Covers - Superior Iron Man

Issue 4 - Tony is introduced on a morning show. He explains that the Extremis 3.0 app has brought out the bad in some but now a new security program - Iron Sight - drones that will follow all who have the app and keep them safe. There is now no more crime in San Francisco. Daredevil is tracked - DD knocks the drone down with his Billy-club and another. Tony wants the strong getting stronger and the weak trying harder to be Superior. We head to Stark Island where SHIELD is attacking Teen Abomination. Tony intervenes claiming private property. Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD is visiting. They want Teen Abomination who escaped, damaged the city and threatened SHIELD agents. Tony says he saved the agents, will pay for the damage and has the kid on an island going nowhere. Tony says he had lawyers get the warrant rescinded and will embarrass them if they continue. Tony sets some rules and is rude again, the kid's real name is Jamie. Daredevil visits again. He has worked it out that the app is a lie. It is a trigger for a virus that is in the water supply. San Francisco banned water bottles. He will contact the FDA and sue Tony and put him in jail. Jaime attacks because he needs Tony to fix him. Stark grabs DD. DD fights back, then Teen Abomination knocks DD through a window. Tony sends the Endo Sym suit to wrap around DD. Tony takes DD in the armor to his lab. Tony gives DD electroshock therapy until he can't remember anything. Tony is paying for the hospital stay for DD's brain injury recovery.

Superior Iron Man - Issue 1 - How did we get here? A world battle of the Psychic Red Skull - Onslaught was beat by the heroes but left a psychic change that changed Tony Stark's personality to evil. We open with Iron Man flying in the black and gold armor - saying Extremis 3.0. Tony delivers an app to the people of San Francisco giving them beauty, people snap it up not realizing the consequences. A week later, Teen Abomination having some Gama radiation goes through the city destroying things. She-Hulk is there fighting him and trying to talk to him when Iron Man arrives. Teen Abomination knocks Iron Man's head off - the suit is empty. The suit blasts the kid. And then hits him with his helmet knocking him out and tells She Hulk to clean up. Meanwhile Tony is in a pool. Tony is apparently drinking a cocktail. Pepper confronts him. Tony is being arrogant and rude. Says will meet her inside. He is an hour late. And says he is drinking again when asked. He's working on a liquid metal armor - an Endo-Sym Armor, smart metal extracting some building blocks from a symbiote. She is suspicious and also brings up the extremis app that has caused "a giant orgy of drunkenness, irresponsibility, and excess." He is happy about it, but she explains that this has caused an immediate upper class and those that couldn't get access is automatically a lower class and is being persecuted. We see examples. Then we see Daredevil protecting those persecuted. Everyone immediately turns back to being themselves (fat and ugly). They begin freaking out. The Extremis 3.0 Perfection app says free trial over, daily renewal $99.99/daily. Pepper goes to talk to an old A.I. controlled armor, a contingent if Tony's mind is taken over.

Issue 2 - Daredevil seemingly helps a lady getting mugged, but it was staged to be internet famous. Daredevil confronts Tony at Stark Island, formerly Alcatraz, Stark's new base of Operations. Daredevil threatens to shut him down. Stark takes him by the throat and throw him in the San Francisco Bay. Tony is bragging about getting rid of the entertainment. He offers to give the app for free for 24 hours within a fifty foot radius of his person, tomorrow on Castro street. When Tony shows, thousands of people crowd the street, when a father confronts Tony. He was an ex-addict and kept his son away until he took the app. Now, the father pulls a gun on Tony and shoots him in the face. The Endo Sym armor protects him. Says it is Graphene stronger than most steels and transparent. Tony takes him up in the sky, his son was the one who daredevil stopped. Tony offers to remove any trace of the video/pictures if the dad takes the free app and tells everyone it was part of the show. Tony threatens the dad and his son. The dad takes the app. Daredevil heard the conversation and heads back to the base, where everyone including Tony are out, under the influence and DD takes Tony. Tony awakes in a type of deprivation chamber with no electronic access/everything's shielded. Tony tries to get up and attack and DD puts him down. Tony says he doesn't need electronics, the Endo Sym is alive and coming for him as the door busts open. The armor forms and Tony attacks DD. Matt wakes up in his own bed, and he can see.

Issue 3 - Matt can see again and sees Tony offering this for free in exchange for his compliance. Tony has a drink, Matt knocks it out of his hands. Matt accuses him of playing God. Tony says he's been playing human. he is so far above everyone and now things have changed. Pepper is back working with a previously downloaded Tony Stark personality in an old armor. The armor is having a hard time processing the advances and needs time to adapt. She Hulk calls Tony. Teen Abomination is free and coming for Tony. Matt won't let Tony go. Tony knocks him out and leaves. Matt makes a call as his sight diminishes. On Stark Island, Teen Abomination is trashing the place. A helicopter shoots at him as bullets bounce off. He throws a motor bike and crashes the helicopter. Iron Man swoops in to save the two SHIELD agents. Tony drops them in the pool and attacks the kid to stop him. He's 13 years old. What does he want. He used the app and didn't do anything. He wants help. Tony says he can use him. Matt visits Foggy just to see him before his visions goes away.

Issue 5 - Tony has taken Jamie, the Teen Abomination to his lab where Jamie's tied down so Tony can draw some blood. He does and Jaime breaks free. Tony says he needs tp examine the DNA and while they wait wants to hear the tragic origin story. His mom was Katrina, a scientist who worked for Stark Industries. Her name Katrina. She brought her son, Jaime to work because he was sick and couldn't take him to school. They are working with Gamma rays. Happy Hogan shows up and says Tony can't make it. She asks what her name was. The shielding was not upgraded, only adequate and an explosion takes place, exposing several people. Katrina was fired, said Tony wouldn't see her. Tony remembers reading the reports. Tony says it was also the day the Black Lama returned, an interdimensional king with a golden orb who went mad in this world and used Iron Man's rogues gallery for a series of tests to fight Iron Man. He psychically attack and Iron Man sent him back, but it nearly killed Tony. Tony asked Hogan and Pepper for help. Then, he blacked out and can't remember. They both survived and just recently Jamie was beat up at school and told his mom. His mom couldn't afford another skateboard at the moment but promised to protect him. He got mad and transformed and hit a gas line blowing things up and killing his mom. Tony finds that Happy Hogan was his dad. Happy is deceased too. But, now Iron Man is wanting to really help because of Happy. Tony cannot find any video of Dec. 13th 8 years ago. Someone has deleted all of it to hide it from Tony.

Issue 6 - We open with Endo Sym Tony talking to the US government military offering plans of annihilation to the US, but also has the same plans in Russian and Chinese. Tony just received 200 billion dollars for this in the Stark Industries bank account. At the Resilient HQ, Pepper is will the armor observing these things. Tony brings Jamie to a media board meeting where Tony is doing a take over. They feel intimidated. Tony says he's the guardian, and lt's like bringing your kid to work day. Suddenly all their phones vibrate. Tony says that he already leaked the takeover. Everyone wants to sell. They ask why. Tony threatens change for the better but may be resisted. He wants to buy popularity and politics and everything from this media company for twice its value. Security is called then Jamie gets upset and throws the table out the window. They all open fire. Tony calls his suit and stops the firing and stops Jamie. He is forcing a sell. Pepper walks in and Resilient has bought 54% controlling interest in the company. Tony asks how. Tony gave the job to Pepper and she has run the company very well. She orders him to leave. Tony and Jamie meet with Pepper at Resilient. She refuses to talk with Tony with the symbiote. He removes it. They descend in an elevator. She asks about Jamie. Tony tells her he is Happy's son. She apologizes and flies out of the top of the elevator as it closes. And, then opens at the bottom. The model II suit of armor attacks Jamie and the face plate is ripped off as it downs Jamie and turns to Stark.

Issue 7 - Iron Man a duplicate copy of Tony's brain patterns from 8 years ago is the A.I. in the Iron Man suit of armor talking to Tony Stark. The purpose is to go in and fix the problem mind. If it cannot, then it replaces Tony Stark with the 8 years ago copy. Boom, Boom, Boom, Tony Stark is expecting the Endo Sym armor to come to his rescue. The Model II armor goes onto Tony Stark and it flies out and past the Endo Sym armor who begins to chase. They head into space. The theory is that the suit will keep coming and is not designed for space. Meanwhile Pepper has Jamie in a containment field. She wants to talk. Tony sent the information and now she knows fully who he is. They talk. The Iron Man Model II suit takes Tony to the Space Station and begins. Pepper contacts them. She asks where he got the money. Tony says he sold a dangerous one. Tony tries to convince Pepper that 8 years ago himself is still not the best model and is she sure she can trust him. The Model II suit shuts down the communication. And, proceeds to ask Tony who he sold to. Tony doesn't answer but encourages the Model II to enter his mind, if he will secretly replace his future self just to preserve its self. Then the Endo Sym begins to go up the Model II armor. As they talk in Tony's head, the Symbiote takes over the armor and frees Tony.

Issue 8 - We open with Pepper still unable to communicate with Tony or the Model II armor. Jamie asks Tony not to be hurt, asks why there are two Tonys. Pepper says she just wants Tony back and not corrupted anymore. They begin to talk about Happy. Then Tony says he is back to normal in the Model II suit. Then, the Silver Centurion armor comes online and says no. Tony says that the back-up can pop up at any time unless he finds the source. The Silver Centurion armor tells Pepper that the symbiote took over the Model II armor and erased the memory. Tony says that the AI was going to mind wipe him and take over. Pepper says she didn't want that, only to repair Tony's mind. The AI says his mind is too far gone. Tony says he will remove the AI and is coming for him. He flies with the Model II and the Endo sym wraps around and heads to earth. Tony uses the app to invite the city to Stark Island, a lot of innocent bystanders. Tony goes and parties. The SC armor goes and prepares. When Tony awakes from the women and booze, he gets to work. Pepper's at work. Jamie breaks a bed and Pepper checks on him. Pepper says he's not a monster just because he looks different. The SC armor agrees. Jamie says his mom told him that too. Tony then calls and Pepper answers. Tony says to tell the SC armor - Bio-Mark-One. Tony has turned the civilians into drones and surrounded himself. The SC armor activated the other armors and are heading that way. The suits of armor take the people away to safety. Other suits attack Tony. Tony then morphs the suit and begins to fight back in an Iron Monger type armor.

Issue 9 - The Endo Sym Iron Monger type armor begins to crush the armors. The armors fight. He breaks into the armor to find the source at Resilient. The armors fight back. The Endo Sym armor is winning but begins to leave to go to the source of the A.I. The armors begin to destroy the Stark Island facility. Then the World War Hulkbuster armor hits him on the Golden Gate Bridge. Tony destroys the cable hold the bridge. Pepper shows up in her Rescue armor with an upgraded suit. Tony gets jealous and begins to rip up the Hulkbuster armor. She hits the symbiote suit with a powerful sonic beam until it falls off of Tony. She takes Tony Stark without the armor to Resilient. She has a discussion with the armors. Then Tony has a slight smile that the armors pick up on. Tony inserts a module into the computer system. Tony feigned capture in order to get into Resilient to get to the computer system. He planted a virus and it is now destroying all copies of Tony's back up mind A.I. The armors crash and collapse. The SC armor grabs Tony by the neck and threatens to kill him. Rescue stops him. She appeals to Tony not to kill the man he was. He offers to quarantine the virus and hold the consciousness of the back up Tony Stark. He takes the module and begins to leave with Jamie. Then Jamie attacks Tony to stop him. The Endo Sym suit breaks in and destroys the program. Jamie accuses Tony of murder. Then Tony reveals that Jamie's mother is alive in the hospital recovering from a head injury. Jamie returns to his human form. Tony begins to leave. Rescue tries to stop him, but Tony says that she didn't beat him before. She was used to get into the building and the computer system. Pepper says she will use the media company to make him hated and alone. Tony might be able to force his vision on the world but he will be hated by all, and Pepper will make sure that Extremis is as hated as Tony Stark. He will be truly broken and alone. Secret Wars came next.