Iron Man

Six months after his first appearance, Iron Man, along with Thor, Ant Man, The Wasp, and The Hulk, became a corner stone member of The Avengers, Marvel's answer to DC's Justice League of America. On top of the usual adventuring and criminal bashing, he served that group as its first important source of funding. He has stayed with The Avengers and its offshoots, off-and-on, ever since. He has also been affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel's late-'60s, superhero-oriented U.N.C.L.E. knock-off.

Anthony Stark, son of industrialist Howard Stark, demonstrated his mechanical aptitude and inventive genius at a very early age, enrolling in college electrical engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 15. When he was 21, he inherited his father's business, Stark Industries, and within a few years turned it into a multimillion-dollar industry complex whose chief contracts were for weaponry and munitions for the U.S. government.

Without his armor Tony Stark possesses the normal strength of a normal human man his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. Iron man is possessed with great strength and supernatural powers. He boasts of a virtual invulnerability and a complete array of arms and ammunitions. Iron Man is a playable character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance. His costumes include his New Avenger armor, his Classic armor, the War Machine armor, and his Ultimate armor.