10 Biggest Iron Man Plot Twists
9. Iron Man Breaks Bad
Once again, this twist came courtesy of Marvel deciding that Iron Man needed to be a little bit more like Spider-Man.
The comic series The Superior Spider-Man had just hit the shelves, to a decidedly mixed response. It told the story of Otto Octavius, better known as the villainous Doctor Octopus, taking over Peter Parker's body and becoming Spider-Man. Some fans hated the radical departure, while others loved the daring new storytelling directions it opened up.
Marvel saw these divisive reactions and for some reason felt the need to spread them even further along their line, and thus Superior Iron Man was born.
After some magical tinkering of his personality courtesy of Scarlet Witch, Tony Stark is not the man he once was. Or rather... he IS the man he once was, before he decided to give up the selfish playboy tech mogul lifestyle to be a superhero. With a new, larger than ever before ego, and a new liquid smart metal suit inspired by alien symbiotes, this Iron Man is the villain you would expect a billionaire weapons manufacturer to be.
When he's not scamming people into becoming addicted to his downloadable Extremis virus, he's beating up Daredevil and blackmailing rival companies. It took Pepper Potts running a successful public relations campaign to take him down, and the incursion of two universes to return him to his regular, non-villainous self.