Question to the comm: the five key moments of Tony Stark

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Hail fellow slashers of the iron and shield. I'm girding myself to do a Tony Stark centric fic, and I need to know what do you think are the five key moments of Tony Stark in marvel canon?

For instance, I have:

1. Death of Tony's parents (and him subsequently inheriting Stark Industries)

2. Tony's alcoholism: nuff said.

3. The Crossing; where Tony is mind controlled by Kang the Conqueror (apologies if I get this mixed up, I'm going off memory here) and he becomes a traitor in the Avengers' ranks. It's important because in Avengers Disassembled no one believed him that he was being mind controlled (although it had happened to him a decade before)

4. The death of Rumiko: she was around for 85 issues, and Tony tried to have a relationship with her in a way that he didn't with Cabe or that woman who shot him.

5. Civil War.

These are the ones that I can name off the top of my head, but I might be wrong, and might have overlooked some other key issues, like when Stark faked his own death, or was unable to walk for a time, or when he fell out with Captain America during The Crossing.


So, help?

Comments

[dorothy1901]

1. Becoming Iron Man in Vietghanistan.
2. The times that Tony passed on the responsibility for being Iron Man to someone else. Passing the suit to James Rhodes was the second time it happened. The first time was... some guy, whose name escapes me right now. It was back during Tuska's run on the series, I think.
2. Extremis. Until then, Tony was a normal guy in a super-powered suit. After Extremis, Tony was a super-powered guy in a super-powered suit. (He talks to computers...with his mind!)

Yeah, cheers.

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Thank you. I had the extremis and the responsibility down as well.

God, this time line is driving me nuts.