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During the AXIS event, Tony Stark turned evil and became Superior Iron Man. What follows is one of the best Iron Man books ever written!
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Doc's Comics & Games, Yorick Bisse, Bonnie Davies, Brendan Linebarger, Senita Mahoney, David Adler, Basel, Dylan Blass-Svedvik, Ralph Braganzan, Ethan Dannen, Sam Kirkham, LookWhosFhtagn, The Side Quest Gamer, Andrew Shaffer, Vydal
Tags: #IronMan #Marvel #TonyStark

[@patte5306]

Just want to point out how his whole "all this time i was playing human" speech was awesome

[@Gdig728]

The truth is, the game was rigged from the start

[@papajohn3632]

Agreed

[@eur0be4t3r]

@@Gdig728 Fallout: New Vegas

[@marvellesaulsberry]

The "Playing Human" monologue he gave to daredevil was easily one of the most iconic moments in modern comics even death battle had to reference it

[@mrboerger1620]

I know right it's Fucking awesome.

[@Dusxio]

You know... the Evil Good Guy is really terrifying... I need to read this comic. Because people really forget that you can be evil wouldn't doing overt crime. Even the closest example of this, Lex Luther, still falls into the Classic Crime tropes way too often. But seriously, Inverse Tony sounds terrifying... just manipulating people on so many levels without fully shedding the mantle and appearance of a public hero.

[@Rakanarshi2]

It sort of reminds me of Mr Burns from the simpsons trying to be "good" and ended up more evil without realising he was. I wish we got to see more of evil Tony stark :(

[@mattwo7]

"Ultimate" Reed Richards is a prime example of an evil good guy frankly though he eventually just became a straight up villain named The Maker who serves as an image of what the main universe Reed Richards could be like if he went down the wrong path. (Also Ultimate Iron Man used a giant armor to fight him but The Maker had a Hulk. One empowered with Giant-Man serum no less. Also The Maker has an army of "HERBIE Trons", I kid you not)

[@thesquidalchemist]

Who else played as superior iron man as a most used character in LEGO marvel avengers because his suit was bullet ,rocket and laser proof and because it had the shortest equipping animation

[@bluephenix1019]

The Squid Man when I get the game I will

[@thesquidalchemist]

blue phenix101 I’m trying to 100% it

[@boonk2805]

It’s either him or Korvak

[@hiiisbus0631]

i have it almost completed, need the gold bricks but 100% characters, cars, and locations

[@thesquidalchemist]

@@hiiisbus0631 nice

[@argisus1279]

"I'm not playing god.....All this time I have been playing human." Said by Evil tony but it's 100% Tony lol.

[@meiju1563]

I love the idea of inverted heroes becoming a villain. They aren't blood thirsty murderer, they are manipulative psychopaths. Evil Iron Man is one of the best example of it. He takes the publics trust and manipulates them to do what he wants. Its kinda scary in its way

[@tonyveron]

That original title lol. Disappointing to hear they didn't bothering explaining how Tony's personality was swapped back though

[@superlol178]

bendis just didn't care lol

[@ironmaidenjr.8471]

Bendis sucks like that. Now that I think about it, Bendis usually just sucks.

[@FeatheredCrow]

Bendis ruining everything like usual. Apparently he has a free pass to destroy everything at both marvel and DC

[@kaptain187]

Hi! Hickman actually explained it in the last issue of Secret Wars 2: The timeline reset to the beginning of New Avenergs (2013) issue 1, when Black Panther and his Wakandans launch their Alpha Flight. That means AXIS and Superior Iron man never happened and most of the Marvel Characters don't know the inversions ever were created. Very few characters ever knew what went down: Reed/Sue and Future Foundation, Doom, Strange maybe, and Miles Morales (due to Molecule Man paying him back for the burger :)))))

[@LumPeyCusTerEd]

@@kaptain187 Then how does that explain good Sabretooth and evil Havok that were still around at the time, since both of them were still inverted by the end of AXIS too? Plus Sabretooth was part of the Avengers in the OGN Rage of Ultron, which takes place during the 8 month gap between Secret Wars and ANAD Marvel.

[@mast3734]

Who here part of the “Evil Iron Man and took over” club before he fixes it

[@mr.whiskers2410]

Yes I saw that

[@VoiCla]

Me

[@conservaduck7298]

The notification is the og title

[@diegodelafuente5056]

Aye

[@thelocalwitch2405]

That's my everyday grammar tbh.

[@TetraSky]

$100 a day!? jesus christ.... Could've been nice and made it weekly... or monthly... He's evil.

[@nicovelardita8619]

To be fair it was 99.99 Very considerate

[@Moonbeam143]

I bet he didn't even wash his hands after using the bathroom!

[@Rakanarshi2]

@@Moonbeam143 my god, the man is just outragious!

[@mattwo7]

"nice" The idea of that app being subscription-based alone is evil.

[@Chaosm03]

It's worse than all that. Everyone was already infected with Extremis. It's on Disk DLC trapped behind a paywall.

[@Actionfan19]

My best guess on how Tony snapped out of being in his superior persona is when the world was reset after the battle world secret wars he was effected by it somehow. Like how Dr. Doom no longer had a deadpool face under his face plate.

[@Ultinuc]

that was explicitly done by reed though

[@redhood7650]

@@Ultinuc let's be honest reed Did that as well

[@nirast2561]

Ok, now I wanna see Superior Iron Man and Superior Spider-Man duke it out.

[@depreseo]

I think the closest we got to a resolution for how superior Tony turned back to normal was in the pages of the Amazing Spider-man book (which had Peter running parker industries) and a conversation between Peter and Tony where Peter tried to remind Tony that they had met before and that he (peter) had even lived in stark tower for a while - sort of possibly implying that the Tony we see after the secret wars event was (possibly) a A.I. back-up now driving Tony's body (which would have laid the ground works for post "civil war II" A.I. Tony helping Riri Williams), but this was never confirmed in the Bendis Iron Man book at all. This was not helped by the fact that during this run, which had Tony look like Santiago Cabrera which i think is awesome, the book itself tied into multiple crossover events which made the series feel less like a follow-up to Superior, and more like the poorly written foundation work for the future launching of Doctor Dooms and the RiRi Williams Iron Man books (both of which were more sequils to previous event comicsthan the Bendis Iron Man run was, in my opinion, poorly planned out as it failed to explain certain changes in the iron man continuity which were made universal throughout the other books i.e. not-evil tony, the plummeting of stark industries (and rise of parker) which meant that the Avengers now opparated out of a more bare-bones facility as opposed to stark tower). But all-in-all i find the "superior" books (thus far Spider-man and Iron Man) to be wonderful additions to these characters cannon as they've allowed for a change-up which we as readers know isnt going to be permanent, but which allow us to see the activities of our heroes through a different lense without having to go through the usual "oh but this was an alternate version from a different universe" cop-out. And also, out of the AXIS books/the titles which tied in, the Zen-buddhist Deadpool (funny) and the "worthy" Loki story arcs which were running at the same time were very good in my opinion.

[@wab2100]

To be honest, I think the readon Tony doesn't remeber Peter is because of Spidey's deal with Mephisto that changed a lot of his history and/or his deal with Doctor Strange for people to forget his unmasking

[@Seoul_Soldier]

This is by far my favorite version of Iron Man, and his most compelling story. That armor is just insane.

[@ShinbrigTV]

In the words of Comichistorian: "Bendis puts story over continuity".

[@The_Kenthusiast]

I swear Superior Iron Man will always be my favorite version of Tony Stark. Really hope the writers bring this version back somehow 😢

[@PieIsGone]

This aged well

[@alexanderm.635]

@@PieIsGone it didn't

[@amecampeon01]

On a multiverse, Iron Man centered story at some point, probably.

[@astropunch101]

This is exactly the kind of Iron Man Cap feared

[@Chance0]

I'm glad you pointed out recap videos aren't a replacement for reading the full story. Keep up the good work

[@endosym5023]

Can we just agree that the most badass comic book quote came from this story? "I'm the most intelligent, capable person on the planet. I'm not PLAYING god. All this time... I've been playing human"

[@blackphoenix77]

I hate that this storyline never got any actual resolution.

[@The_Kenthusiast]

I always theorized effects of the inversion spell just wore off over time.

[@SlickSkuddy]

Ken Elder that’s a pretty good and believable theory

[@bm1747]

The current good Tony is actually still an AI version of himself piloting a LMD. Evil Tony is still out there and still has a backdoor into the population. They probably just took the app down off the App store/ Google Play.

[@zEr-ne5ri]

@@bm1747 or whatever the hell it’s called in the Marvel universe.

[@dinchamion]

Love the video! And the thread of Tony's AI backup is an endlessly fascinating one. The last arc in Tony Stark: Iron Man was awesome, and edged out Superior in my opinion for best Iron Man story ever told.

[@twohalf2554]

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain."

[@MaxWelton]

7:32 someone has completely forgotten the entire Cold War.

[@anshulkarkera8911]

Its kind of nice how Matt's last action before losing his sight was wanting to see his best friend

[@WarmLillie]

Ironman good or evil is always interesting and fun.

[@awlomthesheepermen]

“Evil Tony stark” so like regular Tony stark

[@DakotaBroskie]

As parallel as Superior Iron man and Spider man were i still loved the HELL outta this series

[@raelynn2773]

I'm not a big fan of Tony's solo comics, but this definitely sounded like worth reading. Thanks!

[@ri-ch-es]

9:29 certified silver centurion moment, gotta be my favorite armor

[@More-Onn]

My guess on what happened is that when the marvel universe got recreated after the end of secret wars we got brought back to a world before the events of Axis. At the end of secret wars we can see black panther brought back to the events that happen right before the first incursion (which takes place at the start of Hickman's New avengers run, which also takes place way before the events of axis) so I just assumed everyone got back to that point in time in the 616 timeline, including Iron man.

[@scarletnight4554]

Here's the thing sabretooth stayed inverted for a good time after secret wars

[@luigiboi4244]

I love your videos. I don’t have access to Comic book shops and what not, so you are my Go-To when I want to expand my comic-book intelligence. I wish you good luck with your channel, and that you Live Long and Prosper.

[@todangtall]

Evil Tony sounds really interesting. Are their any other Axis inversion s you think are worth talking about?

[@EnvoyOfLoveAndJustice]

"Kicking Puppies IS THAT A JOJO REFRENCE?"

[@WarmLillie]

I would rather have the Meta-verse app than Ironman app

[@TupocalypseShakur]

I don't know man I don't I could handle fighting god

[@masterofdragons82]

What’s that?

[@NoKeChooKa]

I hope this video does well, I'd love to see more discussions of individual runs/stories from people who are passionate about them.

[@arbaaz9992]

Please make a video on matt murdock's history of getting his eyesight back

[@cyrillelibert5236]

Superior Iron Man is still one of my favourite marvel arch, I really wished we could've had more of it ... god damn secret war :(

[@littlered6340]

I clicked this the second I saw this guy did Superior Iron Man. It was the best comic with an unsatisfying conclusion I've ever read.

[@Krustyplayboy]

It shouldn’t be funny to me but the idea of tony giving Matt his vision back just to take it away is hilarious

[@joeytabora1052]

I agree with your closing statement. Before I got in to comics, I watched these kinds of videos on your channel, as well as some stuff on dorkly, comics explained, and nerdsync. But even now that I read comics on marvel unlimited and occasionally read physical comics as well, I still enjoy these videos, maybe even more so because I can make connections to other stories I've read, or if the video *is* about something I've read, sometimes I get a new perspective.

[@Nichodo]

@7:17 Comic Drake: **mentions megalomania** Me: **Immediately thinks of the Undertale song Megalovania**

[@xanderm6090]

I think it's also interesting that he has no faceplate most of the time cause that is a trait we have come to associate with Lex Luthor in his own suit.

[@overlord6993]

The title is still under construction

[@bobwilson8636]

Vedata what do you mean?

[@iansaul5169]

This was my first comic, I loved it and I remember thinking tony was naturally an a-hole😂

[@Alemag_]

It is possible that evil Tony died while fighting Captain America in Avengers # 44. After all, a hellicarrier crashed while they were fighting. I think good Tony came back because Reed Richards remade him as he was before the inversion. Remember that Reed Richards remade the Marvel universe and it would make sense form him to bring back the good Tony.

[@sebastianorduzo322]

5:10 Is that an unintentional ROM, the Spaceknight reference? XD.

[@tomsmurf4225]

Bold of you to assume marvel would reference ROM in any capacity, intentionally or not.

[@Yamanosei95]

Marvel doesn’t own ROM, buuuut they own all characters and things that appeared on his comic books

[@kaptain187]

Great Video! I need Superior Iron Man vs Infamous Iron Man... I honestly think those two series were short changed and should be explored further. Just an FYI: Since the end of Secret Wars 2 reset the timeline of Marvel to 2013 New Avengers 1 (ie: the precurser to Time Runs Out) AXIS never actually happened for Marvel characters (Richards/Doom/etc being the exceptions to this). Cheers!

[@thew00ted]

Tom Cruise will have a field day playing him.

[@maevedoyle2634]

gotta say the transition to the sponsor was slick af

[@terrenomic9472]

Thank you drake. Finally. I was curious what happen to tony stark before & after secret war. So it the Marvels version of Flashpoint.

[@darrendyson8347]

It actually makes sense when Reed Richards turned everything back to normal with the power of the beyonders he essentiallybrings people back to life with any recollection of how they were altered before the secret wars event basically soft rebooting things to the way they truly are

[@efrainjunior2409]

If Iron Man and the Superior Iron Man were separated, they would fight it out by who's the better hero.

[@tipilot3791]

I refuse to believe the movie Robots didn't influence this concept. The silver perfection and megalomania is literally the bad guy from robots

[@brycevo]

Man. This is amazing

[@mfirdauskamarulzaman3512]

I'm here because of tom cruise become superior iron man rumor

[@ElJorro]

Been fascinated by this story ever since seeing it on shelves.

[@ThatOneGuy7550]

Yeah Bendis not explaining how Tony turned Good is super disappointing

[@gavin1837]

Hey love the videos keep up the good work man also I love this run of Ironman

[@GamerTimeNinja]

I got a little action figure/comic book combo pack for one of my birthdays. Even tho I mostly used the figure, the comic was not only my first marvel comic, but also so confusing for me at a younger age, with the whole app thing and daredevil thing and mean iron man thing...

[@isaacsmith1460]

Superior iron man was NOT evil he was a jerk but NOT evil

[@TheCreepypro]

now this is how you write an evil character not doing anything overtly evil but just using and manipulating people for his own ends

[@JensenRoark]

Tony’s not using a vpn, Jhit using a Trojan

[@calistopholies830]

Did you guys hear that is super super overwhelming conclusion without explanation a perfect opportunity for the MCU

[@joserivera1525]

I need this version of Iron man on the new Doctor Strange movie

[@isinganddootherthings4616]

I'd love to have Tom Taylor come back to write Iron Man

[@stevencooper564]

His armor looks like it was designed by Apple, I love it.

[@buffbeenstuffed]

thank you for the video , I have fond memories of this story arch when it happened. P.s. Stay safe out there.

[@calmnarrative]

Suit made of Liquid Metal sounds so cool.

[@Metalseadraking]

Deus Ex Machina of Comics: "Because Comics"

[@shapecrafterstudios]

That express VPN Segway was flawless

[@diveintothebeyond8426]

No matter ,this is still the most beautiful Iron Man armor till date

[@noelvyhnanek5951]

Does anyone else feel like Tony would just write his own VPN?

[@t_t9269]

Nothing like an evil billionaire charging you $100/day for a drug app Amazing

[@tehjboney4249]

Superior Iron Man was an interesting anti hero,Superior Iron Man becoming a self absorbed hero would be entirely different from many other anti heroes with this version of Tony Stark always promoting himself and making rival companies invest into him.Tony could quickly build himself as “The Peoples Champion” but secretly is “The Corporate Champion”.Tony Stark moving to San Francisco would be to launch the EXTREMIS program,the Symbiote Costume would be due to Iron Man having left over strands of the symbiote after studying it during the Superior Spider Man story.

[@28maitreyagupta21]

Superior Iron Man , Superior Spiderman :-soo superior means being kinnda more morally flexible , much more practical and much more badass. Is that it.

[@SpiritOfWanderlust]

Huh. When you posted a video about an evil Iron Man taking over, I assumed it was going to be about the first Civil War storyline. That's kind of when I decided Tony was just a villain with good publicity, so this Superior Iron Man stuff doesn't exactly surprise me.

[@Shadowkiller-dq2ju]

RDJ should’ve been Superior Iron Man instead of Dr Doom

[@BlacKing500]

I always said the axis storyline best tie ins were the superior iron man,deadpool and carnage books I'm glad someone else gets what made the superior iron man so interesting

[@GroovySlayer]

He should be the villain of what if season 2

[@mikejons7374]

At least they didn't replace him with a teenager version this time.

[@Potato-pn8sg]

Tony Stark: Apple

[@mehedihasanjoy8726]

Superiror Iron man is now in MCU. Watch the DS2 trailer.

[@TheMightsparrow]

Didn't know pepper was a redhead.......I approve 👍👍

[@franknova987]

She is in Armored Adventures

[@blackmercury2796]

She's even a redhead in the MCU

[@TheMightsparrow]

Why did they pick Paltrow to play her then....disappointed

[@blackmercury2796]

The Mighty Sparrow The actress isn't a natural Redhead but she still was portrayed to have a reddish hue in her hair. Not all Redheads have a very vibrant red hue.

[@francisabellana445]

Who's here because of Superior Ironman being played by Tom Cruise in Multivers of Madness?

[@warrenpeace8729]

I’m honestly more of a DC fan when it comes to comics but AXIS kind of turned me onto Marvel a bit more

[@kennethmathis9815]

Nice ExpressVPN Segway

[@ethansoderstrom8287]

His father must be so proud. 😆

[@raklibra]

Here’s a cool ending: Potts, Tony’s A.I., and Murdock design an Iron Devil suit. Rescue, the Iron Legion, and the Iron Devil join forces to take down Stark. The people of SF make a combined DoS attack using Extremis. Somehow Tony is defeated when confronted with the embodiment of the people’s good side and made to see the truth. Tony then ‘rewrites’ his brain to accept this reality.

[@exiegelastweekgamer1571]

Okay, now I really want to read this comic.

[@arzn253]

Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Misleading brought me here 😠

[@frogurtcremebrulee5252]

How did they mislead? They never even hinted or mentioned at it. It was just some “leak” that someone came up with to be a jerk.

[@illyasvielemiya9059]

watching this again I wonder if Comic Drake will someday made a video about person behind the comic he like and why.

[@cdog3277]

so basically if Tony's ego went 100%

[@guywithduckforhand]

When you said "three years of protection" my dirty mind first went to.....

[@diegodreossi1458]

Superior Iron man ' armor is amazing!

[@YaBoiOmega]

This is basically Elon Musk if he had super powers.

[@ahmedehab4122]

I can see superior ironman photo behind you and he is wearing sunglasses

[@RawbeardX]

100 bucks a day to be the perfect self is... astonishingly affordable.

[@EricIsntSmart]

One of my first ever comics was a superior iron man signed by Tom Taylor that i got at a con, fun idea for a comic

[@KyanbuXM]

I wonder if Tony getting reverted back to normal during the time skip was because of the MCU? Marvel for whatever reason not wanting movie fans to go from MCU Ironman to Comics Evil Ironman.

[@care-taker2479]

I wish Robert Downey Jr. would come back as superior iron man

[@person14876]

Will you cover IDWs 2005 transformers continuity or MTMTE?