Character's Name: Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark
Series: Iron Man
Timeline: Movie-verse; beginning of the second movie.
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Iron Man 2 Personality: Tony Stark is every bit as sleek and stylish as his expensive clothes. He seems easy-going, and indeed, lives the life-style of a rich playboy who always gets what he wants (including the girl on several occasions). Confronted with his businessman responsibilities he is as polite as he can manage, even if it means being not so blunt as he’d like to be although being polite is not to say that he won’t insult a person-he’ll simply manage to do it in a “diplomatic” way. As he slowly becomes more incensed with his “Iron Man” persona, he also becomes more focused and responsible, but that’s not to say he still doesn’t have fun and live up life to its fullest. He is extremely intelligent and quick to make a witty comment when he likes.
Stark is occasionally both stubborn and arrogant. While traits that can be admired in certain areas and at certain times, Stark can easily manage to take it too far at times when he just, quite frankly, shouldn’t. He is especially arrogant in his areas of expertise-engineering and business-and will shove it in a person’s face if they annoy him, or he simply doesn’t like them. He also has a stubbly personality; while over-friendly with the ladies, he can be downright snide to anyone else (including non-pretty women and especially to the press).
As things continue to get more serious with the Iron Man gig Tony undergoes some adjustments, though the core of his personality remains as an underlying constant. There simply arises too many problems for him to cope with all at once currently in his life. At the beginning of Iron Man 2 his personality is the same-lackadaisical, smart-aleck, and fun-loving to the extreme. On the other hand is a growing problem with alcohol as he tries to cope with his business and private life problems, especially the growing worry of fatality due to palladium poisoning from his current model of the Arc Reactor. He almost comes off more superficial than ever before, except that underneath he is actually deeply worried about, well, everything: his armor being forcefully taken away from him and used as a weapon, the palladium poisoning killing him before he can fix the problem, and, yes, he actually worries about Pepper’s reactions to his act because he truly does have feelings for her. He seems to take an unprecedented amount of risks to the continuance of his life, performing all manner of stupid stunts for a little action and seemingly not caring about the consequences. He’s more on edge though that doesn’t always come off as obviously as when he is alone. He has his serious moments-those are even more regulated to private moments these days.
But mostly he’s still the over-pampered playboy that everyone knows (and loves). And that’s how he’ll play it for all that its worth.
What your character can offer: Stark’s greatest asset is most definitely his intellect. While hard to work with and comprehend sometimes and even harder to get to sit down and actually work many a time, Tony Stark could pretty much be labeled the most intelligent being in his world without much of a stretch. He is extremely brilliant. His specialty is in electrical engineering with a keen eye in business management and the financial game. He can build just about anything with his hands as long as he has the right tools. His long list of skills include just about anything with technological wonders; he can write software programming, hack into systems, build/repair/improve an engine or machine or computer type piece, design specialty reactors, create new elements on the periodic table, etc-the simple point of the matter is that he is good with his hands, and his brain holds a vast amount of knowledge and he is quick to learn even more knowledge, and can solve a problem with little to no outside aid.
Besides that, Stark is powerfully built physically and keeps up this build with an odd regiment of sparring, using mostly boxing and kick-boxing type martial arts. Average by human standards but close to a professional athlete’s capabilities. He’s not much of a fighter outside of his powered armor but most definitely not as helpless as one might first expect. But when he dons the Iron Man armor a whole new can of abilities and capabilities are unlocked and he practically becomes a whole new person. He is an ultimate defender and practically unstoppable-at least against most possibilities.
What items will they be bringing with them? Stark’s personally built Mark III “Iron Man” suit of powered armor. Capable of super-sonic flight, enhanced physical strength, and outfitted with several varying types of weapons including anti-personnel and anti-tank rounds (limited supply). CHIPPED AND TOTALLY USELESS. And very heavy. Mun proposes that the armor is separately chipped and that said chip will not be found until a week after Stark’s own chip is removed (if it ever is).
As a side note, Stark also comes equipped with an Arc Reactor literally embedded within his chest. This cannot be removed without killing him. I also propose that the chip stops the palladium poisoning but also keeps the reactor from being used for anything useful (iow: powering electrical devices). While not poisoning him further the current palladium in his chest will remain there in a sort of temporarily “suspended” state while the chip is in place; the chip will also keep his current core intact without frying the inner workings-a good reason for him to deeply consider getting his chip removed when the time comes as he will have no way to immediately replace it. If any of this needs more detail or is unacceptable… yeah, you’ll let me know and I’ll write up something more/else. As nothing was said in the apping process I'll just go with this as legit.