Armor question

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

Okay, I tried to look this up, but my house is a disaster area right now, and I can't find any of my New Avengers TPBs. I think the cats might've sold them on e-bay. So I'm hoping the smart folks here can help.

Tony had Extremis when New Avengers formed, so it was the suitcase armor he could summon with his brain, right? And did the books ever say how it was powered? I know the whole "mini arc-reactor" business is movieverse stuff that Fraction later adopted, but did the Extremis armor have its own power source, or was it one of those things where Tony had to lug it back to the lab and recharge it every once in a while?

Sigh. I probably spent more time worrying about this stuff than the actual Marvel writers do...

Comments

[valtyr]

Okay, I went through my trades, and it's not really mentioned. But in Breakout I would say he doesn't have Extremis; he has to say a code to make the armour form up into a drone, and he's naked when the others are dressed and the drone is still firing; if he'd had the undersuit he could've put it out. No clues in Sentry, but in Secrets and Lies he's reading Jessica Drew's vitals signs off a readout in his gauntlet.

In The Collective he's got that whole 'standing naked in a dark room of screens' thing going on. Could be Extremis.

I remember worrying about this for a fic a while ago, and I never pinned it down.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

I've finally found my copy of Breakout, and it looks like you're right. I thought I remembered Tony using Extremis in the Savage land, but it was all remote commands.

I think I can safely go with "modular armor that needs to be charged from an external source."