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The characters of Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

Team Iron Man

The main characters of the series.

• Three Amigos
• Two Guys and a Girl

Anthony "Tony" Stark/Iron Man

Voiced by: Adrian Petriw

• Always Save the Girl
• Berserk Button: Don't threaten and/or disparage his family or friends.
  • People stealing his tech and in general using tech for evil also pisses him off. And don't even think about making any wise cracks about his father.
• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Gene's Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's sweet, innocent, and oblivious... and he will snap hard if you mess with his friends. Nor will he take kindly to being manipulated.
• Blue Eyes: Kind of a dark blue gray, in this case.
• Child Prodigy
• Clear My Name: In "Masquerade" and "Chasing Ghosts", for his alter ego and himself, respectively.
• Disappeared Dad: Until he turns out to be alive.
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Genius Ditz
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is jealous of Pepper's friendship with Gene.
• The Hero
• Heroic BSOD
• Heroes Want Redheads: Seemingly with Pepper.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Rhodey and, to a lesser degree, Gene.
• Kidanova: Tony tries and fails to charm Whitney at one point, proving that this Tony Stark may not be a playboy after all.
• Kid Hero: For a certain definition of kid.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Don't say anything bad about Howard or imply he did anything less than perfect in front of Tony.
• Not So Different: He and Gene both have missing murdered parents, a lot of responsibilities, the same tendency to walk the line between hero and villain, and have a secret identity.
  • He also has this with Black Panther for pretty much the same reasons, Rhodey even says that T'Challa is Tony. Rhodey also points out the similarity between Tony and Dr. Doom (he seems to like doing this) so Gene and Doom are like each other and Tony/T'Challa... they should start a support group.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense
• Science Hero
• Super Strength: With his Extremis upgrade, Tony can Bear Hug both Pepper and Rhodey hard enough to leave Rhodey short of breath.
• Survivor Guilt: Implied.
• Technopath: Thanks to Extremis.
• Teen Genius
• Took a Level in Badass: Every time he gets new armor.
• Transhuman: After injecting himself with Extremis, his body is enhanced to superhuman levels, and he gets technopathy to boot.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Tony, Rhodey, and Pepper. Tony, Gene, and Pepper.
• Unstoppable Rage: Combines it with doses of Tranquil Fury.
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl

James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine

Voiced by: Daniel Bacon

• Alliterative Name: When using his nickname.
• Bash Brothers: With Tony once he gets the War Machine armor.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Damn Heroes: In "Tales of Suspense".
• Black Best Friend
• Brown Eyes
• Disappeared Dad: States in one episode that his dad is in the Navy, and he's stationed oversees. Turns out they're extending his tour of duty, so we probably won't see him for a little while longer, if at all.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Tony.
• Mission Control
• Only Sane Man: Generally the most reasonable and down to Earth person in any scene he's in.
  • His best friends are a Mad Scientist and a Genki Girl, so he occasionally comes off as literally being the sane one.

"Am I the only sane person here?!"

• Secret Keeper
• Team Mom: Lampshaded via his nickname.
• Top-Heavy Guy: The War Machine armor, with its vast and primarily shoulder-mounted armament.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Tony out on his actions repeatedly, going so far as to tell Tony he's barely any better than the villains he's fighting in Seeing Red.

Patricia "Pepper" Potts

Voiced by: Anna Cummer

• Alliterative Name
• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Whitney's Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She mentions offhand to Gene that she got a guy deported for espionage. When the armor designs are stolen and sold to Stane and Hammer, Pepper suggests Tony steal them back or trash their companies trying amidst various angry growls.
• Breathless Non-Sequitur: She gets in quite a few of these during her ramblings.
• Brown Eyes
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Compressed Vice: Has issues with mutants, which is a little strange considering how nice she was to the Hulk. Backpedals by the end of the episode when she says she only dislikes "evil mutants."
• Damsel in Distress: And she is tired of it.
• Faux Action Girl: As much as she wants to be a member of SHIELD, she has a long way to go, especially compared to Whitney.
• Feet First Introduction
• Fiery Redhead
• Genki Girl
• Girl Next Door
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is jealous of Tony's friendship with Whitney.
• I Want My Jetpack: Wants to join SHIELD for a jetpack. In the second season, she begs Tony for her own suit of armor.
• Even Heroes Have Heroes: She does this over Tony, Gene, and SHIELD.
• The Load: Even she knows it, which is why she wants her own armor.
• Missing Mom: Par for the course in this series.
• Mission Control
• Motor Mouth: Oh so much.
• Mouthy Kid: Par for the course on this show.
• Naive Everygirl
• Red Headed Heroine
• Secret Keeper
• Skewed Priorities
• Skirt Over Slacks
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Whitney's tomboy.

Friends and relatives

Whitney Stane/Madame Masque

Voiced by: Kristie Marsden

Daughter of Obidiah Stane and friend of Tony Stark

• Action Girl
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Pepper's Betty.
• Blue Eyes
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: She came off as this in her first couple appearances before becoming Madame Masque and revealing her more tormented side.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: A possible interpretation of her interest in Tony. Not present with Rhodey.
• Demoted to Extra: In the second season, thus far at least. Losing the mask and all the memories of it pretty much torpedoed any relevance she had to the main plot.
  • Her words to Tony after her father gets put in a coma indicates that this may not last...
• Hair of Gold
• Hidden Depths
• Laser-Guided Amnesia
• Little Miss Badass
• Lonely Rich Kid: Stane is predictably not the world's best father, so this is the natural result. Her only real friend is Tony, who often brushed her aside until he learned how troubled her home-life was.
• Missing Mom
• Morality Pet: For her father, Obadiah.
• Parental Abandonment: May as well be, with how bad her father is. Her mother is likely gone, too.
• Rich Bitch: But one with a heart of gold.
• The Rival: To Pepper.
• Stalker with a Crush: For Tony.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Pepper's girly girl.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend

Happy Hogan

Voiced by: Alistair Abell

Member of Tony's circle of friends.

• Alliterative Name
• A Day in the Limelight: "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's surprisingly good with the Iron Man armor, though.
• Hidden Depths: He can identify classical music due to his mother being a concert cellist.
• Hopeless Suitor: For Whitney. Possibly also for Gene.
• Lovable Jock.
• No Indoor Voice: He seems incapable of saying "THE KHAN" without shouting.
• Parental Abandonment: They left him alone while they were out of town on his birthday.

Roberta Rhodes

Voiced by: Catherine Haggquist

Mother of Rhodey. She became Tony's guardian after his father disappeared.

• Alliterative Name
• Hello, Attorney!
• Hot Mom
• Like Brother and Sister: With Howard Stark.
• Mama Bear: To Rhodey and Tony.
• Odd Friendship: With Howard Stark .
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Sassy Black Woman: She can be this, especially if riled, but otherwise is pretty nice.

Howard Stark

Voiced by: Fred Henderson

Tony's father.

• Actual Pacifist: After Tony was born. Before that, he invented weapons.
• Death by Origin Story: Only not really.
• Establishing Character Moment: Wants to use Tony's inventions to save lives, speaks in a gentle voice and, in a flashback at the end of season one, pleaded for Tony's life even in the face of his own imminent death.
• Honor Before Reason: Related to the screwing of money below. Weapons are profitable, but Howard's morals don't allow him to sell them knowing what they'll do to people.
• Millionaire Playboy: Averted. Unlike his son, or more accurately how his son is in other universes, Howard has no romantic interests after the death of his wife.
• Never Found the Body: Mentioned in passing once. Since it was a plane crash, it makes sense.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Wanted to study the Rings and how they produce energy, thinking of the good it could do. It got him killed. Left the company to his best friend in an effort to make sure Stane wasn't out of a job upon his death. Stane immediately went out and began selling weapons, which is horrifically wrong for a large number of reasons and deeply disrespects Howard's memory. Basically, Being Good Sucks in this universe.
• Odd Friendship: With Obadiah Stane.
• Posthumous Character: Seen mostly in flashbacks after the plane crash. Until he was revealed to be alive.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules
• Skilled but Naive
• Spared by the Adaptation: Though his survival is only revealed at the end of season 1.
• Survival Mantra: "Weapons don't solve problems, they only create more."
• We Hardly Knew Ye
• What You Are in the Dark: Howard is a concerned parent and sworn pacifist in and out of the dark.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Far more than his son is.

T'Challa a.k.a. The Black Panther

Voiced by: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

The king of Wakanda after his father was murdered.

• Badass Family: He comes from a line of kings.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Played With. His suit allows him to tank machine gun fire with absolutely zero damage and other things that'd kill anyone not wearing it. However, his incredible fighting ability, bullet timing and laser dodging is all due to him being a Badass Abnormal.
• Cruel Mercy: See Thou Shall Not Kill below.
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Determinator
• Diplomatic Impunity: Goes around attacking whoever he feels has wronged him and/or his country, using this trope to avoid punishment on the international stage.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: To Tony, very angrily.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Very much so.
• Heroic BSOD
• Hot-Blooded: Since his father was just murdered and he has none of the emotional support that Tony did, this isn't too surprising.
• Good Is Not Nice: T'Challa has no problem knocking people unconscious to get them out of his way and even threatened to reveal Tony's secret identity if he continues to interfere in Wakandan matters.
• Jumped At the Call: Since it gave him a shot at vengeance.
• Knight in Sour Armor
• Not So Different: Though he denies it, his situation is nearly identical to Tony's and they act extremely similar.
• Pride: His biggest flaw and defining character trait. It's very clear that his reluctance to accept help from anyone isn't helping as much as he thinks. Luckily, he's getting better about it.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge
• Secret Public Identity: It's public knowledge that the Black Panther is the king of Wakanda, so T'Challa doesn't bother trying to hide it. He actually wears the suit (sans mask) in public during a press conference.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Way over on the cynical side. Might be getting better, though.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Both murder and betraying your home country are this in his eyes.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He prefers to let his father's murderer face the ensuing Wakandan media circus rather than kill him.
• Tragic Hero
• Tyke Bomb
• Unstoppable Rage: All the time, and it's directed at himself as well as his enemies.

Villains

Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger

Voiced by: Mackenzie Gray

• Anti-Villain: Surprisingly, he has shades of Type I. While he is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who's not above using illegal ways to reach his goals, he is still more of a businessman than a straight-up villain, and there are some lines he is unwilling to cross. Plus, he lacks Justin Hammer's psychotic traits.
• Bald of Evil
• Big Bad: Shares the role with Gene and later Justin Hammer.
• Cassandra Truth: Anytime he claims not to be involved in anything evil or immoral, no one believes him. To be fair, he pretty much deserves it most of the time.
• Convenient Coma
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Though he would claim to just being being a regular businessman, Stane breaks many laws in his quest to make Stark International the biggest weapons dealer on the planet. This actually makes it harder for him to turn a profit (Stark International is losing money at the start of the second season and is only turned around by stealing the Iron Man armor designs), resulting in Blizzard dedicating his life to making Stane either miserable or dead.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His relationship with his daughter Whitney is.... complicated. But deep inside, he does care about her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Stane objects to the public endangerment involved in capturing Iron Man. Though he sells weapons, he says he is no murderer. Unless the line goes fuzzy at company heads and their sons. Perhaps his demands in the first episode were coincidence.
• Greed: He wants to turn the Stark family's inventions into weapons despite the the tech being so far ahead of the curve that only Tony and Howard know how it works. In the two-part premiere, he nearly blows up half of the state of New York trying to show off said technology to the military.
• Jerkass
• Odd Friendship: His friendship with his complete antithesis Howard Stark.
• Poisonous Friend: Again, to Howard.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Claims to follow this. No one believes him, mostly because he's a ruthless businessman who doesn't seem to care about anything but money.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite Iron Man saving his life many times, he will never thank him nor will he stop trying to get his hands on the armor's design.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Tony finally gets him fired by exposing his deal with Ghost and he discovers Tony and Iron Man are the same, Stane steals an Iron Monger suit and goes on a rampage in an attempt to find Tony.

Temugin "Gene" Khan/The Mandarin (True Heir)

Voiced by: Vincent Tong

Descendant of the original Mandarin.

• Anti-Villain: Combines traits of Type I, II and III.
• Cool Shades
• Deadpan Snarker
• Enemy Mine: Played with in the first season: he teams up with Tony several times, but both are unaware of each other's identity.
  • Played straight for a very short time in Mandarin's quest.
• Face Heel Turn: At the end of season 1.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempted this when Gene pushes Pepper out of the way of Fin Fang Foom and is apparently killed. Ironically, his sacrifice is what allowed him to acquire the fifth Makluan Ring and then betray the very friends he was helping.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Tony.
• Gray Eyes
• Kick the Dog: Gene's treatment of poor Happy can be seen like this.
  • His treatment of Howard Stark in the second season is worse. It's like the writers want to erase any sympathy the audience might have for him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: People very rarely refer to him by his actual name.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother was killed by Zhang. We have no clue as to what happened to his biological father. And Zhang is pretty much evil.
• Smug Snake: He acts a lot like Zhang, though he'd never admit it.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: What Gene is using as an excuse to get all the rings whereas Tony believes that it's all a lie to justify his actions.

Xin Zhang/The Mandarin (The Usurper)

Voiced by: Vincent Tong

Leader of the Tong and Gene's stepfather.

• Abusive Parents: To Gene.
• Karma Houdini: So far, anyway.
• Love Makes You Evil: Averted. He was already evil and never loved Gene's mother.
• Put on a Bus: He wasn't actually seen since the season 1 finale (though he appears in "Mandarin's Quest" as a hallucination).
• The Usurper: Not a Khan as stated by Gene. It's s heavily implied that he killed Gene's mother, which would explain how he got the ring.

Arthur Parks/The Living Laser

Voiced by: Louis Chirillo

• Abusive Parents: He had a verbally abusive, spirit-breaking mother.
• Butt Monkey: Why he snapped.
• Came Back Wrong
• Card-Carrying Villain: Wants to do evil purely for the recognition due to his mental issues.
• Evil Redhead: At least until his Heel Face Turn.
• Freudian Excuse: His mother's treatment led to an extraordinarily bad inferiority complex, which led him to commit crime in part to get attention and in part, to be successful and prove her wrong. This is what led him to become the Living Laser.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Once, he was just a Mook.
• Heel Face Turn: Turns good once he realizes Iron Man only ever tried to help him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Played heartbreakingly straight... not that it lasts, though.
• Hidden Depths
• Literal Split Personality: Into light and dark halves in "Look Into The Light".
• Not-So-Harmless Villain
• Redemption Equals Death: Until being revived thanks to Mr. Fix
• Single-Issue Psychology
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: He already had a massive inferiority complex, though, so it's hard to say for sure.

Ghost

Voiced by: Michael Dobson

A mercenary infamous for getting the job done.

• Badass: One of the biggest in the series.
• Badass Longcoat
• Casual Danger Dialogue
• Combat Pragmatist
• Crazy Prepared: His suit has a 5 minute battery back-up in case his own EMP tech is used against him.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Deadpan Snarker: He delivers some particularly enjoyable snark about how A.I.M. wasn't able to make their M.O.D.O.C. project less uglier despite all their tech.
• Determinator: Of a more passive variety. He will always follow through with a contract, no matter how long he has to wait or how many times he has to retreat. Unless, of course, you give him a better offer.
• Intangible Man
• Invisibility Cloak
• Only in It For the Money: So much so that he can be bribed out of killing people.
• Punch Clock Villain: He has few concerns with his contact's objectives and only cares about being payed. If you are able to gice him more money than his original hirer did, he will gladly accept it to give up his original mission.
• Scarily Competent Tracker
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When A.I.M.'s Scientist Supreme told him to fight Iron Man, he phased through the floor instead, since he wasn't being paid nearly enough. He also consistently avoids direct combat with Iron Man if he can help it.
• Secret Keeper: Keeps Iron Man's secret identity to himself in order to blackmail him.

Count Nefaria

Voiced by: Russell Roberts

Leader of the Maggia.

• Shock and Awe
• Wicked Cultured

The Black Knight

Voiced by: Alistair Abell

• Black Knight
• Blade on a Stick
• The Dragon: To Count Nefaria in season one.
• Energy Ball: His lance can fire one in his second appearance. It even tracks his target.
• Enigmatic Minion
• Hover Mechanical Steed
• Lance Beam: His lance shoots crescent blasts.
• The Quiet One
• Silent Antagonist

Killer Shrike

Voiced by: Ty Olsson

• Flight: His blasters let him fly.
• Hand Blast
• Inventional Wisdom: Tony immediately calls attention to the flawed logic of linking your flight system to your weapons.
• Those Two Bad Guys: With Unicorn.

Unicorn

Voiced by: Michael Daingerfield

• Frickin' Laser Beams
• Super Speed: One of his armor upgrades that debuted on "Hostile Takeover".
• Those Two Bad Guys: With Killer Shrike.

Whiplash

Voiced by: Peter Kelamis

• Adaptational Badass: and how. The Whiplash from the comic was basically just a guy with lashes and a lame costume. Armored Adventures redesigned him as a very competent and dangerous henchman using energized lashes who almost killed Iron Man in his first appearance. Interestingly, Iron Man 2 later makes an Adaptational Badass of the same villain (making him even more badass in the process), and used the energized lashe trick as well.
• Combat Tentacles: His whips are much too versatile to be considered mere whips.
• The Dragon: To Mr. Fix.
• Hover Board: Has one with saw blades on it.
• Whip It Good: Even lampshaded by Iron Man when he meets him.

Tony: "What do they call you? The Whipping Boy? Whipo? Whip It Good?"

Mr. Fix

Voiced by: Donny Lucas

• Arms Dealer
• Bald of Evil
• Beard of Evil
• Brain Uploading: After Hammer activates the nanite in order to keep exploiting him.
• The Dragon: To Justin Hammer in season two.
• Explosive Leash: The reason he's a Dragon rather than an independent agent. Hammer triggers it in "Titanium vs. Iron". After that, Hammer could always delete him from the mainframe.
• Gadgeteer Genius

Donald Gill/Blizzard

Voiced by: David Orth

• An Ice Person
• Composite Character: Former Stark employee like the original Blizzard, Gregor Shapanka, but has the identity of the better known Blizzard, Donald Gill.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: half of his face has been disfigured due to an experiment from Stane.
• I Lied
• Mad Scientist
• Manipulative Bastard: Manipulated Tony/Iron Man into helping him attacking Stane in his first appearance. Later, when Stane attempted to force him to find a cure for Whitney, he faked submission only to betray him.

Basil Sandhurst/The Controller

Voiced by: Michael Kopsa

• Manipulative Bastard: Both literally and directly; he can use his Mind Control Device to use people, but he's pretty good at regular manipulation as well.
• Mad Scientist
• Mind Control Device: His basic M.O.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His victims have red eyes and black lips, though this may simply be a cue for the viewer.
• The Starscream: To A.I.M.

M.O.D.O.C

Voiced by: Lee Tockar

• Cephalothorax
• Degraded Boss: In season two, he becomes Justin Hammer's remote controlled "plaything".
• Electronic Speech Impediment
• Fun with Acronyms: Mental Organism Designed Only for Conquest.
• Psychic Powers
• Psycho Prototype
• Turned Against Their Masters: played with: when first brought back to life, his first move was to fire the Controller, than overthrow the A.I.M. leader before taking control of the organization himself. Ironically, they were planning to make him their leader anyway.

Justin Hammer / Titanium Man

Voiced by: Michael Adamtwaite

The young owner of Hammer Multinational.

• Arms Dealer
• Bad Boss: He does not take failure well, regardless of who's fault it actually is.
• The Bad Guy Wins: He buys out Stark International in "Hostile Takeover." Tony's response is to start his own company, Stark Solutions.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Justin may like a goofy, eccentric teenager, but he's a surprisingly dangerous foe.
• Blondes Are Evil
• The Dragon: Subverted; Tony and Rhodes believe Titanium Man is this to Justin, when it turns out that Justin is Titanium Man.
• Evil Counterpart: To Tony; Now complete with his own armor. He even has an armory set up with a control apparatus similar to the one Pepper usually uses, which his secretary runs.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Psychopathic Manchild: Has shades of this, especially when things don't go his way.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense: He bungee-jumps out of his office window just to screw with his secretary.
  • Nick Fury even lampshades his eccentricities during Justin's presentation, basically asking the other military figures, "Are we seriously buying weapons from this guy?"
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money
• Smug Snake

Rhona Erwin/Rhona Burchill/Mad Thinker

A classmate who has a grudge with Tony for out-smarting her.

• Ax Crazy: Just look at the traps she imagined for Tony and the others. Not to mention that she did this in the past already.
• Badass Bookworm: Not on Tony's level, but she comes close.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She attempted to kill Tony and his friends through a school full of traps and death games. Why? Because Tony took her place as the school's smartest student. And because she felt like Tony was mocking her even though he hardly even noticed her presence until she and her brother started getting actually aggressive.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She does care about her brother Andy even though he is a mere robot she created in an attempt to replace her dead family.
• Evil Genius
• Gadgeteer Genius: Smart enough to create hightly advanced traps, build very realistic androids, and reproduce Dr. Pym's shrinking ray.
• Not So Different: Played with; she apparently likes believing that Tony has the same defect as her, accusing him of befriending Happy because having an idiot for a friend made him feel more intelligent, and having her brother hint that Tony killed Howard because he couldn't stand his father being smarter than him. She's wrong, of course, and Tony didn't take the accusation well.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Stark initially didn't see her as more than a weird and aggressive schoolmate who was no more than a nuisance. Just try imagining his reaction when she turns out to be an Evil Genius with a robot brother who tried to kill him and his friends.
• Smug Snake: She won't admit that Tony's smarter than her and will keep acting arrogant as much as she can.
• Ultimate Universe: Based on the Ultimate Marvel version of The Mad Thinker.