10 Times Iron Man Was A Real Jerk
5. When He Wasn't Himself...
Characters die and are reborn all the time in the Marvel Universe, and Tony Stark has never been immune to death. That being said, it did come as something of a shock to readers, when it was revealed in the pages of Iron Man 2020, that Stark had been dead for years.
It turned out that the Tony Stark we all know and love has been an evil artificial intelligence. Yup. They killed him sometime in the past and said he was an evil A.I. all along. The characters of the Marvel Universe closest to "Tony" took this news rather hard and ended up taking control of Stark Unlimited, Iron Man, and everything else "Tony" had his name on.
These events are soon followed by a revolution of robots, led by an enigmatic leader (can you guess who it is?). Essentially, A.I Tony is standing up for artificial intelligence rights, but that's not really the worst thing he's done.
In Venom: The End, the Stark A.I. has evolved significantly. It manages to take over the entire universe. That isn't to say he led the collective lives of all sentient species in a government formed under his authority. No, the Stark A.I. cleansed the entire universe of all sentient life.