Canon Powers: Tony is a Badass Normal with high ranks in Wisdom and Intellect:
He’s built a miniaturized arc reactor-plus-rudimentary-mech-suit in a cave, dozens of Iron Man armor and eventually a particle accelerator in his garage, and a wide array of lethal & non-lethal weaponry from a trip to Home Depot. Tony is incredibly intelligent and highly resourceful, quick-witted and readily adaptable to whatever's thrown his way.
While this isn't a power per se, it gives him a definite advantage on and off the field.
While he's baseline human, he has also had odd moments of clairvoyance in canon, from hearing Pepper's voice and seeing the rt in IM during his torture, to witnessing a second chitauri invasion in AoU and foreseeing Thanos, even if not by name, and dreaming of his future daughter in IW.
Power Request: N/A
Personality:
Tony Stark is an intelligent, egotistical, sometimes coolly cynical man hiding a warm heart, with a deep awareness of the responsibilities he's chosen to willingly shoulder for the sake of loved ones and the world itself.
He often puts forth the image of a man who's untouchable, unaffected by the petty worries and minute bullshit of the world at large. In the public eye from a young age, Tony has had to inure himself against the scrutiny and attention that comes with holding celebrity status for 30+ years (and helming a corporate empire for 18 of those years), from savage critique, to heaps of empty flattery, to handling those who've never really seen him as a person, just an attractive stack of money or a clever brain to exploit. He knows how the game works, and he's learned how to play it well. To those who don't know him, he comes off as an arrogant, know-it-all rich douchebag.
Pepper once observed, way back in IM (quoting from the novelization here) how "sometimes it was difficult to get any sort of read off Tony Stark. He kept his innermost thoughts and feelings, his very soul, walled off." At his present canonpoint, he's still only going to open up to those he's close to, a very, very small circle of people. Tony later self-describes his Iron Man armor as a cocoon (IM3), but it's not the first of its kind for him to wear, that layer of deadpan, cynical wit cushioning him from the outside world.
Though he can seem untouchable, Tony’s just as human as the rest of us, and fallible, and he can be kind of a bratty diva.
Tony's stubbornness is a Hallmark of his personality, which can be fantastic! That drive to better himself and his work, not just give up in the face of adversity, serves him time and time again, coupled that with an unwillingness to rest until he's exhausted all options at his disposal– many, many options, many failsafes. On the other hand, his tendency to be so very headstrong also gets him into trouble as often as it gets him out of trouble. Refuse to build a Jericho missile for the Ten Rings, while at their mercy? Say hello to torture. Ignore JARVIS when he warns of imminent icing issues as you bolt for the stratosphere? Su– oh. Tony’s pretty certain he knows what’s best– or he’ll 100% project that appearance.
To others, especially when he's riding high at the top of his game, Tony's just fun to be around, intoxicatingly confident (and confident in his compatriots), the life of the party, and someone who knows how to play to a crowd, whether it's an amphitheater of thousands or an intimate audience of one. Take Bern in '99! Even when he was ridiculously drunk and tilting his hat toward getting in Maya Hansen's pants, he was also interested and impressed in her Extremis research, even leaving her with a parting gift: the formula she used to take her findings into human trials.
Find where where both extremes meet and you get a third angle of Stark, truer than the other two and fiercely protected against threats. Beneath the cool distance and manic intensity, he's a man burdened by the heavy weight of responsibility, hiding warm affection and deep loyalty for the friends who've stuck by him. Sort of ironic that he had the arc reactor protecting his heart, WHILE he's also built up an emotional wall to keep his heart safe. As he admits desperately to Pepper later on in IM3: "...threat is imminent, and I have to protect the one thing that I can’t live without. That’s you."
Protecting those he loves starts (or started) with protecting himself from harm. While this would seem a very selfish act (and let's get another thing straight, Tony can be selfish, it’s that whole complicated bit again), he's also incredibly selfless. Tony has shown time and time again he's more than willing to throw himself in harm's way to protect innocent lives. Refusing to cooperate with the Ten Rings, blowing up their arsenal while sustaining injury to himself, and instructing Pepper to blow the arc reactor to stop Obadiah's rampage, knowing he might also be killed by the blast.
His stubborn nature is also not the be-all and end-all of him; accustomed as he is to being the smartest guy in the room, he's not necessarily unwilling to compromise when he's wrong (you just better have your shit together), and neither is he unwilling to work with others, even bowing to their expertise and leadership over him, as later films have shown. Tony also shows remarkable affection and deep interest (even a side of unexpected thoughtfulness) for the people in his life. He banters with Pepper about her birthday plans and has no issue with her buying her own birthday present from his account, he teases Rhodey, listens to his drunken rambles about what his work means to him and seeks him out first to tell him about the Iron Man armor, and prior to Obadiah's betrayal, treats the man much like a surrogate father, trusting him to lead in Tony's best interests, even remarking on a gift he'd sent him.
Tony's largest fear, meanwhile, is that his present legacy is nothing but destruction, loss and that his past sins and inaction could hurt not just himself, but might result in the deaths of friends and allies, and impact earth in the worst ways possible. Later in canon, Tony's uncertainty for the future drives him, often in self-destructive ways. Though we don't see so on-camera, aside from a deleted scene, we know he spends much of his time between IM1 and IM2 searching for an element to replace the palladium in his chest rt, and it's very likely he knew his eventual death, if it wasn't corrected, as likely as far back as the end of IM1. While this issue is corrected once arriving in the HP universe (thanks, St. Mungo's!), the anxiety of it isn't so easily shaken.
Alright to close this out, because this is long and unwieldy now, Tony Stark is so much more than his public persona, one just has to make it past a hell of a lot of barriers to entry in order to see it.
TONY STARK | MCU | reserved
Name: Beck
Age: 36
Preferred Pronouns: she/her
Contact: PM
In Character
Name: Tony Stark
Canon: MCU
Canon Point: Pre-Iron Man 2
Age: 39
Character Information:
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Canon Powers: Tony is a Badass Normal with high ranks in Wisdom and Intellect:
He’s built a miniaturized arc reactor-plus-rudimentary-mech-suit in a cave, dozens of Iron Man armor and eventually a particle accelerator in his garage, and a wide array of lethal & non-lethal weaponry from a trip to Home Depot. Tony is incredibly intelligent and highly resourceful, quick-witted and readily adaptable to whatever's thrown his way.
While this isn't a power per se, it gives him a definite advantage on and off the field.
While he's baseline human, he has also had odd moments of clairvoyance in canon, from hearing Pepper's voice and seeing the rt in IM during his torture, to witnessing a second chitauri invasion in AoU and foreseeing Thanos, even if not by name, and dreaming of his future daughter in IW.
Power Request: N/A
Personality:
Tony Stark is an intelligent, egotistical, sometimes coolly cynical man hiding a warm heart, with a deep awareness of the responsibilities he's chosen to willingly shoulder for the sake of loved ones and the world itself.
He often puts forth the image of a man who's untouchable, unaffected by the petty worries and minute bullshit of the world at large. In the public eye from a young age, Tony has had to inure himself against the scrutiny and attention that comes with holding celebrity status for 30+ years (and helming a corporate empire for 18 of those years), from savage critique, to heaps of empty flattery, to handling those who've never really seen him as a person, just an attractive stack of money or a clever brain to exploit. He knows how the game works, and he's learned how to play it well. To those who don't know him, he comes off as an arrogant, know-it-all rich douchebag.
Pepper once observed, way back in IM (quoting from the novelization here) how "sometimes it was difficult to get any sort of read off Tony Stark. He kept his innermost thoughts and feelings, his very soul, walled off." At his present canonpoint, he's still only going to open up to those he's close to, a very, very small circle of people. Tony later self-describes his Iron Man armor as a cocoon (IM3), but it's not the first of its kind for him to wear, that layer of deadpan, cynical wit cushioning him from the outside world.
Though he can seem untouchable, Tony’s just as human as the rest of us, and fallible, and he can be kind of a bratty diva.
Tony's stubbornness is a Hallmark of his personality, which can be fantastic! That drive to better himself and his work, not just give up in the face of adversity, serves him time and time again, coupled that with an unwillingness to rest until he's exhausted all options at his disposal– many, many options, many failsafes. On the other hand, his tendency to be so very headstrong also gets him into trouble as often as it gets him out of trouble. Refuse to build a Jericho missile for the Ten Rings, while at their mercy? Say hello to torture. Ignore JARVIS when he warns of imminent icing issues as you bolt for the stratosphere? Su– oh. Tony’s pretty certain he knows what’s best– or he’ll 100% project that appearance.
To others, especially when he's riding high at the top of his game, Tony's just fun to be around, intoxicatingly confident (and confident in his compatriots), the life of the party, and someone who knows how to play to a crowd, whether it's an amphitheater of thousands or an intimate audience of one. Take Bern in '99! Even when he was ridiculously drunk and tilting his hat toward getting in Maya Hansen's pants, he was also interested and impressed in her Extremis research, even leaving her with a parting gift: the formula she used to take her findings into human trials.
Find where where both extremes meet and you get a third angle of Stark, truer than the other two and fiercely protected against threats. Beneath the cool distance and manic intensity, he's a man burdened by the heavy weight of responsibility, hiding warm affection and deep loyalty for the friends who've stuck by him. Sort of ironic that he had the arc reactor protecting his heart, WHILE he's also built up an emotional wall to keep his heart safe. As he admits desperately to Pepper later on in IM3: "...threat is imminent, and I have to protect the one thing that I can’t live without. That’s you."
Protecting those he loves starts (or started) with protecting himself from harm. While this would seem a very selfish act (and let's get another thing straight, Tony can be selfish, it’s that whole complicated bit again), he's also incredibly selfless. Tony has shown time and time again he's more than willing to throw himself in harm's way to protect innocent lives. Refusing to cooperate with the Ten Rings, blowing up their arsenal while sustaining injury to himself, and instructing Pepper to blow the arc reactor to stop Obadiah's rampage, knowing he might also be killed by the blast.
His stubborn nature is also not the be-all and end-all of him; accustomed as he is to being the smartest guy in the room, he's not necessarily unwilling to compromise when he's wrong (you just better have your shit together), and neither is he unwilling to work with others, even bowing to their expertise and leadership over him, as later films have shown. Tony also shows remarkable affection and deep interest (even a side of unexpected thoughtfulness) for the people in his life. He banters with Pepper about her birthday plans and has no issue with her buying her own birthday present from his account, he teases Rhodey, listens to his drunken rambles about what his work means to him and seeks him out first to tell him about the Iron Man armor, and prior to Obadiah's betrayal, treats the man much like a surrogate father, trusting him to lead in Tony's best interests, even remarking on a gift he'd sent him.
Tony's largest fear, meanwhile, is that his present legacy is nothing but destruction, loss and that his past sins and inaction could hurt not just himself, but might result in the deaths of friends and allies, and impact earth in the worst ways possible. Later in canon, Tony's uncertainty for the future drives him, often in self-destructive ways. Though we don't see so on-camera, aside from a deleted scene, we know he spends much of his time between IM1 and IM2 searching for an element to replace the palladium in his chest rt, and it's very likely he knew his eventual death, if it wasn't corrected, as likely as far back as the end of IM1. While this issue is corrected once arriving in the HP universe (thanks, St. Mungo's!), the anxiety of it isn't so easily shaken.
Alright to close this out, because this is long and unwieldy now, Tony Stark is so much more than his public persona, one just has to make it past a hell of a lot of barriers to entry in order to see it.
House Traits:
Ambitious
Brave
Chivalrous
Confident
Courageous
Creative
Cunning
Curious
Daring
Decisive
Dedicated
Diligent
Eccentric
Fair
Honest
Initiative
Intellect
Leadership
Logic
Loyal
Patient
Proud
Reckless
Shrewd
Wisdom
Wit
Samples: TDM 1 and TDM 2