Iron Monger

For other uses, see Ironmongery.

The Iron Monger is an identity used by several fictional supervillains published by Marvel Comics.

The first and most notable person to take up the identity is Obadiah Stane. He first appeared in Iron Man #200 (November 1985), and was created by Dennis O'Neil and Luke McDonnell.

Publication history

Obadiah Stane, who would become the first Iron Monger, debuted in Iron Man #163 (October 1982). He dons the Iron Monger armor in issue #200 (November 1985), and commits suicide in the same issue.

Fictional character biography

Obadiah Stane

Iron Monger
Obadiah Stane in the Iron Monger armor, artist Mark Bright
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	(Stane) Iron Man #163 (October 1982) (Iron Monger) Iron Man #200 (November 1985)
Created by	Dennis O'Neil (writer) Luke McDonnell (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Obadiah Stane
Team affiliations	The Chessmen Stane International Stark Industries
Abilities	Genius-level intellect Abilities derived from armored suit: Superhuman strength, stamina, speed, flight, and energy blasts

As a child, Obadiah's father Zebediah Stane was a degenerate gambler and Obadiah's mother died of unknown reasons. One day, his father, who considered himself on a "lucky streak"; played a game of Russian roulette and shot himself in the head. This trauma caused Obadiah to lose all of his blond hair and go bald and shaped him for years to come. From there on, Obadiah Stane was a ruthless manipulator who studied his adversaries to find weaknesses to exploit. Stane enjoys chess, and lives his life with the same kind of methodical logic that he uses in the game. In addition, he is a strong believer in using psychological manipulation to his advantage. For instance, in a childhood chess match against another boy whose skill at least equaled his own, he killed the boy's dog so that the other would be distracted from the game.

In adulthood, as a wealthy financier, Obadiah Stane becomes the president and CEO of his own company (Stane International) as a munitions dealer. He also goes into business with Howard Stark. After Stark and his wife died in a car accident, Stane turns his sights on acquiring control of Stark International, the industrial corporation he had worked with, now owned by Tony Stark (the son of Howard Stark). Stane has his agents, the Chessmen, attack Stark Industries and assault James Rhodes, a confidant of Tony. He also confronts Tony Stark in person. Stane also sets up Indries Moomji as Stark's lover without Stark knowing that Moomji is actually the Chessmen's Queen. Meanwhile, Stane and his associates conspire to lock Stark International out of various business deals. Stark eventually learns that Stane is the mastermind behind these attacks, but is unable to confront him. The assaults on Stark, his business, and his friend push Stark to the edge, and he catastrophically relapsed into alcoholism. With the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., Stane buys out Stark International, which he then renames Stane International. Stark, having fallen off the wagon, relinquishes his armor to Jim Rhodes and disappears to be a homeless vagrant. Rhodes becomes the new Iron Man while ignoring Stane's demands to relinquish the armor. Rhodes, as the new Iron Man, eventually thwarts Stane in his attempt to take over the Iron Man battle-suits.

Stane proceeds in manufacturing and supplying munitions and weapons to S.H.I.E.L.D. and others who could pay for them. When Tony Stark left, he left behind notes and information on the Iron Man armor. These notes are incomplete and hard to analyze, but Stane assigns a team of scientists to decipher them; they eventually create the Iron Monger armor which, according to Stane, is "far superior to Stark's Iron Man armor". He even considers selling them to the highest bidder or creating an army of Iron Mongers, using them to "take over any country he wanted".

Stane assigns the Termite to sabotage another business rival. He also forms an alliance with Madame Masque.

While living on the streets, Stark befriends a pregnant homeless woman, Gertl Anders. She dies in childbirth, whereupon Stark promises to protect the child. This vow helps Stark overcome his alcoholism. When Stark recovers, he joins Rhodes, along with twins Morley and Clytemnestra Erwin, in starting a new company in Silicon Valley, which is eventually dubbed Circuits Maximus. Stark builds a new prototype armor, resembling his original gray suit, in order to test new designs; Stark ends up using the armor to stop an out-of-control Rhodes, and then to assist the West Coast Avengers against Doctor Demonicus, while using the Avengers' facilities to construct an advanced armor, the Silver Centurion.

Realizing that Stark is once again a potential threat, Stane orders the abduction of Bethany Cabe, and plans an attack to take out Iron Man, whom Stane has deduced is currently either Rhodes or one of the Erwins. He sends an attack drone, the Circuits Breaker, to destroy Iron Man, but both Rhodes and Stark are able to defeat it. Stane further plots against Stark by switching the minds of Masque and Cabe, and by abducting Stark's old friends Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts, and Bambi Arbogast. He also has a bomb planted inside the Circuits Maximus dome, killing Morley Erwin and wounding Rhodes and Clytemnestra.

When Cly confronts Stark at the hospital, Tony realizes he has to face Stane directly; he collects his newly-completed Silver Centurion armor from the Avengers compound, and flies to Long Island. Stark confronts Stane on the property of Stane International and defeats Stane's agents, including the Chessmen, who had proven a match for his previous armor. Stane dons the Iron Monger armor and confronts Stark personally. The Iron Monger is more powerful than the previous Iron Man armor, but not the Silver Centurion model, which includes such features as the ability to absorb the heat from the Iron Monger's thermal rays and channel it into the armor's own energy supplies. Stane tries to defeat Stark by tricking him into entering a room where Happy, Pepper, and Mrs. Arbogast are being held in suspended animation tanks that could sustain them for months; the walls of the room were covered with photo-electric cells that would trigger a circuit sending 200,000 volts into their bodies if Stark moved, leaving him with no choice but to stand in the room and starve to death to keep them alive. Refusing to give up, Stark calmly uses his armor's sensors to discover that the trap's power source is located within the firing arc of his chest-plate's uni-beam weapons, allowing him to destroy it.

Having freed his friends, Stark then confronts Stane and the villain learns that even in his armor, he is no match for Stark's genius and practiced skill with his own tools. Finally, Stane uses his last card: Gertl Anders' infant son, whom Stane had abducted from an orphanage. Stane tells Stark to remove his helmet or he would crush the baby between his palms. Stark, having detected interfering frequencies in his armor's systems throughout the battle, deduces that Stane isn't experienced enough to pilot the armor without some help in the form of an external computer. He uses his armor's pulse bolts to destroy the nearby building containing that computer, causing Stane's Iron Monger armor to seize up and fall to the ground as Stark swoops in to catch the baby; since Stane based the armor on Stark's old designs, Stark knew that the armor would freeze if it lost the control of an outside source. Stane then removes his helmet and confronts Stark. Stane says defiantly that he has one thing left; the ability to deprive Stark of the enjoyment he'd receive in his enemy's humiliation and defeat. Refusing to be arrested and humiliated, he then raises his hand to the side of his head and, using the repulsor ray beam, disintegrates his skull. Stark later obtains complete control over his own company, which he renames Stark Enterprises.

During the Dark Reign storyline, Obadiah Stane in his Iron Monger armor was chosen as a member of Pluto's jury of the damned to decide the fate of Zeus. When the lord of Hades power was undone, it was Iron Monger who laid the first blow upon him, accompanied by the sound effect 'SHTAAANNE'.

During the Chaos War storyline, Obadiah Stane is among the dead characters in the Underworld that Pluto released in order to defend the Underworld from Amatsu-Mikaboshi

Ezekiel Stane

Main article: Zeke Stane

Obadiah has a son named Ezekiel "Zeke" Stane who is introduced in The Order #8, as the brains and financial backing of a secret conspiracy to destroy the titular group, which has close ties to Stark. He would return in The Invincible Iron Man #1 to continue his vendetta against Stark in his father's name. He gradually adapts his body to become a complete cyborg to the extent he, for instance, regenerates injuries very quickly, no longer needs to breathe, and generates at least as much energy as Iron Man. He constructs a special exoskeleton to help him deal with excess heat (and turn it into even more usable energy).

Other Iron Mongers

Industrialist Simon Steele constructs another Iron Monger suit, and has an employee wear it in battle against Dominic Fortune.

After Stane's death, the original Iron Monger armor was obtained by the United States government. General Lewis Haywerth has one of the Guardsmen use it to test the combat skills of a U.S. Agent.

Stark's former college classmate Joey Cosmatos builds a third Iron Monger suit, working from Stane's plans. This suit is worn by the criminal Slagmire, an operative of underworld boss Mr. Desmond.

The Red Skull later has one of his own agents use a suit of Iron Monger armor in an assassination attempt against the Viper, but the suit's wearer is apparently killed by the Viper's men.

A group of renegade New York City Police Department officers calling themselves 'the Cabal' commissions Stane International to design a suit of combat armor that they would use to hunt down and kill criminals as their own personal Punisher agent. Various members of the Cabal wear the resulting Savage Steel armor at different times, coming into conflict with Iron Man and Darkhawk.

Powers and abilities

Obadiah Stane

Obadiah Stane was a genius with an M.B.A. He was a master of psychological warfare, a cunning business strategist, and a champion chess player. However, he had a classic narcissistic complex; his ego was his greatest vulnerability.

As Iron Monger, Stane also used the Circuits Breaker, a flying robotic weapon that fires air-to-surface missiles. He also used a device created by Dr. Theron Atlanta for exchanging the consciousness of two human subjects.

The Iron Monger armor, manufactured by Stane International and code-named I-M Mark One, is an armored battle-suit of "omnium steel" (a fictional alloy), containing various offensive weaponry including a powered exoskeleton that amplified the user's strength, repulsor rays fired from the gauntlets, and an intense laser beam housed in the battle-suit's chest unit. The suit provides the user with the ability of subsonic flight, thanks to magnetically powered turbine boot jets. Since the Iron Monger armor was based on a modified version of Tony Stark's Iron Man design, the armor's abilities are very similar to the original red and gold armor, but with increased power. The repulsors were more powerful and the armor was also larger than the armor of Iron Man. It was presumably proportionally stronger as well. The Iron Monger (unlike the Iron Man armor) was also externally computer-controlled, Stane attempting to use the remote control to compensate for his lack of experience in using the armor, a vulnerability Stark exploited to disable the suit.

Other versions

Ultimate Marvel

Ultimate Marvel first shows a young Obadiah Stane in Ultimate Iron Man with Loni Stane (his mother) and visiting Zebediah Stane (his father) in jail (for kidnapped young Tony Stark, whose covered in the blue skin-armor that the elder Stane wanted to manufacture). During the visit, Loni tells Zebadiah that she'll divorce him and get half while Obadiah (their son) gets the other half after Zebadiah's death. The story then fast forwards to Obadiah being enrolled in a special school at his mother's personal request. Shortly after their arrival, Obadiah murders a pair of students (Link and Dodge) and make it look like an accident. This incident hardens Tony's resolve to improve his armor and punish Obadiah. At this point, he has already begun to build a suit that closely resembles a traditional Iron Man suit. Later, Obadiah visits Howard Stark (who apparently murdered Zebadiah) and has the guards attempt murder Stark, but they failed. Obadiah reveals that he's working with Dolores, who is responsible for the earlier terrorist attack on the Stark building, and Dolores convinces Obadiah to try and murder Howard. Obadiah drugs a prison guard with a "hypnotizing" bio-drug, and the guard tries to kill Howard. He fails, but Howard gets shot in the process and is in ICU and Tony sends one of his "robots" to protect his father in the hospital. Tony (in his Iron Man armor) goes to Obadiah’s house and confronts him on setting up Howard and sending him to prison for Zebediah's murder. Obadiah says it was all Dolores' idea, and sets up a meeting with Dolores and Tony. Obadiah also figures out that the armor is not a robot, and that Tony is actually inside, a fact he shares with Dolores before he meets with Tony.

Dolores and Tony make a deal. Dolores will give Tony the information about the terrorists with nukes who plan to bomb the city, and Tony will give Dolores one of his "robots". Tony, knowing that Dolores knows he wears the armor personally decides to trick him and actually bring an Iron Man suit that is remote controlled. Dolores and Tony meet on a place together, holding each other hostage while their friends confirm each others end of the bargain. Dolores is skeptical because the Robot isn't walking smoothly and is clumsy, and Tony is skeptical because the feds found a nuke but no terrorists with it, and the deal for terrorists. Dolores men plan to kill the feds who delivered them the robot, but Rhodes shows up to save them.

Tony then realizes that Dolores is no longer on the plane, and upon breaking into the cockpit he sees another nuke. He can't disable it, because then a separate bomb will go off, destroying the nuke and plane. War Machine goes to Dolores' Mansion, only to find him dead. Someone booby trapped his piano, and it blew up in his face while he was playing. Tony flies the plane low enough to the water that Obadiah can jump off into the water. He then gets his nanobots to disarm the nuke and set off the smaller bomb while he attempts to jump off the plane. They realize that another arms dealer was out to kill everyone (Dolores, Obadiah, and Tony).

Meanwhile, Howard is recovered enough to go to prison, but the guards sent to escort him were not sent by the Police Department. Howard fights them off and escapes. Tony meets with him, and says that he thinks it was Loni that is the mastermind behind the scenes trying to kill them. Tony, Rhodes, Nifara, Howard, and Obadiah set off to Utah to find Loni. They arrive and their chopper explodes, injuring Rhodes. Obadiah falls off a cliff, but Iron Man catches him as terrorists arrive on the scene. Iron Man flees, but follows them as they take Obadiah to his mother, Loni, and their hideout. Iron Man breaks into the compound and Loni floods it with poison gas trying to kill him, abandoning Obadiah. After Tony beats Loni and tends to Howard, Obadiah (mad that his mother abandoned him for dead with the poison gas) enters the room and kills her. However, he decides not to attack Tony, stating that he had save his life several times and that they are now even. They are all picked up by the feds and go home.

In Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars, the mastermind behind the said events was Howard Stark Sr., whose human/machine armor slightly resembles the Iron Monger armor, along with some elements of Titanium Man.

In other media

Television

• Obadiah Stane appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures voiced by Mackenzie Gray. In this version, he is one of Howard Stark's associates. Unlike Howard, Obadiah wants to use the company to create weapons in order to make more profit, without considering the deaths it will cause. After Howard Stark rejects Stane's plans to upgrade the "Earth Mover" project, Stane is believed to have caused the aircraft explosion that killed Howard, but left Tony alive. He continues deny any involvement in the action (which in the season 1 finale was proven fact, as Gene aka the Mandarin stated it was his doing). Howard Stark's death makes Stane the new CEO of Stark Industries, as Tony is too young to assume the post, and Stane ignores the boy's requests to be involved. When an adult Tony Stark becomes Iron Man for the first time, Stane(who is unaware that Iron Man is actually Tony Stark) immediately becomes interested in his armor and tries to get Iron Man to side with him. In the episode "Iron, Forged From Fire (Part 2)", Obadiah tests out the modified Earth Movers on Iron Man, only for the Mandarin to attack and target one Stane's rings, which is quickly surrendered to the Mandarin. After a brief fight between the Mandarin and Iron Man, Stane tries in vain one last time to convince Iron Man to join him. In the episode "Cold War", it is revealed that Obadiah was responsible for the disfiguration of the scientist who became Blizzard while attempting to create a new weapon. Blizzard and Iron Man form an alliance against Stane, but Iron Man, understanding that Blizzard has no consideration in killing innocents in order to get Stane, eventually turns against his ally and reluctantly saves Stane from the freezing villain. Instead of thanking him, Stane expresses his disappointment that Iron Man was safe, and vows to find out who he is and take the armor from him. Losing patience with Stane's threats, Iron Man simply answers, "Your time is coming Stane," before shooting Stane's camera. In the episode "Field Trip", Stane is revealed to have a daughter named Whitney Stane. He has no serious interest in his daughter except for her homework, and she apparently dislikes him as well. This animosity leads her to become the show's incarnation of Madame Masque in the episode "Masquerade" and to impersonate him. In the episode "Seeing Red", Stane makes a deal with Project Pegasus scientist Anton Harkov to sponsor Harkov's research. Stane has the Crimson Dynamo armor upgraded before sending it with O'Brian (Stane's head of security) to find and capture Iron Man. Though the Crimson Dynamo succeeds in capturing him, Iron Man escapes before Stane can open the armor, thanks to a diversion caused by Pepper. After Iron Man defeats the Crimson Dynamo, and the Technovore virus has eliminated the data on the Iron Man and Crimson Dynamo armors, Stane has his secretary tell Anton that the offer of sponsorship is rescinded. In the episode "Chasing Ghosts," Tony Stark and Whitney Stane believe that Obadiah hired an assassin named Ghost to kill Stark, but it turns out that Obadiah was actually tipping off the FBI about the assassination attempt. In the episode "Best Served Cold", Whitney Stane (as Madame Masque) makes an attempt on her father's life, but is subdued, and Obadiah learns Madame Masque's true identity. When Whitney falls ill from her mask's effects, Obadiah tells Stark about the mask. In order to obtain a cure for Whitney, Stark travels as Iron Man armor to an arctic base where an unrefined ore that may help her is located. Meanwhile, Obadiah thaws out Blizzard and places an explosive on his costume in order to have him to obtain the ore first. When Blizzard backs out of the deal and freezes the explosive, he attacks Obadiah, only to end up fighting Iron Man and Madame Masque. After Blizzard is defeated, Iron Man knocks out Obadiah so that Madame Masque couldn't kill her father. After Whitney is cured, Obadiah thanks Stark for making it happen. In the episode "Invincible Iron Man: Disassembled," Obadiah Stane and Justin Hammer are kidnapped by Whiplash 3.0. In the episode "Ghost in the Machine," Obadiah Stane hires Ghost to steal the blueprints to the Iron Man armor. Ghost succeeds and Obadiah uses the blueprints to build the Guardsmen armors. In the episode "Armor Wars," Obadiah Stane makes a public service announcement that his Guardsmen plan to bring down Iron Man, and then announces the upcoming Stark International Guardsmen Expo. At the expo, Obadiah Stane is introducing Firepower, the third Guardsman, when Iron Man appears. Using the a hacked expo television screen, Iron Man reveals that Force and Shockwave were actually criminals, and Obadiah Stane feigns surprise. Stane later makes a televised appearance stating that he had no idea the criminals used fake identities in order to get jobs at Stark International. Later, Stane is seen preparing to complete Project Monger for field testing. In the episode "The Might of Doom", Stane contacts Doctor Doom for technological help with the Monger's power core. However, Doom uses the opportunity to sabotage the core, hoping to take out his competitors with the resulting explosion. The Iron Monger appears in the tenth episode of the second season, "Enter: Iron Monger." It is a huge machine, referred during the test to as a "mecha," and is capable of easily destroying the Crimson Dynamo 3.0 armor. Its size is stated as 30 feet, although Rhodey later stated it to be 40 feet. Since the Board of Directors was skeptical about the practicality of such a costly machine, Stane decided to give a demonstration by having it demolish an abandoned city area. However, during the test, a man, Professor Zimmer, entered the area, and Iron Man and War Machine intervene to save him. After the Iron Monger's test pilot, O'Brien, sees the reason for their action, he aborts the test and returned to base. Later, the Iron Monger (now piloted by Stane himself) visits the same area again, where he fights Iron Man and War Machine. However, Tony Stark has managed to download the Iron Monger's schematics, and analysis reveals that the mecha depends on an uplink to an external processing unit in order to function properly. After the uplink is disrupted, the Iron Monger is easily defeated. The next day, Stark is seen in the Board of Directors' room with Roberta Rhodes and Zimmer, as Roberta tells Obadiah that Professor Zimmer won't file charges if Obadiah leaves his building alone. In the episode "Heavy Mettle," Obadiah Stane tests Iron Monger armor against tanks before military officials. The demonstration is crashed by Iron Man, who states that Obadiah Stane stole the Iron Man specs. Iron Man picks up Stane and flies him into the sky, telling Stane that he will put an end to Stane's "war." Stane replies that the war has just begun. Stane sells the contract to the military, surpassing Hammer Multinational. Using footage obtained by James Rhodes, Stark and Roberta Rhodes show footage of Stane receiving the Iron Man specs from Ghost. The Board of Directors fires Stane, who vows revenge on Iron Man and the Board of Directors. As security drags Stane from Stark International, a comment made by Tony Stark makes Stane realize that Tony Stark is Iron Man. Stane later steals the Iron Monger armor. Eventually back in the Iron Monger armor, Obadiah Stane is seen piloting it to Roberta Rhodes' house, but Justin Hammer uses a device to make the armor go haywire. Later, Iron Monger takes Pepper Potts hostage. At the suggestion of Sasha, Justin Hammer uses the Titanium Man armor to fight Iron Monger, but it does not go well. When Iron Man arrives in the Hulkbuster, Iron Monger pins down Iron Man and reveals that he knows Iron Man's identity. Whitney Stane arrives and tries to convince her father to spare Iron Man for her. Iron Monger lifts his foot enough for Iron Man to escape, and Justin Hammer orders Sasha to take control of the Iron Monger armor and send it on a rampage. Iron Man discovers that someone is remote-controlling the Iron Monger and suspects that Titanium Man is behind this. While Iron Man fights Titanium Man, Iron Monger is being remote-controlled to kill Whitney. War Machine defends her by trying to take out the Iron Monger's legs. Iron Monger falls off the building, much to Titanium Man amusement. Obadiah Stane is left in a coma. Whitney arrives and tells Tony, James, and Pepper to leave. In the episode "Iron Monger Lives", Whitney, as Madame Masque, uses Stane's identity and the Iron Monger armor to play mind games with Stark and ruin his life.

Film

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The Iron Monger armor in the Iron Man film.

• Jeff Bridges plays Obadiah Stane as the main antagonist in the 2008 film Iron Man. This version of Stane is Stark's mentor, an old friend and business partner of his father's who handles the day to day workings of the company, while Stark serves mainly as "an idea man" (or "the Golden Goose", as Stane puts it). Obadiah Stane in the movie appears to have a keychain sized device that paralyses anyone in vincity who is not wearing ear protection for example ear plugs. Stane uses the device to steal the prototype armor and Stark's arc reactor that was keeping him alive. Although he at first appears to be a loyal and devoted friend to Stark, after the younger man returns from being held hostage in Afghanistan, it is revealed that he has been secretly plotting to wrest control of the company from him for years, and in fact ordered the Afghanistan attack as part of a failed assassination attempt. Using Stark's public decision to shut down the company's weapons manufacturing division as a pretense, Stane gets an injunction on behalf of the shareholders to essentially have Stark thrown out of his own company and take over. He then uses the fragments of Stark's prototype Iron Man armor, recovered from Afghanistan, to reverse engineer a larger, more powerful version, which he hopes to mass produce and use to revolutionize modern warfare. However, his scientists are unable to duplicate the arc reactor, and Stane is forced to steal Stark's, which also serves as his life support system, exposing the extent of his treachery and leaving the hero for dead. Stark is able to install the first arc reactor that Pepper Potts had mounted in a display case. By this point, however, Potts has stumbled onto Stane's criminal activities and alerts the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Although they move in to arrest Stane, they arrive too late to stop him from activating and donning his armor prototype, which he uses to crush them and escape. It therefore falls to Stark, using that obsolete arc reactor, to stop him as Iron Man. This results in a lengthy battle in and around Stark Industries' headquarters, but Stark is outmatched by Stane, as his old reactor is underpowered for his current suit. The battle climaxes when Stark lures Stane into an aerial melee, correctly gambling that his enemy would not be ready for the dangerous high altitude icing conditions he already accounted for. After the resulting fall, in which both men's armor are severely damaged (with Stark's armor now operating on only emergency back-up power), Stane is finally stopped when Stark orders Potts to overload the building's arc reactor. This unleashes a massive electrical surge that electrocutes Stane, after which he falls into the reactor itself, apparently killing him in the resulting explosion. His apparent death is subsequently covered up by S.H.I.E.L.D., which puts out a false story saying that he died in an airplane crash while on vacation abroad. In a deleted scene, Stane actually survived the blast and was still injured on the building next to the badly damaged Tony Stark and was stuck in the armor. Making a speech about his and Tony's relationship, he grabbed Tony's hand, saying that it was time for both of them to go. However, Tony simply detached the glove he was wearing, causing the Monger armor to slip and Obadiah to fall to his doom.

• While Stane does not appear physically in Iron Man 2, he's briefly seen on a magazine cover on a wall in Ivan Vanko's room.

Video games

• Iron Monger is featured in Iron Man video game, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. As in the movie, he persistently objects to Tony's new decision not to sell weapons any more. However, unlike in the movie, his resistance to this new strategy goes beyond developing the Iron Monger suit, contacting A.I.M. to offer his services in helping them to develop weapons. With Stane's assistance, A.I.M. is able to create the Titanium Man armor, but their inability to perfect the power source means that the armor must periodically recharge during a fight, and the Titanium Man is thus defeated by Iron Man. With Tony distracted by dealing with A.I.M., Stane is able to complete the Iron Monger armor, subsequently facing Tony in a final confrontation before he is apparently killed as the arc reactor overloads.

Toys

• Three Iron Monger figures are featured in the initial Iron Man film toy line by Hasbro, one of which features an "opening cockpit" that reveals Jeff Bridges' character inside. The second has a smashing fist action, with less movie accurate red lights. The third figure has since been repainted and released to appear more like the comic version's blue armor. A repaint of the Fist Smash Attack Iron Monger mold called Battle Monger in the colors of Iron Man, is an upgraded model according to its bio.
• A figure of Iron Monger, based on his appearance in the film Iron Man, was released in wave 21 of the Marvel Minimates line, and a battle damaged version was released as a retailer exclusive.
• A figure of Iron Monger based on his film appearance was released in the Iron Monger Attacks 4-pack from the Marvel Super Hero Squad line, packaged with 2 figures of Iron Man and one of War Machine, and Titanium Man. The same figure was released in the Crimson Dynamo Attacks 4-pack, packaged with 2 figures of Iron Man and one of War Machine. A second figure, based on his comic book appearance, was released in the Armor Wars: Part I 3-pack, packaged with Iron Man and War Machine.
• 2 figures of Iron Monger were released in Hasbro's 3.75" Iron Man 2 movie tie-in line. A figure based on his appearance in the film Iron Man was released in wave 1, and a figure based on the comic book armor was released in wave 4.

Novels and Books

• In the novel Spider-Man: Venom's Wrath, an early scene features Spider-Man confronting a teenager named Daniel in a "cheesy exoskeleton" who calls himself the Iron Monger, and attempts to rob a movie theater (a police officer told Spider-Man that this was the third time he had attempted something like this). Spider-Man explains that "an ironmonger is someone who sells iron, not someone who wears it. Last guy to use the name was an industrialist, so it fit him." Daniel's suit includes a laser weapon he calls a "hydrogel blast", despite Spider-Man realizing that term makes no sense

External links

• Iron Monger at Marvel.com