Tony Stark

Short Biography

Anthony Edward Stark called Tony by most, is a self-proclaimed eccentric genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist. He is also an armored superhero known as Iron Man. Fresh off from defeating enemies the world over, Stark reluctantly agreed to serve as a consultant to Nick Fury's peacekeeping intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. Stark joined the Avengers and helped defeat the Chitauri during the Battle of New York. Due to the battle, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, leading him to create the Iron Legion. After the Battle on the Norco, the final event of Aldrich Killian's War, he destroyed all of his armors with the Clean Slate Protocol.However, when the Avengers were officially reassembled, Stark created new armors to fight the remnants of HYDRA. Once the threat had been ended, Stark, with the help of Bruce Banner, built Ultron as a peace-keeping A.I. to protect the world, but it defected and chose to destroy humanity instead. Through the work of the Avengers, Ultron was defeated. After the war, however, Stark retired from the team, still haunted by his role in the chaos the A.I. created.The guilt of creating Ultron and causing so much destruction and loss of life eventually convinced Stark to sign with Thaddeus Ross and create the Sokovia Accords. However, Stark's strong support of the accords lead to a disagreement with Captain America, who very much opposed the plans. When Rogers proceeded further to disobey orders by protecting Winter Soldier, Stark led the man-hunt for his old ally, igniting the Avengers Civil War. Eventually Stark and Rogers learned that Helmut Zemo was behind the chaos, but Stark also learned that Winter Soldier was responsible for the murder of his parents. Blinded by vengeance, Stark attempted to kill Winter Soldier and refused to listen to Rogers' attempts to reason with him that his parents death was caused directly by HYDRA, who had brainwashed Winter Soldier to kill the Starks. Stark, however, failed to kill Winter Soldier, and watched as Rogers went on the run, with Rogers giving up his title as Captain America by giving Stark the shield Howard created, Showing Stark that Rogers still cares for him as well, and doesn't want their friendship to fall apart, as Zemo had wanted. Despite the Avengers falling apart around him, the former Avengers can still keep in touch together privately due to Rogers sending Stark a phone.