Find out what led Tony Stark to become Iron Man
Hombre de Hierro (Iron Man in Spanish) is a superhero that belongs to the marvel universe. Also known by his true identity as Tony Stark either Tony Stark, is an ingenious scientist, billionaire businessman and philanthropist; he also owns a successful company called Stark Industriesa company that handles manufacture advanced weapons and military defense technologies.
His superhero name is because uses armor made entirely of metalwhich has an artificial intelligence system called FRIDAY and makes it work through voice commands. Also, the suit has weapons and defense artifacts integrated into your system.
Although the origins of Tony Stark seemed to be quite clear, recently Marvel has revealed something about Tony’s life that It completely changes the perspective of things.
Next, we will tell you all the details about it, however, before you continue reading, it is very important that you keep in mind that this post contains spoilers from volume #1 of the comic AX: Avengers from Marvel.
The origins of Tony Stark
Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark is a child prodigy who decides to start studying Industrial Engineering at the age of 15 at MIT, and is the only son of the head and director of Stark Industries, Howard Stark Y Mary Stark.
Stark Industries was founded by Tony’s great-grandfather, Isaac Stark Sr.who inherited it to his son, Howard Stark, once he died. Howard, Tony’s father, He ran the company for several years until he tragically passed away.and then the company came under the direction of Tony.
While supervising experimental work in the Middle East, Tony is seriously injured by a bomband kidnapped by terrorists who want to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction.
The bomb that hit him caused a shrapnel to lodge in his chestso, together with his fellow prisoner, Ho Yinsen, an intelligent Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he builds a magnetic metal plate to put on his chest and so on. prevent the shrapnel from reaching his heart and killing him.
Later, they also use the workshop where they are to build armor with which they could escape from their captivity. Unfortunately, Ho Yinsen dies sacrificing his life so that Stark can flee.
Once Stark returns home he realizes that if you try to remove the plaque that is in your chest you could dieand is forced to wear it under his clothes and recharge it daily, so that it works as a kind of regulator for your heart.
Stark decides to upgrade the armor he made, adding technological artifacts and defense weapons, to use the suit and protect the world as Iron Man.
Yes ok the passing of his parents could easily go unnoticed having happened in a simple car accident, this represents a key point in the hero’s story.
It is also important to note that Tony Stark is not simply a “billionaire businessman, genius, philanthropist and superhero”, he is a man who has many obsessions and addictionsincluding the construction of machines and artifacts.
Why is Tony Stark obsessed with building machines?
We could well say that Stark continued to carry out his father’s work in Stark Industries in order to continue the legacy of the company, but really that is not the true root of his obsession with building machines.
During the Judgment Day event, in the comic AX: Avengers volume #1, explains the real reasons for Stark’s obsession with building machines.
Iron Man is trying to infiltrate the body of the Progenitora Celestial who was brought to life with the goal of stopping the war between the X-Men and the Eternals, but instead decided to bring his own Judgment Dayand once he judged everyone he decided to start destroy the Earth having found more evil than goodunleashing the apocalypse on the planet.
Stark is trapped by the Celestial’s defense system, and is forced to relive his traumatic momentsincluding the car accident that caused the death of their parents.
While Tony is witnessing this tragic event, it is revealed that the real reason which Stark has an addiction to building gadgets and gadgets for, was born due to the fact that what killed his parents was a faulty machine. This provides a drastic and total twist in the story and even the motivations of Hombre de Hierro.
Over the years Tony tried to make sense of the death of his parentsimagining that perhaps they had faked their deaths or that perhaps they had been killed, but in the end he had to accept that their deaths did not imply a deeper meaning and that the truth is that it was simply due to a fateful and tragic accident.
This is the real reason why Tony is obsessed with building machineshe thinks that if he works hard enough and manages to do his job well, no one else should die from faulty artifacts or machines. Knowing this we can also affirm that this is the reason why he created Iron Man and decided to become a superhero.
Although this background his desire to save and protect people at first impression does not imply anything bad, the fact that he has turned himself into a machine too figures him as the object of his perfectionist attitudewhich means that you will constantly be feeling insecure and disappointed in himself.
Seeing this new perspective on Iron Man’s origins, we get to witness a completely different approach regarding his aspirations to protect people and his work as a vigilante.
Rewrite your story in this compelling new way it makes so much more sense to the fact that he wanted to become a heroand even turns one of Stark’s many obsessions into fundamental part of his personality and development as a superhero.