Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===Iron Man===
Tony Stark, a genius weapon inventor who was also an eminently hateable asshole playboy who was kidnapped by [insert currently politically acceptable villain here]. After being forced to make weapons for his captor, he instead builds a suit of super-armor with which he escapes, although the experience leaves shrapnel dangerously close to his heart, which results in him needing to keep a part of the suit over his heart to keep the shrapnel from migrating.

Usually played as a heroic trainwreck: He fights the good fight, but he just as frequently is his own worst enemy. His control freak issues, general assholery, survivor's guilt, and alcoholism are the usual centers of his weaknesses. Although a household name ''now'' thanks to his namesake movie, he was a B-Lister at best before then.

Ironically, despite the fact that his powerset is the most duplicable, Iron Man has a very small "superfamily", perhaps because of his long-running association with the Avengers. The most well-established is James Rhodes, ex-Army and his personal chauffer, who has at various times either worn the Iron Man suit himself or run around in a more heavily armed "combat-focused" suit called the War Machine armor. His long-running but never won love interest Pepper Potts has also sometimes been shown to run around in the Rescue armor, which has no offensive weaponry but lots of useful tools to help it serve as, well, a search and rescue machine. Also, around 2014, he gained a "successor" in the form of Riri "Ironheart" Williams, Afro-American teen prodigy who built her own version of the Iron Man armor just to prove she could...The mid-2010s were the biggest rush of new "legacy characters" in Marvel for quite some time, and to very [[skub|mixed results]].

Few people will remember it, but Iron Man also temporarily ran his own team of superheroes called Force Works during the 90s.
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