Stark was losing intelligence by the day which slowed his thinking time and caused him to not be able to pronounce difficult words correctly. [71], Chi-Enhanced Physiology: Danny Rand possesses the power to harness the mystical spiritual energy, or chi, as a result of having defeated Shou-Lao the Undying in combat. Following a failed attempt to continue the research on his own that led Tony to re-encounter his old flame, Cassandra Gillespe, he was informed by the administrator of the orphanage about the discovery of hidden hospital records from Tony's mother, kept in secret by the former administrator after Tony's birth records had been taken with him. He ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. [325], After injecting himself with Extremis, Stark was able to store his suit's undersheath in the hallows of his bones, being able to make it cover his skin at will. However, the One gave him his last remaining ounce of chi and Rand once again engaged in combat against Zhu-Kong and defeated him as well. bracelet activating a polarizing unit in the chest-beam, which caused the shoulder and collar rings to expand in a 3D form, letting out the sleeve and leggings of the suit, which were expanded upon reaching the forearm and calves by memory circuits into the cuffs of the gloves and boots, and then encasing his hands and feet. [264] Stark's increasingly irresponsible behavior, including handling his Iron Man armor drunk and mistreating his butler and friend Edwin Jarvis, led him to finally ask Bethany Cabe for help, who would help him fight his alcoholism for the first time. "[209], Early into the incursion crisis, Captain America had denounced the acceptance of his fellow Illuminati of the prospect of destroying other worlds. With Power Man... joining the Thunderbolts? Iron Fist assisted in capturing Luke Cage, who later escaped thanks to the Ghost's tampering. The adopted son of weapons manufacturer Howard Stark,[50] Tony inherited his family's company at a young age following his parents' death. [43], Peak Human Physical Conditioning: Rand is an Olympic-level athlete and gymnast. [128], The Avengers were disassembled due to the actions of an unbalanced Scarlet Witch, which led to the deaths of Ant-Man, Vision, and Hawkeye. [161] Although the battle against the alien invasion had been won, Tony suffered a great loss. Intending for this team to try and preempt natural and man-made disasters rather than just reacting to events, Stark provided his team with full access to his cutting-edge technology. Meanwhile, Davos killed the last incarnation of Shao-Lao and Danny's chi once again was depleted. [200][201] However, his plan had a second phase. [141] Events like this led Tony to doubt himself. [324], The Model 19 armor had the mesh covering the entire body made of S.K.I.N., a liquid metal, automatically covering the entire body once the chest piece was placed on it. [122] This would be later revealed due to the Ultron Imperative. Only his most trusted aides learned Stark and Iron Man were one and the same. [63] Two years later, Amanda became pregnant. However he could still function normally within his Iron Man armor. RELATED: The 5 Most Ruthless Things Iron Man Has Done (& 5 Tony Stark Has) [citation needed] He is able to press lift approximately 300 pounds;[85] however, by harnessing the chi of Shou-Lao, Iron Fist could initially increase his strength to a maximum of lifting 800 lbs. Tony's new life as a CEO provided him with new challenges. [54] Iron Man battled the augmented terrorist Mallen, but suffered massive injuries. [citation needed], Master Acrobat: Rand is an extremely skilled acrobat capable of many difficult feats. The New Avengers used the Stark Tower as their headquarters. Marvel's Iron Man VR. [87] With the other remaining founders after the Hulk left,[86] he was among those who discovered the frozen form of the heroic Captain America, still frozen since World War II. [241], After becoming merged with his own armor on a molecular level during confrontation against Ultron,[242] Tony used a remotely-piloted Nano-Iron Man Armor to venture into his own body to reverse the damage, and found microscopic manufacturing labels stamped in his very own cells. Downey … The Ghost interrupted the doctor's ritual, but Tony Stark manually overcame his coma and used the Ghost's ghost phone to transport the assassin away. During the same time, he accompanied a woman named Jade to Feng-Tu, K'un-Lun's afterlife, where he met his mother, who had taken on the name Silver Dragon and been enslaved by the sorcerer Dhasha Khan. [248] As a teenager, Tony would drink frequently starting when he was fifteen years old, mainly to allow himself to better fit in with his classmates and to impress girls. Motherboard reverted Tony's personality to his younger years, causing him to drink again. A few models are too big for the case and require a separate module. In-universe, the exploits of Iron Man (like those of many heroes), are adapted by. The agency merged with Oracle Inc. - the corporation owned by Prince Namor, the Atlantean Sub-Mariner - to protect the world from danger, for a price. Donning a recreation of his Model 1 Armor, Tony adopted the identity of Mark One and became the secretive leader of the A.I. Shortly after this first display of tensions between Captain Marvel's and Tony's ideals, Stark decided to begin a search on the identity of his biological parents. In defeating the Mandarin, Stark is forced to cut off part of his foot to remove the Extremis armor dampener but was able to redirect the virus-containing rockets by sending them to an extremely high altitude and killing the virus. Stark's relationships, morality and ethics are highly adaptable and malleable to what he would consider the greater good of mankind's necessary survival and progress.