Whiplash Armor: Mark I

Ivan Vanko created the Whiplash Mark I Armor in an attempt to kill Tony Stark as revenge for his father, Howard, deporting Vanko's father, Anton and leaving their family to live in poverty.

History
Ivan Vanko created the Whiplash harness using his father's blueprints for the Arc Reactor and his own proficiency in engineering. He used this armor to try and kill Tony Stark at the Circuit de Monaco, however, he was defeated by Tony in his Mark V armor. After defeating Vanko, Tony removed the Whiplash harness's arc reactor and crushed it, rendering the harness useless.



Ivan later used his earlier schematics along with resources available to him through Hammer Industries to create his new Whiplash Armor: Mark II while working on the Hammer Drones.

S.H.I.E.L.D. later claimed what was left of the armor and it is currently under study by a group of scientists.

Abilities
The Whiplash Mark I armor was designed as little more than a rudimentary harness with the sole purpose of being used as a weapon to kill Tony Stark, even if suited up as Iron Man. The central piece of the harness is an arc reactor, developed by Ivan Vanko, based on blueprints left to him by his father. The energy produced by the arc reactor is channeled through a set of specially designed cables to form a pair of electrified whips capable of cutting through most metals.

While the harness covers part of the users chest, arms, and back, it can easily be concealed under various forms of clothing while deactivated, with the whip cables concealed in the arm sections. This allows the user to appear inconspicouous to others and get close to an enemy before revealing the weapon's presence. However, due to exposed whiring on the harness, it is imposible to do so while the harness is activated.