The Power of Iron Man (Very Picture Heavy Thread)

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Call it a respect thread, call it a capability thread, heck call it whatever you want.

Some of you may remember an earlier version of this on Invincibleironman.com. It's long, so sorry if pics take a while to load. Not dial up friendly I'm afraid.

Sources include;

About 500+ issues of Iron Man and the Avengers,
Wikipedia,
ironmanarmory.com
advancediron.com (back in the day)
An Iron Man Technology Overview - article by Will Gillies

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Strength Level

Without his armor Tony Stark possesses the normal strength of a normal human man his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. The various armors magnify Stark's strength to superhuman levels, enabling him to lift (press) from roughly several tons to 175 tons.

Originally, the armor converted electrical energy into raw strength through miniaturized, transistor-based electro-motors. After the development of sufficiently advanced electromagnetic force-fields, however, these became the means of providing strength as well as structural integrity. This more "organic", integrated approach proved very successful, and the Iron Man-armor is quite probably the most powerful individual armor in the world today.


 














Repulsors

Iron Man's standard offensive weapon has always been the concussive repulsor beams that are fired from the palms of his gauntlets. Through the use of a rapid-fire sequencing combat computer the repulsors are able to engage multiple, moving targets instantly with almost 100% accuracy.

Although the Iron Man armor provides its wearer with immense strength, this was considered too limiting as a means of offense or defense. Thus, the armor was outfitted with a range of advanced weapons. The basic weapon of the Iron Man system is the repulsor, a potent electron/proton beam which exerts a powerful "pushing" effect, the actual effects of which can vary from punching someone out without doing permanent damage, to vibrating falling glass shards to sand, to blasting a hole straight through a mountain. The repulsor can also exert a thermal effect, although this is less powerful. Each Iron Man armor is fitted with two repulsors - one in each hand. The early models, up to Mark III, did not possess repulsors, relying instead on powerful electromagnetic fields to repel, attract or otherwise manipulate metal objects.

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Pulse Bolts

Fired from the cuffs of his gauntlets, these concussive force blasts pick up ambient static energy along the way, so that they hit harder the further they have to travel, can be focused until they reach disintegration intensity.

The final main weapons system is the "pulse bolt" projector. Integrated in the wristcuffs, this system projects a pulsed sequence of electromagnetically charged kinetic charges which start out less powerful than the maximum output of the repulsors, but pick up ambient energy from the atmosphere as they travel, accelerating and increasing their charge. The thermokinetic impact over a distance is enormous; over more than a few miles, however, the bolts destabilize and disperse.




Flight/ Boot Jets/ Skates

Boot Jets incorporate high-speed dual-source turbines in the boots coupled with gravi-magnetic propulsion for flight.

Skates: retractable, jet-powered roller skates.

The primary way of travel for Iron Man is of course flight. Several systems cooperate to allow efficient flight. A less forceful version of the structural integrity force field, which allows Iron Man to shift hundreds of tons after all, can "push" against the Earth’s own electromagnetic field and keep the armor aloft. It also allows Iron Man to fly at speeds of up to about 200 miles per hour. Incorporated into the boots of the armor, however, are small, but very powerful jets which can propel Iron Man at a speed of about Mach 8. They provide enough power to lift a load of about 500 tons. Specialized space armor was outfitted with self-contained jets which allowed maneuvering in space, and the first model of "space" armor could reach orbit using integrated, nuclear-powered jets. These were, however, deemed too dangerous for use in later models. Recently, the Iron Man armor has been utilizing repulsor-based propulsion systems, possibly for energy-efficiency reasons.












Lift Capacity















Booster Rockets



Chest Beam

Chestpiece mounted projector can be adjusted for a variety of effects such as search light, heat beams, tractor beam, lasers, image inducers, and ultraviolet light.

The secondary weapons system is the Omnibeam, an electromagnetic lasing beam mounted on the chest, capable of projecting a bundle of light greatly varying in width, intensity and wavelength. It can act as a searchlight, an image projector or a powerful laser beam. This weapon, initially simply a spotlight, evolved through stages referred to as the Monobeam, Unibeam, Tri-beam and Multi-beam.






Image Inducer

Holographic generator to create decoys images.

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Energy Absorption/ External Power Source

Wide spectrum energy assimilation circuits allow for massive energy assimilation, allowing the armor to absorb various forms of energy and utilize it for augmented strength or channeled through the suit’s offensive systems.

The original armor and many models after it relied on battery charges, and could receive power from the mains, simply by plugging in. This was convenient, as the wearer, Tony Stark, also relied on the breastplate to keep his heart beating, but the amount of power was of course limited, even despite Stark’s advances in energy storage technology. The problem was solved only temporary by making the armor more and more energy-efficient, as its systems become more and more powerful and more demanding. Fairly soon, however, the armor was fitted with systems that allowed it to absorb current through any part of the suit’s surface, simply by making contact with an electricity source. The armor proved capable of handling a considerable peak, absorbing energy from as exotic a source as a magically generated bolt of lightning. The system proved invaluable on many occasions. The energy absorption grid was eventually improved to the point where it could absorb any kind of energy that hit the surface of the suit, absorbing sunlight and heat to power up. Later still, an internal perpetual generator was included in the armor - it generated power from decelerating the continuous rain of cosmic particles, a source of energy that can never be exhausted and can be tapped anywhere. At least one model of armor, the second type "space"-armor, incorporated a miniature nuclear fusion reactor.

















Power Storage Pods

Detachable batteries that can generate a local force field, override machines, or be set to detonate. Primary source of power storage for the earlier model armors.











Override

When required, armor systems including strength amplification and repulsor intensity can be greatly increased, theoretically by about 800%, by bypassing safety circuits and limiters. However, this can result in a complete system failure of the armor.



Magnetism

From the very first armor, the suit’s have incorporated extremely powerful magnetism used for various effects including structural integrity, strength amplification, flight and offense and defensive systems.







Tractor Beam



Force Field Generation

From the early magnetic polarization field used in his micromesh armors to current Repulsor Fields capable of being projected outwards at a distance, these provide substantial protection from attack.





Energy Shield/ Blade

Based on the same design Tony Stark used to build Captain America's energy shield, this laser sword, emitted from his left arm, could also be flattened into a shield on his hands, or spread over the entire armor to encase the armor in a protective covering.

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Protective Body Armor/ Resistances

The primary defense the armor provides is its structural integrity. Even when it is not activated, it is about as resistant to damage as modern, solid-state full body armor such as used by riot police forces. It is bullet-proof (even to large calibers at point blank range) and can protect the wearer against considerable kinetic impact (like a lance being driven into it at full force by a knight on horseback). It is, however, quite vulnerable to chemical attack, such as with acids. When activated, there are not many things in the world that can harm the wearer. The structural integrity force field also acts as a barrier and an inertia suppressor (albeit a limited one). The suit can withstand almost unlimited kinetic and thermal impact, as well as most forms of radiation thanks to its refractory coating. Generally speaking, the armor can survive anything short of a nuclear explosion at ground zero. The suit automatically protects its wearer when he enters an intrinsically hostile environment, such as naked space or deep sea. The armor even has specialized circuitry that guards against telepathic attacks.









Regeneration / Nano-Repair



 ECM/ Stealth

The suit utilized force field technology to render Iron Man electronically invisible - a layer of low density plasma would be held in place by a focused magnetic field, and the tripole waveform reflected radar, along with a wave modifier that bent the radar around it. To quash any detectable infrared signature, the armor's boot-jet exhaust was "washed" by bursts of super cooled air. The micro-turbines on his jet boots posses assisted air liquification devices, rings of liquid oxygen jets, that cool the boot emissions

Generates a "chameleon field" around itself -- the computer in the armor would analyze its surroundings and generate a hologram to make it blend in with the surroundings making it effectively invisible visually and to cameras.






Communications/ Cybernetics













Sensors/ Probes

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Offensive Systems

Auxiliary weapons systems include lasers in the fingertips (perhaps actually cabled through from the chest laser), TASERs , recently a "shock pulse" which repels assailants in close quarters, and knock-out gas pellets in the gauntlets which can render someone unconscious without doing harm. The vocalizer system, which normally serves to change the wearer´s voice so as to avoid it being recognized, can also produce ear-splitting (and in fact rock-splitting) noise of any frequency, from piercing ultrasound to disabling infrasound. The specifically combat-oriented Mark VIII, the infamous "War machine", lacked the chest beam, but was instead equipped with an electric, small calibre minigun, a rocket launcher capable of holding eight road-flare-sized missiles (both shoulder-mounted), dual, wrist-mounted cannons, a flame thrower and a plasma-based "light sabre". A second version incorporated a chest beam, as well as four instantly interchangeable shoulder weapons instead of two (the new additions being a larger projectile launcher and a particle beam). The remote controlled NTU-150 or Mark IX, which was actually a hollow slave-type robot, contained a similar array of weapons, which could be stored inside its shell when not in use. The Mark XV possessed a small number of semi-independent, spherical scout drones that could fly under their own power and act as "smart bombs" when the need arose. It also possessed actual missiles and an energy blade of more advanced design than the one included in the "War machine". The Mark XVI demonstrated on one occasion the ability to combine the power of its repulsors and chest laser to deliver a devastating "pulse blast" with an effect area the size of a city block. Finally, the armor has a last-ditch defense against opponents or threats that are based on electronic systems: an electromagnetic pulse that, although not permanently damaging EM-hardened systems, does knock them out until they reboot. A side effect of this is that it also knocks out the armor itself, with exception of the life support systems (which are so small they are solid-state, and as such run with optical circuits), for six minutes (the time it takes to reboot from optical back-up).




















Electromagnetic Pulse



Sonics



Modular Systems





Underwater Capability







Ice Generation/ Fire Suppression



Teleportation/ Time Travel







Anthony Stark: The Man behind the Armor

























Inventions

Various devices, weapons, and vehicles designed by Tony Stark or manufactured by Stark Industries.

Life Model Decoy



Both Misty Knight's original and current bionic arm.



Interstellar Capable Assault Mark - V Quinjets



Both the original and current SHIELD Helicarriers.





The Anti-Godzilla Helicarier "The Behemoth"



The giant Anti-Godzilla robot "Red Ronin"



Current generation of Office of National Emergency Sentinels



"Evader" armor



SHIELD Mandroid armors



SHIELD Flying Car



SK-1 Reconnaissance Plane



Sea Tank



Jupiter Landing Vehicle



"Sky Hop 1" Space Shuttle



"Ad Astra" Space Station



"Starcore One" UN Sun-Watch Space Station



"Clement" Deep Space Explorer



"Sular Experiment" Series of Global weather control satellites.



Mainframe, a self-aware computer program inhabiting multiple robotic bodies.



Captain America's replacement Adamantium shield

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