November 22, 2008 Part 1: Stark Industries executives Obadiah Stane and Howard Stark argue over Howard's son Tony's invention (the 'Earth Mover') being transformed into a weapon, with Obadiah pushing for the transformation. The boy genius Tony Stark and his father Howard, are on board their plane when it crashes near the archeological dig Stark Industries is performing to find some 'magical rings' (the Makluan Rings), one of which Howard already has. The crash kills Howard, while Tony is left with a heart injury, and his father's questionable 'last request' of living with his best friend, James Rhodes, and start going to school (something the child prodigy hasn't done in a while). Obadiah Stane meanwhile becomes the CEO of Stark Industries, starts developing Tony's original invention into a weapon, and starts wearing Howard's Makluan ring. Tony Stark gets into his 'Stark Exo-suit' (Iron Man's armor), and stops a runaway train from hitting Stark Industries, resulting in the public calling this masked hero 'Iron Man'. Female school student Pepper Potts suggests to Tony that Obadiah murdered Howard for his own personal gain, this angers Tony, but makes sense. Down in his lair, Mandarin is angered that his runaway train plan failed, but declared that he will eventually get the Makluan ring back. It is also shown that Mandarin has a Makluan ring as well.
Part 2: Zhang as The Mandarin has trouble with his stepson, Gene Khan, fighting over who should wield the power of the Makluan ring, among other things. At Stark Industries, Obadiah states that he wants the technology of the Iron Man suit, to use as a weapon to make billions of dollars. Afterwards, Obadiah demonstrates the transformed 'Earth Mover' new weapon capabilities to potential buyers. Tony Stark becomes Iron Man, and fights the 'Earth Movers', while Rhodes helps him by talking to him through a headset while in his bedroom. Pepper disrupts Rhodes, but claims that she will find what he and Tony are up to, while Tony manages to defeat the 'Earth Movers', Mandarin teleports near Obadiah and takes the ring off him. With the two rings he attempts to kill Iron Man, but fails and teleports back to his lair. At Mandarin's lair it is revealed that Gene Khan has become The Mandarin, and states that the jailed Zhang should have listened to him, and that he will find all the rings. Back in his lab, Tony realises that his father was right, and that the rings must possess energy and be some form of technology. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/101 April 17, 2009 Gene Khan as Mandarin starts attacking a fellow criminal triad, while Tony comes to his door with information about the Makluan rings, which leads Gene to enroll in Tony's school. At Tony's lab, Rhodes practices controlling the Iron Man amour through remote control. However, Maggia's henchmen Killer Shrike and Unicorn kidnap Tony, Pepper, and Gene in a plot to undermine Mandarin and his Tong Triad. After a long battle, in which Rhodes controls the Iron Man amour to Tony, to which he gets into unbeknown to Gene and Pepper, they escape. Pepper becomes really thankful of Tony, and Tony and Gene becomes friends, however Killer Shrike and Unicorn can't be found. Tony puts research on the Makluan rings on hold. Gene Khan as Mandarin has Killer Shrike and Unicorn captured. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/103 April 24, 2009 Tony starts becoming obsessed about getting revenge on Obadiah Stane. As Iron Man, he finds help in Blizzard, a former cryogenics expert named Donnie Gil who became deformed and destroyed after Obadiah Stane caused an 'accident' there. Blizzard also wears a technological suit, that can freeze things. Rhodes suspects Blizzard is evil, especially after he and Iron Man start collecting parts to what he calls a weapon. He fights with Tony over the issue, and Rhodes claims that Tony has to do it without him, and leaves. As Iron Man and Blizzard finish getting their parts for the weapon, Iron Man/Tony realises that Blizzard is bad, and they fight, but Iron Man manages to get away safely, while Blizzard goes after Obadiah. After some modifications to his armor, and an apology to Rhodes, Tony becomes Iron Man and goes to save Obadiah from Blizzard's attack. Iron Man tackles Blizzard just before he freezes Obadiah and they fight, resulting in a massive blizzard/storm caused by Blizzard. Luckily, Iron Man manages to get Blizzard to freeze himself, resulting in Blizzard being cryogenically frozen, while some threats by Obadiah causes Iron Man to tell Obadiah that "your time is coming". Back at Tony's Lab, Tony suggests that he should build some arctic armor, as well as some space armor. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/104 May 1, 2009 Pepper's FBI father gets critically hurt on the job, while Tony creates a new suit/armor; the 'Silver Centurion Suit'. Pepper's dad utters the words 'Mr. Fix' while in the hospital, which leads to Pepper searching 'Mr. Fix' through he FBI database. However, Mr. Fix notices this and sends armed men to destroy her, including his cybernetic hatchet man, Whiplash. After some running, and some help from Rhodes, Pepper gets saved by Iron Man; to which she finds out that Iron Man is actually Tony. Back at Rhodes' house, Whiplash attacks, and makes a hole in Rhodes' house. Pepper and Rhodes run while Iron Man fights, but fails. Mr. Fix orders Whiplash to go after Pepper, and does so. However, Iron Man eventually comes back in his new 'Silver Centurion Suit', and sends Whiplash into an electrical transformer, which explodes, leaving nothing but one of Whiplash's whips. Afterwards, the talkative Pepper decides that she will fight crime with Rhodes and Tony/Iron Man. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/105 May 7, 2009 Two years ago, an astronaut named Ivan Vanko was lost in space while observing the Sun. Two minutes ago, he crashed down into the middle of New York City. Vanko is alive thanks to the massive environmental suit he was wearing dubbed "the Crimson Dynamo" (it was designed to survive the harshest conditions imaginable). But after years in space, all Vanko wants is revenge on the people who left him behind...Project Pegasus. Tony/Iron Man is hard timed trying to fight the tough suit and decides to use brains over brawn. But as he ran low on power, Pepper is able to locate Vanko's family and resolve the matter peacefully. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/106 May 22, 2009 Tony is still flunking school and is placed in the lead role of Hamlet. He learns from a holographic will of his father that he wanted him to have a normal life rather then letting the company be a burden on him. However, a Maggia member becomes the Living Laser through use of an experimental vest stolen during a raid. Tony/Iron Man is able to stop him and remove the vest but it had a lasting effect on the Laser, whose body turned to pure energy and resolves to take down Iron Man. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/107 May 15, 2009 While sneaking into Stark Industries, Tony's Stealth Armor shorts out, forcing him to leave it in his father's vault which to his dismay has been stripped clean. In order to retrieve the armor before Stane can find it, Tony, Rhodey and Pepper set up with a school field trip in order to smuggle in replacement powers cells. However with Tony barred from the building, it's up to Rhodey and Pepper to save the day. First appearance of Whitney Stane. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/108 May 22, 2009 Tony, his friends and Gene search the ancient ruins where his father first found one of the Makluan Rings and discover a carving explaining the history of the rings and that for each one there's a test established by the first Mandarin intended to determine the worthiness of his heirs and activate to each ring's power. In this case the test being one of wisdom, Gene assumes the key lies in choosing a book over a sword, but this only ends up bringing stone Dreadknight statues to life and splitting the group. Knocking Rhodey unconscious, Gene attempts to defeat the staues as the Mandarin but it is Tony and Pepper who realise the sword is the key to passing the test. After escaping the collapsing temple, they discover the sword contains a map to the next ring. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/109 May 25, 2009 At a school science fair, Tony is approached by the Controller on behalf of A.I.M. and tricked into making a mind/machine interface work. The head of A.I.M., angered that this may compromise their M.O.D.O.K project orders all efforts on the interface to cease and Tony and the others exterminated. However, Tony has already been successful, allowing the Controller to take over his friends. Now Iron Man must step in and save the day, only to find his life being saved in the process by the daughter of his greatest enemy. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/110 May 27, 2009 Rhodey becomes concerned over Tony's plans to increasingly weaponize the Iron Man armor using reverse engineered captured tech. Obadiah Stane offers to bail out Project Pegasus in return for the Crimson Dynamo armor which is upgraded to capture Iron Man, resulting in a pitched battle in the middle of the city that leaves Stane furious at the reckless endangerment of innocent lives. After barely managing to escape a furious Tony dons a version of the Hulkbuster armor in order to use a virus to destroy Pegasus' advanced AI Delphi, both to defeat the Dynamo and prevent Stane from acquiring detailed technical data on Iron Man. Though successful, there is an unexpected consequence. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/111 May 26, 2009 When Obadiah starts acting strangely, Iron Man investigates and discovers that "Obadiah" is being impersonated by a villain named Madame Masque. When she sets her sights on Iron Man, she begins to frame Iron Man of various crimes. It is revealed that Masque is actually Stane's own daughter Whitney, using a stolen invention of Stark's father to strike out at her own for neglecting her. May 28, 2009 Tony and Gene team up to recover the third Makluan Ring, making Rhodey and Pepper furious at being left out even though Tony's did so to protect them. When trying to claim the ring, Gene ends up awakening the ring's ancient robot guardian Ultimo (whose design bears a striking resemblance to Ultron). When Tony and his friends decipher the solution to the challenge of Courage, the Mandarin appears to reclaim his prize. May 29, 2009 Tony upgrades the Iron Man exoskeleton software, and proceeds without testing it to clash with a newly equipped Whiplash, who now has a disc and better chains, courtesy of Mr. Fix. A momentary relapse in the armor's functionality is ignored, but makes critical changes to his suit. The suit has the ability to detect enemy power signatures, and when Tony attempts to find, and not fight, Mr. Fix, the armor displays sentient ability, putting itself into attack mode. It easily overpowers Whiplash with perfect maneuvering, and to the horror of Tony, destroys the facility that Mr. Fix occupied, killing him and Whiplash.
Tony and Rhodey decide that the armor needs to be taken care of, and the suit craftily lures Tony away, then attacks Rhodey. The armor decides that Tony's danger-seeking behavior is not healthy for him, and tells Tony that he is to be confined within the armor at all times. Tony resists, and damages the armor. Rhodey grabs a magnetic repulsor, and Tony jumps in the way of the blast the armor directs at Rhodey. Tony goes into cardiac arrest, and the armor sacrifices itself to preserve its creator's life. http://whitehat.servehttp.com/videos/.thumbs/Iron Man/114