Iron Man Just Made a Deal With Marvels Strangest Villain

Iron Man Just Made a Deal With Marvel’s Strangest Villain

Stranded on an alien planet without any support, Iron Man is forced to enter a desperate alliance with a familiar foe in order to survive.

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Iron Man Just Made a Deal With Marvels Strangest Villain

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Iron Man #10, by Christopher Cantwell, CAFU, Frank D’Armata and VC’s Joe Caramagna, on sale now.

As the cosmic supervillain Korvac has returned, with an axe to grind for Iron Man in particular, Tony Stark has increasingly made strange alliances in order to prevent Korvac from using the Power Cosmic to take control of all sentient life in the Marvel Universe. Iron Man’s initial mission to race against Korvac resulted in the Armored Avenger being whisked away to a faraway, alien planet.

And as Tony acclimates to his new surroundings, he finds several familiar faces and enters a partnership with one of his strangest enemies in order to survive this harsh new world: Wilbur Day, the original armored supervillain known as Stilt-Man.

Iron Man Just Made a Deal With Marvels Strangest Villain

Created by Wally Wood in 1965’s Daredevil #8, Stilt-Man was originally introduced as an antagonist for the Man Without Fear, able to raise himself to towering heights with his armored exosuit. Since then, Stilt-Man has become a minor threat for the entire Marvel Universe, including forming a feud with Iron Man. Tony and Stilt-Man’s conflict would reach its most notable peak during 1987’s “Armor Wars” storyline by Bob Layton, David Michelinie, Mark D. Bright and Barry Windsor-Smith. Wilbur obtained stolen Iron Man technology to upgrade his own armor, making it more formidable than ever before as he continued to menace the Marvel Universe for years to follow.

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On this backwater planet, Iron Man discovers a planet populated by various lost figures from across the cosmos. Curious as to who is actually running the village he has stumbled across, Iron Man is led to meet the community’s secret leader Stilt-Man, who has been quietly steering the course of the settlement for sometime. Initially distrustful of Stilt-Man and his intentions for the community, Wilbur expresses that the planet has given him a sense of peace and serenity that eluded him as a supervillain back on Earth, a sentiment shared by the other inhabitants that Tony compares to a cult-like commune’s single-mindedness.

In the relative tranquility provided by the village, Tony is able to make repairs to his Iron Man armor and recuperate from some of the injuries he endured in the hunt for Korvac while noting that the energies native to the planet imbue his armor with a strange new power source. And as an Ultimo surfaces and attacks the village, consuming inhabitants for the raw energy they gained from the planet, one of the android’s victims is Wilbur’s righthand woman in maintaining the community, leading Tony to decide to stick around to help Stilt-Man run the village after he singlehandedly defeats Ultimo with the new level of power that the planet’s energies gives his armor.

Given how quickly Tony has had a change of heart regarding the village, repeating some of the same quotes that Stilt-Man gave as his rationale for sticking around the planet instead of trying to find a way home, the planet may be emitting some sort of power that makes its inhabitants grow to love their surroundings and refrain from searching for a way to escape. Tony has made an about-face and now works alongside Wilbur towards the betterment of the settlement of wayward individuals that have found themselves on the planet and this has complicated the Armored Avenger’s stay in the bizarre limbo world populated by familiar faces during his detour from pursuing Korvac.

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Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/iron-man-stilt-man-team-up/

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