10 Messed Up Marvel Comics Moments We'll Never See In Movies
9. When Tony Stark Was In An Abusive Relationship With His Sentient Armour
The Offending Comics: Iron Man, Vol 3, #26-#30 (2000)
This weird little story arc saw one of Tony Stark’s Iron Man suits gain sentience after being struck by lightning and pretty much immediately fall in deeply obsessive, borderline abusive love with its creator. After Whiplash attacks Tony and the sentient armour brutally beats Stark’s foe to death, Tony realises the suit might be getting a bit out of control.
The situation escalates when Tony and the sentient suit fight, but the armour quickly subsumes him and whisks Tony away to a desert island where he wakes up tied to a tree BDSM style while the armour confesses its psychotic love.
In a final dramatic showdown, Tony suffers from a heart attack and the sentient suit realises his love for him trumps all so rips out his own mechanical heart and implants it in Tony’s chest saving his creator’s life, somehow without the help of transplant surgeons.
Perhaps suffering from Stockholm syndrome, Tony gets all emotional about the suit’s sacrifice and tries to save its life pleading with the words “let me get inside you,” which has some pretty powerful homoerotic undertones for a hardcore womaniser like Tony Stark.