Canon Questions...

[arileo.livejournal.com]

I've been going through my IM collection while working on some fics, but I have quite a few large gaps. I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to/the most recent appearences of any of the following Iron Man characters:
Marianne Rogers
 Roxanne Gilbert
Mrs. Arbogast
VeronicaBenning
Erica Sondheim
Felix Alvarez
Marcy Pearson
Eddie March
Mike O'Brien
Rae Lacoste
Jasper Sitwell

oh, and though I doubt there's been anything: Gretl's baby from the homeless drunkcapade

Thanks.

Comments

[muccamukk]

Ha, funny, I'm just reading Heroes for Hire from the '90s, and Mrs Abrogast has gone over to be the office manager for that team, under Jim Hammond.

[arileo.livejournal.com]

Huh, really? That's not something i'd have figured.

[meowl-kt.livejournal.com]

In general, I highly recommend the Marvel Chronology Project for "where'd they go?" type questions (or if you're just obsessed with someone and want to read every issue they've ever appeared in...not that I've looked up and read every pre-TOS 39 appearance of Iron Man or anything...)
http://www.chronologyproject.com/

That does require you to find the issue of their last appearance, though, and it only include issues through sometime around the beginning of Avengers Disassembled (not sure if it's the same for all character and character groups, but that's where IM ends currently).

Another useful site for bios and such is the Marvel Database Project, the fan-run Marvel Wiki (as opposed to the Marvel-run fake wiki):
http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page

I'm not sure what all you have, so you may already know some of this. Off the top of my head:
Marianne Rodgers was in The Crossing, and teamed up with someone who was either Madame Masque or Beth Cabe to do...something. Apparently she went insane because Tony was possessed by Kang/Immortus/Whoever-it-was. Or something. I'm pretty sure this has been ignored since then, and it's really not worth the effort of reading The Crossing to figure out one character.
Veronica Benning ran off and was never heard from again after Tony was possessed by an electronic entity called VOR/TEX who got him drunk and tried to have sex with her. (She didn't know he was possessed. Also, VOR/TEX=Canon!Crack)
Marcy Pearson went off in a huff after Tony made Rhodes president of SE instead of her and Rhodes wasn't willing to disregard Tony's wishes and step down when Tony was in Cryo suspension and everyone thought he was dead.
One of O'Briens (the one who isn't dead, I think that's Michael) was at Project Pegasus for a while, but I don't know where he went from there, since he wasn't there the last time I saw PP.
Rae Lacoste went over to War Machine after Tony woke up from Cryo suspension because she and Rhodes were dating and Tony and Rhodey had a fight. I'm not sure where she went from there.
Jasper Sitwell still worked for SHIELD at the time of Secret War, and was one of their top interrogators. I'm not sure if he left after that came into the open and Fury got the boot, or if he stayed to work for Hill and later Tony. Most likely he was gone at least by the time Tony became Director, since I don't think he ever appeared in IM director of SHIELD, but I don't know for sure.
Stane used Gretl's baby in a last-ditch effort to screw with Tony's head and beat him during their final confrontation (the one that ended with Stane dead). I think Tony may have done something to ensure some form of care, but he may not have since that was one of his "everyone who is connected to me in any way gets hurt" periods.
A lot of characters just sort of disappeared after Heroes Reborn, so that's probably what happened to some of the ones on your list I didn't mention.

Hope this helps and again, I'm sorry if I told you things you already knew (or if I just caused information overload:|)

[arileo.livejournal.com]

This is great, thanks.

[otherhazards.livejournal.com]

Gretl's son's name is Timothy. He has red/blonde hair like his mom, and his dad (not Tony, the timing doesn't fit) was probably white.
He looks to be more or less okay, despite Gretl's serious drinking while she was pregnant with him, but I doubt his grades are gonna be very good.
It's never actually stated whether Tony had a hand in his life deliberately after they saved each others lives on Christmas eve, but I doubt Tony -could- have, at first.
Whatever the case, the place that Stane stole Timothy from later was run by a bunch of nuns.
What happened to Tim after the final battle with Stane (which he survived unhurt) I don't know, but he hasn't been used as a pawn since.

Marianne Rogers-
(let us have a moment of silence in which to snicker at her last name choice...)
-Is beautiful, blonde, and batshit crazy. She clearly has some form of telepathy and/or precognition, but interacting with the gravity well of unfortunate events that is Tony Stark snapped her mind like a dry twig.
Marianne was institutionalized for a while, but after Tony's alcoholic vanishing act in Iron Man 172, the banks froze what was left in his accounts.
...Which meant that Marianne was released from the institution a month or two later, very confused, still not sane, and very pissed off at Tony.
I'm not sure what happened after that, and I may not be remembering all the details here.

Rae Lacoste is a chic (when it was written), compassionate, emotionally mature, and smart woman.
As far as I know there were no serious hard feelings between Tony and Rhodey concerning who got to date her, especially since she and Tony weren't exclusive in the first place (CANON).
Tony and Rhodey found plenty of other things to fight about.