Iron Man Armor

Whether he’s protecting himself from giant monsters or battling space deities, Iron Man has a wide variety of armor to suit his needs. He’s a true tinkerer, constantly coming up with new ways to use his own technology to build the best possible suits.

The first of his iconic suits, the Mark I Armor, made its debut in Tales of Suspense #39 as a way for Stark to survive his capture in Vietnam. Its hulking size and bulky appearance are reminiscent of the oversized suits worn by Nazis in the 1930s, so it’s no surprise that this early version of the armor is so popular with diehard fans.

In Iron Man 2 and the movies that followed, Stark upgraded this basic suit to one of his most powerful armors. It was built from advanced nanotechnology and features repulsor rays as well as a unibeam to help him defeat his enemies.

Tony’s other single-use armors were more powerful, but they didn’t feature the same level of power-to-weight ratio as his Mark II and Mark III suits. These suits were based on gold-titanium alloys that gave them a golden sheen, and Stark painted them a variety of colors to distinguish them from each other.

Another variation on Stark’s classic silver-titanium armor is the Model 51 suit, which combines many of his previous technologies into one suit, including the Repulsor Rays and Unibeam weapons. This armor is one of Stark’s most versatile and can transform into a Hulkbuster suit, or into a stealth mode for quiet investigation.

While this armor isn’t the most advanced Iron Man suit, it’s a great example of how Stark can mix his own tech with ancient artifacts to create something truly unique. This suit is also quite unusual in that it’s bubble-headed and has pieces of armament that can be activated by electric eels, squid or manta rays, so it could make a good addition to the Marvel movie-verse as a new undersea version of the hero.

In the ’90s, Stark created a very different version of his signature armor that was meant to protect him from the dangers of the deep ocean. It was a little less bulky than the original, but it still featured a great bubble visor and some of the most interesting armament in the history of Iron Man.

The suit was only around for a brief period of time, and the idea of having an underwater Iron Man is pretty weird. There’s also a chance we could see the armor in Iron Man 3 but it’s unlikely that we’ll be seeing anything similar to this.

Magic, the Gods and the Marvel Universe

In an alternate-universe storyline in the ’90s, a young Tony Stark designed this suit as a means to become a sorcerer instead of Doctor Strange, using a number of mystical artifacts that would be able to turn him into the greatest sorcerer of all time. It’s a bit of an odd concept, and we’d have to think that this could get weirder before it got more normal, but that’s just the way that comics work.