Tony Stark survives captivity by building the Mark I armor and abandons weapons manufacturing.
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Iron Man
The origin of the MCU, forged in a cave with a box of scraps.
Billionaire inventor Tony Stark builds a powered armor suit and becomes Iron Man, the armored Avenger who kicks off the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
2008 May 2, 2008 126 min PG-13
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Directed by Jon Favreau
Release date May 2, 2008
Timeline MCU #3
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Story dossier
Billionaire inventor Tony Stark builds a powered armor suit and becomes Iron Man, the armored Avenger who kicks off the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This wiki dossier collects the movie's MCU phase, timeline placement, core cast, creative team, trailers, images, story highlights, post-credit context, related movies, and Disney+ US viewing status.
Timeline placement
Set in the early modern MCU, after Captain Marvel and before the first Avengers-level threat.
The arc reactor becomes both a life-support device and a symbol of Stark's reinvention.
The public reveal, 'I am Iron Man,' changes superhero secrecy in the MCU.
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