Iron God

Iron God's History

Having been subsumed by the Power Cosmic, Tony Stark endures a trip through his subconscious. Initially sleeping adrift in the void of space, Tony leaves his unconscious body as an specter and passes through a mirror, finding himself at the Stark Mansion where his younger selves are crying due to the neglect in his youth and his parents' death. He grows in size, bursting through the mansion as he becomes taller than skyscrapers, reflecting his desire to do drastic things to be seen. He suddenly shrinks down to miniature size and falls into the kitchen of the mansion, where Captain America hands him over a phone through which the voice of Tony's father Howard berates his son. A pair of Iron Man hands block Tony's way and swat him away into a heap of Iron Man suits. A manifestation of Korvac representing what Stark is afraid the villain is spots Tony and fights him with a sword. Tony defends himself using a needle, overpowers Korvac, and throws him into a black whirlpool in space. Tony is displeased with the traumas and issues he's finding through this exploration that are his motivators and that he was unable to run away from them to try to just help people, and declares that he is done feeling sorry for himself.

Tony embraces the Power Cosmic and contemplates using it to change himself and the world for the better, and briefly fantasizes about destroying his super hero allies if they don't see his way. As he senses that the cosmic transformation process is nearing its completion, Tony passes through the mirror and returns to his body before he wakes up in the real world. In the real world, Korvac reconstitutes himself and sets out to encat his vision of a perfect universe, however, he is interrupted by the new cosmically-empowered and ghastly Iron Man.