![]() Howard and Maria were killed in a car crash orchestrated by one of Stark Industries' rivals, leaving Tony the heir of their fortune and company. Life seemed peachy for young Tony, until the day tragedy struck. By the time he was 17, Tony had already graduated with 3 PhDs under his belt. When he was 15, he joined an MIT undergraduate program. Academics came easy to Tony, and he blitzed his way through school. At the age of 6, Tony began boarding school. Howard also forced into Tony his philosophies of war and how people have to clean up their own messes. Tony's relationship with his father was rather strained, as he was abused and even forced to have his first alcoholic drink. Tony grew up a rich man's childhood, without a care in the world and the greatest education. Because his condition was so poor, Howard and Maria just decided to adopt the young Anthony Edward Stark. Unfortunately, Arno's health quickly degenerated to the point where he'd need medical help to survive for the rest of his life. Howard graciously accepted, and Arno Stark was born after a five month procedure. To give Earth a fighting chance and thank Howard for his troubles, Recorder offered to genetically engineer the unborn baby for Howard and Maria to give him the intellectual power needed to bring the world to a new age of technology. Recorder saw potential in Earth's future but also feared it would be crushed by other, more advanced races. In his travels he ended up saving an alien known as Rigellian Recorder 451. To save the child, Howard desperately used his immense wealth to search across the world for a cure to the child's illness. They tried to make one themselves, but due to problems Maria was facing the baby was doomed to die. The resurrected Adult Tony even had the memories of his own life and death, in addition to those of his tee!Tony had a history of doing some very dickish things to his friends and allies.Howard and Maria Stark were billionaire weapon manufacturers who wanted to have a child. Technically, this has been Jossed since 2001, when an Avengers annual revealed why certain characters were changed back-for all intents and purposes, Franklin Richards is the reason Tony's back as adult Tony and teen Tony were emerged into one, confirmed by Tony's grave was empty had had an energy signature and found traces of it in him as well.And, since Birthright was unceremoniously retconned out, we don't know his origin. ![]() Well, if you're gonna be like that, technically Superman's only existed since 2005.However, the original Tony has been dead ever since, and the man known as Iron Man is not the "real" Tony Stark. When Heroes Return occurred, a new Tony that was some sort of amalgam of the original, Teen and Heroes Reborn Tonys was created, and this is the man who went down another slippery slope in Civil War (2006). ![]() It was this Tony that gave his life to defeat Onslaught. He eventually sacrificed himself and was replaced with another Tony from another Earth - the ill-regarded "Teen Tony". The original Tony Stark has been dead since around 1994.Iron Man's Audience-Alienating Era came in the early to mid-90s in something called The Crossing, wherein he turned evil due to the influence of Immortus.
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