was Stark Industries' top buyers before he stopped manufacturing weapons. has attacked a nuclear facility in Russia, Stark decides to confront them, also because A.I.M. While Stark was confronting Maggia, his corrupt business partner Obadiah Stane secretly recovered the first Iron Man armor in Afghanistan and started working with the company Advanced Idea Mechanics ( A.I.M.) to create a power source. Iron Man then attacks the fortress and destroys it, ending Maggia's evil once and for all. Stark then discovers Maggia's last weapon: a heavily armed Flying Fortress.

Stark follows the transport, destroying the weapons, defeating the villain Blacklash, a former Stark Industries worker, in the process, before proceeding to Maggia's compound to destroy the rest of the weapons, and after infiltrating the mansion he confronts Madame Masque, who is killed when a wall falls on her. Rhodes then starts helping Stark in his fight against Maggia, informing him of a weapons transport in Afghanistan. Tony then returns home, where Pepper Potts discovers what he was doing with the Iron Man suit. He then establishes contact with his friend Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, who learns of Stark's identity and orders the jets to disengage. A pair of F-22 Raptors are sent after Stark one is damaged during the chase, but Stark manages to save the pilot. On the way back home he is confronted by the United States Air Force. Using his new Mark III 'Iron Man' armor, Stark destroys Maggia's weapons stockpiles and an armored hovercraft. After the attack, Stark discovers that Maggia is providing weapons for the Ten Rings, and he returns to Afghanistan to battle them. Stark then decides to use his suit to deal with the attackers, and notices that they are Maggia soldiers.

While testing his new suit at Stark Industries, Tony is informed by his assistant Pepper Potts that armed men are attacking the facilities. J.A.R.V.I.S., Stark develops an updated and more powerful version of his armor, adding Stark Industries' new repulsor technology and flight capability. Upon being picked up by the Air Force and returning to the United States, Stark declares that his company will no longer manufacture weapons, a move disapproved by his business partner Obadiah Stane. Stark then escapes from the Ten Rings' caves, but his suit is destroyed when he crashlands in the desert. Armed with a flamethrower, Stark uses the armor to defeat several terrorists and destroy their weapons stockpile, but Yinsen is killed during the escape. Stark impresses himself after finishing the armor, calling it 'the future'. During this time, Yinsen also acts as Stark's mentor, showing him humility and telling him of the horrors his company has caused, making Stark reconsider his life. Instead, he and fellow captive Ho Yinsen secretly build a powered suit of armor in the months following his capture. During a business trip to Afghanistan to demonstrate Stark Industries' new weapon, Tony Stark is kidnapped by the terrorist group the Ten Rings, who order him to build a missile for them.

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