Exiles

 In Exiles, a villainous alternative Iron Man of Earth-2020 is a member of Weapon X, the

more ruthless team of reality fixers.[161] After ending up at the 'Crystal Palace' (the Exiles'
headquarters) and fighting them there, he is eventually exposed and sent back to his
own timeline where he is arrested by the Army for starting a world war.[162]
 In one alternative reality Tony Stark has become the absolute ruler of the entire planet
Earth, and kills many of that Earth's heroes and mutants. Weapon X arrives on this
reality to help him conquer Attilan, though their true purpose is to cause his downfall.
Tony is eventually killed by Susan Storm.[163]
 In one alternative reality he is partners with both Mr. Fantastic and Doctor
Octopus before he created the Iron Man suit.[164]
 On an alternative world devastated by the Hulk's Annihilation Wave, Iron Man was one
of those killed in the attack. When the Exiles arrange for the dead heroes to be replaced
by alternatives, Iron Man's replacement is a version of Spitfire, on the grounds that they
have never got along with any alternative Tony Starks.[165]
 The Sons of Iron are a group of armor-wearing warriors from an Earth shared by humans
and reptilian humanoids. Because they are completely concealed by the Iron Man armor,
no-one can tell which they are.[166]
Fantastic Four: The End
In the miniseries Fantastic Four: The End, which is set in a future where Reed Richards' technology
has launched humanity into a golden age, Tony Stark has died long ago - but his consciousness
survives, 'hopping' from artificial body to artificial body. Most of the bodies shown in the miniseries
resemble Iron Man armors, often being identical to existing armors. One notable exception was the
bulky, stocky space-armor which played an important role in the battle of humanity's heroes versus
several alien armadas.[volume  &  issue  needed]

House of M
Born to Howard and Maria Stark, the heads of the powerful business conglomerate Stark Industries,
Tony Stark grew to be an imaginative and brilliant inventor. He worked with his father from an early
age, and surpassed his father's technical brilliance by the age of 16. Stark became the key supplier
of hi-tech weaponry used to fight mutants, and was on the verge of a technological breakthrough
when the Mutant-Human war came to an end. The suits are powered down to become part of a
game called Robo Death Match, a television sport with giant robots fighting each other. Stark
Industries scored its biggest victory when it secured the Sentinel production contracts, pushing major
competitor, Jason Wyngarde, out of business. Erik Magnus and Sebastian Shaw awarded Tony the
contract under the condition that he would hire Beast and Forge as observers. McCoy became a key
contributor along with Doctor Pym on The Vision project. Tony secretly worked on a special project
beneath Stark Industries: a brand new suit of hi-tech armor he planned to use as his new Robo
Death Match suit.[167]

Iron Man: The End

In the one-shot Iron Man: The End, an aging Tony Stark works on his greatest creation, a space
elevator called "Big Jump." Stark faces retirement due to age and the physical toll of an illness, no
longer allowing him to run his business "Stark Universal" and continue to be Iron Man. This leads to
the need to groom a replacement.[volume  &  issue  needed]

Iron Maniac
Iron Maniac is an evil alternative universe version of Iron Man from Earth-5012. He first appeared
in Marvel Team-Up vol. 3 #2, wearing armor that resembles that of Doctor Doom's. He comes from
an alternative reality where most of the Avengers were killed when they encountered the vicious
alien Titannus in space. While the team is rescued by the reserve Avengers five years later, it takes
another five years to fight back the Trellions, the alien race that has brainwashed Titannus. During
that time, a power-hungry Reed Richards turns his back on the surviving heroes. Scarred for life due
to an attack from the Human Torch, Iron Man sets his own operation base in Latveria to "take over
the world to save it from Richards." Richards somehow manages to banish him into Earth-616 Other
differences between his world and Earth-616 include that there is no Spider-Man, and that Hank
Pym is another version of the Hulk.[volume  &  issue  needed]
After being transported to Earth-616, Iron Maniac fights the Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange, all of
whom mistake him for their Doctor Doom. After unmasking himself, they learn his true identity,
shortly before he manages to temporarily negate the FF's powers and escape, concluding that he
has no reason to trust that they will not turn on him like the FF of his world did. Capturing a recently
discovered mutant, the alternative Iron Man attempts to return to his home dimension by using the
mutant as a power source, but is attacked by Spider-Man and X-23 as they investigate the situation.
After the appearance of Captain America and Black Widow, he realizes that he is in an alternative
world, but continues to fight the heroes, calling them all 'Richards' lackeys', proclaiming that he can't
trust that they won't turn into 'villains' just as his own former allies did. He is defeated thanks to
Spider-Man and X-23's use of their own version of the fastball special to destroy his equipment,
shortly after 'warning' the other heroes of the Titannus War (by saying that he would not kill them
now because it would be a kindness).[volume  &  issue  needed]
While the alternative Tony Stark is kept locked up and drugged in the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, he is
briefly visited by his counterpart in this universe, although he is unaware of the visit. Shortly after the
alternative Stark is transferred to a conventional cell, Titannus soon arrives and fights the heroes,
this time confronting a new group of Defenders assembled by Doctor Strange. When Titannus'
comatose lover is revived, she tells him that she never loved him and that he was insane, causing
Titannus to kill himself. The alternative Iron Man later discovers from Spider-Man and Wolverine that
the Avengers were never massacred in space in this reality because the group had
been disassembled; as a result, other heroes only encountered Titannus after he had attacked
Tokyo in a rage, leaving the heroes who did encounter him less inclined to believe his story and
averting the so-called 'Titannus War'.[168]
Stark subsequently broke free from captivity, having immunized himself to the gas that was used to
keep him sedated on board the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. In the process, he gained the unwilling
alliance of the LMD Diamondback. Having convinced her that he is the "real" Tony, the AU Tony
Stark erased her memories, reshaping the former LMD into an advanced suit of armor. This armor,
even more advanced than the pre-Extremis suit Iron Man wore at that time, was able to replicate any
weapon from the wearer's memory. He subsequently battled Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain
America and Luke Cage, but was only defeated after the sacrifice of rookie hero Freedom Ring, who
kept Iron Maniac occupied long enough for Captain America to knock him out with a shield thrown at
the back of his neck.[169]
The name Iron Maniac is what he calls himself, due to being the "sole survivor of a sane world living
in a backwards, insane world".[volume  &  issue  needed]
Iron Maniac is known to be at least partially cyberized, with armor plating implanted in his chest
(revealed during his escape from the Helicarrier, when he is shot). It is unknown whether the rest of
his body is similarly armored or if he possesses other cybernetic enhancements.[volume  &  issue  needed]
He has been briefly mentioned as being held in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier recently in The
Irredeemable Ant-Man.[citation needed]