10 Worst Things Tony Stark Has Ever Done
5. He's Killed People... Lots Of People
Every superhero has a few body bags on their conscious, but Iron Man has more than many, and these aren’t those ‘oops, I used too much force by accident! What have I done?!’ types of situations. Iron Man has wilfully killed on many an occasion.
Operation: Galactic Storm is a 19-part crossover run of comics that ran through Avengers, Avengers West Coast, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Wonder Man, and Quasar in 1992.
The series follows the various Avengers’ role in a conflict between the Kree and Shi’ar empires. Across the course of the war, billions of Kree are slaughtered when a Nega-Bomb is detonated on their homeworld. Upon learning that it was one of the Kree’s own leader Supreme Intelligence that was responsible for the events, Iron Man argued for the execution of Supreme Intelligence as punishment, despite the fact that it was already captured and neutralised. He ultimately persuaded enough of the Avengers to do the act, against the wishes of the rest of team.
He also killed extremis infected Mallen by blowing his head off in Iron Man #4 when the villain refused to stop fighting, blew up Wong Chu way back in Tales of Suspense #39, let Black Knight fall to his death in Tales of Suspense #73 and of course there’s Obadiah Stane in the MCU.
Sure, in that final case it was Tony or him, but Iron Man certainly has a pretty big number of corpses on his consciousness for a superhero.