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AsTony Stark leads a automaton revolutionagainst his chum Arno Stark , it ’s important to understand why Tony is the ideal candidate for such a task . After all , over the preceding few decades , Iron Manhas gone from a man in a suit to something more akin to RoboCop , as the cutting sharpness between man and technology gets blurred … and the moral lines between them harder to draw .
Iron Man first appeared with his bulky Mark I armor inTales of Suspense#39 in 1963 . Even in his first appearance , Tony Stark was mixing the technical with the biological by way of an Fe breast collection plate to protect Stark ’s heart from embedding shrapnel . Though it initially functioned as a pacemaker , this concept was eventually empty over a decade later , as Tony ’s armor become more ripe . The famed Arc Reactor , at the fondness ( no paronomasia destine ) of Tony ’s appearance in the MCU , was clearly an updated adaptation of the cardiac pacemaker Tony receive in his first appearance ( but it would n’t appear in the comic until 2008 ) .
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Tony Stark would for sure take a huge step towards becoming amply cybernetic withthe controversialExtremisstorylinein 2005 by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov . After about dying while battling a nanotech - powered foeman , Tony inject himself with nanomachines which literally manufacturer the armorfrom within his own torso , allow Stark to not only access his armor from anywhere , but also giving him raw ability like a healing factor and enhanced physical attributes . With the armour meld straight off into his body , Tony lay in the necessary material within the hollow of his bones while also integrating nanotubes at once into Stark ’s judgment . Like many of Ellis ' narrative , the Extremis was ground on cutting - sharpness nanotech research . However , the alteration was divisive among fans , with some not quite being comfortable with Tony ’s armor emerge as his second skin . The Extremis armour was effectively shredded during the events ofSecret Invasionafter the Skrulls directly targeting Tony ’s next - gen capabilities , forcing him to use sometime armor suits or else .
Despite the loss of Extremis , Tony would retainhis cybernetics with his Bleeding Edge suit of clothes , which debuted inInvincible Iron Man#25 by Matt Fraction and Ryan Meinerding . precede as the next stage of armor development post - Extremis , the armor was still get at from within Stark ’s body upon his mental trigger . Despite the nanotech origin , however , the Bleeding Edge armor was far sleeker and more in keeping with the fighter jet tone of traditional Iron Man armour . The advancements were all powered by an arc reactor , alike to the one used by Iron Man in the MCU . However , this variant was at long last remove from Stark ’s body after he decided to ( briefly ) retire from Iron Man altogether .
While Iron Man has for the most part shift away from nanotech of both the Extremis and Bleeding Edge armor , the majority of Tony Stark ’s subsequent armors stay passably attached to his cybernetics since Stark himself remains posthuman . To complicate matter , his Christ’s Resurrection post - Civil War IIbegs the doubtfulness -just how much of the original Tony is left?This comes full circle in the currentIron Mantitle , asTony and a little chemical group of A.I. allies run a robot rotation . Tony himself can identify with these humanoid if only because he is , at least part , one himself . More to the full stop , the two consistently upgrade portion of Tony Stark ’s physiology are his heart and his brainiac , prove that Stark is literally technical at his core . And if that does n’t forceIron Manto ask all the same head as Alex Murphy – or the artificial intelligence with Murphy ’s memory – we do n’t know what could .
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