This also seems to happen when an opponent moves too fast for them to follow, but then stops still out of their line of sight, resulting in a few moments of desperately looking around for where they went, despite, again, being able to sense where they are. Though this can be explained by the fact that they can also hide their Ki to catch enemies off-guard whenever they want. In Goku's fight against Cell, there's a part where Goku knocks Cell out of the sky and he hits the ground hard.
Future Trunks and a few of the other heroes excitedly think Cell is finished. Annoyed, Vegeta asks them if they forgot how to sense energy; if they would apply it, they would be able to tell Cell isn't even hurt. This is further lampshaded in the Abridged Series: Gohan reminds him that they can sense energy and are well aware that Frieza is fine.
Krillin says he keeps asking simply because he is an optimist. Most movies are guilty of this, during which all Saiyan characters will magically forget to become Super Saiyan for the duration of the movie, or until then end. There's a scene in Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug where Piccolo, who is being held in the grasp of a giant enemy, is desperately reaching out to Goku so that he can give him his energy. Piccolo completely forgets that he can stretch his arms to impossible lengths, not to mention become a giant himself.
In one filler scene during the Goku vs. Freeza fight, Freeza opens the ground under Goku, who hangs on the edge as the lava rises from underground. Goku tries to climb, fails and gets his butt burnt by the lava in a comical manner. Except that Goku, like damn near everyone in the show, can fly. Krillin doesn't use his Kienzan as often as his should, despite it being one of the most broken abilities in the franchise. It is one of the most powerful attacks that doesn't take too much time to charge, and one good hit from it would've killed Nappa, Vegeta, likely even Freeza.
Though this was just a filler scene and it does manage to cut off Frieza's tail, and is later used by Goku against Buu. The big problem with this attack, that it is slow and can be easily dodged if someone sees it coming, or even destroyed if hit from dead angles as seen later on by Jiren. This could be gotten around if the characters realize that they can use the Solar Flare to blind their enemies before using the Kienzan to cut them to pieces.
In Bojack Unbound, there's a martial arts tournament out in the ocean taking place on platforms. If you fall into the water, you're eliminated. Yamcha winds up falling off a platform, but doesn't fly back up to prevent falling in the ocean. Yamcha forgets he can fly again during the Majin Buu Saga when he does nothing to prevent his plane from crashing. Thankfully, Android 18 remembers her powers and saves the day.
In movie 11, Bio-Broly, there's a scene where Goten and Trunks are standing on each others' shoulders to see into a window. Goten complains that he wants a turn to see Master Roshi reminds her that she just built a video drone out of scraps and leftovers, and making a phone should be easy for her. Yet outside of their fight with Natsu and Gajeel, they never use it, even when they are getting their butts kicked and are in mortal peril. Bloodman, an Etherious who possessed all the Curses of the Nine Demon Gates of Tartaros, should have made quick work of Gajeel using the vast variety of skills he apparently had even when Gajeel manages to figure out how to hurt him.
He didn't presumably because he was just that shocked at the fact Gajeel was now cleaning his clock and ended up having to resort to a Taking You with Me attack that fails thanks to one of his comrades using a Reality Warper spell at the exact same moment that displaced everyone across the country. August, the strongest mage of the Spriggan 12 has the completely overpowered Copy Magic that gives him an almost unlimited arsenal of magic spells.
Having just tanked Gildarts' strongest blow looking no worse for wear, instead of just using any safer spell of equal power, August decides to use a suicide attack to wipe out all the members of Fairy Tail at once to pave the way to Zeref's victory, but ultimately cancels the attack and lets the out-of-control energy destroy himself once he sees his mother Mavis suffering in the devastation he's about to unleash. The Conqueror of Shamballa gives Alphonse a new Signature Move -the ability to transfer part of his soul into a suit of armor to control it.
Unlike the transmutation in the original series, this effect is only temporary and doesn't harm Al at all, effectively giving him the ability to create non-living, completely disposable Mooks. At the end of the movie, the characters end up in a situation where one of them has to make a Heroic Sacrifice. Had Al thought to use this ability then, he could have saved himself and Ed from being stranded on the other side of the Gate. In episode 52, when the fully demonized Inuyasha is going on a bloody rampage against a group of bandits, Kagome ineffectually runs after him while desperately shouting at him to stop.
It never once occurs to her that she could simply give Inuyasha the "sit" command to get him to stop, especially since doing so succeeded successfully restrained his full demon form twice before. Unfortunately common throughout JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , as Araki often gives his characters unique and complex powers and abilities Fans often ask questions like "Why wasn't Joseph given a chance to fight Alessi, to show off his youthful strength from 'Battle Tendency' again?
She is aware of her always-on Telepathy , but she can still be deceived because it also averts Conveniently Coherent Thoughts. Ergo, she cannot reach into someone's Hidden Depths automatically and is quite susceptible to Psychic Static and Poke in the Third Eye. Probably the most exemplary case is in Episode 11, where the ESP Research Society is trying to catch a criminal who commits random acts of violence to high school girls.
As it turns out, the culprit is Tsukino's Enemy Within , in whose house Kotoura has stayed for the better part of an afternoon. Yet in all that time, she doesn't suspect anything until the culprit is almost on top of her because the Enemy Within Tsukino had taken over while the latter was creeping up behind Kotoura. The anime adaptation of Magic Knight Rayearth has a tendency to do this. In one example, Fuu stops Hikaru from using a fire spell on a monster that's abducted Umi, but she gives no thought to the spell that she herself invented a few episodes ago specifically to restrain without injury.
Virtually the entire cast should be able to transform into anything or make illusionary clones of themselves. The latest times these abilities are brought up are when Temari plans to use a clone to act as a diversion then strike immediately after which is implied to win her the battle had she been able to carry it out and Naruto transforming clones into rocks to hide them which is very successful against even a VERY powerful opponent.
It's clear these abilities would still be useful even at Kage level confrontations, but instead all characters stick to their gimmick and their gimmick alone. After Naruto reveals that he has Super Speed bordering on Flash Step , he promptly never uses it again despite how incredibly useful it is to be so fast he can travel roughly fifty feet in the time it takes the second fastest man alive to punch him, or to escape being captured by Tobi during his and Bee's fight with him and the other Jinchuuriki.
Luckily, Kakashi and Gai got there just in time to save him. The Big Bad Tobi is guilty of this. The only reason the heroes even stand a chance is because he forgot he could easily teleport in, kidnap all the Jinchuuriki , and teleport out without anyone being any the wiser. Madara Uchiha is very much guilty of this: Ever since his introduction, Madara has revealed to be able to use an incredible amount of techniques, including, but not limited, to creating massive walls of fire , using Susanoo in more than one form the final form being a hundred-foot-tall one , using Rinnegan and its derivative techniques Chakra Absorption , and a stronger variation of Shinra Tensei , summoning meteors , using massively powerful Wood Release techniques , and the list goes on.
However, many times he only uses a technique once, and it's never even mentioned again. It's even more jarring when he becomes the Ten-Tails Jinchuuriki, as he focuses only on using the Ten-Tails's black substance instead of using any other technique, even if it would help him in the fight such as Susanoo, which is later shown to be even more powerful with the Tailed Beasts' combined chakra.
No wonder Guy handed him his ass in their fight. Partly justified in that Madara was perhaps the most arrogant character in the series, and obsessed with trying out new abilities whenever he could. There are numerous situations in which Chopper forgets he has a certain ability, and it's played for comedy, but a lot of times he could defeat his enemies in Heavy Point, but chooses to stay in Brain Point, his physically weaker form. Luffy, Chopper and Brook sometimes forget that their devil fruit powers include Super Drowning Skills.
This is purely played for comedy, and their crew mates are always pissed at their idiocy. Luffy and some other characters also sometimes forget about their Super Strength when trapped in a certain situations. At one point, Trafalgar Law is being beaten up by Doflamingo and Luffy is inside the hallways of a coliseum watching helplessly out of a window. He reasons that he can't get to them because the window has seastone bars on it seastone is harder than diamond and drains Devil Fruit users of their powers , but he seems to be forgetting that he could easily smash a hole in the regular stone walls and walk right out.
Ash has been known to come up with some pretty impressive strategies from time to time, but when the plot dictates that Ash must lose a battle, the Idiot Ball is practically tied around his neck. Master of Illusions , Ash forgets that he has arguably the strongest team he's ever had in a movie. Aside from one instance with Infernape in the beginning and Pikachu in general, he never uses any of them. The sheer raw power they packed would have made a huge difference against Kodai. They're birds that remember they can fly when they are persuaded to cross a bridge the heroes make so that they can get to safety and that then proceed to FLY AWAY.
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In the same episode, he almost orders Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on a grounded Sandile, who has Iris' Axew in its mouth. The only thing that stops him from going through with this plan is Iris reminding him that the attack would hurt Axew, not the fact that the Ground-type Sandile is outright immune to electricity. Sometimes, when he actually remembers them, the kid forgets how to properly use his powers. Arceus and the Jewel of Life , Ash and co. A simple, no-tech cell. And because of this stall, Arceus gets killed.
Mewtwo Returns has these moments in spades. And speaking of Team Rocket, they've recently been rejoined by their Wobbuffet, whose gimmick is that it acts as an Attack Reflector. Unfortunately for them, this skill is rarely used, leading to them repeatedly getting blasted into orbit. There's also Ash's ability to use Aura basically a renamed Force. In the eighth movie Ash begins to develop these and it's even brought up once or twice in the Sinnoh Arc. Absolute squat comes of it. They might as well have painted a sign that says Fanfic Fuel. Ranma was supposedly so stupid that he can't lie to anyone and got a poker face that any kid can read.
This is contradicted by Ranma playing cards with his friends in the past several times and winning based on his expression and Ranma being perfectly able to lie and play pretend in several other schemes of his whenever it suited him. Ranma went on later after the arc and to win at cards decisively against Nabiki and Akane. The American version changed all those incidents to Ranma losing so that they can remove the inconsistency.
Usagi often used her disguise pen in the first season to get into areas where access was forbidden otherwise. In later seasons, it was completely forgotten And even in the first season one episode has her entering a swimsuit contest wearing a torn bathing suit that she covers up with bows. Note that Minako had her own disguise compact in the Codename wa Sailor V manga and in the Sailor Moon manga, although the fact that it was never shown in the anime may mean it simply doesn't exist in this continuity. In the manga, both Usagi and Minako have devices a mask and a compact respectively that can reveal the disguised enemies' true forms; these conveniently get forgotten when it comes to fighting Witches 5 or the Dead Moon Circus, who do disguise themselves as normal people in areas that are known to have connection to the enemies.
In the first episode we see that she has super hearing through the gems in her hair and we never get to see her use them again In a season two episode all the girls sans Mercury who was supposed to be on a plane to leave get trapped in a freezer with an ice monster. Their game plan is to wait there indefinitely until Mercury conveniently decides not to go and comes to the rescue.
One wonders why Sailor Mars didn't think to use her own powers which are Natsumi, taking on Keroro — a clearly amphibious lifeform — in a swimming contest. Cue Keroro's first Moment of Awesome. Ironically, Natsumi still benefitted since nobody but her could see Keroro, and struggling to beat him allowed her to beat everyone else. In the dub at least it was not so plot induced as it was youthful pride and not thinking induced, and to her credit it does hit her pretty fast just how bad an idea it was.
Lina, Ameria, and Zelgadis all know Ray Wing , spell that lets them fly, faster than they can run. Yet they will frequently run away from enemies including ones who can't fly , or stand around watching flying opponents as if they could not reach them. Even if they cast Ray Wing , there's a good chance they'd still fly parallel to the ground until Lina realizes this second layer of stupid. Keep in mind Ray Wing requires energy and by the time they desperately need to flee their foes they'd already depleted their magic from using high level spells and some foes don't justify using energy because they can be outran.
On top of that many of the places they visit tend to be dungeons and ruines with relatively little space to fly around. Often when the robot characters in Transformers Energon need to get to someplace really quick or escape from danger, they simply run, even if they can transform into a superfast vehicle. In the first season, there is a duel where this is Zigzagged, and a character forgets how to use one right. He forgets that, because he and Devack currently have equal Life Points, the card won't do anything.
But to be honest, what player in the actual game has not made that mistake when using Megamorph? In Season 2, Yusei desperately tries to find a way to deal with the Meklord Emperor monsters that can absorb Synchro Monsters. He finds the Accel Synchro, but Yusei already has a card that can deal with them, and he has it since the beginning of the series: The Infinity is a Level 1 monster that absorbs Synchro Monsters.
Some parts can be replaced by stronger versions of themselves and have higher Levels, but the highest Level so far is 5. Nearly any situation should be easily solvable by The Flash , since he can move hundreds and hundreds of times faster than anything else on earth. Yet he constantly forgets to use the full potential of his superpowers until it's time to end the story.
Abilities the Flash consistently forgets he has: On one occasion the villains destroyed a bridge, Flash runs to a university, teaches himself civil engineering, rushes back to the site of the collapsing bridge, scavenges for parts and builds an entire new bridge to replace the old one, all in the blink of an eye. This trope is the only reason anyone is able to beat him. Lampshaded in an episode of Justice League Unlimited , since it's revealed that while the Flash can do all these things and more, he doesn't phase through things because it's fairly dangerous, and he can't approach his upper limits because the plot says it would kill him.
Luthor, on the other hand, isn't so worried about it when his mind ends up in Flash's body. It becomes even more ridiculous given the fact that at one point the Flash was able to within a small fraction of a second save a city from nuclear annihilation by carrying its half a million person population to a hill miles away one person at a time.
And yet Central City's banks still get robbed on his watch. In the 4 issue alternate universe DC tale, Kingdom Come , The Flash does become an unstoppable one man war on crime, where he never slows down and has made Keystone City a crime-less utopia. To the point where he moves so fast, not only can he run through the air, he simultaneously exists in the physical and metaphysical planes. However, it's also revealed he's Blessed with Suck as he can no longer communicate with anyone save Superman and cannot stop.
Speed Force 2 , Wally West is drawn into a fight with Flashpoint Wonder Woman and can't get her to stop hitting him or chasing him Except Wally has the ability to drain speed from others, effectively making them statues. And you can't even say this was him before he gained that ability, because his children exist, and he had that power before they were born. Examples from Titans Rebirth: When infiltrating Meta Solutions, Dick and Wally's comms stop working, and Wally tells Dick to do whatever he's doing quick.
He seems to have forgotten he has super speed and can just run outside, tell the Titans the comms are cut, then go right back in in about 5 seconds. In the same issue, when Mammoth shows up and fights Dick and Wally, Wally seems to have forgotten that he can drain speed, which would've essentially made Mammoth a statue. In The Lazarus Contract crossover when Wally is chasing down Slade who gains briefly super speed , Slade says he's as fast as Wally somehow , and that since they're on the same playing field now, he can beat Wally.
Wally agrees and runs away Obviously, Superman suffers from the same forgetfulness both in the comics and in Smallville. Specifically, he frequently forgets to use his super speed while attacking. At its most ridiculous in the Silver Age , Superman has nearly godlike powers name any ability, put the word super in front of it, Supes has it and will conveniently forget them between issues as the plot demands. However, he is in the habit of standing and taking shots to intimidate his opponents so it's not always a case of forgetting.
And how anyone ever manages to sneak up on him when he has super hearing is a complete mystery. Except for Batman , because he has active noise cancellation technology built into his costume for just such an occasion. Similarly, whenever he fights foes that are less powerful but have masterful fighting skills such as Wonder Woman , he or rather the writers tends to forget that he's an expert fighter himself, having been trained by many of the greatest fighters in the universe. Due to his strength and invulnerability, Superman often forgets he has an effective ranged attack with his heat vision.
He could solve many issues from miles away, if he chose. Martian Manhunter often forgets to use his intangibility so that his enemies can land a punch on him. He also often forgets about his ability to change size and the advanced uses of his telepathy. Marvel's The Vision has occasionally fallen victim to similar attacks though it's rarer. In one issue of What If? A fan wrote in to ask what was up; the editors eagerly latched onto his suggestion that "the plant in question isn't entirely tangible itself, and that's why the villain used it". Hmm, a Physical God who can control winds, an unbreathing android, and a guy in a sealed combat suit?
The criminal masterminds who took them out so easily? Well, you've got to see this one for yourself. The Essential Silver Surfer is full of this. When he meets a scientist who invents a device that might let him leave Earth but needs money to make it, the Surfer decides to get a job. He can't because he doesn't have a Social Security number, he's not in the union, and he's funny-looking so almost robs a bank in desperation, forgetting he can manipulate matter and could just make the scientist's gear for him.
He spends about eight comics looking for someone who won't hate him for being "a silver-skinned freak" before he remembers that the Fantastic Four were quite friendly Gee, Scarlet Witch, did it never occur to you to just teleport him and the other zombies away like you did with Ash earlier?
Or teleport Enchantress away earlier so Dazzler wouldn't be infected? The last frame of the Spider-Man comic featuring the defeat of the Sinister Six in their first appearance had Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, and Sandman sitting in a police jail cell complaining about being defeated.
How could the Sandman, a being who can turn into sand, be trapped in a common jail cell? An example involving a power that the character literally cannot forget but writers seem to, many a comic involving Spidey losing to someone generally involves the Spider-Sense not triggering in instances where it absolutely would. Rather blatant examples include the "Confederacy of Dunces" arc in The Punisher where Spidey is trapped by Frank using a bunch of trigger explosives that weren't actually armed and Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe , where Dreadpool shoots him point-blank, which the Spider-Sense should have immediately detected and allowed Spider-Man to notice and act before Dreadpool could have even moved the gun into position.
Green Lanterns have been variously shown as being able to warp time, move faster than light, contain supernovas, fight toe to toe with Superman, alter their own DNA, read minds, find subatomic aliens Scratch that, if it's a superpower of any sort any given GL has used it at least twice. Now here's the thing. There are creatures other than Gods that bother them.
It's somewhat justified in their case as their power require willpower and concentration to make anything happen. A GL who is having a bad day, is unfocused or demoralized will be less effective and the GL's are essentially human without their rings or at least the human ones are. Plus, their rings require a periodic recharge and anything yellow or anyone whose fast enough or crafty enough to remove a ring is a threat. Still, the idiot plot is somewhat less excusable in the case of veterans like Hal Jordan or really, any of the Earth based GL's these days as he is both experienced, and extremely strong willed.
The drama that drives the character of Adam Strange hinges on a concept that makes little sense in the context of the shared DC Universe. Adam is a human adventurer from Earth who gets transported to the planet Rann located in the Alpha Centauri solar system, the closest to Earth by zeta beams. Once the effect of a zeta beam wears off, Adam gets transported back to Earth and has to wait for the next zeta beam to transport him back to Rann once again.
This creates drama Adam can't stay on Rann indefinitely , and even though every once in a while, writers come up with super-powerful zeta beams that have a permanent effect, eventually another writer may find a reason to undo the effect, leaving Adam stranded on Earth once again. However, it makes little sense in the context of the wider DCU, where there are various more conventional means of traveling the comparably laughable distance to Rann.
Ultimately, Adam drives off the invaders by sacrificing the zeta beam radiation stored inside his body, which results in him getting transported back to Earth. There are at least three ways to get him back to Rann immediately: First, in the first part of the story, Adam mentions a previous visit to Rann by JLA member Green Lantern Kyle Rayner , who traveled there simply using the power of his ring.
Second, the JLA has White Martian jumpships at their disposal, which are used to travel through space several times over the course of the series. All of these methods would allow Adam to return to Rann in a short amount of time, without that pesky temporary effect of the zeta beams. Eventually, this was corrected by placing Rann multiple billions of light-years from Earth, too far for most other methods of travel to reach. But this still doesn't explain why he doesn't ask one of the New Gods for help, since Boom Tubes can explicitly be opened to anywhere in the universe.
They shared many adventures and apparently never bothered to offer Adam a ride in the spaceship they regularly used to go between Earth and Thanagar. Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog: The chronic and widespread amnesia over the Iron Queen's Magitek is one of the main causes of the Idiot Plot that is The Iron Dominion Saga; the Freedom Fighters are constantly clueless to the fact that their enemy can control machines with her mind, and wind up being shocked each time one of their cyborg or mechanical allies gets turned against them by her.
They also keep forgetting that they have a counteragent to her spell right in their own backyard. And in case you're wondering, there's actually a time in the saga where the Iron Queen herself forgets that she has this power, and has to be reminded that the Freedom Fighters are holed up in a Grey Goo city that she can manipulate Tails had an uncle who was skilled enough in magic to, among other things, teleport and activate his Super Mode.
Unless there's an unexplained limitation on that second spell, Dr. Eggman really shouldn't have been a threat for so long. Speaking of the Sorcerer Supreme, he is repeatedly in situations where his virtually unlimited mystic abilities could resolve the plot, or at least make it much simpler. Alas, the good Doctor's imagination is often limited to that of those who write him. Friendship is Magic IDW: The giant mutant cockatrices who attacks Canterlot in the short in Issue 4 of don't seem to be able to turn anypony to stone, like they do in the show. Lampshaded in Issue The mane 6 are locked up in a dungeon.
When Twilight Sparkle is stumped about how they are going to get out, Pinkie Pie gives her a glare and knocks her horn - the prison bars are absolutely no match for the mighty alicorn magic.
Justified by Snowbird in Alpha Flight. While in animal form, she is dropped from a great height, so she shapechanges into an owl without changing to human form first — something she rarely does because its very painful. But, as the narrator points out, "In her animal panic, she had forgotten that her human form can also fly.
In the very beginning, the kids try to Zerg Rush Arcade, and he summarily inflicts a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on everyone who tried it while commending the handful who were smart enough not to. After establishing that X is constantly studying in her surroundings and determining the best way of killing everyone around her , in 10 she blindly charges into a fight with Apex without preparation.
Despite arguably being the most dangerous fighter of all the kids, she of course gets her ass kicked as a result. She then passes the Idiot Ball to Apex, who completely forgets about Laura's Healing Factor and fails to make sure she's actually down for good. Captain Alcohol is supposed to have Super Strength. However, this is only used in the first issue and never used again even when it could help him.
Jesse Custer in Preacher forgets about his Word of God more and more as the series goes on, which could have immediately solved many problems much faster by simply telling people "Stop! The trope is even lampshaded when Tulip asks him why he hadn't used the Word to defeat a group of enemies and Jesse just admits that he forgot about it. All the various telepaths could probably stop a hell of a lot of battles and villainous plots by simply mentally knocking out MANY of their enemies that don't have any kind of mind shield, but they often don't for unexplained reasons.
As noted elsewhere, Wolverine has super senses like hearing and smell, but they apparently only work when Wolverine needs them to solve a plot point. Otherwise he seems to be suffering from a recurring healing factor-resistant head cold. One of the most infamous examples: In Wolverine 75, Rogue is being sucked out of an airplane and screams at Gambit to help her. Except Rogue can fly. Regularly pointed out as a glaring example of Chickification of Rogue's character. During the first 20 years of his existence, Magneto occasionally used his magnetic powers to control the minds of people by controlling the iron in their blood; see this page from the The Vision and Scarlet Witch miniseries for one example.
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Since his struggle with alcoholism, Stark has carried a tremendous burden of guilt after nearly killing an innocent bystander while piloting the armor drunk. While Reed Richards and Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym both agree with Stark's proposal, not everyone does. After Captain America is ordered to bring in anyone who refuses to register, he and other anti-registration superheroes go rogue, coming into conflict with the pro-registration heroes, led by Iron Man. The war ends when Captain America surrenders to prevent further collateral damage and civilian casualties, although he had defeated Stark by defusing his armor.
Stark is appointed the new director of S. Shortly afterwards, Captain America is assassinated while in custody. In the " Secret Invasion " storyline, after Tony Stark survives an attempt by Ultron to take over his body, he is confronted in the hospital by Spider-Woman , holding the corpse of a Skrull posing as Elektra.
Realizing this is the start of an invasion by the Skrulls, Tony reveals the corpse to the Illuminati and declares that they are at war. After Black Bolt reveals himself as a Skrull and is killed by Namor , a squadron of Skrulls attack, forcing Tony to evacuate the other Illuminati members and destroy the area, killing all the Skrulls.
Realizing that they are incapable of trusting each other, the members all separate to form individual plans for the oncoming invasion. Stark is discredited and publicly vilified after his inability to anticipate or prevent the secret infiltration and invasion of Earth by the Skrulls, and by the Skrull disabling of his StarkTech technology, which had a virtual monopoly on worldwide defense. With his Extremis powers failing, Stark uploads a virus to destroy all records of the Registration Act, thus preventing Osborn from learning the identities of his fellow heroes and anything that Osborn could use, including his repulsor generators.
The only copy of the database is in Stark's brain, which he tries to delete while on the run from Osborn. When Osborn catches up to the debilitated Stark and beats him savagely, Pepper Potts broadcasts the beatings worldwide, costing Osborn credibility and giving Stark public sympathy. Stark goes into a vegetative state, having previously granted Donald Blake alter ego of the superhero Thor power of attorney.
Meanwhile, Stark is trapped in his subconscious, where figments of his own mind prevent him from returning to the waking world. When the procedure fails to work, Bucky calls in Doctor Strange, who succeeds in restoring Stark back to consciousness. The backup Stark created was made prior to the Civil War, and as such he does not remember anything that took place during the event, although he still concludes after reviewing his past actions that he would not have done anything differently.
His brain damage means he is now dependent on an arc reactor to sustain his body's autonomous functions. In the " Siege " storyline, Tony Stark is seen under the care of Dr. Donald Blake and Maria Hill when Asgard is attacked. Osborn orders the Sentry to annihilate Asgard, rather than allow the Avengers to have it. After Asgard falls, Stark stands alongside his fellow heroes, as Osborn exclaims they are all doomed and he 'was saving them from him' pointing up towards a Void -possessed Sentry. The Void kills Loki, enraging Thor.
Helicarrier on the Void. Thor is forced to killed Sentry when the Void resurfaces. Sometime later, the Super-Human Registration Act is repealed and Tony is given back his company and armor. As a symbol for their heroics and their new unity, Thor places an Asgardian tower on Stark Tower where the Watchtower once stood.
In the "Stark: This new armor fully uses the repulsor tech battery embedded in his chest to power Tony's entire body and mind, thus allowing him access to Extremis once more. Furthermore, the battery operates as his "heart" and is predominantly the only thing keeping him alive. He states that he will no longer develop weapons, but will use his repulsor technology to give free energy to the world. Justine and Sasha Hammer create their own armored hero, Detroit Steel, to take Stark's place as the Army's leading weapons-builder.
Stark's plan consists of building two repulsor-powered cars. The Hammers try to foil his efforts. The first car is destroyed by sabotage, while Detroit Steel attacks Stark Resilient's facilities while Tony tests the second car. Through a legal maneuver, Tony is able to get the Hammers to stop their attacks and releases a successful commercial about his new car. Tony and the dwarves of Svartalfheim build enchanted weapons. Iron Man watches as Thor kills the Serpent, but dies in the process. After the battle is over, Tony melts down the weapons he created and repairs Captain America's shield, which had been broken by Serpent, and gives it back to Captain America.
As thanks for Tony's role in the recent crisis, Odin restores all the people that the Grey Gargoyle killed during his rampage.
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Mandarin and Zeke Stane upgrade some of Iron Man's old enemies and send them to commit acts of terrorism across the world, intending to discredit Iron Man. General Bruce Babbage forces Stark to wear a tech governor, a device that allows Babbage to deactivate Stark's armor whenever he wants. To fight back, Tony undergoes a surgical procedure that expels the Bleeding Edge technology out of his body and replaces his repulsor node with a new model, forcing Babbage to remove the tech governor off his chest.
He announces his retirement as Iron Man, faking Rhodes' death and giving him a new armor so that he becomes the new Iron Man. The final issue of this storyline concluded Matt Fraction's series. In the ongoing series that premiered in as part of the Marvel NOW! After the death of Dr. Maya Hansen and the destruction of all of the Extremis Version 2 kits that were being sold to the black market, Tony decides that the Earth is not safe without him learning more from what's in the final frontier. He takes his new suit, enhanced with an artificial intelligence named P. Tony Stark's personality is inverted during the events of AXIS , bringing out more dark aspects of himself like irresponsibility, egotism and alcoholism.
He supplies the citizens of San Francisco with the Extremis 3. After discovering that new villain Teen Abomination is the son of Happy Hogan, Stark decides to help him, [] but this minor act of redemption is too late for Pepper Potts, who attacks Stark with the aid of an A. During the " Time Runs Out " storyline, an attempt at reclaiming Wakanda from the Cabal that Namor had created to destroy incursive Earths results in Tony being held captive in the Necropolis.
When the Shi'ar and their allies arrive to destroy Earth, the Avengers and the Illuminati unsuccessfully try to retaliate. Iron Man uses Sol's Hammer to destroy the fleet. A fight ensues between them and Stark admits that he had lied and had known about the incursions all along.
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During the final incursion, Earth's S. After the events of the Secret Wars crossover, Stark returns to his normal self with no signs of his inverted personality. Eight months following the return of the universe as seen in the " All-New, All-Different Marvel " event, Tony works in his laboratory non-stop after his position as an innovator had been put in doubt. When Stark's new A. Friday informs him that Madame Masque has broken into the ruins of Castle Doom, he travels to Latveria to investigate and runs into some revolutionaries who are then defeated by a man in a suit.
To his amazement, Iron Man's armor computer identifies him as Doctor Doom with his face restored. Doctor Doom claims that he wanted to help Iron Man. Upon learning that Madame Masque is not allied with Doctor Doom, Tony is attacked by her with a burst of energy that damages his armor. After finding a tape recorder with her messages, Tony is attacked by several black silhouettes with swords. Iron Man escapes the ninjas that are attacking him and manages to defeat most of them, but they kill themselves before he can interrogate any of them.
Doctor Doom is able to perform an exorcism on her. Doctor Strange arrives and tells Iron Man he will take Madame Masque with him to fix her metaphysically and then hand her over at S. Iron Man also informs him of Doctor Doom's help who had left the scene some time ago. Three days later, Iron Man offers Mary Jane a job to make up for the damage to her nightclub. They are interrupted by Friday who tells Tony that War Machine is missing.
During the Civil War II storyline, Iron Man protests the logic of using precognitive powers to stop future crimes after the recently emerged Inhuman Ulysses predicted Thanos' attack on Project Pegasus. When Iron Man learns that War Machine and the Ultimates used Ulysses' power to ambush Thanos, he vows to stop anyone from using that power again. During the confrontation, Ulysses has another vision which he projects to Iron Man and everyone present, showing a rampaging Hulk standing over the corpses of the defeated superheroes.
Barton claims that Banner was about to transform and Banner had previously asked Hawkeye to kill him if he should turn back into the Hulk. Tony is disgusted at this use of Ulysses' power.
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When his analysis of Ulysses brain is completed, [] Tony reveals that Ulysses does not actually see the future , but simply assembles large quantities of data to project likely outcomes. While Danvers continues to use the visions as a resource, Tony objects to the concept of profiling people. This results in a stand-off when Tony's side abducts a woman from custody after Ulysses' visions identified her as a deep-cover HYDRA agent, despite the lack of supporting evidence.
Iron Man learns that his biological mother was actually Amanda Armstrong , who had given him up for adoption. Early depictions of Williams' suit depict it without the Arc Reactor, but leaves the power source for the suit unclear. Danvers' beating leaves Stark in a coma, but he is left alive due to unspecified experiments Stark has carried out on himself over the years.
Following the revelation that Stark experimented on himself at the end of Civil War II , Beast concludes that the only option is to let the experiments do their job in healing Tony and recover on his own. When things start to escalate, Tony and his crew go rogue and in search for answers for the Cube. During "dinner", Ultron reveals information about the Hydra Avengers - such as Odinson working with Hydra to reclaim Mjolnir, Scarlet Witch being possessed by Chthon, and Vision being affected by an A. Ultron argues that he is doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years as so many of them jump to obey Captain America or Iron Man, despite past experience confirming that this is not always a good idea, but Tony counters that the only reason the team failed as a family was because of Hank's abuse towards Wasp.
Enraged, Ultron is about to kill everyone, but Ant-Man is able to calm him down by arguing that Hank remains his own inspiration. Ultron allows the Underground to leave with the fragment, arguing that neither side should have an advantage over the other. Back in America, Hydra Supreme has put Namor in a position where he will be forced to sign a peace treaty that gives Rogers access to the Cosmic Cube fragment in Atlantis, but Hydra Supreme muses that he is unconcerned about who will acquire the fragments, as he has an inside man in the Underground.
After the Mount was attacked by Thor and the resurrected Hulk led by Hydra, the Underground evacuated the civilians thanks to Hawkeye and the rest of the heroes. Captain America and Iron Man fight as the Mount collapses around them. The Tony Stark A. I survives and, in the aftermath, helps the heroes pull the pieces back together to take down Hydra.
When Iron Man confronts Hydra Supreme, he and the other heroes are easily overpowered by him and watch the original Captain America defeat his Hydra self and into celebrating their victory. Mary Jane Watson and other Stark employees find that Stark's body has completely vanished from its pod, despite tests taken mere hours ago showing no sign of improvement or brain activity. Iron Man possesses powered armor that gives him superhuman strength and durability, flight, and an array of weapons.
The armor is invented and worn by Stark with occasional short-term exceptions. The weapons systems of the suit have changed over the years, but Iron Man's standard offensive weapons have always been the repulsor rays that are fired from the palms of his gauntlets. Other weapons built into various incarnations of the armor include: In addition to the general-purpose model he wears, Stark has developed several specialized suits for space travel , [38] deep-sea diving , stealth , [39] [40] and other special purposes.
Stark has modified suits, like the Hulkbuster heavy armor.
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The Hulkbuster armor is composed of add-ons to his so-called modular armor, designed to enhance its strength and durability enough to engage the Hulk in a fight. A later model, created with the help of Odin and the Asgardian metal Uru, is similar to the Destroyer. Stark develops an electronics pack during the Armor Wars that, when attached to armors that use Stark technologies, will burn out those components, rendering the suit useless.
This pack is ineffective on later models. While it is typically associated with James Rhodes , the War Machine armor began as one of Stark's specialty armors. The most recent models of Stark's armor, beginning with the Extremis armor, are now stored in the hollow portions of Stark's bones, and the personal area networking implement used to control it is implanted into his forearm, and connected directly to his central nervous system.
Some armors still take a liquid form, but are not stored within his body. His Endo-Sym Armor incorporates a combination of the liquid smart-metal with the alien Venom symbiote, psionically controlled by Stark. Post- Secret Wars , Stark uses a more streamlined suit of armor that can practically "morph" into other armors or weapons. After being critically injured during a battle with the Extremis-enhanced Mallen, Stark injects his nervous system with modified techno-organic virus-like body restructuring machines the Extremis process.
His enhanced technopathy extends to every piece of technology, limitless and effortlessly due to his ability to interface with communication satellites and wireless connections to increase his "range". Some components of the armor-sheath are now stored in Tony's body, able to be recalled, and extruded from his own skin, at will.
During the " Secret Invasion " storyline the Extremis package is catastrophically shut down by a virus, forcing him again to rely on the previous iteration of his armor, and restoring his previous limitations. Furthermore, Osborn's takeover of most of the few remaining Starktech factories, with Ezekiel Stane systematically crippling the others, limits Tony to the use of lesser, older and weaker armors.
After being forced to "wipe out" his brain to prevent Norman Osborn from gaining his information, Tony Stark is forced to have a new arc reactor, of Rand design installed in his chest. The process greatly improves his strength, stamina and intellect. The procedure left him with virtually no autonomic functions: Tony Stark is an inventive genius whose expertise in the fields of mathematics , physics , chemistry , and computer science rivals that of Reed Richards , Hank Pym , and Bruce Banner , and his expertise in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering surpasses even theirs.
He is regarded as one of the most intelligent characters in the Marvel Universe.
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He graduated with advanced degrees in physics and engineering at the age of 17 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT [] and further developed his knowledge ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum mechanics as time progressed. His expertise extends to his ingenuity in dealing with difficult situations, such as difficult foes and deathtraps, in which he is capable of using available tools, including his suit, in unorthodox but effective ways.
He is well respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he speaks on economic matters, having over the years built up several multimillion-dollar companies from virtually nothing. He is noted for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as for his business ethics. Thus he immediately fired an employee who made profitable, but illegal, sales to Doctor Doom. At a time when Stark was unable to use his armor for a period, he received some combat training from Captain America and has become physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it.
On multiple occasions he reacquired control of his companies after losing them amid corporate takeovers. In , Iron Man was featured in a series of cartoons. Apart from comic books, Iron Man appears in Capcom's "Vs. New Age of Heroes , Marvel vs. Fate of Two Worlds , and Ultimate Marvel vs. Ultimate Alliance and its sequel , and Marvel Nemesis: Rise of Apocalypse and Tony Hawk's Underground. Armored Adventures , most of the characters, including Tony Stark, are teenagers.