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“I am inevitable”

The good guy and the bad guy. Both dead. How tragic (because of the good guy because this is one bad guy that I don’t wish to see again.)

Hey guys!

Happy New Month!!!!!!!!

So as promised, I’m back again this week with the fourth episode. I’m thinking about running a seven episode miniseries so three more dives into the world of heroes and villains after this.

Anyways, if this is your first episode, I’ll make sure to attach the link to the previous episodes after this …

Do you still not know the good and bad guy???????

Fine.

I was planning on telling you anyway.

It’s our very own Tony Stark vs the intergalactic purple big guy.

IRONMAN & THANOS

I get goosebumps thinking about that Thanos guy, to be honest.

IRONMAN

Iron Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby.

The character made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (cover dated March 1963), and received his own title in Iron Man #1 (May 1968).

Alter ego: Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark.

Place of origin: Long Island, New York

Team affiliations:
Avengers, Department of Defense, Force Works, New Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mighty Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark Industries, Stark Resilient, ThunderBolts.

Notable aliases: Mark One

Abilities

Genius level intellect, Proficient scientist and engineer

Powered armor suit:
Superhuman strength and durability (when using his armor), Supersonic flight, Energy repulsor and missile projection, Regenerative life support, Highly skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant.

Childhood

Tony Stark was born to Howard and Maria Stark. Howard Stark was a businessman but was alcoholic. So his mother sent tony to a boarding school. There Tony’s interest grew in games. He was very much fascinated by the games, their rules and the way they are represented. So he started doing experiments with making games. He earned two college degrees one in physics and one in engineering but was still not satisfied by this. He found all these degrees very easy but not challenging. After few years his parents were killed in a car accident which was due to design flaw in the brakes of the car. Tony then bought that car’s company, redesigned that car and fixed the problem. He did all these things while he was still in his twenties.

How about we dig a little deeper?

Lee claims he created Iron Man as a way to challenge himself and see if he could get readers to like someone they would normally hate. At the time, in the 1960s, the majority of his readers would have been anti-war and military, so they should have been against an arms manufacturer like Stark. Instead, he went on to become one of Marvel’s most popular characters.
Stark entered MIT at the age of 15 and graduated two years later with a Master’s degree in chemical engineering.
In the comics, Stark originally built the suit in Vietnam, but that was later retconned so that he built it in the Gulf War, before Afghanistan was finally settled upon for the movie.
In the Iron Man films, J.A.R.V.I.S is Tony Stark’s AI system, but in the comics he’s an actual human being whose full name is Edwin Jarvis. He’s the Stark’s family butler who took care of Tony after his parents died.
Stark is as witty as he is smart, and he’s not one to shy away from a childish joke from time to time. Take for instance, his artificial Butler, J.A.R.V.I.S, which stands for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.” It was originally Tony’s natural-language user interface computer system. After sometime, he was upgraded into an artificially intelligent system.
There’s a universe in the comics where Tony is born a woman named Natasha Stark who goes by the name Iron Woman. However, what’s interesting, or weird, depending on how you look at it, is she ends up falling in love with, and marrying, Steve Rogers AKA Captain America. I’m going to go with weird.
Stark has held a lot of titles in his lifetime, one of which was Director of S.H.I.E.L.D, which he took over after then Director Maria Hill suggested he take the job during the Civil War comics storyline.
There have been several different versions of the Avengers over the years, and Iron Man has been a part of most of them. Not only was he with the original team, but he was also a member of the West Coast Avengers, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, and Force Works, which was a team Iron Man started after the West Coast Avengers disbanded.
Believe it or not, there was a period in time when fans actually hated Iron Man. During Marvel’s Civil War storyline (in the comics, not the movie) he was one of the main antagonists due to his involvement in hunting down other superheroes who refused to register with the government, including many fan favorites.
Apparently, Iron Man was popular with the ladies in the comics and in real life. Lee claims that he used to receive a lot of fan mail from women about Iron Man, which was rare, as the majority of fan mail being sent to comic book publishers was from men.
Before Robert Downey, the role of Iron-Man was offered to Tom Cruise. Tom refused to do so because he was not pleased by the script.
In the Iron-Man movie Tony was shown to be on the front page of the Forbes but in real life he was also in Forbes. After some years of movie release Forbes positioned Tony stark as the fourth wealthiest anecdotal character ever in the history with an expected worth of $90 billion.
In the comics, Stark handed the mantle over to a 15-year-old kid genius named Riri Williams, who graduated from MIT at a young age like Stark, and even built her own Iron Man suit in her dorm room. She went by the name Ironheart.
It was revealed in Marvel Comics’ Iron Man #17 that Tony was actually adopted by Howard and Maria Stark, and that they had a son before Tony named Arno, who’s been in hiding since their death.
Just like in the movies, Iron Man was one of the five founding members of The Avengers in the comics, but the team was a bit different, with the members consisting of the Hulk, Ant-Man, Thor and Wasp.
Stark’s suits range in color and most of them serve a specific purpose depending on the situation. His first suit was gray, and he’s had silver suits, silvery blue suits, and even black suits for stealth mode. But his most common suit, and the one everyone knows him for, is of course the red and gold.
Stan Lee based Iron Man, or more accurately, Tony Stark, on the real-life millionaire playboy philanthropist Howard Hughes, which must be where Stark got that description for himself in The Avengers.
In the comics, it’s well known that Stark is an alcoholic, and his battle with addiction was brought to light in the iconic 1978 Demon In A Bottle storyline. The fact that a superhero was forced to battle with such a human problem was revolutionary at the time. This was actually loosely adapted in Iron Man 2, when Stark gets drunk at his birthday party and fights Rhodey.
In 2013, Forbes released another version of their Fictional 15 list, which ranks the wealthiest fictional characters. Stark is no stranger to previous versions of the list, and in this edition he landed at number four with an estimated worth of $12.4 billion. Oh, this means he’s worth more than Bruce Wayne (Batman).
In the battle of the billionaire superheroes, Stark’s company, Stark Industries, comes up short behind Bruce Wayne’s company, Wayne Enterprises, in annual revenue.
Iron Man was ranked 12th on IGN’s “Top 100 Comic Book Heroes” in 2011 and third in their list of “The Top 50 Avengers” in 2012.

Catch Iron man in action in the movies below:

Iron Man (2008),
The Incredible Hulk (2008) in a cameo,
Iron Man 2 (2010),
The Avengers (2012),
Iron Man 3 (2013),
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015),
Captain America: Civil War (2016),
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),
Avengers: Infinity War (2018),
Avengers: Endgame (2019),
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) in archive footage.

The good news is we can make our own Iron-man Suit with some selective shopping but the bad news is hardly any of us would be able to afford it.

Considering how popular Iron Man has gotten over the last ten years, it’s hard to imagine a time when he wasn’t everyone’s favorite hero. But while the character of Iron Man was prominent in the comics, he didn’t have the rabid fans that some of his superhero comrades did—that is, until Robert Downey Jr. put on the suit, and made Iron Man the very first hero in what we now refer to as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In the Forbes list Robert Downey is the highest paid actor for consecutive three years, due to his role as Iron Man.

If you thought Endgame was the last time you’d see Iron Man, I have some news for ya. Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role as Iron Man in Black Widow (2020).

THANOS

Thanos is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The character was created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, and made his first appearance in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (cover dated February 1973).

Species: Eternal–Deviant hybrid

Place of origin: Titan

Team affiliations: Infinity Watch, Black Order

Notable aliases: The Mad Titan

Abilities
Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and longevity, Superhuman physiology of Eternals, Skilled hand-to-hand combatant, Genius-level tactician, Plasma energy projection.

Thanos is one of the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe and has clashed with many heroes including the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men.

What should we know about this big guy?

Thanos was one of the last sons of A’Lars (also known as Mentor), progenitor of the second colony of Eternals on Titan (a moon orbiting the planet Saturn). Born with a massive, deformed body and hide-like skin, it was clear from birth that he had Deviant Syndrome, a rare condition where an Eternal more closely resembles their enemies The Deviants. At birth, his mother attempted to kill him. During his school years, Thanos was a pacifist and would only play with his brother Eros. Due to his deformities, he became a morose child, one obsessed with the concept of death.
Like all Eternals, Thanos is essentially immortal. He possesses the natural ability to synthesize cosmic power for whatever use he sees fit. He also possesses limitless strength, durability, and intelligence. Through bionic implantation and meditation, Thanos augmented his natural Eternal Powers and surpassed all the other Eternals on Titan.
As his powers grew, so did his ambition for conquest and destruction. Thanos stole one of his people’s starships and travelled the cosmos searching for mercenaries and malcontents for a large private army. Amassing a small fleet, he dropped nuclear bombs on his home world of Titan, killing thousands of people, including his mother Sui-San. He declared himself the ruler of what remained of Titan, and set his sights on the nearby planet of Earth. Shortly after this, Thanos met the embodiment of Death itself. Death, in the form of a human female, became Thanos’ companion, drawn to him by his dedication to nihilism as well as the genocide of his own people. As an adult, Thanos attempts to create a new life for himself by starting a family. He is visited again by Mistress Death, for whom he murders his new family.
Thanos became obsessed with Death, having felt love for someone for the first time in his life. To make himself worthy of so awesome an entity, Thanos decided to acquire more power. At first he planned simply to seize political power through the conquest of worlds, but later sought to become more powerful through the attainment of items such as the Cosmic Cube and the Infinity Gems. At one time, he acquired the Cosmic Cube and transformed himself into a godlike form. Thanos battled the Avengers and Captain Marvel. When Thanos carelessly discarded the Cube, believing falsely that he had drained it of all power, Mar-Vell struck the cube, willing it to restore the universe to what it had been. Robbed of power, Thanos reverted to mortal form in the center of the universe where his flagship Sanctuary II retrieved him under pre-programmed instructions. Revived, Thanos was dejected to discover that Death had abandoned him because of his failure.
According to the comics, Thanos stands at 6 feet, 7 inches tall, and weighs no less than 985 pounds. That’s pretty intimidating, even if he wasn’t purple with red eyes.
Serving Thanos is a team of superpowered aliens that form the Cull Obsidian, also known as the Black Order. The original members of the Cull Obsidian are Black Dwarf, Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, and Supergiant.

Corvus Glaive, who carries a pike that can cut through anything (and makes him practically immortal);

Black Dwarf, who is not only Glaive’s brother, but is super strong and has impenetrable skin;

Proxima Midnight, who is Glaive’s wife and a master at hand-to-hand combat;

Ebony Maw, who has genius-level intellect and is a master of persuasion;

Supergiant, a telepath

You wouldn’t think it, but apparently Thanos spent his childhood practicing pacifism. However, he was a melancholic, nihilistic loner who only played with pets and his own brother, Eros.
Eros is the youngest son of two Eternals, A’Lars and Sui-San. Eros grew up to be a fun-loving, carefree womanizer in contrast to his brother Thanos, a power-hungry, misanthropic schemer. Only when Thanos launched his first major attack against Titan, an attack that left their mother Sui-San dead, did Eros begin to take life a bit more seriously. In a campaign against Thanos, Eros fought alongside the survivors on Titan as well as Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers. Thanos would be defeated here for the first time. After this, and realising his wanderlust once more, Eros travelled to Earth and looked up the Avengers. The Avengers allowed Eros to join under the name Starfox, feeling his given name was inappropriate. He fought alongside them for several months, helping to defeat Terminus and Maelstrom. He would later leave the Avengers to pursue the space-pirate Nebula, whom he discovered was his niece.
His most famous child is the assassin, Gamora. She isn’t one of his biological children, rather he adopted her and raised her as his own to serve as his right hand. Gamora was the sole survivor of the alien humanoid race called the Zen Whoberis, a peace-loving people whose population were wiped out by a zealous religious order seeking to establish a galaxy-wide empire. The mad Titan Thanos rescued Gamora and raised her on his space-station, Sanctuary. He also has a son, Thane. Thane is the secret Inhuman son of Thanos. After a descendant Inhuman tribe ran afoul of Thanos and his army, one Inhuman woman returned home pregnant with Thanos’ child. Thane grew to adulthood and became a healer among his people. When Thanos eventually came looking for him, he underwent Terrigenesis and developed powers, and an appearance similar to his father’s. One of his new powers enabled him to trap Thanos in amber, ensuring the Mad Titan was trapped in a state between life and death. He has had other children, including Rot, a child he fathered with Death. He has succeeded in killing many of them, however.
In order to psychologically condition Gamora to be more than just a soulless killing machine, Thanos provided her with as normal a childhood as he could muster. He reasoned that she would function better if she were to have a childhood therefore she would not be simply psychotic but capable of reason. In doing so, he chose to assign her a birthday and each year celebrated a modern Earth style Christmas, complete with gift-giving, a Christmas tree, and the illusion of Santa. He even goes as far as to call a truce each year and send gifts to surviving family members such as his brother, Eros. Exactly how he got his hands on a Christmas tree, remains a mystery.
In the same issue that Thanos was flying around in a helicopter (Spidey Super Stories #39 – “Who will get the Cosmic Cube?”), Thanos tried to steal the Cosmic Cube, so Hellcat and Spider-Man got to work to prevent him from doing so. Hellcat kicked the powerful item out of the Mad Titan’s hand and it fell into an alleyway where it was found by a small child (who used its almighty power to conjure up an ice cream for himself – kneel before him!). Thanos tried to retrieve the cosmic ice cream maker, but was stopped by the aforementioned Spider-Man and Hellcat. The police were called, they arrived on the scene and Thanos was arrested and sent to jail. Not quite as bad as his defeat by Squirrel Girl, but another moment he’d rather forget. That’s right the vicious, murderous, insanely powerful, seemingly unbeatable and sometimes omnipotent Thanos… was once defeated by Squirrel Girl!

Thanos’ Name Is A Modification Of “Thanatos,” The Death Urge.
When Thanos was born, his mutations were said to have horrified his mother, Sui-San. She could sense from the start that Thanos was trouble (or maybe she was just seriously intolerant) and she tried to kill him. Only the intervention of Thanos’ father saved the infant’s life, and we’ve got to be honest, having your own mother threaten to kill you just after you’ve been born would do a lot of psychological damage to anyone.
While Thanos was directly influenced by a DC character, it wasn’t originally going to be Darkseid, but Metron instead. Metron is a cosmic villain, just like Thanos is, who sits on his galactic throne, known as the Mobius Chair.
In the comics, Drax the Destroyer (Guardians of the Galaxy) was created to kill Thanos.
In Thanos’ mind, Death should eventually come around to loving him if he murders enough beings and gains enough power. In the comics, that’s how he happens upon the Infinity Gems, which we know as the Infinity Stones in the MCU. First called Soul Gems and later dubbed Infinity Gems, these powerful totems, when combined, turn the person holding them both omnipotent and omnipresent. They were initially used to take on mega-powered beings like Galactus, but have been closely used in stories involving Thanos, who created the Infinity Gauntlet to house all six of the gems and allow himself to be the sole controller of the (Marvel) Universe.