20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Iron Man

18. He Got His Armour In Various Different Places

When Marvel look back on stories which took place in past decades during contemporary stories, they update them where necessary. For example, a recent series revealed that Spider-Man became something of a YouTube sensation when he first appeared.

This kind of shifting timeline has meant that Iron Man's origin story has needed to undergo a few changes over the years. The attack and kidnapping which prompted him to create the Iron Man armour is no longer the Vietnam War.

It's not the Gulf War either, and as of right now, it was during the war in Afghanistan that Tony Stark ended up becoming Iron Man.