Iron Monger

Why Tony never said that Stane was the one who tried to kill him, became Iron Monger, etc? I see no reason in hiding the truth about it.

My top 3 favorite:

🥇): Loki

🥈): Iron Monger

🥉): Red Skull

You know how HYDRA grew inside S.H.I.E.L.D and HYDRA kept it's secret hidden in S.H.I.E.L.D until 2014? Well, my theroy is that Obadiah Stane was a member of HYDRA and Obadiah Stane manage to keep his secret hidden in Stark Industries.

Here's why:

- Howard Stark was the CEO of Stark Industries and was a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.

- Both Obadiah Stane and HYDRA wanted to rule the world by using weapons.

- Stark Industries was originally a weapons company.

- And both Obadiah Stane and HYDRA have been causing destruction and causing wars throughout the 1950's to the 2010's

Let me start by saying that I love villains. Whether they are live action or animated, they are always a delight. And MCU villains, by the nature of being based on the comics, bring certain expectations to the audience that other genres may not necessarily have. But I want to talk about how Marvel Studios chooses their villains, because I’m strangely fascinated by it.

Some villains, such as Red Skull, Loki, Mandarin and other archenemies of the Avengers side of the universe, you would've expected to appear sometime in the MCU. And yet, they were mostly dispersed between phases. Loki and Red Skull appeared in Phase One along with the Abomination and Ross, and Phase Two had a version of the Mandarin and Ultron, and Phase Three gave us Zemo, but Phase Four got characters like Taskmaster and Green Goblin, with Phase Five having MODOK, the Hood, Kingpin and several others. So the recognizable villains have either been sparse or have been pushed to the Multiverse Saga.

What makes it more interesting is the kinds of characters they choose instead of having the iconic villains. Take for example, the Iron Man Trilogy, where 1 has Iron Monger (a good starter villain), 2 has Whiplash (a minor antagonist in the comics, but with sprinkles of Crimson Dynamo to add more abilities and story) and 3 got Aldrich Killian (a character who had the shortest lifespan of the three in the comics, but here gets superpowers and leadership of AIM no less). Glad Ant-Man didn’t repeat the formula, since they already had the bald start villain and the henchman in the comics main bad guy.

There’s also the minor villain in the comics turned big bad of a movie or show. Guys like Arthur Harrow, Kaecilius, the aforementioned Aldrich Killian, or even minor antagonists like Sonny Burch. But hey, it could’ve been worse, like Dreykov, an original character that was just a mention in The Avengers, that turned into the big bad of Black Widow.

Sure, some of these end up being composites of other villains, but it doesn’t help when James Gunn makes a character that is indeed recognizable as a silly villain, and turns him into a threatening planet sized enemy and into an interesting father for Peter, or Markus and McFeely turn Zemo from dad’s little cosplayer into the grief stricken destroyer of the Avengers.

What’s funnier to me is Good turned bad characters and vice versa. Here we have Nebula, Alexander Pierce, Talos, Agatha Harkness,Bill Foster, or the entire Black Widow family. I'm not considering Scarlet Witch, because she flip flops a lot in publishing. What makes this such an enigma is that there are several villains in Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and others’ Rogues’ Galleries or Friend Groups to have to change them.

One thing I do respect though is the distillation of the villains. Both Black Panther and Spider-Man’s movie villains have this approach. Namor, Killmonger, Vulture and Mysterio’s backstories and looks are changed, but at their core are the same. Namor hates the surface world, Killmonger has vendetta towards the crown for what they did to his family, Vulture is resentful for his business venture failing, and Mysterio is an attention seeking diva.

And despite all of that, I do want to commend the artist and costume designers who created these villains. I love most of them, even if the characters are one note, especially since they bring the imaginative spirit from the comics, such as Kaecilius’ eye shadow or Killmonger’s Vegetta outfit. And some of these characters have been given more time to shine in the comics thanks to the limelight. Malekith and Killmonger being prime examples of this, and of course Loki’s redesign and attitude change can be blamed on his MCU popularity.

Suffice to say, I have a love-hate relationship with these characters. I can only hope Kang and his gang of Multiverse Saga misfits can continue improving the formula, and that we get more people interested in the characters.

I'd love to know what you think about these villains, if you have any thoughts!

Basically what was his reason of him becoming the villain during the story?

Guys I just finished watching the Iron Man movie and the comic adaption of the film. The art design looks great and although the comic is based on the entire movie but with new information that is jaw dropping. When Stark and Christine were “sleeping”, I happen to find a handcuff in Tony Stark’s bed which makes it more hilarious than you think from the movie. There was a whole lot of scenes that were from the film until I get to the part where Nick Fury and Sitwell were discovering an armor flying away from an explosion—which is obviously Tony Stark flying it—then there was another scene when Stark was leaving Gulmira, where we see Fury and Sitwell again and turns out Fury was trying to prevent Tony from being shot at from the sky but was too late. It’s a very good connection right there. Then at the very end of the movie Tony meets Fury, Fury tells Tony about the Avenger Initiative, then we get to the scene from the comics where they have a conversation about it then Stark turns down on him and mistakenly calls him “Furry”. As it turns out Tony turned down on Fury twice and not once as it was mentioned in Iron Man 2. I kind of like the tie-in comics, can’t wait to read more and many crazy connections that were never mentioned in the film. I give this one a 8.5/10.

Name: Obadiah Stane

Alias: Iron Monger

Status: Dead

First Appearance: Iron Man

Latest Appearance: Spider-Man: Far From Home

Portrayed By: Jeff Bridges

"This technology, it comes along once in a generation, and it's a gift that has been put in our hands. And why is that? It's because we have a vision, a vision for the future of this company, of this nation, of the world order!"

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