Biography Of Tony Stark

Almost since birth, Tony Stark has been very aware of the fact that he is clever and special. Not in the way that most children are told these things - by doting parents who are, if not outright lying, then certainly gently massaging the truth. Tony was told he was special and clever by numerous professors, tests and algorithms designed to determine that very thing. Like many young boys, he enjoyed robots and building things. Unlike many boys his age, he was able to combine these interests by successfully designing and building robots, and he was able to build his first working engine at age six. His intellectual gifts, however, were not the sorts of things that impressed preteen boys, and Tony was bullied mercilessly by his classmates until his mid-teens.

His dizzying intellect and remarkable accomplishments also never seemed to impress his father, Howard Stark. Howard, an accomplished scientist and businessman, was an alcoholic who exposed Tony to grain alcohol, violent mood swings and emotional abuse in Tony's early childhood. At the best of times, he expressed only a passive interest in his son. And at the worst, he attempted to shape Tony into an emotionally crippled paragon of 1960s masculinity through unexpected rages, aphorisms about iron backbones, and withheld affection. His mother, Maria, attempted to shield him from this, but as she too was a victim of Howard's mercurial temper, her efforts were often ineffectual. (Since his father served as little more than that asshole who paid for things, Jarvis became a parent figure to Tony, and would serve as the Alfred to his Batman for years to come.)

Without the praise, approval or affection of his father, he sought validation from other sources. At boarding school, despite ...

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...n’t willing to apologize for his actions, so they didn’t really settle anything, but they agreed to disagree for the sake of working together. Tony rejoined the Avengers and fought by Cap’s side, but it wasn’t the same. Where the rest of the team had forgiven him because they weren’t, you know, put into a temporary coma, there was lingering tension between him and Steve. Cap was especially annoyed after Tony tried to pretend that he wasn’t Iron Man anymore to get the government off of his back. The public might have been fooled, but Steve didn’t buy it. Over time, Tony finally came to recognize the depth of his betrayal and invited Steve to a bar – a testament to how in control he was of his actions now – to apologize. Steve of course forgave them and they made up, restoring the balance of both their friendship and the Avengers.

Well, for a little while, at least.