History
Following his return from a coma, Tony Stark founded the company Stark Unlimited as a think tank for future technologies, as well as an ideas incubator for the Iron Man Armor. It was headquartered in a skyscraper located in Washington Square Park.[1] Stark Unlimited also served as a conglomerate, absorbing as subsidiaries several other Stark companies, such as Stark Solutions, Stark Resilient and Stark International.[2]
After Tony Stark was delegitimized since his current body had been engineered from scratch, making him an artificial being, his adoptive brother Arno laid claim to Stark Unlimited because the bio-restructuring pod used to build Tony's body was of his design, making Tony and all his inventions his property as well. Stark Unlimited was merged with Arno's other company, Baintronics. In the process, head of security Bethany Cabe was fired, and Armed Forces liaison Jim Rhodes resigned.[3]
Tony Stark eventually regained control of the company after the fall of Arno and Bain. Believing that the company had too much baggage due to its association with Baintronics, Tony decided to give the company's headquarters to Andy Bhang to use it for Bhang Robotics.[4] Stark Unlimited continued operating on its own, albeit without Stark's intervention since he divested himself of the company.[5] However, Stark's absence left the company ripe for a hostile takeover from Feilong. The anti-mutant industrialist launched a multi-pronged attack on Stark's persona to lower the stocks of the company via association,[6] and in the process murdered Stark's confidant Zhong Wei, who had enough stock in Stark Unlimited to trigger a shareholder rights plan against a hostile takeover.[7] After reintroducing Zhong's shares into the market, Feilong acquired the company in order to use Stark's technology for the benefit of the pro-human organization Orchis.[8]
Executives and Staff[]
- Feilong - Chief Executive Officer[8]
- Andy Bhang - Chief Roboticist[9]
List of Minor Stark Unlimited Members
Former Executives[]
- Tony Stark - Chief Executive Officer[1]
- Bethany Cabe - Head of Security[1]
- Jocasta Pym - Chief Robotic Ethicist[1]
- Col. Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes - U.S. Armed Forces Liaison[1]
- Friday Stark - Assistant[10]
- Amanda Armstrong - Upper Management Executive[10]
- Motherboard - Artificial Intelligence[10]
- Dr. Shapiro - Superhuman Biologist[11]
- Arno Stark - Chief Executive Officer[3]
- Zhong Wei (deceased) - Member of the Board of Directors[12]
Subsidiaries[]
See Also
- 62 appearance(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 36 mention(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 17 image(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 21 member(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 3 item(s) used/owned by Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Tony Stark: Iron Man #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tony Stark: Iron Man #5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tony Stark: Iron Man #19
- ↑ Iron Man 2020 (Vol. 2) #6
- ↑ Iron Man (Vol. 6) #1
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #1
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #2
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #4
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #4
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Tony Stark: Iron Man #2
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #17
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #3
- ↑ Meet the Skrulls #5
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #12
- ↑ Iron Man (Vol. 6) #2