Oh, you know. Spoilt industrialist billionnaire, touring a country that provides mad cheap labour, vehicle goes over a landmine, shrapnel in the chest, captured by enemy, and next thing you know there's this sudden urgent necessity for some kind of magnetized carefully designed doohickey to keep the heart from getting ribboned by the chunks of metal.
...the fact that he was allowed to build this in captivity is strictly due to the fact that his captor was an arrogant evil overlord who had him (and the requisite father-figure) in captivity so that they would build nifty stuff for him. The equipment wasn't great, but he *did* manage to hammer out what he needed; he and the father figure built the suit in secret, and the father-figure sacrificed himself (those guys die a lot, have you noticed?) so that Tony was able to get into the suit when the overlord-type showed up angry.
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Date: 2007-05-02 08:41 pm (UTC)...the fact that he was allowed to build this in captivity is strictly due to the fact that his captor was an arrogant evil overlord who had him (and the requisite father-figure) in captivity so that they would build nifty stuff for him. The equipment wasn't great, but he *did* manage to hammer out what he needed; he and the father figure built the suit in secret, and the father-figure sacrificed himself (those guys die a lot, have you noticed?) so that Tony was able to get into the suit when the overlord-type showed up angry.
Thus was born Iron Man.