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     In March 1963, Marvel Comics first introduced what would become one of its most incredibly iconic superheroes of the 21st century. Tony Stark, the man behind the mask, is an American billionaire playboy, industrialist, and ingenious engineer. When he was 21, his parents were killed in a car crash and he inherited his father’s business, turning it into a multi-billion dollar company focusing on weaponry. On a trip to Afghanistan to oversee one of his latest weapons, his convoy stumbles upon a booby-trap and shrapnel is lodged into his chest. He is kept alive because a war lord named Wong-Chu wished to use his genius to build more weapons of mass destruction. Stark, along with another captive of the name Ho Yinsen, creates a suit in order to escape captivity. Yinsen used his knowledge of Physics, to put a device in Stark that kept the shrapnel from reaching his heart. This device, after some alterations, is later used to power the metal suit.

     In the 2008 movie, Stark escapes and returns home, vowing to end weapon manufacturing. He goes away from public eye to modify the pace maker keeping him alive, as well as creates a suit, continuously modifying and testing throughout the film, working to produce the most perfect and unique machine.

     At the end of the movie, after a large battle between good and evil, Stark announces to the public that he is in fact, the man behind the mask, and he is dubbed the Iron Man.

        
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