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

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

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.

[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!)

[melisus.livejournal.com]

Um... what about when he BECAME Iron Man? It was a brush with death that changed his life.

And as far as modern Tony is concerned, I'd say Extremis is a pretty significant point in his life. He became the human computer.

[skyearth85.livejournal.com]

Extremis. For me it's a turning point.
And it's a my impression or Steve is really very bothered with it? (reference in The Confession)

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Those are good ones. I totally agree on The Crossing, and obviously the alcoholism.

Let's see, what else:

When he got shot by his girlfriend and paralyzed.

Armor Wars

[sdroid.livejournal.com]

Aside from ones mention above, I would say something like simply meeting Bethany Cabe. Beth, despite her absence from the comics since The Crossing, is a rock in Tony's life. She was the one that led him to confront him alcoholism and was his support afterward, not to mention she was probably one of his most, if not THE most, healthy relationships he's been in. I imagine the moment they met might hold a special place in his heart.

[tresa-cho.livejournal.com]

Civil War is a pretty big instance. Out of curiosity, anything specific pop to mind?

[neptunedream.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think everyone covered it all already. I'm a bit late, I guess. Huh. Well, if I had posted earlier, my comments would have been very helpful. As it is, not so much. I'll friend you though.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I'll always vote for the Sentient Armor, myself. But I'm trying to think if it brought about any lasting changes in Tony's life and.... nahh. It was just a wonderfully entertaining, cracktastic arc.

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

1. Extremis. Because he is no longer "THE DUDE IN THE SUIT"

2. Getting back the Avengers with Steve. Just because it seemed so promising... for a couple of arcs.

3. *sob* Which brings us to the death of Cap.

4. Becoming Director of SHIELD.

5. No longer the Director of SHIELD (Although seriously I am waiting outside Marvel with a pitchfork while I see what Marvel is planning for Tony next...)