BASIC INFO.
✖ Character Name & Journal: STARK, ANTHONY (runsonbatteries)
✖ Application Link: Here.
✖ Current Canon Point: Between the end of the Avengers and the beginning of Iron Man 3.
✖ New Canon Point: The end of Age of Ultron (released on May 1st, 2015 in the United States).

✖ Personality Section:

Where we last left Tony Stark and his timeline, he joined together with the Avengers to fight aliens in New York and had a near-death experience with a nuclear weapon and a wormhole, which shook Tony to the very core. All throughout Iron Man 3, Tony was showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, panic attacks, and fits of hyperventilation. But it ends with Tony overcoming his fear of not being enough to protect his loved ones. He gave up the superhero life, activated a "clean slate protocol" that blew up his collection of suits, and concluded that they were no longer a distraction or a cocoon.

However the Age of Ultron starts with the Avengers reunited and taking down the remaining HYDRA facilities while also looking for Loki's scepter, which had been misplaced since the last movie. Tony is using his wealth and resources to support the Avengers with everything from a home base, weapons, and transportation to use in their never-ending quest to avenge. But contrary to Tony's "clean slate protocol" from Iron Man 3, he's fighting alongside the Avengers in another Iron Man suit. He has even forged a new Iron Legion. He isn't dependent on the suit like he was in Iron Man 3, insisting that it's part of him or really referring to it much in Age of Ultron, but the post-traumatic stress is still there.

Finding the scepter also means that the Avengers come across two new enhanced humans--Pietro and Wanda Maximoff--the first being a speedster, and the latter being capable of reading minds and warping them, as well. For example, once Tony finds the scepter, Wanda creeps up behind him and makes Tony believe his darkest fear is coming to life around him: he sees another alien attack on earth, and the dead bodies of the other Avengers strewn around him. And Steve's voice asking why he didn't do more.

The resulting feelings of dread and desperation will shape the rest of Tony's character arc in the movie. As it comes up again in more detail in a later scene with Nick Fury:

Tony: And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. […] Because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could.

Fury: The Maximoff girl, she’s working on you, Stark. Playing on your fears.

Tony: I wasn't tricked, I was shown. It wasn’t nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on.

Fury: You come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War is not one of them.

Tony: Watched my friends die; you'd think that's the best it gets. Nope, wasn't the worst part.

Fury: Worst part is that you didn't.

Of course no one wants to live when all their loved ones are dead. But when Tony was in Afghanistan, the man that saved him sacrificed his own life so Tony could escape, urging him not to waste his second chance. Since then, he's been trying to save the world, but he's also trying to make up for his past mistakes. In fact, he's obsessed with it, in a lot of ways. And he's heaping on a lot more personal responsibility than what seems reasonable or within his ability to control.

Look at what Tony did to get out of the Afghan cave: he invented something that he continues to use to fight evil. Tony might hate himself and he knows he fucks up a lot, but he’s also a genius and can always fall back on his ability to build things. Tinkering. It’s what Tony Stark does.

So after analyzing the scepter, Tony discovers that the gem in Loki's scepter--literally--has a mind of its own, and its incredibly advanced power was being used by HYDRA in their experiments. The HYDRA scientists also seemed to be working towards true artificial intelligence. So he decides to take that idea and work with Bruce Banner (behind the backs of Thor and the other Avengers) to make it happen and apply it to something they called "the Ultron program."

Because Tony wants what every good Miss America contestant wants: world peace. He sees Earth as incredibly vulnerable and aliens as "the end game." And the Ultron program was meant to be a suit of armor around it, protecting the planet from alien threats, so humans would only have to worry about human threats.

Then Ultron is born, and he looks through the entire span of history. But what he finds disturbs him, and leads him to the extreme and mechanical conclusion that humanity is the cause of everything wrong in the world, so he decides he has to purge them. Destroy the world as we know it, and then start fresh.

In the end, he doesn't get everything he wants, but a lot of people die as he carries out a warpath, and now there is a massive crater in the planet where an entire city was levitated and then blown apart. On a smaller scale, he nearly dismantled the Avengers from the inside.

There are hints that Ultron takes after Tony Stark. He has the same wise-cracking sense of humor, references to pop culture, and even adopts some of his business quotes. But when it comes to problem-solving skills and his sense of right and wrong, Wanda Maximoff believes Ultron didn't fall far from the Tony Stark tree. Even without getting inside Steve's head, she makes him question where Ultron lost the ability to distinguish peace from destruction. Both Ultron and Tony will do whatever it takes to make things right.

Because Tony's final plan to stop Ultron once and for all is to insert JARVIS into the synthetic body that Ultron had intended to transfer his consciousness into. Clearly Bruce is not on-board, for good reason considering how it went with Ultron, and neither is Steve, once he drops in and sees what they're doing. But Tony insists it's not the same and it's their best option. He says to Bruce during their argument: "I know what everyone's going to say because they're already saying it. We're mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. You got to own it, make a stand. It's not a loop. It's the end of the line."

Tony has always been a pragmatist: a man that takes action, and believes that the ends will always justify the means. And he is dealing with a lot of emotional baggage that will exacerbate the impulsiveness. He believes they're fighting in order to end the fight forever, and he believes (or he needs to believe) that he has the power to do it.


✖ Abilities Section: Tony is a super genius that has shown remarkable prowess in science and electrical engineering since the age of four. He whizzed through school, graduating from MIT with double majors in physics and engineering, and finally, by the time he turned twenty-one, was appointed CEO of his father's company. Once Tony took control of Stark Industries, he continued to improve robotics, satellite technology, and weapons for the United States military. He was to explosions what Willy Wonka is to chocolate, transforming the industry and earning himself such nicknames as, "the Da Vinci of our time," and "the Merchant of Death." Back when he was still dealing in weapons, that is. These days, Tony has turned his attention to clean energy resources and being a full-time superhero.

Tony has some training in unarmed fighting techniques, and can throw a few punches if the situation calls for it. However, on his own, Tony is not much stronger than another average man his age and build. When he first came into the CDC, he even had an abnormal medical handicap working against him: an electromagnet in his chest cavity that was keeping a cluster of shrapnel from puncturing his heart and killing him. But in Iron Man 3, he finally had the surgery to remove everything, and will subsequently be returning to the game without the permanent flashlight he's had between his nipples this entire time.

The most recognized invention in Tony's roster is probably the Iron Man suit. Iron Man is a high-tech suit of armor that's durable enough to withstand bullets, explosions, and being scraped against the side of a mountain like a booger. It has superhuman strength, as Tony is seen lifting cars, and punching his fist through stone walls. There are jets in the boots for flight and stabilizers in the gloves to help steer himself around while he's airborne. And when the stabilizers are concentrated, they can knock people back several yards, so they can double as weapons. A similar, but more powerful blast can also be fired from the center of Iron Man's chest, but it takes longer to charge.

Since Afghanistan, Tony has made over forty-two permutations of the Iron Man suit, each one with its own technological strengths and capabilities for whatever scenario that particular suit was designed for. Common arsenal in an Iron Man suit includes (exluding the aforementioned repulsor beams) anti-tank missiles, anti-personnel guns, flares, and laser cutters.

The latest models are connected to Tony through microchips that Tony embedded into his left arm, enabling him to control the armor with his thoughts. So Iron Man can both assemble and disassemble from his body automatically (as the entire exoskeleton or in individual pieces), without the heavy machinery that it used to need in the first two Iron Man movies and the Avengers. It can even be commanded while Tony is unconscious, as shown in a scene where he's having a nightmare and the Mark XLII tries to attack Pepper, who was sleeping next to him at the time.

In Age of Ultron, the invention of Tony's that was primarily focused on was JARVIS, an artificial intelligence and multi-functional program. He stores, accesses, and communicates data back to Tony, controls a number of robotic appliances, including the Iron Legion, and as far as the singular suit that Tony uses, JARVIS is in control of life support and all the other computational requirements needed to interface Tony with the suit's subsystems.

Tony claims that JARVIS runs more of the business than anyone besides Pepper, and indeed, there's nothing like him before the Mind Stone is discovered. The first thing that Ultron does when he comes to life is attack JARVIS to remove him as a threat, because JARVIS would've been their first line of defense, and without him, Ultron is able to be a jack ass. But as it turns out, Ultron hadn't gotten rid of JARVIS completely, as he intended to. Instead, JARVIS kept himself hidden and protected the internet mainframe from being entirely taken over by Ultron.

So when the Avengers managed to seize the synthetic body that Ultron had been planning to transfer his consciousness into, Tony wanted to download JARVIS into it instead. Because Ultron understood that JARVIS was their best chance at stopping him, and that's why he was scared of him. So with the help of Bruce Banner and the Mind Stone, JARVIS becomes Vision, an android like Ultron without the megalomania.

✖ Inventory:
Sunglasses.
Black shirt with a shiny purple sash across the chest.
Black suit jacket and pants.
Car keys without the car.

Basically the clothes on his back and whatever small things he had in his pockets when he said goodbye to Steve and drove away with all of Whedon's credibility.