Iron Man 2020
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Iron Man 2020 (real name Arno Stark) is a fictional character and supervillain who exists in the future year of 2020 within the Marvel Comics multiverse. He first appeared in the second issue of the Machine Man limited series (1984).
[edit] Character history
Arno Stark is the future nephew of the present day Iron Man, billionaire industrialist playboy Tony Stark. His father is Stark's unscrupulous cousin, Morgan Stark. Arno inherited his uncle's company, Stark Industries, and rather than use the armor for heroic deeds, prefers to act as a hired mercenary or commit acts of corporate espionage to cripple his competitors for industrialist gain.
Iron Man 2020 travelled to the present day in order to obtain the retinal patterns of a young boy. In the year 2020, that boy's adult self had set a bomb to kill Arno Stark's family, and his retinal patterns were needed to defuse the bomb. Iron Man 2020 was successful in obtaining retinal scans, but was delayed in battle by the superhero Spider-Man, who only witnessed an unconscious and battered young boy being presumably kidnapped by a villain. This delay resulted in Iron Man 2020 returning to the future too late to defuse the bomb, as time continued to pass in the future. In his later appearances, Iron Man 2020 fought the 2020 counterpart of Machine Man and the time-traveling cyborg Death's Head.
He is currently imprisoned in the time cells of the Time Variance Authority, the holding facilities for the most "dangerous time-travel offenders".
The Iron Man of 2020 also appeared in the Paradise X mini-series alongside numerous Marvel heroes from different time-lines (such as Deathlok, Spider-Girl and Wolverine in his Days of Future Past form)
[edit] Powers and abilities
Iron Man 2020 wears a suit of highly sophisticated armor, similar in appearance to Iron Man, with the exception of the faceplate and shoulders. Repulsor rays are equipped in the gauntlets of the suit, as well as the chest beam. The user no longer requires a cybernetic link in the helmet to control the armor; the helmet can also be hidden via cloaking technology, which was presumably developed sometime in the future. IM2020's systems are built for warfare, not super heroics like the original IM. IM2020's repulsors always fire at maximum power for the most lethal effects. Curiously, IM2020 also has the 1970's era IM rollerskates (updated to a "roller blade" style) built into the boots of the suit.
