Tony Stark is the genius CEO of Stark Industries, a major defense contractor supplying weapons to the U.S. military. He's best known for building the Iron Man suit and becoming a superhero, but his story really starts with his father, Howard Stark, who worked on the Manhattan Project—setting the bar pretty high for an industrialist family.
Tony turned out to be an absolute prodigy. He built a circuit board at four and an engine at six, then breezed through MIT summa cum laude by age 17. He took over Stark Industries at 21 and spent years as the stereotypical genius playboy billionaire, running weapons manufacturing while living the high life.
Everything changed when he was kidnapped. His captors wanted him to build a weapon for them, but instead Tony did something smarter—he built powered armor to escape and save his own life. That suit became the prototype for Iron Man. Rather than just walk away, he decided to weaponize his engineering genius for good, turning himself into a superhero who actually uses his company's resources to protect the world instead of just selling to the highest bidder.
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