Iron Man (Model 73)

Iron Man's History

After the human supremacist mogul Feilong seized control of Stark Unlimited and poured its resources into the creation of Stark Sentinels to fuel Orchis' campaign of mutant prosecution, Tony Stark joined forces with the runaway X-Men in secrecy, since he couldn't legally operate as Iron Man due to Feilong owning the patents of his technology.

During his alliance with the mutant telepath Emma Frost, Stark learned that a theoretical metal discovered by his father Howard in the past was none other than the mutant-harvested mysterium, so Tony sought to use it to craft his countermeasures against Feilong's Stark Sentinels.Stark's planning efforts culminated in the design of a towering Sentinel Buster Armor meant to fight the Stark Sentinels head-on.In order to build it, he and Emma Frost recovered the mysterium deposited by the X-Men on Gameworld and had Starfox deliver it to Nidavellir. Sharing the design of the Sentinel Buster with Ironheart, Tony had her convene with the Dwarves of Nidavellir and construct the Sentinel Buster, by happenstance joining forces with the X-Man Forge.

In order to lure Orchis into a trap, the Sentinel Buster was split into separate pieces meant to resemble spaceships. The resistance fed Orchis false intel that these "ships" were going to carry a mutant armada from Mars to Earth.On the day of reckoning, Iron Man convened with the pieces of the Sentinel Buster in the Australian Outback, prompting Feilong to send the majority of the Stark Sentinels to Stark's position. As they arrived, Iron Man assembled the "ships" into the Sentinel Buster.[3] Stark laid waste to the Stark Sentinels, but the armor's energy demands were too much for the actual number of Stark Sentinels online. When Feilong arrived in a War Machine Sentinel, the Sentinel Buster engaged him, and the villain rammed his mecha into the Sentinel Buster's chest, damaging its giant-sized R.T. node and shutting it down.