deceased father.

* ParentExMachina: {{Subverted|Trope}}. If it wasn't for Tony, Peter would've drowned and/or split himself in half trying to hold a ferry together -- not to mention his suit, which was provided by Tony, has bailed him out multiple times. However, Tony ended up playing a much larger role to Peter than just being a convenient save here and there, and helped Peter become a more responsible, self-actualized hero by the end of ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

* TheSmartGuy: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]], as he shares this role with Bruce Banner the majority of the time. While Tony is the world's premier mechanic and engineer, Bruce specializes more in biology and radiation, with both possessing a general knowledge of each other's fields. In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' the two finally meet and hold an intelligent, scientific conversation with each other, cracking physics jokes and the like.

** This is averted in ''Iron Man 3'', when he unexpectedly starts screaming at Trevor to tell him where the Mandarin is while pointing a gun at him.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: {{Inverted|Trope}}, as he is the only version of Tony in ''What If…?'' to be alive and well in the Multiverse.

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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Iron Man'' and ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Age of Ultron''[[/note]] | ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''[[note]]Flashback with archive footage from ''Civil War''[[/note]] | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}''[[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The various mechanized combat suits used by Tony Stark.

* AchillesHeel: As powerful as his armor is, it becomes completely useless if something prevents the arc reactor from powering it. Steve and Bucky spend most of their fight against him in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' trying to disable it, with Steve eventually succeeding by impaling his Vibranium shield into it.
* AmericanRobot: His "Iron Legion" fully turns into that after being redesigned from armor suits to identical robotic drones in ''Iron Man 3''.
* AnimatedArmor: He or his A.I. can control Mark 42 in ''Iron Man 3'' and Mark 47 in ''Homecoming'' remotely.
* ArmCannon: Several of Iron Man's weapons are mounted on his forearms, such as the Mark III's anti-tank missile and the Mark 6's lasers.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Many of his attempts to create InstantArmor resulted in this:
** Mark 5 is a portable version of armor capable of automatically covering him rather quickly. However, it's also considerably weaker and less protective than his standard suit, and it cannot fly.
** Mark 42 can easily split itself apart and latch onto Tony in select pieces, but this very function makes it easy to break apart.
* BackForTheDead: Marks 1 - 7 are on display in Tony's lab at the beginning of ''Film/IronMan3''. They're all blown to bits when the Mandarin sends his men to Tony's home.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Mark 23 has a retractable arm blade, which he uses to cut Killian's arm off as does the Mark 50 in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''; it's responsible for almost stabbing Thanos.
* ChestBlaster: All models after the second show this capability. It drains more power than the palm blasters, so he mainly uses it as a backup weapon or a last resort.
* CollapsibleHelmet: In the first film, his face plate just slides up or down as necessary. By ''Iron Man 2'', not only is the helmet of Mark 5 collapsible, [[ExaggeratedTrope the whole suit is]]. Even then, the helmet is the last part of the suit to deploy. By ''Civil War'', his Mark 46 armor has a helmet that can fully retract into the suit. In ''Infinity War'', the helmet is made out of nanomachines, and a new one can reform if the first one is torn off, which happens while he is fighting Thanos.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Mark 1 also gave rise to the Iron Monger, and Mark 2 to the War Machine and Whiplash suits.
* EnergyAbsorption: In ''The Avengers'', his suit absorbs Thor's lightning bolt:
-->'''Jarvis:''' Power at 400% capacity.\\
'''Tony Stark:''' How about that? ''[fires a supercharged repulsion blast back at Thor]''
* EnergyWeapon: Repulsors aside, lasers have been a mainstay of the armor's weapon systems starting from the Mark 6, as a one-off, last-ditch weapon. By the time of ''Avengers'', he's upgraded the mechanisms so he can use it more than once with the Mark VII. Despite its power, Iron Man has mostly used it as a cutting tool rather than a straight weapon.
* FlyingBrick: As the initial posterboy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he's got the classic superhero package of flight, SuperStrength, and SuperToughness when wearing most of his armors, letting him brawl on a reasonably level playing field with just about any monster or supervillain he faces as a solo hero or a member of the Avengers.
* FlyingFirepower: His armor lets him fly at supersonic speeds and shoot energy blasts (from particle beams to lasers) and missiles. He's often compared to a humanoid fighter jet, and can take on just about anything in an aerial dogfight with a decent chance of victory.
* HeadsUpDisplay: With the exception of the Mark I, all of Tony's Iron Man suits and it's derivatives feature a HUD.
* ImmuneToBullets: His suits are at least immune to rifle fire. However, they have limits. In the first movie, the Mark 3 has its repulsors cut out and gets scuffing and scratches to its millimeters-thick armor from a single shot from an anti-aircraft gun (not a tank, as is commonly believed). Later, the same suit suffers damage from two 20mm cannon shots, and Tony's panic definitely implies that he'd be in critical danger if F-22s landed any more hits. Pepper comments "are those bullet holes?" when seeing him take it off later. In ''Iron Man 3'', four of the suits are blown up by a single hit from an ATGM, launched by one of the Mandarin's helicopters, though it might be because they are inert. The Mark 46 armor in ''Civil War'' completely averts this, being vulnerable to Hawkeye's arrows (being the weakest overall physically and in attack power, despite several new fancy features)
* IconicItem: His Iron Man armor, as much as it can be considering how often he upgrades to a new model.
* InstantArmor: Downplayed, then Played Straight. Because one of the main weaknesses of the armor is that Tony must don it, which is easier said than done due to its bulk and complexity, and that without it, Tony is unable to fight superpowered criminals and aliens, he's constantly tried to make the process of wearing it be as easy and fast as possible.
** ''Iron Man 2:'' Tony has created a considerably weaker, portable version of the armor which can automatically assemble around the user's body in a short time.
** ''The Avengers:'' Starting from this film, his armors can fly to him and can make and unmake themselves automatically so that he walks in and out of them. Mark 7 required a special set of bracelets to lock onto.
** ''Iron Man 3:'' With Mark 42 he tried to push the idea up to individual autonomous limbs that can fly toward him, but the technology was so buggy he scrapped the idea, only using it for the Hulkbuster armor since it was guaranteed the monster would tear off something during the process of being neutralized.
** ''Infinity War:'' The Mark 50 armor uses the same nanotechnology as T'challa's Black Panther suit. The suit itself is stored in his arc reactor and spreads over his body with a single touch.
* JackOfAllStats: In terms of superpowered heroes. Tony's suits aren't as strong and durable as Hulk, as fast as Quicksilver or pack the sheer destructive capability of Thor or Captain Marvel. What the suits do have is a dizzying array of weapons and a huge amount of versatility which when combined with Tony's genius and skill allows him to go toe to toe with ''gods''.
* JetPack: Starting with his Mark 7 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]]. It falls off into two engines into space at the climax of ''The Avengers'', but he can probably just replace it. From ''Iron Man 3'' onward, the jet pack is just two small slits on the back of his torso.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Unlike in the comics, every version of the completed Iron Man armour with any serious screentime has a large, prominent jaw. It makes them look more heroic and less creepy than the blank, featureless masks that comic-Tony often uses.
* LightningBruiser: The vast majority of Tony's suits have incredibly potent offensive capabilities, the ability to reach supersonic speeds, and the resilience to withstand a shot from a tank followed by an uncontrolled fall from high enough to make a crater while taking negligible damage.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Starting from Mark 6 onwards, other than the one in his forearm, he has extra missiles, mostly in his shoulder and rarely in his wrist. The Hulkbuster is also capable of launching a small barrage of devastating missiles during combat. It serves as Tony's last-ditch finishing move during the battle, using it as well as the suit itself to bring down an entire (empty) skyscraper on the Hulk.
* {{Mana}}: A tech version. The Iron Man suits have a major weakness in that they consume a lot of power. Thus Tony is constantly watching his battery percentage to make sure he doesn't run out and at low power, he can't use his best attacks. The Mark 50 onwards mitigates this with backup power sources but is replaced with a similar weakness due to Tony only having so many nanomachines on him.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Tony often updates Iron Man suits mid-movie, either because the previous one became trashed or because it's become outdated.
* PaletteSwap:
** While most suits are mostly red with yellow details, Mark 42 is mostly yellow with red details. In turn, the Mark 43 throws in more red against yellow.
** The Iron Man Mark 47 suit is ''exactly'' the same as [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Mark 46]], just painted in the ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates]]'' color scheme.
* PoweredArmor: Has made 50 of them by ''Infinity War'', in addition to one or two modifications on the ComicBook/WarMachine suit for Rhodey:
** ''Film/IronMan1'' to ''Film/IronMan3:'' Mark 1 to Mark 7
** ''Film/IronMan3:'' Mark 8 to Mark 42 ("Iron Legion")
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' to ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar:'' Mark 43 to Mark 50. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' reveals Pepper Potts' "Rescue" Armor is officially designated Mark 49.
** The very final suit he has in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' is designated Mark 85, implying an unknown set of armors from Mark 51-84.
* PowerPalms: Starting from Mark 7 his armors have additional thrusters so Tony doesn't need to use his hand repulsors to stay aloft, allowing him to shoot.
* RedOnesGoFaster: Most of the suits are primarily red in color and becomes faster with every new upgraded suit.
* RemoteBody: Tony can directly control Mark 42 in ''Iron Man 3'' over long distances with a special headset. Mark 47 in ''Homecoming'' no longer requires him to use an elaborate headpiece, so he can just pretend to be on the phone while attending a party.
* ShoulderCannon: Several of his armors have small precision shot guns inside the shoulders, and mini missiles.
* SuperStrength: Granted to him by his armor.
** [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelmovies/images/b/bd/Mark_IV.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100503194838 Promotional material]] for ''Iron Man 2'' gives the limit of his early "regular" suits as being able to lift 3 tons, which roughly matches the climax of his first movie where lifting an SUV over his head causes him to double over and seriously stretches the suit's capabilities to their limits.
** The Mark 7 he uses in ''The Avengers'' had enough strength to push back one of the Helicarriers engines and even trade blows with Thor for a bit (although Thor is weakened from his trip to Earth, while Iron Man's armor is supercharged).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRPhtEUYVKQ The Mark 42]] has a maximum lift capacity of 900 pounds per a FreezeFrameBonus (see 0:24), while Hulkbuster is as strong as the Hulk before the Hulk eventually overpowered him.
** Mark 50 is capable of dolling out physical blows strong enough to briefly stagger ''Thanos''. It also manages to push an Asteroid the size of a small moon onto him (albeit with Gravity working in it's favour). It's also able to take direct attacks from Thanos in rapid succession, though it does end up breaking in the end.
* SuperSpeed: His reflexes are those of a normal human's (albeit a trained and experienced one), but his early suits are fast enough to reach Mach 2. By ''Infinity War'' Mark 50 is able catch up to space ships exiting the atmosphere. The minimum speed required for that is ''Mach 20''.
* TrickedOutShoes: Iron Man's feet do not have particularly fancy gadgets, but ever since the Mark 1 they've incorporated rockets (for the Mark 1) or repulsors (for the rest) that are the primary exhausts through which the armors can fly, the palm repulsors being designed as stabilizers. The Mark 50 evolves beyond the previous repulsor system by occasionally having the feet's nanomachines combine into a powerful rocket that multiplies the flight speed of the armor.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway:
** ''Iron Man:'' Tony's first flight [[TheJoyOfFirstFlight starts out like a dream]] - and then he encounters [[HighUpIceUp the icing problem]] and barely escapes with his life. This first-hand knowledge becomes a ChekhovsGun in his fight with Stane.
--->'''J.A.R.V.I.S.:''' Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations required before an actual flight is...\\
'''Tony Stark:''' Jarvis... sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.
** ''The Avengers'': His old Mark 6 suit is too trashed to rely on anymore, so he demands that J.A.R.V.I.S. prepare his still in testing Mark 7. The new suit arrives JustInTime to save his life and works perfectly during the whole battle. Of course, the Mark 7 being an incremental upgrade of by then well-proven technology means there is less what could go wrong.
** ''Iron Man 3:'' Tony's become erratic from PTSD and has been rushing through prototypes without giving them the proper testing time. The results are utterly unreliable, and in a number of action scenes he doesn't use armor at all.
* UnInstallment: While they must have existed in-universe, Marks 51 through 84 are never shown on-screen. To a lesser extent, the Mark 49 was never used by Tony himself, having been built for Pepper Potts.
* {{Unobtainium}}: What's been powering his suits since ''Iron Man 2''. It's actually an element he created himself, with some [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture guidance from his father]], which is more potent and nontoxic to his body compared to palladium.
* WalkingArmory: His armor carries a staggering amount of weaponry, including PowerPalms, primarily designed as flight stabilizer and then used as WeaponizedExhaust and ChestBlaster, all three directly powered by the arc reactor. Then under the armor lie a missile powerful enough to blow up a tank (and alternatively a set of smaller missiles) [[NothingUpMySleeve under each forearm plate]], [[ShoulderCannon needleguns or missile launchers in the shoulder area]], and [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beam]] generators under the wrists. He's also occasionally shown a cuff launcher to immobilize opponents and [[UnusualWeaponMounting knee-mounted missile launchers]].
* 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.
-->'''Pepper:''' I thought you said you were done making weapons?\\
'''Tony:''' This is a flight stabilizer. [[TemptingFate It's completely harmless.]] ''[boom]'' I didn't expect that.
* WorfHadTheFlu: In all three of his solo movies, Tony is hampered by something in the climactic battle with the BigBad; he was using a more primitive arc reactor against Stane, his arsenal was drained fighting mooks before Vanko, and his primary armor was still damaged in the third. ''Civil War'' also counts since Tony was fighting with multiple handicaps as otherwise he could have easily defeat Steve and Bucky, super-soldier or not. And in ''Infinity War'' while the ''suit'' is more powerful than ever, Tony is older and out of shape meaning that he can't take full advantage of the suit.
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[[folder:Mark 1]]
!!''Mark 1''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/IronMan3''

The first suit of armor Tony made, cobbled together from pieces of weapons and machines in a cave to help him escape.
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* BetaOutfit: He builds Mark 1 [[MemeticMutation "in a cave! With a box of scraps!"]], and it is big and bulky due to both being a mechanical prototype, and as a nod to the original Iron Man suit in the comics. After getting back to the city he creates the silver-colored Mark 2 before settling on Mark 3's coloration with gold-titanium alloy casing with red highlights, which becomes a standard for the majority of his suits.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: An InUniverse example, since it was quickly cobbled together in a cave, the Mark I has a much bulkier design than most later suits, uses flamethrowers instead of repulsers, and can't fly for that long.
* FireBreathingWeapon: It had two flamethrowers built into its wrists. Played more realistically than most examples, being used to destroy equipment rather than as an anti-personnel weapon.
* MightyGlacier: Unlike later armors, the Mark I can't fly for long periods of time, and is never seen moving faster than a speed-walking pace, but it is still capable of sending regular humans flying with a single punch, can launch arm mounted rockets, and is ImmuneToBullets.
* NotQuiteFlight: It had fuel and propulsion, but only enough to launch upward. Landing was much harder.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 2]]
!!''Mark 2''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 2]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' (helmet only) | ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (helmet only)

The first suit of armor built by Tony upon his return to America, this one was far more advanced and the first capable of flight (though not too impressive on the landing front).
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* AchillesHeel: Despite its incredible flight capabilities right out of the gate, the Mark 2 is incapable of withstanding the colder temperatures of higher altitudes, leading to its parts freezing up. Tony eventually corrects the problem. Obadiah does not.
* AmusingInjuries: Tony takes punishment after punishment getting it up and running. At first it consists of his attempts to get the jet-boots firing, causing Tony to rocket up face-first into a concrete pillar in his lab. Even after the armor has been constructed and makes a successful flight, Tony decides to make a landing on his roof only to fall through three floors, land on one of his vintage sports cars and be [[ButtMonkey sprayed with a fire extinguisher by DUM-E]].
* BeamOWar: At the end of the brawl between Rhodey wearing the Mark 2 and Tony wearing the Mark 4, they both raise their arms and fire their repulsors at each other, resulting in this.
* BetaOutfit: Though more advanced than Mark 1, Tony still has some kinks (like the aforementioned "icing problem") to work out with the suits before he can debut the classic red and gold armor in full.
* ChekhovsGun: Though it's the suit worn for the shortest amount of time in ''Film/IronMan'', it comes back in a big way in ''Film/IronMan2'' when Rhodey takes it and Hammer converts it into the War Machine armor.
* ChromeChampion: An all-silver ensemble to mark its prototype status. It was the last suit of armor before Tony adopted his standard red and gold look.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "icing problem" it sustains during its initial flight comes back when Tony fights Obadiah at the film's climax.
* HowDoIShootWeb: Since his time spent in the Mark 1 suit was mostly running for his life, Tony uses the second iteration to work out how to be Iron Man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 3]]
!!''Mark 3''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 3]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Iron Man'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/IronMan3''

Perhaps the most iconic suit of armor developed by Tony Stark, the Mark 3 was constructed after working out some of the kinks of the Mark 2 and given a red and gold color scheme that would appear prominently in most armors from thereon.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Tony is forced to power it with his first ARC reactor after Obadiah rips the improved one out of his chest. Built to power the relatively primitive Mark 1, Tony is basically running on fumes the entire fight with the Iron Monger in this armor.
* MythologyGag: Tony considers leaving it all gold before deciding to have JARVIS "throw in a little hot-rod red". Tony's second suit of armor in the comics was all gold before he progressed to the more iconic red and gold.
* ShootTheHostageTaker: During the battle of Gulmira, five Ten Rings members use some villagers as human shields to force Iron Man to surrender. However, Tony uses his armor to target all five of them and shoots them dead with his shoulder-mounted guns while leaving the hostages unharmed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 4]]
!!''Mark 4''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 4]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

An armor built to replace the Mark 3 after it was heavily damaged during the fight against Iron Monger.
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* BeamOWar: At the end of the brawl between Rhodey wearing the Mark 2 and Tony wearing the Mark 4, they both raise their arms and fire their repulsors at each other, resulting in this.
* ChekhovsGun: The aforementioned BeamOWar. It becomes crucial at the end of the second film to defeat [[BigBad Whiplash]].
* MundaneUtility: For the first half of ''Film/IronMan2'', Tony used this armor for purposes outside combat deployment.
** The opening of the Stark Expo involves him dropping from high altitude in the armor, while the venue blasts out {{Music/ACDC}}'s "Shoot to Thrill". What better PR stunt for Stark Industries tech, right?
** During his birthday party, Tony uses the various weapons of this armor to blow up alcohol bottles and watermelons in order to entertain his guests.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 5]]
!!''Mark 5''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 5]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Iron Man 2''[[/note]]

A suit specialized on portability and easy access, that can be collapsed and turned into a briefcase.
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* EmergencyWeapon: It is significantly less powerful than the regular armors and is only used in case of emergency.
* FlawedPrototype: Its durability limits (as a suit on the go) will be improved upon by Mark 7.
* HammerSpace: Let's face it, this is where this suit really comes from. There's no way it could fold down into a suitcase-sized package that's light enough to carry in one hand.
* HandcuffedBriefcase: The suitcase is usually carried around by Happy Hogan and locked to his wrist.
* ImpossiblyCompactFolding: Somehow, a full body powered armor suit can fit in a briefcase...
* MythologyGag:
** In the earliest issues of Iron Man, Tony Stark would often carry his armor around in a briefcase. In later years he made the briefcase itself into armor.
** This armor's color scheme bears a great resemblance to the Silver Centurion armor from the comics. It's just a resemblance, ultimately, as Tony builds the actual Silver Centurion later between ''The Avengers'' and ''Iron Man 3'' as Mark 33.
* SeriesMascot: Despite being featured in only one scene, it still made it onto the Blu-Ray case for the film.
* TransformationTrinket: The aforementioned suitcase can turn into and equips its user with the armor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 6]]
!!''Mark 6''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 6]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' | ''Film/IronMan3''

Tony Stark's first suit powered by the element he invented, no longer relying on Palladium cores to charge the suit's (and thus his pacemaker) arc reactor.
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* CombinedEnergyAttack: At the end of ''Iron Man 2'', Tony and War Machine both shoot at Whiplash with their repulsors at the same time, causing a massive shockwave that heavily damages his armor.
* EnergyAbsorption: Manages to absorb Thor's thunderbolt and supercharging the power levels to 475%.
* EnergyWeapon: Has a laser array installed on the gloves that shoots beams in every direction.
** DeathOrGloryAttack: However, it's a one-time use in any given battle.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The Death Blossom laser can only be used once per battle, as it uses too much power to be used more often.
* MythologyGag: This armor's triangular arc reactor bears a resemblance to the Extremis armor from the comics.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Death Blossom laser. It was never established or mentioned before Tony uses it to finish off the Hammer Drones during the final battle.
* SpectacularSpinning: When Tony uses the Death Blossom lasers during the battle with the Hammer Drones, he pulls a 360 degree spin that slices them all in half.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: This is the first armor shown to allow its wearer to go underwater, as seen when Tony uses it to work on the electrical system of Stark Tower in the Hudson River during his first scene in ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.
* {{Unobtainium}}: The first suit designed to run off the element that his father had postulated and Tony completed, replacing the toxic Palladium core that was driving his previous models. It's also more potent than Palladium.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 7]]
!!''Mark 7''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 7]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' | ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}''[[note]]Archive footage[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

An armor that Tony configured to seek two wrist-mounted beacons and form around the wearer. The suit has the honor of being deployed during the Chitauri invasion of New York, as well as being the first to experience the vortex of space when Iron Man redirects a nuclear missile to the Chitauri mothership.

The origin of the technology that would later be used for the Mark 42 and "Veronica" Hulkbuster modular system.
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* EnergyWeapon: The laser array of the Mark 6 was retained, with significant increase in battery lasting power.
* DesperateObjectCatch: In this case being Tony himself, as he activated the armor right before Loki throws him from Stark Tower, giving him a very real-world test of the armor's ability to properly align with the wrist beacons and attach itself before he went splat.
* FoeTossingCharge: Blows through a large number of Chitauri to get to Cap.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Holds the largest number of missiles housed in any of the armors, enabling it to obliterate massive number of Chitauri. It is also the only armor to house missiles in its kneepads, 4 each.
* OneHitPolykill: Bounces his repulsors off Cap's shield to kill a large number of Chitauri.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marks 8 - 41 / The Iron Legion]]
!!''Marks 8 - 41''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Marks 8 - 41]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

A group of thirty-three armors of various design and specialization, created during a period of rapid development after the Battle of New York.
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* ActionBomb: During the FinalBattle, Tony activates the self destruct on some of the Iron Legion armors to take out Extremis soldiers.
* AffectionateNickname: Starting with the Mark 15, Tony gave them all nicknames. Marks 15 through 41 are, in order: Sneaky, Nightclub, Heartbreaker, Cassanova, Tiger, Python, Midas, Hot Rod, Shades, Tank, Striker/Thumper, Gamma, Disco, Jack, Fiddler, Blue Steel, Piston, Romeo, Silver Centurion, Southpaw, Red Snapper, Peacemaker, Hammerhead, Igor, Starboost/Gemini, Shotgun, and Bones.
* AllYourPowersCombined:
** The Mark 18 combines the stealth capabilities of the Mark 16 with the weapons systems of Mark 17.
** The Mark 31 combines the speed of the Mark 21 with the energy effeciency of the Mark 30.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The Mark 39 was designed for suborbital space travel.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Mark 30 has extendable blades in its arms. Presumably, these were added because it takes minimal energy to use them, as opposed to a repulsor. Mark 33 retains this trait, likely for similar reasons.
* BlueIsHeroic: Mark 27, Mark 30, and Mark 38 are primarily blue.
* BoringButPractical: The Mark 20's specialization is... energy efficiency and long-distance flight. Rather underwhelming considering the Mark 3 could get him from America to Afghanistan and back three years earlier, but considering later armors needed to power both weapons and flight for long periods or go into space, it's developments were crucial for future armors. Marks 30 and 33 later returns to refine the concept.
* ChromeChampion: Marks 12 through 15, as well as 18, 22, 29, 32, and 34, are all primarily silver or gray in coloration.
* ColorContrast:
** The Mark 22 has a gray body but bright red arms and legs. The boots even have hot rod flames painted on them!
** The Mark 24 is mostly black with some bright white sections.
** The Mark 27 is blue with orange highlights.
** The Mark 28 is mostly dark grey with some bright orange plates. This one may actually have some motivation to it: if you see it, it's probably drenched in radiation and some hazard markings are likely in order.
* CostumeEvolution: Many of them diverge from Tony's usual armor design. It would be easier to list the ones that kept the traditional red and gold color scheme[[note]]Marks 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 33, 35; a mere nine out of thirty-three[[/note]], and Marks 35 and 38 have significant changes to the base form. Though by the time of the film they appear in, Tony's come back around to a more standard armor design, so it didn't exactly go anywhere.
* DeflectorShields:
** The Mark 24 incorporated repulsor shields for added durability.
** The Mark 33 had a magnetic polarity shield that could repel incoming metal items (such as bullets), which could also be reversed to pull metallic items in.
* DetachmentCombat: The Mark 41 uses this as its primary method of attack, breaking into multiple parts to hit multiple enemies at once.
* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Mark 39 has a "concussion cannon" unique to it. Presumably this was designed out of a need for a weapon meant to function in space.
* FashionableAsymmetry:
** Unlike Marks 25 and 26, the Mark 29 only has a jackhammer on one arm.
** Mark 34 had a large hydraulic claw on its left arm for aiding in disaster recovery.
* FlawedPrototype: On the low end of "flawed," the Mark 22 is a serviceable prototype of the War Machine 2, but it's nothing to write home about.
* FragileSpeedster:
** Mark 14, which has been stripped of all its weapons apart from the repulsors and a few missiles in favor of increased speed.
** Mark 40, which lost nearly all armor in order to boost speed and maneuverability.
* HighlyConspicuousUniform: Most of the armors are fairly flashy, but there are a few of particular note.
** Averted with the Mark 23, which is painted in multi-scale camo, a design choice made even more bizarre than the opposite considering it's not one of the stealth focused armors.
** ''Very'' notable with the Mark 27, which is a stealth armor with a bright blue and orange color scheme.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: The Mark 21 uses the solid gold color scheme Tony dismissed for the Mark 3.
* HotPaintJob: Mark 22, appropriately nicknamed "Hot Rod", is a prototype of the War Machine Mark 2 armor that has flames painted on its arms and legs.
* LongRangeFighter:
** Mark 17, which specializes in repulsor artillery.
** Mark 32, whose oversized arc reactor fuels an equally large unibeam.
** Mark 33 has pulse cannons whose projectiles build in power the longer they travel.
* MeaningfulName:
** Python (Mark 20) was named because of the snake's ability to function for a long time on one meal.
** Romeo (Mark 32) was named because of its large chest reactor, aka its big heart.
* MundaneUtility: Tony's genius and near limitless resources created the Marks 25 and 26, armors designed for construction. He comes back to the concept three armors later with the Mark 29, where he put enough thought into it to say the previous models weren't ''maneuverable'' enough for a construction site and needed an updated model.
* NighInvulnerable: Mark 24 was built specifically for combat, and as such it can take more of a beating than any previous armor.
* NonLethalWarfare: The Mark 36, which was designed for crowd control and riot suppression.
* NoSell:
** The Mark 23 was specifically designed to endure extreme heat, presumably for work around volcanoes or other similar environments. This would be CripplingOverspecialization, but the only fight we see it take part in is against the Extremis supersoldiers, who have a strong heat basis to their powers.
** Marks 25 and 26 can survive high temperatures and electrical surges. The 26 in particular is also resistant to Gamma radiation.
** The Mark 28 is specifically designed to protect the wearer from all radiation.
* PowerPincers: The Mark 35 has extendable hydraulic claws for use in disaster aid, such as moving rubble.
* PunchParry: While wearing the Mark 16, Tony does this with Killian during the final fight.
* StealthExpert: The Mark 15 is designed to be sensor invisible, with a nearly nonexistent radar profile and the ability to change its outer coloring to blend in with the environment. Mark 16 takes it farther at the cost of armor and all weapons save the repulsors, making it more suited for infiltrating buildings than airspaces where it would risk being shot down if detected. The Mark 27 continues this trend, noted for having a color scheme that allows it to use a special kind of stealth... somehow.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: The Mark 37, which was designed for deep sea traversal.
* SuperSpeed: Marks 19, 21, and 40 are specialized for hypersonic flight, each improving on the last.
* SuperStrength: The Mark 38, which is the strongest of all the armors and may have served as a prototype to the Hulkbuster. However, in combat this is the ''only'' trait it can rely on, as it was designed for heavy lifting and lacks any other weapon systems.
* UtilityWeapon: Utility before weapon, but the Marks 25, 26, and 29 have pneumatic jackhammers. They can pulverize concrete with ease. Now imagine what one would do to a person.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Literally in ''Iron Man 3''.
-->'''Tony:''' Jarvis, target Extremis heat signatures, terminate with ''extreme'' prejudice.\\
'''Jarvis:''' ''[from the remaining 34 armors]'' Yes, sir.
* WeaponizedExhaust: The Mark 40 can use its repulsors to enhance the power behind its punches, as shown during the fight against Killian.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 42]]
!!''Mark 42 / Autonomous Prehensile Propulsion Suit''
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[[caption-width-right:300:Mark 42]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''

An armor used throughout ''Iron Man 3'' by Tony. It can split itself apart and can be controlled from afar.
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* ActionBomb: Became this during the final battle of ''Film/IronMan3'', in which Tony made the suit assemble around Killian's body before telling Jarvis to blow it up in order to kill him. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
* TheCameo: Appears in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as one of the items in the shipment Vulture tries to hijack near the end.
* DetachmentCombat: Its main design concept is to be able to separate into its own pieces and fly independently.
* FlawedPrototype: Of the Mark 43, as seen in ''Age of Ultron''. The Mark 43 is virtually identical to the Mark 42 (save for the paint scheme) but it ''works''. It's hinted that the Mark 42's flaws come from Tony creating it while he was heavily sleep deprived and coping in his own manic way with his post-traumatic stress.
* FragileSpeedster: Fast, mobile, can barely take a hit. Downplayed though, it falls apart only when its doesn't have anybody in it.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Even though the suit exploded at the end of ''Film/IronMan3'', it later reappears in the background inside the jet carrying all the tech from Avengers Tower during ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', complete with all of its battle damage from ''Iron Man 3''. In-universe, Tony probably felt some attachment to the suit and, like his lost Hall of Armors, and in particular, the Mark 1 armor, kept it as a memento.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 43]]
!!''Mark 43''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 43]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

The first armor that Tony created after the others were destroyed by the "Clean Slate Protocol".
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* AnimatedArmor: This armor has a voice-activated feature called "Sentry Mode" that allows it to act on its own when Tony activates it.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: After using his armor to detect the power source of Baron Strucker's HYDRA base, Tony fires a missile at it to deactivate the energy shield.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: This armor can fire a large number of missiles, as seen during the fight against Ultron in South Africa.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 44 / "Veronica" / Hulkbuster Armor]]
!!''Mark 44 / "Veronica" / Hulkbuster Armor''
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[[caption-width-right:300:Mark 44]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Age of Ultron''[[/note]] | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

An armor developed by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner specifically to stop the Hulk should Banner ever lose control. More properly, "Veronica" isn't PoweredArmor so much as a drone containing modular components that can assemble into a MiniMecha capable of matching the Hulk in strength. This modular nature also means that the Hulkbuster can easily call for replacements of damaged or destroyed pieces of itself, something vital in a protracted fight against the Hulk.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Because the user is secured in the Hulkbuster's chest cavity, the limbs are able to bend in ways that are anatomically impossible for a human. In one instance, Tony rotates one arm in its shoulder socket to land a punch on the Hulk behind his back.
* AchillesHeel: Though the Hulkbuster itself is designed to avert this with its many redundancies and the ability to replace its components, it does have one crucial weak point: the drone that actually deploys the replacements. Since it needs to remain close enough to the Hulkbuster for it to receive deployed care packages in time, it's vulnerable to collateral damage, shown when the Hulk backhands a deployed care package back into it, knocking it out the sky. Luckily Tony manages to end the fight soon afterwards, meaning the Hulk doesn't get a chance to capitalize on this development.
* AdaptationalBadass: The Hulkbuster armor is not nearly as powerful or durable in the comics as it is in the movie, relatively speaking. Not to mention, the comics version never ''won'' a fight against the Hulk like the movie version did. {{Justified|Trope}} though, because this version was designed by both Tony AND Bruce, thus making it more festive in taking its target out.
* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', the armor loses its left arm during the fight against Hulk, though it gets quickly replaced.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: The suit is never called "Hulkbuster"; the system that deploys it is named "Veronica" by Stark and Banner. A FreezeFrameBonus at least shows "Hulkbuster" appearing backwards on Tony's HUD.
* CrazyPrepared: It's made specifically to stop the Hulk, with input from Bruce Banner, so it's prepared for almost any eventuality. Its modular design allows damaged components to be replaced on the fly from the Veronica unit, it has customised attachments designed to restrain the Hulk and limit his mobility, multiple mini-arc reactors for power so Hulk can't just rip out one central powerplant, and has Unibeam-strength repulsors to keep the Hulk at bay.
* CripplingOverspecialization: It's built solely to stop the Hulk, making it the MightyGlacier to Stark's usual LightningBruiser armors. However, because it's built to play the same game as the Hulk, Bruce Banner uses it to imitate the Hulk's fighting style when Hulk refuses to fight in Wakanda.
* DetachmentCombat: Much like the Mark 42, the Hulkbuster comes in separate pieces that fly down from a storage satellite and assemble to make the greater armor. This design is actually needed because the Hulk can easily wreck through the limbs and they'll need regular replacement in order for the armor to stand a chance. In ''Infinity War'', Banner even uses one of the wrists as a makeshift RocketPunch by sticking it on Cull Obsidian hand and make it fly into Wakandan's forcefield, killing the alien when he collides with the field.
* FluffyTheTerrible: "Veronica", while a MeaningfulName, isn't exactly the nomenclature you'll expect to be given to Tony's largest and physically strongest suit (or at least the delivery system for its components).
* FourFingeredHands: In contrast to Tony's other armors.
* GlassCannon: Played with. Despite being by far the biggest, most physically powerful suit Tony has ever built, being able to take and dish out damage to a degree not seen in any other suit - save for perhaps his nanotech ones - in a straight-up fight, the Hulk can still tear the Hulkbuster apart with ease, [[CrazyPrepared hence why it has a multitude of redundancies and specialized weapons made solely for neutralizing the Hulk]], [[GoodThingYouCanHeal such as the ability to replace badly damage components.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: The armor was designed to neutralize a rampaging Hulk. This meant the armor was stored on a Stark satellite, ready to be called to anywhere on Earth at any moment, and used the technology of the Mk 42 armor to be able to fly out in parts. For this reason, it can do as much collateral damage as the Hulk himself, so Tony spends pretty much all of the fight against the Hulk taking extreme care not to have any civilians die in the crossfire.
* KnockoutGas: It's a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you-miss-it moment]], but the Hulkbuster possesses a sedative gas sprayer within its right arm. During the battle, Tony can be seen briefly attempting to use it to help calm the enraged Bruce down, very unsuccessfully.
* KryptoniteRing: It was designed with the help of Bruce Banner specifically to neutralize the Hulk. This also makes it ''very'' useful in taking down opponents who share similarities with the Hulk, such as Cull Obsidian and Thanos.
* LogicalWeakness: Though Tony is able to replace the Hulkbuster's damaged components, he does so by calling in care packages from a drone flying nearby, which take time to deploy and assemble. Not only does this leave the Hulkbuster somewhat vulnerable in the meantime, it also means the replacement components can be intercepted, which the Hulk does so when it's busy tearing apart the Hulkbuster, incidentally deflecting it straight into the drone as a result and taking it out of the fight.
* MeaningfulName: "Veronica" is an allusion to BettyAndVeronica, in that Veronica is called in when the sweet, non-violent Betty method can't stop the Hulk. (As a bonus, Betty's also the name of Banner's former girlfriend.)
* MetaMecha: The suit forms around the existing Iron Man Armor, with the main armor being contained inside the central chest cavity. It even forms a dual-layered HUD when fully assembled. By ''Infinity War'', it's been modified for use by unarmored pilots as well, with Bruce Banner using it during ''Infinity War''.
* MightyGlacier: The biggest drawback of the Hulkbuster is that while it is strong and tough enough to trade blows with the Hulk, it's not nearly as agile. Tony got in trouble a couple times because the Hulk could quickly move to exploit lapses in the massive armor's defense. Similarly, Thanos' Outriders manage to (temporarily) bring it down through sheer numbers and Cull Obsidian manages to tear off an arm, though admittedly Bruce was a bit distracted at the time.
* MiniMecha: This suit is closer to one than a PoweredArmor, having completely mechanized limbs that can be easily replaced if they're ever torn off.
* PunchCatch: The piston arm has a secondary function that allows it to lock on to Hulk's arm by retracting the fist and then clamping down restraints once Hulk's arm is drawn in. Amusingly, this was done right after Hulk had pulled a punch catch on the Hulkbuster.
** This gets done ''again'' during ''Infinity War'', with the Hulkbuster's severed left arm being used to catch Cull Obsidian's arm when he goes in for a finishing blow, leading to his subsequent demise by the severed arm hurling him into Wakanda's energy field.
* PunchParry: At one point the Hulk and the Hulkbuster's fists strike each other full force, resulting in a shockwave reverberating.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: One of the arm attachments is a piston-powered fist which Tony uses to rapidly punch Hulk in the face.
-->''''Hulkbuster's fist:''' '''*BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM*'''\\
'''Tony:''' Go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sakaaran Mark 44]]
!!''Mark 44 / "Veronica" / Hulkbuster Armor''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Sakaaran Mark 44]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

A version of the Hulkbuster Armor that a Variant of Tony Stark constructs on Sakaar.
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* NoodleIncident: How it was crafted isn't explained when it appears due to the episode it originally appeared in being delayed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 45]]
!!''Mark 45''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 45]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Age of Ultron''[[/note]]

The armor used by Tony during the final battle of ''Avengers: Age of Ultron''.
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* CombinedEnergyAttack: During the climax of ''Age of Ultron'', Tony combines his armor's repulsors with Thor's lightning and Vision's laser beam in an attack that severely damages Ultron's vibranium armor.
* HighTechHexagons: Unlike any of its predecessors, the Mark 45 has a hexagonal-shaped indent around the circular Arc Reactor. It's also the most advanced armor at the time of ''Age of Ultron''.
* RedIsHeroic: This armor has a predominantly red color scheme.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mark 46]]
!!''Mark 46''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 46]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''[[note]]Cameo in a video recording[[/note]] | ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''[[note]]Flashback with archive footage from ''Civil War''[[/note]]

The armor worn during the Avengers' Civil War.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Steve does this at the end of his fight with Tony by jabbing his shield's edge into the main Arc Reactor, crippling the suit.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the final fight scene, Tony has F.R.I.D.A.Y. analyze Captain America's hand-to-hand combat moves and provide a programmed countermeasure tactic, allowing him to gain the upper hand.
* CollapsibleHelmet: Mark 46, along with War Machine Mark 3, gives us fully collapsible helmets, as opposed to simply having the faceplate open.
* {{EMP}}: This armor can fire EMP projectiles from its lower forearm. During the airport battle, Tony uses this to disable a helicopter before Captain America could use it to flee.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Much like the Mark 7, this armor has several mini-missile launchers on each shoulder. Tony fires many of them to stop Clint and Wanda during the airport battle.
* PowerUpLetDown: The Mark 46 Iron Man armor he uses during ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' doesn't seem quite up to standards set by him until that point. Although still a powerful suit, it can be temporarily pinned and even damaged by people on SuperSoldier tiers of power, whereas Tony had demonstrated that earlier models took the strength of demigods before it could be damaged by bare hands. It probably isn't even bulletproof and gets pierced by Hawkeye's arrow. Unlike the much earlier Mark 6 armor, it also isn't airtight, which allows Ant-Man to sneak into the suit and sabotage its internal systems. Its flight speed is also downgraded, being unable to catch up to a Quinjet or catch Rhodey before he hit the ground or move out of the way of falling cars, when the suits had been supersonic since Mark 3. Its repulsors are weaker too, as while the previous ones were capable of blasting people through concrete walls, shoving aside vehicles, even destroying bunkers and hurting Asgardians, these repulsors are only able to stun Falcon and super-soldiers and only chip asphalt. Given how badly Tony was affected by the fallout of Sokovia and recent events, he may have intentionally made the suit weaker[[note]]to avoid collateral damage and not kill his friends[[/note]] or rushed its production like the Iron Legion.
* SupernormalBindings: This armor can launch two disc-like projectiles capable of forming a powered clamp that automatically attach to the enemy's legs, and is strong enough to restrain Captain America himself.
* TronLines: Sort of. Mark 46 shows smaller Arc Reactors that dot the suit as additional power sources.
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[[folder:Mark 47]]
!!''Mark 47''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 47]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''

The armor worn during Vulture's attempted theft of the Avengers Tower cargo.
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* AnimatedArmor: Mark 47 shows that Tony still employs its technology when he has it save Peter from drowning, remote controlled all the way from India. Peter later tries to turn his absence on him later on after his disastrous attempt to snag the Vulture but that time, Tony ''is'' in the suit.
* BigDamnHero:
** Tony sends the armor to rescue Peter as he's about to drown in a lake after a fight with the Vulture.
** When the Staten Island Ferry starts falling apart, Tony uses the armor himself to save Peter and the passengers.
* EnergyWeapon: The Mark 47 has a laser system far more advanced than its predecessors, allowing it to rebuild the collapsing Staten Island Ferry by welding together the cutlines.
* KnowsTheRopes: This armor can shoot ropes from its wrists, as seen when Tony uses this to reattach the broken parts of the ferry together.
* MythologyGag: The color scheme of the armor is based on the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/2e/Antonio_Stark_%28Earth-1610%29_from_Ultimate_Wolverine_vs._Hulk_Vol_1_2_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111016002830 Iron Tech armor]] from the Ultimate Marvel comics.
* PaletteSwap: Beyond the color scheme, Mark 47 has few significant differences from Mark 46.
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[[folder:Mark 48 / Hulkbuster Armor [=2.0=]]]
!!''Mark 48 / Hulkbuster Armor 2.0''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 48]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''

An updated version of the Hulkbuster Armor used by Bruce Banner in the Battle of Wakanda and the Ambush on Thanos.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Many promotional art for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' showed the Hulkbuster armor with a slightly updated color scheme. However, the Hulkbuster is in the actual movie for all of one scene, and it doesn't even have that color scheme.
* AnArmAndALeg: During ''Infinity War'' the armor loses its left arm against Cull Obsidian. It is repaired by the beginning of ''Endgame''.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Save for the brute strength and repulsors, the redundancies built into the first Hulkbuster, along with the missiles, knockout gas, rapid-fire punching option and punch-catch mechanisms go unused during ''Infinity War'', possibly because it was Bruce's first time using it, or because this new Hulkbuster armor doesn't have the same weapons as its predecessor. This makes his battle with Cull Obsidian much more difficult as a result.
* FourFingeredHands: It's even more visible in this version.
* MidseasonUpgrade: The Hulkbuster was substantially redesigned between ''Civil War'' and ''Infinity War/Endgame'', losing a bit of bulk and becoming sleeker in the process. It still retains its signature brute strength, though the combat repulsors have taken on a red tint and explosive properties.
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: The effect given off by Bruce Banner inside the Hulkbuster when he opens the helmet part, his normal-sized head poking out of the Hulk-sized machine.
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[[folder:Mark 49]]
!!''Mark 49 / Rescue Armor''

->See [[Characters/MCUStarkFamily Pepper Potts]]'s page.
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[[folder:Mark 50 / Bleeding Edge]]
!!''Mark 50 / Bleeding Edge''
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[[caption-width-right:300:Mark 50]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

Tony's first suit that eschews the solid metal of his other armors in favor of being comprised entirely of nanobots.
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* AchillesHeel: The Mark 50 has one major weakness - there's a finite amount of nanites stored in the Arc Reactor. A lengthy battle can use up the nanobots with no way for Tony to replace them.
* MorphWeapon: Being made entirely of nanobots, it can reshape itself at a thought to form a wide variety of gadgets and weapons.
* HollywoodHealing: With the Bleeding Edge nanomachine colony at his disposal, Stark becomes the first hero in the MCU capable of casting "Healing Magic", by spraying surplus nanomachines over wounds, even critical ones, to staunch bleeding, and presumably eat harmful pathogens and knit together damaged tissue. The hasty application of this "healing spray" allowed him to survive having a nano-machine sword driven clean ''through'' his liver, intestines, left lung and kidney by Thanos. Though he still required further medical treatment from Nebula to ''fully'' recover from this lethal injury.
* {{Nanomachines}}: What his Mark 50 suit is made of. It [[InstantArmor assembles itself over him instantly]] very much like T'Challa's suit in ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''. It also has a surplus of nanos beyond what is needed to make the suit, which not only allows him to [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation summon extra weapons and armor on the fly]] but also to immediately replace pieces of the suit that get torn off (though this has its upper limits, as his bout with Thanos shows).
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Mark 50 suit features a vast array of new abilities on top of the ones introduced in previous movies. No matter what the bad guys throw at Iron Man, he'll counter it with something you've never seen him use before. Justified, because tinkering with his suit and improving its technology is what Tony does with his spare time.
* PowerFist: Can enlarge the size of his fists and feet to hit harder.
* RocketPunch: While other suits can invoke this in spirit via the palm and foot repulsors, using its nanomachines, this suit can outright form rocket boosters on its elbows and ankles, giving its blows one hell of an oomph.
* SuperToughness: Probably has ''THE'' standout durability feat amongst Tony's armors, getting hit by a massive chunk of moon Thanos hurled at him and getting back up pretty quickly. The armor survives a battle with the Black Order despite getting knocked around, a crash on Titan, a flock of bat-like creatures sent by the Reality Stone, a fireblast powered by the Power Stone, having a moon dropped on it, six direct punches from Thanos, and two direct hits from the Power Stone.
-->'''Tony:''' You throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it.
* TransformationTrinket: He now has a proper one, in the form of an attachable chest-mounted Arc Reactor. Tapping the reactor is all Tony needs to do to summon the armor. ''Endgame'' shows that Tony can simply stick it on and rip it off his chest with no external process needed or injury to him.
* WalkingArmory: His Bleeding Edge armor is a MorphWeapon allowing him to create anything from the reserves of nanomachines he has. So he adds to his arsenal a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]], [[ConvergingStreamWeapon additional big repulsors]] to create an even more intense blast, an ArmCannon he threatens Drax with but never uses, even more powerful missiles, [[PowerFist Power Fists]] that can at least stagger Thanos, a BladeBelowTheShoulder and a [[HeroesPreferSwords fancy sword]].
* TheWorfBarrage: Iron Man unleashes everything he has on Thanos in a one-on-one confrontation. The end result: a small cut on Thanos' cheek.
-->'''Thanos:''' All that for a drop of blood...
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[[folder:Mark 85 / Model-Prime]]
!!''Mark 85 / Model-Prime''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark 85]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

Built five years after the Snap. In many ways, it's pretty much identical to the Mark 50 in terms of technology, with some minor upgrades to its weaponry. This armor has the honor of being worn during the Battle of Earth and being the final armor built and worn by Tony Stark before his ultimate sacrifice.

Unless noted, much of the tropes regarding its abilities are the same as the Mark 50.
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* EleventhHourSuperpower: The very last thing it does is serve as a third Infinity Gauntlet, granting Tony nigh-unlimited power moments before he died.
* BlingBlingBang: After the more gilded Mark 42, the Mark 85 has very prominent gold, primarily on the shoulders, upper arms, and thighs. Particularly notable as the featured suits for Tony between this and 43 placed more focus on red as the primary color with gold as merely accents (with the exception of the Mark 47).
* CompositeCharacter: While functionally identical to the nanotech Mark 50, the armor brings back the signature faceplate mechanism of previous armors, when being nanotech it didn't need to have that again.
* EnergyAbsorption: Tony actually asks Thor to hit him with lightning so he can channel that energy against Thanos, much like what Thor did to him accidentally in ''The Avengers''. This ability also explains how it was able to handle housing the energy of the Infinity Stones.
* HardLight: The shields are now made of this rather than solid material. Presumably this was done to address Mark 50's ultimate handicap--in that generating solid weaponry eats up the nanomachines for the armor.
* MythologyGag: As the final armor, it is only fitting that its appearance evokes the classic Ditko armors (Models 2 and 4). Not simply in color scheme, but the organic aesthetics of the nanomachine armors allow the suit to evoke musculature.
* MultiformBalance: Somewhat. In addition to this armor, Tony also has his quantum suit when travelling through the Quantum Realm, and switches between the two. Unlike with Rhodey[[note]]whose quantum suit is just an additional layer over his not-nanotech War Machine armor[[/note]], Tony can't, or at least isn't shown to be able to, simultaneously don both at once, and certainly doesn't wear his Iron Man helmet with his quantum suit like [[CoversAlwaysLie toy packaging would have you believe]].
* {{Nanomachines}}: Same as the Mark 50, but we see the full extent of how fluid the nanotechnology is when Tony configures his right gauntlet into a makeshift Infinity Gauntlet by floating the six stones pilfered from Thanos into position.
* SocketedEquipment: Notably capable of becoming one due to its nanomachine construction. Pivotally, Tony manages to make a makeshift Infinity Gauntlet out of his right-hand armor after stealing it from Thanos--culminating with his own BadassFingersnap HeroicSacrifice.
* WalkingArmory: Mostly same as the Mark 50, but this time around the armament mostly consists of HardLight energy weapons to compensate for the Mark 50's AchillesHeel.
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** In ''Film/IronMan3'', when he's battling Extremis-enhanced super soldiers:
--->'''Brandt:''' That's all you got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?\\

** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', after Thor kidnaps Loki:
--->'''Steve:''' Stark, we need a plan of attack!\\
'''Tony:''' I have a plan: attack.
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', after the team tries to stop Tony and Bruce from creating Vision:
--->'''Steve:''' I'm only gonna say this once.\\
'''Tony:''' How about ''nonce?''
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', after he's crushed by a garage-full of cars and his suit is punctured:
--->'''F.R.I.D.A.Y.:''' ''[red alarms flashing]'' Multiple contusions detected!\\
'''Tony:''' Yeah, I detected that, too.

* FatalFlaw: Carelessness, a flip side of his tendency to be TaughtByExperience. Sometimes PlayedForLaughs:
** ''Iron Man'': When he was testing the flight suit, he pushed the altitude beyond its tested limits with no back-ups. He could have died.
** ''Iron Man 2'': Tony's fight against Whiplash would be much easier if he packed spare laser cartridges.
** ''Iron Man 3'': Many of his problems could have been avoided if he bothered to store some of his extra suits in Stark Tower.
** ''Age of Ultron'':
*** Instead of sealing off Loki's scepter, he screwed around with the unknown highly unpredictable alien technology, leading to the creation of Ultron (albeit influenced by Wanda's MindRape). Thor, a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, told him how dangerous it was and was mad at him when he found out.
*** If Tony conducted his AI experiments on an isolated network that isn't connected to his weapons systems or the Internet, Ultron would never get the chance to do anything. Instead, the KillerRobot took control of his drones and later digitally transferred itself to another country.
** His suits initially don't have [[BoringButPractical a parachute]], an auxiliary power source or any kind of safety system that saves the user's life if the important parts of the suit stop working, which serves as a major aspect of his own escape from the F-22 Raptors in ''Iron Man'' and leads to Rhodes breaking his spine from falling down in ''Civil War''.
** He's all for the Sokovia Accords in order to keep the Avengers together... until he sees the conditions Team Cap is imprisoned in. Putting Wanda under house imprisonment also led to her joining Team Cap.
** Instead of compartmentalizing the news of his parents' deaths and trying to work through it, he flips straight to trying to murder Bucky. Zemo couldn't have played him better if he'd been a marionette.

** To Doctor Stephen Strange: they both start out as being [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], reckless men who care about personal pleasure and success until a life-changing accident [[BreakTheHaughty brings them down a few pegs]]. The difference is Tony (as Iron Man) uses [[ScienceHero technology]] while Strange uses {{Magic}}. Additionally, Stark gets the chance to stroke his own ego for good by becoming a beloved superhero, while Strange learns humility by fighting battles kept away from the public eye. [[YouAreWhatYouHate It is these similarities that lead to them butting heads so often]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: His first girlfriend, as opposed to one-night-stand, is redheaded Pepper.

-->'''Tony Stark:''' "Textbook... ''narcissism?''" ''[sees [[DeathGlare Fury's expression]]]'' Agreed.

** "Old Man" and "Capsicle" for Captain America.
** "Film/{{Point Break|1991}}" alongside Shakespeare references for Thor, later "[[Film/TheBigLebowski Lebowski]]" when Thor was fat and drunk.
** "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]]" for Hawkeye.
** "Big Man", "Enormous Green Rage Monster" (which he's a big fan of), and "Jolly Green" for Hulk/Banner.
** "Reindeer Games" (due to the horns on his helmet) and "Theatre/RockOfAges" for Loki.
** Also "Glowstick of Destiny" and "Joystick" for Loki's scepter.
** Plus many more for people whose names he either doesn't know or doesn't care about (such as calling a random henchman "Ponytail Express" in ''Iron Man 3'' or "{{Film/Forrest|Gump}}" for the first airman he addresses in ''Iron Man'').
** In ''Civil War'':
*** He dubs Spider-Man "[[SuperheroesWearTights Underoos]]".
*** At one point, he calls Bucky "[[Film/TheManchurianCandidate Manchurian Candidate]]".
** In ''Infinity War'':
*** He dubs Ebony Maw as "Squidward".
*** And Drax "Mr. Clean" and Star-Lord "Flash Gordon".
*** He even refers to Thanos' Q-Ships as exactly what they looked like, Donuts.
*** He does call Dr. Strange "Wizard", but isn't the first to do so as Thor had done so in ''Thor: Ragnarok''.
** In ''Endgame'':
*** He cheekily refers to Nebula as a "Blue Meanie" from Music/TheBeatles Animated Movie WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine in his recorded will to Pepper; kind of a cheap shot considering she ''did'' help him patch up and *disinfect* the nasty stab wound her father Thanos gave him through his midsection.
*** He refers to Strange as the "Bleecker Street Magician" doing his ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Rogers after his return to Earth.
*** He initially thought Rocket was a "build-a-bear." Rocket quipped back that he may be one. Later on Stark calls him [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank "Ratchet"]].
*** He has '''plenty''' for Lang including {{Literature/Thumbelina}}, Film/StuartLittle, and "Piss-ant".
*** Despite all of the above, this is {{ZigZagged|Trope}} for ''himself'' as he can't think of a meaningful alias.
---->'''Howard:''' Do I know you?\\
'''Tony:''' ''[fumbles with his visitor badge]'' No sir; I'm a visitor from MIT\\
'''Howard:''' Got a name?\\
'''Tony:''' Howard\\
'''Howard:''' Well that will be easy to remember.\\
'''Tony:''' Howard ''[[[{{Beat}} pauses to figure out a last name]]] Potts''.

** He is an expert at high-energy physics, materials science, and aerospace engineering all at the same time. His in-universe nickname was "[[RenaissanceMan 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 Bruce Banner about the technical details of the Tesseract.
** He also glances at Maya Hansen's life's work, immediately understands it, invents the breakthrough equation that makes Extremis work, and scribbles most of it on the back of his name-tag, while [[AbsentMindedProfessor too drunk to remember doing it.]]
** It's implied in ''Film/IronMan'' that Tony might even possess some level of expertise in genetics; when he's being grilled by some reporters over his company's war profiteering, he deflects the blame by pointing out breakthroughs in genetically engineered "intelli-crops" and advancements in medical technology, presumably both invented/designed by him.
** Subverted briefly in ''Age of Ultron'' where he defers to Banner in Vision's creation due to Banner knowing bio-organics better than he does (although he runs point on several of the AI issues of their projects, both for Vision and their previous attempt at bringing Ultron to life).
** He designs a pair of glasses (that come with an astounding price tag of over six-hundred million dollars) that allow him to project memories directly from his brain in ''Civil War'', which is his neuroscience skill in action.

* TaughtByExperience: A running theme with each of his armor upgrades is that aside from improving their functionality in general, Tony specifically makes sure to elliminate weaknesses he notices in previous fights.
** ''Iron Man'': He faces the "[[HighUpIceUp icing problem]]" early on during a test flight and nearly plummets to his death. He changes the suit's alloy to prevent build-up of ice, which is critical to beat Stane since the Iron Monger suit is still vulnerable.
** ''The Avengers'': After having a lot of problem with Whiplash's electrified whips in ''Iron Man 2'', Tony upgraded his suit to be able to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb excess electricity]] to give himself a temporary power boost. He also had the problem that he couldn't fight a battle in midair easily because his primary weapons, his repulsors, are necessary to fly; the Mark VII has additional repulsors on his back so he can use his hand repulsors without having to stop flying. He's also upgraded a powerful laser weapon he used in ''Iron Man 2'' to go from a one-off use to something he can use freely.
** ''Iron Man 3'': In ''The Avengers'' the Mark VII was able to find Tony on its own and form around him, but when he was thrown from a building it barely finished in time for him to stop his freefall. The Mark XLII is modular with its individual components able to function without forming the full armor, so Tony can summon individual pieces to him when he needs them. The technology that lets the components separate and become small enough to fly also means his suits are able to open up and let him get in and out of them easily, no longer requiring special rigs to get them off as he did previously. Finally, he integrates Jarvis into his suits as the Iron Legion, letting them operate autonomously without him.
** ''Avengers: Infinity War'': Tony has upgraded to nanotech now, allowing his entire suit to be compartmentalized in his arc reactor and activated with a quick tap to his chest. The suit's capabilities are ''drastically'' expanded, because Tony can shapeshift it to form new weapons as he needs them including energy cannons, a thruster for superior flight, and blades for close-range combat. The nanotech design also eliminates the weaknesses of his suit that Ant-Man, Captain America, and the Winter Soldier exploited in ''Civil War'', that being they disabled certain parts of his suit and compromised his systems; now Tony can repair any damage and reform any lost armor parts with excess nanomachines.
** ''Avengers: Endgame'': During his battle with Thanos previously, Tony simply lost a lot of nanomachines to repeated damage, causing the suit to become increasingly compromised. The Mark LXXXV has similar nanotechnology, but also incorporating HardLight energy constructs, letting him make use of its expanded shapeshifting abilities without worrying as much about losing nanites.
** A malfunctioning parachute was a major aspect of his own escape from the F-22 Raptors in ''Iron Man''. In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', we learn Tony has included a parachute and wingsuit in the Spider-Man suit he designed. Also, Tony found himself exposed in the snow in IM3, so the Spidey suit includes a heater that can quickly dry Peter out.
%% There's a common misconception that the Spidey suit includes a chute because Rhodes' suit didn't. Except the Spidey suit debuted in the exact same battle where Rhodey broke his spine. The parachute was already a part of Peter's suit. Please, do not add the misconception back in.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He is focused on major cosmic threats such as the Chitauri and Thanos, but keeps underestimating local threats and dismissing ordinary criminals as "below the pay-grade," both his own and that of the Avengers as a team:
** In ''Iron Man 2'', he argues that he had privatized world peace and believes he was untouchable with no one able to match his technology or trigger a real arms race. Ivan Vanko arrives and proves him wrong, and backed by Hammer does manage to field a force that rivals his.
** In ''Iron Man 3'', he goads the Mandarin to attack his house and gives him his address on live TV, believing that Mandarin won't be able to touch him. He ends up with his house destroyed, a fugitive on the run, captured by Killian, the real Mandarin, and in the end is nearly killed by him.
** In ''Avengers: Age of Ultron'' and ''Civil War'', Ultron, Crossbones, and later Zemo prove him wrong. Collectively they undo the gains made by the Avengers, eroding their goodwill, internally dividing them, and handicapping them before they face Thanos.
** In ''Spider-Man Homecoming'' he underestimates the Vulture, believing that feds can handle a guy who has operated BeneathSuspicion for four years evading both the Avengers and law enforcement, and whose technology easily outplays and overmatches the FBI in their only confrontation.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A major running theme of the MCU is the damage caused by Tony's actions. This continues even after he gives up arms manufacturing and becomes Iron Man, which was a deliberate attempt to avoid this. [[spoiler:This even carries on ''posthumously''.]]
** In ''Iron Man 3'', it's revealed that Tony spurning Aldrich Killian and Maya Hansen led to them creating Extremis, causing a severe chain reaction leading to many deaths.
** In a bit of paranoia, Tony uses the Mind Stone to create Ultron, leading to the KillerRobot almost eradicating humanity entirely (though luckily, unlike with Infinity Ultron, they were able to stop him before it came to that).
** Tony backing the Department of Damage Control led to Adrian Toomes' crew being left penniless, driving them to crime until he became the Vulture.
** In ''Infinity War'', it's Tony that demands that he and his group take the fight to Thanos on Titan, hoping to surprise him and get the Gauntlet from him. In the end, this only ensures that Thanos gets the Time Stone from Strange, leading to the deaths of half of the universe and later on his and Natasha's deaths via HeroicSacrifice.
** ''Spider-Man: Far From Home'' reveals that [[spoiler:naming B.A.R.F. as such enraged its creator, Quentin Beck, and Tony fired him for being unstable. This slight causes Beck to become Mysterio, later leading to Peter's identity being outed to the world, the spell to reverse said outing being botched, multiversal villains crossing over, and thanks to the Green Goblin, the universe almost collapsing and Peter being {{Unperson}}ed to the world]].

* ForWantOfANail: The only variant of Tony Stark who doesn't become Iron Man.

* ForWantOfANail: This Tony's successful execution of the Ultron program allowed the AI to protect Earth from threats without need of the Avengers. As such, it's implied that Tony and the rest of the Avengers outside of Captain Carter retired from superheroics, leading to the formation of the Illuminati.

* ChestBlaster: All models after the second show this capability. It drains more power than the palm blasters, so he mainly uses it as a backup weapon (unless he's blowing stuff up for laughs while hammered), resulting in a OncePerEpisode pattern:
** ''Film/IronMan1'': In the climactic battle, when Iron Monger lifts a car full of innocent civilians above his head and is about to throw it Tony uses his chest RT to knock his enemy out from under the car, and catch it by the front bumper -- when he used it with his Mark 1 reactor it ate about a fifth of his remaining power.
** ''Film/IronMan2'': He casually destroys a watermelon while drunk.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': After getting supercharged by a lightning bolt from Thor, he uses it in conjunction with a double repulsor attack to blast Thor in retaliation.
** ''Film/IronMan3'': It comes back in full glory, when he [[TorsoWithAView blows a hole in Savin's chest]] and caps it off with a BondOneLiner.
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': In the climax he uses it in conjunction with a lightning bolt soaked blow from Thor to destroy Ultron's bomb.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': In the climactic fight, he blows off Bucky's metal arm with it.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Tony and Pepper use theirs in tandem during a mid-air BackToBackBadasses moment in the Battle of Earth.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Played with. It's only because of his suits that he can play a role in direct combat and rival gods and monsters, but Tony considers his mind to be more important that whatever fancy laser or nanobot system he's packing. ''Film/IronMan3'' showed that Tony's GadgeteerGenius is his greatest weapon, and ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' had him spell it out.
-->'''Tony Stark:''' If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it.

** ''Film/IronMan2'': He casually destroys a watermelon with it while drunk.

** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': In the climax, he uses it in conjunction with a lightning bolt soaked blow from Thor to destroy Ultron's bomb.

* WorfHadTheFlu: In all three of his solo movies, Tony is hampered by something in the climactic battle with the BigBad; he was using a more primitive arc reactor against Stane, his arsenal was drained fighting mooks before Vanko, and his primary armour was still damaged in the third. ''Civil War'' also counts since Tony was fighting with multiple handicaps as otherwise he could have easily defeat Steve and Bucky, super-soldier or not. And in ''Infinity War'' while the ''suit'' is more powerful than ever, Tony is older and out of shape meaning that he can't take full advantage of the suit.

* ChromeChampion: An all-silver ensemble to mark its prototype status. It will be the last suit of armor before Tony adopts his standard red and gold look.

An armor developed by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner specifically to stop the Hulk should Banner ever lose control. More properly, "Veronica" isn't PoweredArmor so much as a drone containing modular components that can assemble into a MiniMecha capable of matching the Hulk in strength. This modular nature also means that the Hulkbuster can easily call for replacements of damaged or destroyed pieces of itself, something vital in a protracted fight against the Hulk. Originally designated as Iron Man's Mark 44 armor, an updated Mark 48 version was created some time before the Battle of Wakanda.

* MightyGlacier: The biggest drawback of the Hulkbuster is that while it is strong and tough enough to trade blows with the Hulk and Cull Obsidian, it's not nearly as agile. Tony got in trouble a couple times because the Hulk could quickly move to exploit lapses in the massive armor's defense. Similarly, Thanos' Outriders manage to (temporarily) bring it down through sheer numbers and Cull Obsidian manages to tear off an arm, though admittedly, Bruce was a bit distracted at the time.

* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', the armor loses its left arm against Cull Obsidian. It is repaired by the beginning of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

* {{Intangibility}}: During the Battle of Wakanda, Thanos uses the Space Stone to turn the Hulkbuster intangible just before the latter attacks him. Suddenly no longer able to hit Thanos, the Hulkbuster goes flying through him and ends up embedded in a rock wall.

* AchillesHeel: The Mark 50 has one major weakness - there's a finite amount of nanites stored in the Arc Reactor. A long drawn out battle can use up the nanobots with no way for Tony to replace them.

* HollywoodHealing: With the Bleeding Edge nanomachine colony at his disposal, Stark becomes the first hero in the MCU capable of casting "Healing Magic", by spraying surplus nanomachines over wounds, even critical ones, to staunch bleeding and, presumably, eat harmful virus'/bacteria and knit together severed/broken tissue. The hasty application of this "healing spray" allowed him to survive having a nano-machine sword driven clean ''through'' his liver, intestines, left lung and kidney by Thanos. Though he is still weakened and required further medical treatment from Nebula to ''fully'' recover from this lethal injury.

* SuperToughness: Probably has ''THE'' standout durability feat amongst Tony's armors, getting hit by a massive chunk of moon Thanos hurled at him and getting back up pretty quickly. The armor survives a battle with the Black Order, despite getting knocked around, a crash on Titan, a flock of bat-like creatures sent by the Reality Stone, a fireblast powered by the Power Stone, having a moon dropped on it, six direct punches from Thanos, and two direct hits from the Power Stone.

Built five years after the Snap. In many ways, it is pretty much identical to the Mark 50 in terms of technology, with some minor upgrades to its weaponry. This armor has the honor of being worn during the Battle of Earth and being the final armor built and worn by Tony Stark before his ultimate sacrifice.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: And how. The very last thing it does is serve as a third Infinity Gauntlet, granting Tony nigh-unlimited power for the few brief moments before he died.
* BlingBlingBang: After the more gilded Mark 42, the Mark 85 has very prominent gold, primarily on the shoulders, upper arms, and thighs, as seen in the character page picture for Tony. Particularly notable as the featured suits for Tony between this and 43 placed more focus on red as the primary color with gold as merely accents (with the exception of the Mark 47)
* CompositeCharacter: While functionally identical to the nanotech Mark 50, the armor brings back the signature faceplate mechanism of previous armors, when, being nanotech, it didn't need to have that again.
* EnergyAbsorption: Tony actually asks Thor to hit him with lightning so he can channel that energy against Thanos, much like what Thor did to him accidentally in ''The Avengers''. This ability also explains how it was able to handle housing in the energy of the Infinity Stones.
* HardLight: The shields are now made of this rather than solid material. Presumably, this was done to address Mark 50's ultimate handicap--in that generating solid weaponry eats up the nanomachines for the armor.
* MythologyGag: As the final armor, it is only fitting that its appearance evokes the classic Ditko armors (Model 2 and Model 4). Not simply in color scheme, but the organic aesthetics of the nanomachine armors allow the suit to evoke the musculature of the armors.

* WalkingArmory: Mostly same as the Mark 50, but this time around the armament mostly consists of HardLight {{Energy Weapon}}s to compensate for the Mark 50's AchillesHeel.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Archive footage from ''Age of Ultron''[[/note]]

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* PreMortemOneLiner: The climax of the FinalBattle in ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'' has him uttering his CatchPhrase prior to [[BadassFingersnap finger-snapping away the time-displaced Thanos and his entire army]].

* BadassInDistress: In ''Endgame,'' he is heading back to Earth with Nebula in the Guardians' spaceship when they run out of food and water, and get close to running out of oxygen, and need external help to survive. Captain Marvel ends up saving them both.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: With his own issues, multiple personality quirks, and a long list of character flaws, Tony Stark is by far the most eccentric character in the MCU. He's also arguably the most brilliant and scientifically knowledgeable, and as such is a world-renowned billionaire and genius, an essential part of the Avengers, and operates as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s business consultant. Granted, the majority of the people he works with spend 90% of the time wanting to punch him in the face, but they still put up with him because he's ''just that good.''

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: He ''really'' has a hard time giving up being Iron Man. At the end of ''Film/IronMan3,'' he initiates a self-destruct sequence on all of his suits, has surgery to remove the shrapnel in his chest so he no longer needs the arc reactor, and tells Pepper that he no longer needs the suit, as he considers it a cocoon from which he's emerged, a new man. Yet by ''Age of Ultron'' he's back in the fight, flying the suit for the opening action sequence. In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', he admits to himself that he doesn't want to stop.

** ''Film/IronMan3'' has Tony relying on a combination of James Bond-style tricks, homemade weapons, and basic but effective physical maneuvers that outclass the greater martial prowess of the Extremis super soldiers, and in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', he uses his technological know-how to disable one of the Ultron-controlled suits with ''chopsticks.''

** The Hulkbuster system in ''Age of Ultron'' includes lots of spare parts up to full on limbs, correctly anticipating the Hulk tearing them off. On the other hand, he doesn't anticipate that Hulk would start tearing up ''the delivery system.''

* DeadpanSnarker: The biggest one in the MCU. His sarcastic streak is ''legendary.''

** His suits initially don't have [[BoringButPractical a parachute]], an auxiliary power source or any kind of safety system that saves the user's life if the important parts of the suit stop working, which serves as a major aspect of his own escape from the F-22 Raptors in ''Iron Man'' and leads to Rhodes breaking his spine from falling down in ''Civil War.''

** 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.''

* GuiltComplex: In ''Civil War,'' he gives his complete support to the Sokovia Accords because of his overwhelming guilt over the events of ''Age of Ultron''. He strives to submit to a higher authority that would prevent him from doing any more wrong, and attempts to appease the government by any means necessary. He also tries to convince the other Avengers to do the same regardless of their concerns. Of known events in support of the Accords (New York, Washington D.C., Sokovia, and Lagos), only one (Sokovia) can be blamed on the Avengers -- the rest were caused by enemy forces, and the Avengers tried to stop them and minimize the collateral damage. Tony's inability to see that because of guilt eventually results in fracturing the team, the very thing that he was trying to prevent.

* IAmNotMyFather: Much of his motivation prior to the Sokovia Accords is undoing SinsOfOurFathers by taking Stark Industries out of the [[WarForFunAndProfit weapons trade]], which is how Howard Stark built the fortune that Tony inherited. The fact that civilians continue to be killed by bombs made by Stark Industries haunts him through ''Iron Man 3'' and ''Civil War.'' His father's actions such as deporting Vanko, and having a bad relationship with Hank Pym (though in that case, Hank was hardly all that nice a guy himself) also haunts him. It also reflects on his anxiety about settling with Pepper and starting a family, since he's worried if he'll be good with kids, and his interactions with Harley and later Peter stem from him trying to be a good Dad to see if he can make it.

** In ''Infinity War,'' he has come to acknowledge being irrational when he attempts to reason with Star-Lord to prevent him from making the same mistake by attacking Thanos for killing Gamora before they can remove the Infinity Gauntlet.

** In the opening scene of ''Iron Man,'' during his attempt to call for help during the Ten Rings ambush, a warhead lands right in front of him with the corporate label ''Stark Industries'' prominently displayed for a brief moment before promptly detonating and peppering him with shrapnel. Weapons maker attacked by his own weapons.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: He favors this for his combat tactics. Also the case with the arc reactor in his chest. Three Gigajoules per second is a power output roughly on par with a nuclear power plant, and he essentially made it to power a pacemaker. Keep in mind that's the ''prototype,'' and he has upgraded it at least twice.

* PayingForTheActionScene: In ''Age of Ultron'' during the fight in Johannesburg he piledrives the Hulk into a skyscraper that is under construction, but makes sure to buy the building before he commits to the act.
* PerspectiveReversal: Early in the films, Tony is an egotist who has little use for authority, while Steve Rogers just wants to join the Army and do his part for his country. By the time of ''Civil War,'' the fallout from his reckless actions have made Tony believe that the Avengers need to be subject to oversight while Steve, having witnessed how corrupted and obstructive governing bodies have become in the modern day, distrusts the idea, to the point where the two end up leading opposing factions of the team.

** He's back at it twice in ''Age of Ultron,'' the first time played straight after Scarlet Witch uses a vision of Earth being destroyed and the Avengers dying because Tony didn't do enough to save them to drive him to self-destructive isolation and a rabid need to do something, anything to protect the world.

** The Red Oni To Steve Rogers' Blue Oni. ''Boy, does it show between these two.'' Heck, the colors of their ''suits'' can be a good literal/visual example of this. He's also the Red Oni to Doctor Strange's BlueOni. For the two of them, it is science vs. magic.

** In ''Age of Ultron,'' Tony leaves the Avengers at the end, deciding that he's done enough damage.

* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: He is often seen eating, be it a burger just before a press-conference or pizza during a heated conversation with Obadiah in ''Film/IronMan1''; donuts before talking to Nick Fury or strawberries after an unsuccessful attempt to explain himself to Pepper in ''Film/IronMan2;'' or dried blueberries while arguing with Captain America in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}.'' It has become such a defining trait of the character that they used it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ty1zVZQ8X4 the teaser]] for ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar,'' where Robert Downey Jr. is quarreling with Creator/ChrisEvans over a donut.

** ''Iron Man:'' He faces the "[[HighUpIceUp icing problem]]" early on during a test flight and nearly plummets to his death. He changes the suit's alloy to prevent build-up of ice, which is critical to beat Stane since the Iron Monger suit is still vulnerable.
** ''The Avengers:'' After having a lot of problem with Whiplash's electrified whips in ''Iron Man 2'', Tony upgraded his suit to be able to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb excess electricity]] to give himself a temporary power boost. He also had the problem that he couldn't fight a battle in midair easily because his primary weapons, his repulsors, are necessary to fly; the Mark VII has additional repulsors on his back so he can use his hand repulsors without having to stop flying. He's also upgraded a powerful laser weapon he used in ''Iron Man 2'' to go from a one-off use to something he can use freely.
** ''Iron Man 3:''' In ''The Avengers'' the Mark VII was able to find Tony on its own and form around him, but when he was thrown from a building it barely finished in time for him to stop his freefall. The Mark XLII is modular with its individual components able to function without forming the full armor, so Tony can summon individual pieces to him when he needs them. The technology that lets the components separate and become small enough to fly also means his suits are able to open up and let him get in and out of them easily, no longer requiring special rigs to get them off as he did previously. Finally, he integrates Jarvis into his suits as the Iron Legion, letting them operate autonomously without him.
** ''Avengers: Infinity War:''' Tony has upgraded to nanotech now, allowing his entire suit to be compartmentalized in his arc reactor and activated with a quick tap to his chest. The suit's capabilities are ''drastically'' expanded, because Tony can shapeshift it to form new weapons as he needs them including energy cannons, a thruster for superior flight, and blades for close-range combat. The nanotech design also eliminates the weaknesses of his suit that Ant-Man, Captain America, and the Winter Soldier exploited in ''Civil War'', that being they disabled certain parts of his suit and compromised his systems; now Tony can repair any damage and reform any lost armor parts with excess nanomachines.

** A malfunctioning parachute was a major aspect of his own escape from the F-22 Raptors in ''Iron Man,''. In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', we learn Tony has included a parachute and wingsuit in the Spider-Man suit he designed. Tony found himself exposed in the snow in IM 3, and the Spidey suit also includes a heater that can quickly dry Peter out.

* TeamPrimaDonna: In ''The Avengers,'' he is insufferably smug and bossy. Tony does, however, turn the stereotype on its side by being by far the most welcoming and friendly person out of everyone else toward Bruce Banner, the team's NaiveNewcomer.

** Speaking of ''Infinity War,'' Tony's absolute determination to keep fighting and his ten years of experience as Iron Man make him the only hero in the entire film, besides Thor, capable of going toe-to-toe with Thanos and wounding him, despite his vastly inferior strength.

** In ''Avengers: Age of Ultron'' and ''Civil War,'' Ultron, Crossbones, and later Zemo prove him wrong. Collectively they undo the gains made by the Avengers, eroding their goodwill, internally dividing them, and handicapping them before they face Thanos.

** On the receiving end of one from Steve in ''Civil War.'' Cap chews Tony out for his "confining" of Wanda to the Avengers compound, calling it internment. Steve having lived through WWII would notably be ''very'' familiar with internment.

* {{Workaholic}}: If it wasn't for Pepper, JARVIS, and Rhodey, Tony would've starved, blown himself up, or overdosed on caffeine down in his workshop years ago. In ''Iron Man 3'', he spends more and more time in his lab to cope with his [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] and nightmares. He's apparently completed at least 30 different Iron Man weapons in the space of ''six months.''

* CollapsibleHelmet: In the first film, his face plate just slides up or down as necessary. By ''Iron Man 2'', not only is the helmet of Mark 5 collapsible, [[ExaggeratedTrope the whole suit is]]. Even then, the helmet is the last part of the suit to deploy. By ''Civil War,'' his Mark 46 armor has a helmet that can fully retract into the suit. In ''Infinity War'', the helmet is made out of nanomachines, and a new one can reform if the first one is torn off, which happens while he is fighting Thanos.

* EnergyAbsorption: In ''The Avengers,'' his suit absorbs Thor's lightning bolt:
-->'''Jarvis:''' Power to 400 percent capacity.\\

** Mark 50 is capable of dolling out physical blows strong enough to briefly stagger ''Thanos.'' It also manages to push an Asteroid the size of a small moon onto him (albeit with Gravity working in it's favour). It's also able to take direct attacks from Thanos in rapid succession, though it does end up breaking in the end.
* SuperSpeed: His reflexes are those of a normal human's (albeit a trained and experienced one), but his early suits are fast enough to reach Mach 2. By ''Infinity War,'' Mark 50 is able catch up to space ships exiting the atmosphere. The minimum speed required for that is ''Mach 20''.

* TaughtByExperience: He is constantly learning by trial-and-error and improving his suits by correcting old flaws:
** ''Iron Man:'' He faces the "[[HighUpIceUp icing problem]]" early on during a test flight and nearly plummets to his death. He has solved the problem by the end of film, which gives him the edge over the BigBad.
** ''The Avengers:'' After the electrical discharges from Whiplash's weapons disabled his suit in ''Iron Man 2'', Tony has upgraded his suit further to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb excess electrical energy]], which he can then channel into his repulsors. He uses this feature against Thor. It also stays to his latest suits, when he and Thor weaponize it against Thanos with an even powerful set of lasers. He also had to deal with a running dogfight midair, something he couldn't counter due to relying on all four of his repulsors to fly, leading to the addition of a "jetpack" system from the next suit onward that let him shoot down enemies midair without slowing to a near stop.

** ''Avengers: Endgame:'' He trades his nanotech-shields for HardLight ones in the Mark 85, so it consumes less nanomachines than Mark 50, because he kept running out during his fight with Thanos. It also presumably allows him to strengthen the shield just by pumping more power in, and gives him more visibility.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In a bit of AdaptationalHeroism from [[ComicBook/CivilWar the comic]] which ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' is loosely based on, he's unsettled by the prison conditions that the anti-Accords Avengers are placed under.

* IHateYouVampireDad: Tony inherited his ScienceHero tendencies from his father, Howard. Like Tony, Howard was a drunk and a womanizer and a genius who eventually settled down with a woman he adored. He also drove Tony really hard, wasn't able to tell his son how proud he was of him, how much he loved him. And he died when Tony was still a child in college, so they could never talk it out and reconcile. ''Iron Man 2'' is nothing but daddy issues unpacked.