Tony Stark was a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, arms dealer and many other things, including arrogant, self-centered and irresponsible, one day in afghanistan Tony is caught by a bomb from his industry and several shrapnel enter his chest, Tony was also his strated by a group of criminals known as The Ten Rings, wakes up in a cave being a colleague of another genius called Ho Yinsen who took out as many shrapnel as possible from Tony's chest, but it was not possible to take them all out so Yinsen created a kind of electronic magnet that pulled all the shards and prevented them from reaching the heart, and inside this cave with the help of Yinsen Tony created his first armor, the MK 1 and managed to escape the cave but Yinsen was shot and killed in the process, Tony then decides never to sell weapons again and goes to work on a technological exo-skeleton project, and creates an armor to fight terrorists and becomes known as the Iron Man.
