After the Battle of New York, Tony Stark spirals as the world idolizes Iron Man. In the wreckage, Ivan Vanko emerges! the son of a man ruined, imprisoned, and killed after Howard Stark stole his work. Raised on loss and rage, Ivan becomes Whiplash, forging arc-powered weapons not for revenge alone, but to make Tony suffer publicly and watch his hero myth rot in front of the world.
