NNGAffd sorry but this is one of my biggest pet peeves: Tony did not fake his death. Tony was dying of a nerve degenerative disease, and did die. He had a last ditch plan that might be able to bring his frozen (dead!) body back, that he only told a handful of doctors. His entire body had to be "recoded" from scratch, and in some of the crackiest comic science ever, he used his ~SMART~ to bring himself back to life. It was kept top top secret, and caused a huge rift between Rhodes and Tony.

I couldn't figure out where the confusion came in, until I read the arc with Ty Stone's smear campaign -- they started saying that he faked his own death, as that's what it would appear, to people not in the know.

Issues 285-289, v1. srsly srs.