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

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?

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I'm relatively a newbie in the comics world, and the fandom can be pretty cut throat and pretentious sometimes.

I hear you. I grew up on comics, from like, early eighties to about mid ninties. I left, and I've only been back a couple of years off and on (read the odd trade in my years of fallow, so I knew about Civil War, etc), and I've only really gotten intensely into comics (in terms of buying and collecting my own) in the last six months or so.

Yeah, the fandom can be catty, especially teh Marvel vs DC fights that people have.

You can only do you, you know?

Yeah, I never really read comics growing up because to me it was always clearly stigmatized as being a boys club sort of thing. Everything I knew about super heroes came from the cartoons in the 90's and even then I only really followed Batman and Spider-man. It was only a few months ago, that I actually got actively involved in comics.

Interesting story... it was when the Iron Man movie came out and my comic book geek friend was spazzing about it and raving about how WE HAD TO SEE THIS MOVIE. I didn't WANT to, but I agreed as long as he'd see Speed Racer with me the following week. As it happens he briefed me on the basics of Iron Man and I loved the movie. And, as I have a particular passion for art, when I was watching the documentary of the comic book character on the DVD back in September and they mentioned Extremis I fell in love. Then one day in the book store I saw the trade sitting on the shelf... and I was completely lost in comics from there.

Personally, as a newbie into comics, I found that getting my hands on a lot of the "Essential" volumes (and I had friends recommend arcs that were available in trade) to help me get a feel for important moments, etc. And Civil War totally devoured my soul...

I'm still afraid of my comic book store though. But that's probably because when there are other people in there, they're all men and they stare at me like they can't believe someone like me is buying comics.

I got into comics via my brother. My mum bought him comics because he just didn't read. So, he got into it and liked it. Then, I got into it and liked it, as well as my younger brothers. It also helped that we had friends at school that collected comics and we traded. So, I was into Daredevil, all the X-titles, all the Spidermen Titles and the odd Iron Man title that I'd pick up.

I didn't really get into DC until high school, when someone gave us an entire backlog of batman and green lantern corps comics because he'd misplaced ours.

I fell out of love with comics in the 90s when image came on the scene, because it was all about the art and less about the story and people were going mad for image, and marvel and DC were just following in their wake. So I stopped reading comics then and only started in 2005, because my library started collecting the trades. When Civil War came around, I was ready.

And now, I'm here.

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

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