Dr. Issues learns we don’t have the licensing budget for good music, and Anthony discovers he’s like Iron Man, but not in the cool, mechanized suit-wearing kinda way.
Show notes:
- Introduction
- Background on Tony Stark
- Starts off as Howard Hughes analogue – pro-war industrialist
- 1969 – Artificial heart
- Demon in a Bottle – Grapples with alcoholism
- Loses company, becomes homeless – Rhodey takes over suit
- Armor Wars – Takes out armored heroes/villains, battles Edwin Cord
- Creates War Machine armor, but becomes paralyzed and loses Rhodey
- The Crossing – kills several people (later retconned)
- Heroes Reborn – comes back healthy and with new look
- Secretary of Defense – leads to Avengers Disassembled
- First time Stark Tower used as Avengers base
- Civil War – Superhuman Registration Act
- Dark Reign – Brain “rebooted”
- Heroic Age – Bleeding Edge armor/Stark Resilient
- Comics Tony turns into a clone of RDJ
- Secret Wars II – Incursions, end of Ultimate Universe
- Civil War II – Tony vs. Carol
- Marvel NOW – Tony is in coma, brain is AI, Riri is Ironheart
- Primary Issues
- Arrogance
- Alcoholism
- Reliance on technology creates distance
- Tendency to over-intellectualize everything
- How to address issues
- Want to solve problems without breaking him down
- Narcissism makes for delicate handling
- Tony on Dr. Issues’s couch
