It's nerd history time! The character we all know as Iron Man first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 in 1962. Now, as we know from the MCU, Tony is the son of both Howard Stark and Maria Stark, owners of Stark Industries, but...

what we actually learned in *International Iron Man* from 2016 is that Tony was actually born to two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents: Amanda Armstrong and a man named Jude. Now, Jude was a Hydra double agent, but he fell in love with Amanda, saved her, they made a baby. Jude told her that he

was a Hydra agent; they fought; Jude went bye-bye; and Amanda wanted a better future for her baby. So Tony went up for adoption, and that is where Howard decided to intervene and adopt baby Iron Man. Now, aside from just wanting a baby, Howard also adopted Tony as a decoy for

their secret firstborn son, Arno Stark. But we're getting off track. Tony had no idea about his true parentage or his adopted brother and was loved unconditionally, but he did still have a strained relationship with his father, Howard. This was caused by a few factors:

Tony was a sensitive and reclusive kid, which contrasted with Howard, who glorified physical prowess. But Howard also partook in the drink and was prone to mood swings. So Tony turned to electronics as a coping mechanism at barely 5 years old, as he started to

believe that hardware was reliable where people were unpredictable and hard to understand, which is fair. Now, after attending boarding school, Tony eventually went for undergraduate electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AKA MIT, and he graduated with two master's degrees by the age of 19, which

It's ridiculous. Now, Tony found a mentor here in physicist Dr. Ted Slot, who not only taught him more in the realm of science but also instilled the idea of ethical scientific practice. Tony was a genius and went to work at Stark Industries, but was clearly much more

interested in living a playboy lifestyle. At 21, he inherited Stark Industries after both his parents passed away in a car crash that was later revealed to be orchestrated by Republic Oil, which is indeed the company that would become Roxxon Oil, one of the shadiest

companies in all the land. Now, within just a few years, Tony turned Stark Industries from solely an ammunitions firm to a multinational corporation with a range of interests covering virtually all types of contemporary scientific industry and leading at the cutting edge of electronics. Now, since Tony

didn't have absolutely rock-solid business skills, he promoted Virginia Pepper Potts to become his executive assistant, leaving her with most of his work. To be perfectly honest, the moment where things changed came when Tony decided to consult on a weapons contract overseas in the fictional country of

Tenring. While there, Tony and his escort accidentally tripped one of his own company's mines, which took out his escort and very nearly did the same to Tony, leaving a piece of shrapnel in his chest which, within a short period of time, would end up piercing his heart. Now,

Tony was then captured by the warlord Wong-Chu, who subsequently worked for the villain known as the Mandarin. Stark was given access to a small laboratory with another captive, the renowned physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Professor Ho Yinsen, and he was instructed to build a

a powerful device for Wangchu and his associates to use, but as we know, he and Yinsen built an arc reactor and a suit of armor—the Iron Man Mark I. With this, Tony was able to make his escape and take revenge on his captors with Yinsen

sacrificing himself in order to buy Tony more time to assemble and charge the armor. Tony was able to escape and met United States Marines pilot James Rhodes as he made his way back to American forces. Now, as a changed man and with access to all of his resources, Stark slimmed down

the design of his armor and determined it was too powerful to be mass-produced, so he essentially chose to don the suit himself and act as a hero. He also provided a cover story that the suit was being piloted by a bodyguard, while he himself, as Tony, was a completely

separate person. Only those closest to Tony knew he was actually Iron Man; people like his chauffeur, Happy Hogan, and of course, Pepper Potts. Iron Man would face spies and criminals like the Melter, Mr. Doll, Crimson Dynamo, and the Mandarin. As the scope of his activities

expanded, he became an instrumental factor in the founding of S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a founding member of the Avengers, even donating his Manhattan mansion as their base of operations. As an Avenger, he was among the group who discovered Captain America frozen in ice, and he even sponsored the membership of Hawkeye,

who he had fought in the past. This was all as Tony dealt with the problems of a dual superhero/arms manufacturer lifestyle. He was constantly updating and improving his suits, and he even underwent heart surgery to remove the shrapnel in his chest. And it wasn't too

Much later, Tony decided to stop manufacturing arms and devoted Stark Industries to other technology instead. Now, as we learned in *New Avengers Illuminati* #1 (2006), in the wake of the Kree-Skrull War, a secret meeting between Professor X, Mr.

Fantastic Four's Black Bolt of the Inhumans, Doctor Strange, and Namor resulted in the formation of the Illuminati, in order to strategize and coordinate with vital leaders in the superhuman community. And they sucked, but we will circle back to them a few times.

Around this time, in the 80s, Tony began to suffer from a very dangerous drinking habit, picked up from his time as a playboy and probably influenced by his father's own issues. He ended up being cheated out of Stark International, lost the leases on various apartments, had his assets

frozen, and had all but one of his Iron Man suits destroyed, all thanks to the entrepreneur Obadiah Stane. This led to a time where James Rhodes possessed the armor and was operating as Iron Man until Tony created a much more sophisticated suit, the Silver Centurion

armor, with the two briefly operating as the Iron Men. Only at 6 minutes, that's pretty good! After Tony defeated Stane, he established Stark Enterprises, a technological design and manufacturing company in Northern California, and he also became a part of the West Coast Avengers. Then, in *Iron Man* Vol. 1

#225, an industrialist known as Spymaster stole the plans for many of the innovative technologies within the Iron Man armor and turned the plans over to Justin Hammer, who then sold them to criminals. This is Armor Wars: facing off against dozens of criminals who were now

Implementing his tech to commit their crimes, he caught and disabled many of them while also wiping the computer records of his plans. He did accidentally take the life of the second Titanium Man, aka the Gremlin. This got Iron Man labeled as an outlaw and saw

Stark having to come up with a whole story about the guy who used to be Iron Man losing his life and being replaced by another Stark employee, while Stark himself created a much more advanced suit, the Mark VIII. This leads us into the '90s. This saw Tony crippled thanks to an

ex-lover, requiring a biochip in order to walk without his armor alongside the Avengers. He also traveled to space to take out the Kree Supreme Intelligence, who had been trying to siphon the sun as a power source against the Shi'ar and had destroyed a huge part

of the Kree Empire. His biochip was then causing him nerve damage and gave him more problems thanks to Klaw and Whiplash, who attacked Stark's nervous system with a technorganic virus, getting Tony placed in cryostasis. But after he recovered, he had to restructure Stark Enterprises

thanks to business decisions made back when Obadiah Stane was in charge, which caused some fights with other heroes, most notably the Hulk, in Iron Man #305 in 1994. Then in 1995/1996, there was a whole time when Stark, being influenced by a

mortise, committed some truly horrible stuff and got himself killed, but then he was replaced by a younger, alternate timeline version of himself. Then Marvel said that that was a horrible idea and corrected it all with Heroes Reborn, and everyone was like, "Ah, we forgive you," and it was fine. Now, after a

During a period when Tony faced his own sentient armor, gained technophobia, upgraded his armor with new skin technology, and became the new Secretary of Defense, we got *Avengers Disassembled*. This saw Stark manipulated by the Scarlet Witch, framed by Clarence Ward, and giving up the Secretary position.

The Avengers then fell apart, only to eventually reform as the New Avengers within Stark Tower. This led to Extremis; an attempted recreation of the Super Soldier Serum with major modifications.

During the Extremis storyline, Tony is forced to use Extremis on himself, healing and becoming capable of directly interfacing with technology, including his newest Extremis armor. Around this time, it's also worth noting that Stark and the Illuminati decided to shoot the Hulk into space.

This brings us to the first superhuman Civil War. Much happens here, and I've made another video about it on this channel, but essentially, thanks to a superhuman disaster in Stamford, Connecticut, the government planned to instigate a superhuman registration act, making all superhero secret identities public knowledge and turning all heroes into government agents. This split the superhero community, with Iron Man leading the pro-registration side.

He made many big and questionable decisions. He revealed his identity as Iron Man and convinced Spider-Man to do the same, leading to much heartache for Peter and ultimately destroying their friendship.

Prison 42, in the Negative Zone, to deal with the anti-registration forces led by Captain America. He built a cyborg clone of Thor that went out of control, and he used nanobots to control the Thunderbolts, all of whom were extremely dangerous villains fighting unregistered heroes.

This eventually led to the surrender of Cap's forces and the capture of Steve Rogers himself. But it saw Tony become the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after helping to form the Mighty Avengers. Ultron would take over the Extremis armor and overwrite Stark's DNA, turning him into a

clone of Janet van Dyne with metallic skin. This metamorph Tony went on a rampage, even fighting the Sentry, until Hank Pym purged Ultron from Tony's body. Following this, is when that whole firing the Hulk into space came back to bite the

Illuminati in the butt when the Hulk returned in World War Hulk and wiped the floor with everyone, Tony included. Now, following the repairs that needed to be made to New York, Iron Man faced another threat in the form of the Mandarin, reborn and creating an

aerosolized form of the Extremis virus, which saw Tony literally having to cut off his own foot to eventually win the day. But that was nowhere near the end of Tony's problems, as he now had to deal with the entire Skrull invasion—and not just an invasion, but an integration,

because the Skrulls had literally embedded themselves so deeply in the superhero community that the Skrull Queen herself—her name was Veranke—revealed that she had been Spider-Woman this whole time. The Skrulls basically disabled Tony's Extremis virus and

Barely nearly took him out. He led the heroes against the Scourge and did win the day, but ultimately Tony lost as the president at the time was really unimpressed with Tony's performance, and so he removed Stark as director and disbanded S.H.I.E.L.D. Tony's technology was

now non-functional; his corporations were in disarray. He had many new enemies and little to no allies willing to help him with any of his problems, and worse of all, Norman Osborn became his replacement, leading us right into Dark Reign. This was a pretty dark time for Tony; I can't lie. Tony was very briefly a

part of the Mighty Avengers before he realized that he was not ready to continue with them. His Extremis abilities were also severely hampered and failing. He managed to destroy all records from the Registration Act, keeping the secret identities of heroes a secret from Norman Osborn. He went on

the run, but of course, on top of trying to escape Osborn and his cabal, Tony was also losing intelligence by the day, slowing his thinking and making it harder to control his armors. He ended up having to use his very first Iron Man suit, but by this time Norman had

caught up with him and beat him into a coma, which was recorded and shared by Pepper Potts. Now, in this vegetative state, Pepper, who by this time had her own suit of armor, had found a hologram inside of it that showed that Tony had a means of

rebooting his mind to before he gained the Extremis virus. That means when the heroes did bring him back, he was taken by surprise when he read about the events of Civil War, Captain America being taken out, Secret Invasion, and Dark Reign. Now next up is the Siege of Asgard.

event for which Tony was still out of commission, but did manage to show up using an old version of his armor, disabling Norman's Iron Patriot armor and arriving alongside a revived Steve Rogers and Thor. He helped to defeat the Void, ramming an entire SHIELD hel- 

carrier into him, giving Thor the opportunity to end the conflict once and for all. Now, obviously, that only brings us up to 2010, but if you guys want to hear the rest of Iron Man's history up until the modern day, make sure you like 

this video, and if the demand is there, a Part Two you shall receive. For now, though, I'm Adam Andrews, this is Top 10 Nerds. Stay safe and peace out! [Music] Nerds [Music] All

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아이언맨이 처음 등장한 것은 테일즈 오브 서스펜스 #39(1962)였습니다.

인터내셔널 아이언맨(2016)에서 토니 스타크의 친부모가 쉴드 요원 아만다 암스트롱과 히드라 요원 주드라라는 사실이 밝혀졌어요.

하워드 스타크는 비밀 장남인 아르노 스타크의 미끼로 토니를 입양했습니다.

토니는 성격 차이와 하워드의 음주 및 기분 변화로 인해 아버지와 긴장된 관계를 유지했습니다.

토니는 사람보다 전자기기가 더 신뢰할 수 있다는 사실을 깨닫고 대처 수단으로 전자기기를 선택했습니다.

Tony는 19세에 MIT에서 두 개의 석사 학위를 취득했습니다.

초기 커리어와 아이언맨의 탄생

토니는 스타크 인더스트리에서 일하며 물리학자 테드 슬롯 박사의 멘토링을 받았습니다.

21살에 부모님이 공화국 석유(미래의 록손 석유)가 사주한 자동차 사고로 사망한 후 토니는 스타크 인더스트리를 물려받았습니다.

토니는 스타크 인더스트리를 다국적 기업으로 다각화했습니다.

텐링에서 발생한 지뢰 사고로 토니는 가슴에 파편을 입었습니다.

웡추에게 붙잡힌 토니는 호 인센 교수와 함께 아이언맨 마크 1을 제작했습니다.

토니는 탈출했고 인센은 자신을 희생했습니다.

토니는 아이언맨 슈트가 대량 생산하기에는 너무 강력하다고 판단하고 직접 아이언맨이 되었어요.

토니는 소수에게만 알려진 비밀 신분을 유지했습니다.

아이언맨은 다양한 악당과 싸우며 쉴드와 어벤져스를 창설하는 데 중요한 역할을 했어요.

토니는 캡틴 아메리카를 발견하고 호크아이의 어벤져스 멤버십을 후원했습니다.

토니는 심장 수술을 받았고 결국 팔 생산을 중단했습니다.

토니는 일루미나티에 참여하게 됩니다.

토니는 알코올 중독과 싸우다가 오바디어 스테인에게 속아 스타크 인터내셔널에서 쫓겨났어요.

토니는 스타크 엔터프라이즈를 설립하고 웨스트 코스트 어벤져스에 합류했습니다.

아머 워즈에서 토니는 훔친 기술을 이용해 범죄자들을 처리했습니다.

90년대에 토니는 걷기 위해 바이오칩이 필요한 불구자였습니다.

토니는 크리 최고 지능과 싸웠고 클로와 채찍의 공격을 받았습니다.

익스트리미스, 남북전쟁 그리고 그 이후

어벤져스 디스어셈블드에서 토니는 조작을 당하고 누명을 썼어요.

토니는 익스트리미스를 자신에게 사용했고 일루미나티는 헐크를 우주로 보냈습니다.

초인적인 남북전쟁 당시, 토니는 등록 찬성 측을 이끌었습니다.

토니는 자신의 정체를 밝히고 스파이더맨도 그렇게 하도록 설득했습니다.

토니는 감옥 42를 만들고 나노봇을 이용해 썬더볼트를 조종했습니다.

울트론이 토니의 익스트리미스 갑옷을 이어받았습니다.

월드 워 헐크, 스컬 인베이전, 다크 레인

헐크의 귀환은 일루미나티에게 문제를 일으켰습니다.

토니는 만다린의 에어로졸화된 익스트리미스 바이러스와 싸웠습니다.

토니는 스컬의 침공과 베란케의 스파이더우먼 공개를 처리했습니다.

토니는 쉴드 국장직을 잃었고 노먼 오스본이 그 자리를 이어받았어요.

토니는 다크 레인 기간 동안 암흑기에 직면했습니다.

토니는 등록법에 따른 기록을 파기하고 도주했습니다.

노먼 오스본은 토니를 혼수상태에 빠뜨렸습니다.

페퍼 포츠는 토니의 마음을 재부팅할 방법을 찾았습니다.

토니는 아스가르드 공성전에 참여했습니다.

토니는 공허를 물리치는 데 도움을 주었습니다.