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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Iron Man! The Melter! MAULER! The Raiders!)

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Taggert activated the nuke AGAIN, but a malfunction nearly caused it to kill him and everyone nearby- Tony had to carefully-halt the timer and save Taggert's life... then tore apart the Firepower suit to stun him into giving up.
What made this all the more hilarious was that tony was screwing withe guys head as a bit of payback. He lands acts like he cant get the armor open to save taggert so he has to perform this OH SO terribly delicate operation to disarm the nuke leaving taggert sweating balls terrified for his life, then when he does it and taggert threatens him again Tony promptly and easily rips the helmet off like cardboard leaving taggert peeing his pants because tony could do the same to him at any time
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Firepower (Roberts)

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FIREPOWER II (David Roberts)
Created By:
David Michelinie, Bob Layton & Mark Bright
First Appearance: Iron Man #288 (Jan. 1993)
Role: Jobber Villain

-A second Firepower, piloted by David Roberts (a government official), appeared only five years after the first, fighting an eco-terrorist named Atom-Smasher in order to cover up some questionable operations. His suit had fewer weapons, but seemed to pack an equal punch, but War Machine de-powered both guys with an EMP blast that rendered both he & Firepower inoperable. The War Machine suit reboots after six minutes- Firepower takes fourteen. Thus, War Machine won the day. Roberts has never reappeared.
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The Unicorn (Masaryk)

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Man, some of these are SPECTACULARLY bad, lol.

THE UNICORN I (Milos Masaryk)
Created By:
Stan Lee & Don Heck
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #56 (Aug. 1964)
Role: Joke Villain, Lame Iron Man Baddie
Group Affiliations: The Maggia, The KGB
PL 10 (159)
STRENGTH
9 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+9)
Deception 6 (+8)
Intimidation 4 (+6)
Investigation 6 (+8)
Technology 4 (+6)
Vehicles 3 (+7)
Investigate 5 (+7)
Expertise (History) 4 (+6)
Expertise (KGB Agent) 6 (+8)
Perception 5 (+7)
Stealth 2 (+5)

Advantages:
Diehard, Great Endurance, Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Horn Blast) 2, Languages (Various), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Physical Enhancements"
Protection 6 (Extras: Impervious 11) [17]

"Unicorn Helmet" (Flaws: Removable) [20]
"Radiation Control" Blast 11 (Feats: Variable Descriptor- Any Radiation) (23) -- (24)
  • AP: Move Object 6 (12)
"Rocket Belt" (Flaws: Removable) [8]
Flight 5 (10)

Offense:
Unarmed +9 (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Radiation Blast +8 (+11 Ranged Damage, DC 26)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +11 (+6 Impervious), Fortitude +8, Will +4

Complications:
Enemy (Iron Man)
Responsibility (Will Go Insane)- The Unicorn's mind is frequently not his own, causing him to lose all his mental bonuses.

Total: Abilities: 70 / Skills: 46--23 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 45 / Defenses: 10 (159)

-The Unicorn is so minor I'd never even heard of him- it took a random Handbook of the Marvel Universe comic to feature a full-page bio of this guy. Turns out he's some random ex-Soviet spy who's been betrayed by his government and is now a mercenary/super-villain who often gets brought up against OTHER villains, and he's given Iron Man trouble from time-to-time. He's died and a few others have taken his place over the years, one of which joined the Masters of Evil.

-He debuted as a generic one-off meant to hunt down the original Crimson Dynamo, who'd defected. Using the Dynamo's own inventions as The Unicorn, he managed to escape Iron Man. After this, he kind of becomes a minor recurring villain (showing up at Reed & Sue's wedding, working for Count Nefaria to fight the X-Men, and more). He ends up with "molecular deterioration" and starts working for various villains in the hopes of being cured (such as the Red Ghost), and is then possessed by The Mandarin's consciousness. He is finally cured by Rita "Yellowjacket" DeMara, but the process drives him INSANE, and he beomces a weird crazy guy, eventually gaining a disgusting third-eye coming from a stalk in the middle of his forehead by The Beyonder, who revives him for the new "Lethal Legion". His use after that point was pretty minor- many replacements pop up before the original shows up being recruited by the Spymaster among a legion of mooks.

-A second Unicorn has a tentacled eye and was a member of the Russian team Remont 4- he is captured by the third Titanium Man and de-powered. Named Yegor Balinov, he is forced to join Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts, then joins a bunch of Russian characters in the "Remont 6". A third Unicorn (Aaidan Blomfield) joins the super-villain group "Stockpile", but gets beaten by Iron Man & War Machine. Another is part of Roderick Kingsley's "Villain Franchise", just being some regular crook given a suit.

-I was kinda expecting a D-Leaguer like this guy to be a PL 9 joke-threat, but his bio explicitly has him go up against Iron Man on good terms several times, so I put him at PL 9.5- a more reasonable number for a guy who kinda sucks, but is certainly no joke in combat. This is a later version of the character, modified with Super-Strength and durability (enough to withstand Iron Man's Repulsor Rays), alongside a very powerful Blast effect and Flight, so he comes out to well over PL 10's caps on points. He's also got the smarts of a KGB agent (though his super-strength eventually drove him foolishly insane) to go with his power, so he's not a totally trivial foe.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Iron Man! The Melter! MAULER! The Raiders!)

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Jab, you're really taking me back to fun-filled days of my youth here-I LOVED the David Michelline/Bob Layton Iron Man. Even the jobber villains (back then we likely would have called them "jamokes") were made semi-interesting, mostly because (as you covered earlier) they all played against some aspect of Iron Man/Tony Stark; corrupt business rivals, foes designed specifically to counter Iron Man's tech, the Communist villains, the industrial saboteur bad guys, people from Tony's past bearing a grudge...and these were also the years where an effort was made to develop Iron Man's supporting cast beyond Pepper and Happy.

Kind of beat tonight, but more commentary later. All my best.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Iron Man! MAULER! The Raiders! The Unicorn!)

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The 1970s/early 70s Unicorn costume is the best, though it should really be a black and bronze color scheme. The first is junky, the others are a bit silly.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Iron Man! MAULER! The Raiders! The Unicorn!)

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All I can say is artists did some heavy stuff during the 1970's.
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The Unicorn (Balinov)

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THE UNICORN II (Yegor Balinov)
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza & Javiar Saltares
First Appearance: Soviet Super-Soldiers #1 (Nov. 1992)
Role: Replacement Villain
Group Affiliations: Remont 4, Remont 6
PL 10 (72)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE -2 AWARENESS -2 PRESENCE -3

Skills:
Perception 4 (+2)

Advantages:
Improved Critical (Horn Blast) 2, Improved Smash, Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Improbably Anatomy" Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [15]
Eye-Stalk Radiation Blast 11 (Feats: Accurate 2, Variable Descriptor- Any Radiation) [25]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Radiation Blast +8 (+11 Ranged Damage, DC 26)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +5, Fortitude +7, Will +4

Complications:
Disabled (Insane)- This Unicorn is beyond helping- he is emaciated and insane, attacking people at random while smiling and laughing like a lunatic.

Total: Abilities: 10 / Skills: 4--2 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 40 / Defenses: 13 (72)

-The "second" Unicorn is a strange one, in that he might have been created by accident. He was unnamed in his first appearance in the "Every Russian Character Ever" mess of a book Soviet Super-Soldiers, behaving like a crazy person in a murderous rampage in the Soviet Union, taking the entire People's Protectorate (Red Guardian, Fantasma, Vostok & Perun) to stop him. When he was finally captured and inspected, it was revealed that he was sporting the same gross eye-stalk that the original had developed by that point- he escaped confinement, fought the one-off character "Synthesizer", but then got recruited by the third Titanium Man into the "Remont 4" group that was attacking the new Post-Communist Russian regime. His third eye is amputated, but the character disappears for a decade.

-During Civil War, this Unicorn is recruited by Baron Zemo for his new "Thunderbolts" army, and is later seen as part of "Remont 6" fighting the Winter Guard- his allies are Iron Maiden, Titanium Man, Volga, and the Snow Leopards. His real name wasn't revealed until an Official Handbook, and he's now been replaced by the original.

-This Unicorn was a complete madman, using an eye-stalk to shoot out powerful Energy Blasts- enough to tear through Vostok (who, as a machine, could regenerate) and hold off Perun. They were potent enough that Perun had to play "tank" until Fantasma could finally access his "Bio-Field" and knock him out.
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The Stockpile

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THE STOCKPILE
Created By:
Terry Kavanagh & Jimmy Cheung
First Appearance: Iron Man #330 (July 1996)

-HELL YES ANOTHER TEAM OF TERRIBLE JOBBERS!! I was worried I'd never find another one, this late in the game! So the Stockpile are a quartet of "High-Tech Mercenaries" from the dark ages of Iron Man's book in 1996- so half-assedly put together that one of them is the THIRD Unicorn. They worked for the aging Morgan Stark, who was a rival of Teen Tony Stark (oh jesus) who wanted access to Adult Tony's gear. They broke into a "Hall of Armors" so Morgan could get them, but were confronted by a Stark chief of security, who killed one of their member (Calico) before dying himself. War Machine & Teen Tony were called in, Tony getting Sunstreak to break the Brass robot and War Machine got Unicorn to take out Joust.

The Unicorn absorbed punishment from both heroes, but they brought the ceiling down on him, taking him out. However, Morgan activated all the armors, controlling them via a mindlink- wave after wave went against the heroes, until Teen Tony figured out how to break the link and had them self-destruct. All the armors were destroyed, and Morgan himself died of feedback from his mental links being broken. The Stockpile were never seen again- four years later, someone in Deadpool noticed "The Unicorn was here, out of costume" and it might be this one. But shockingly, SUNSTREAK actually had longevity... of a sort. See, she was suddenly added into the Force of Nature during the "Initiative" story-arc, joining up as an extra member, possibly owing to her elemental-type powers. So out of that whole squad, she shows up a few times from 2008-2010.

The Roster:
Brass- A robot controlled remotely by Morgan Stark.
Joust
Calico- Invisible scout.
The Unicorn III- A big dumb strong guy.
Sunstreak- Flying Blaster.
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The Unicorn (Blomfield)

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THE UNICORN III (Aidan Blomfield)
Created By:
Terry Kavanagh & Jimmy Cheung
First Appearance: Iron Man #330 (July 1996)
Role: One-Off Villain, Jobber Villain, The Strong Guy
Group Affiliations: The Stockpile
PL 8 (76)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Mercenary) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+5)
Investigation 2 (+3)
Perception 2 (+3)
Technology 2 (+2)
Vehicles 2 (+5)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
"Unicorn Powersuit" (Flaws: Removable) [20]
Enhanced Strength 6 (12)
Protection 5 (Extras: Impervious) (10)
Leaping 1 (15 feet) (1)
"Horn Charge" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Variable- Piercing & Electrical) (2)
-- (25 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Armored Strength +6 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Horn Charge +6 (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +3 (+8 Powersuit), Fortitude +4, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- The Stockpile are mercenaries.

Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 20 / Defenses: 8 (76)

-This Unicorn claimed to be an "old foe" of Iron Man's, but was clearly a different guy, and spoke with an English or Australian accent. He tended to just charge ahead, using an actual horn on the helmet of his costume. He charged forward to attack the heroes, shorting out Teen Tony Stark's armor with an electrical charge as he did so, and resisted punishment from both the Iron Man & War Machine armors until they brought the ceiling down on him. When War Machine got the other villains out of harm's way from self-destructing armors, he went back for the Unicorn, who had disappeared. It's suggested a Deadpool issue four years later features him out of armor at an eatery where Wade is eating, but it's unclear, and the guy is otherwise never seen again. Sloppy, sloppy writing.

-This goof actually hits PL 8 thanks to the Unicorn armor being no joke- tanking shots from Iron Man armor is no mean feat, and he hits plenty hard, even if he's a jobber.
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Morgan Stark

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MORGAN STARK
Created By:
Al Hartley & Don Heck
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #68 (May 1965)
Role: Evil Relative

-Morgan Stark has appeared a few times through the years as an evil relative of Tony's- after all, how many people have ZERO family left? Curiously, he was created by Al Hartley, a man much more famous for writing and drawing Archie Comics, particularly the weird "Christian Comics" stuff. Morgan is the son of Edward, the brother of Tony's father Howard- Edward had escaped the rigors of business life by giving his shares to Howard. Morgan, feeling cheated and having gambling debts, was thus resentful of Tony's fortune, and "Big M" of the Maggia offered him the chance to use a "Visio-Projector" to drive Tony insane. This failed, and he later joined the schemes of Midas & Madame Masque. He died in a car accident set up by his would-be allies, who felt he was overstepping his boundaries.

-Morgan returned many years later, forming the "Stockpile" group of mercenaries in 1996, trying to get some of Tony's old powersuits. He's now crippled and haggard, apparently injured from the car crash, and is controlling the "Brass" robot from afar. However, when the suit is destroyed during the fight, the feedback causes Morgan a fatal injury. HOWEVER, Kurt Busiek resurrected him out of nowhere a couple years later, with Morgan turning up as the General Manager of Stark-Fujikawa, with no explanation of his survival- the story here is that editor Bobbie Chase was uninterested in Morgan, and so Kurt just dropped the arc and Morgan vanished. It would be Dark Reign before he finally reappeared, posing as Tony to assume control of "Stark Solutions", which was researching recreating the Ultimo robot. Morgan ingested a serum to become the new Ultimo himself, but soon found his personality overwritten by the Ultimo program. War Machine & Iron Patriot had to team up to stop the "Ultimosphere" that resulted before it could convert all of Earth's plant life into a synthetic entity like itself. Morgan has not reappeared- he remains one of the most obscure comic book characters to cheat death TWICE.
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Brass (Robot)

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BRASS II
Created By:
Terry Kavanagh & Jimmy Cheung
First Appearance: Iron Man #330 (July 1996)
Role: One-Off Villain, Jobber Villain, Kill-O-Bot
Group Affiliations: The Stockpile
PL 6 (67)
STRENGTH
8 STAMINA -- AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS -- PRESENCE --

Skills:
None

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects) [30]
Protection 6 [6]
Electrical Blast 8 [16]

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Electrical Blast +6 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +6, Fortitude --, Will --

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- The Stockpile are mercenaries.

Total: Abilities: 8 / Skills: 00--0 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 52 / Defenses: 4 (67)

-Brass was literally just a shiny robot controlled remotely by Morgan Stark, and exhibited only a few vague powers- Strength, Durability & Blasts. It was so fragile that Teen Tony Stark just directed Sunstreak's solar blasts into it, destroying it instantly. When it was destroyed, Morgan's anguished scream could be heard. It's PL 7 offensively, PL 6 defensively- one of the weakest Kill-O-Bots ever.
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Joust

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JOUST (Boudica Gorman)
Created By:
Terry Kavanagh & Jimmy Cheung
First Appearance: Iron Man #330 (July 1996)
Role: One-Off Villain, Jobber Villain
Group Affiliations: The Stockpile
PL 6 (74)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Mercenary) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+5)
Investigation 2 (+3)
Perception 2 (+3)
Technology 2 (+2)
Vehicles 2 (+5)

Advantages:
Equipment 3 (Shotgun +6), Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
"High-Voltage Pistols" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [11]
Blast 6 (Extras: Multiattack) (18 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Pistols +6 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- The Stockpile are mercenaries.

Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 6 / Powers: 11 / Defenses: 12 (74)

-The non-powered Joust acted as a field-leader for the Stockpile, taking charge when the Brass robot was destroyed. She had a pair of pistols that vired high-voltage charges, and a shotgun. She was handily beaten when War Machine tossed the Unicorn into her.
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Calico

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CALICO (Pania Panapa)
Created By:
Terry Kavanagh & Jimmy Cheung
First Appearance: Iron Man #330 (July 1996)
Role: One-Off Villain, Jobber Villain, The Stealthy One
Group Affiliations: The Stockpile
PL 6 (73)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Mercenary) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+5)
Investigation 4 (+5)
Perception 6 (+7)
Stealth 6 (+8)
Technology 2 (+2)
Vehicles 2 (+5)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
"Calico Powersuit" (Flaws: Removable) [5]
"Claws" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Split) (2)
"Camouflage" Concealment 2 (Vision) (4)
-- (6 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Claws +8 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- The Stockpile are mercenaries.

Total: Abilities: 40 / Skills: 30--15 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 5 / Defenses: 8 (73)

-Hilariously, Calico, the team's advance scout, was killed by a COMMONER in her very debut- when the Stockpile attacked the Hall of Armors, Tony's old head of security killed her via electrocution before himself benig killed by the rest of her team. She wore a suit that camouflaged her and had claws. The Marvunapp bio suggests she was "fatally overconfident". She's a very weaksauce PL 5-6 fighter, a little better at accuracy than her allies but very underpowered
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Abe Zimmer

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ABE ZIMMER
Created By:
David Michelinie & Bob Layton
First Appearance: Iron Man #219 (June 1987)
Role: Side Character, Computer Guy
PL 1 (39), PL 6 (39) Computer Hacker
STRENGTH
0 STAMINA 0 AGILITY -1
FIGHTING 2 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 6 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Expertise (Business) 2 (+8)
Expertise (Computers) 10 (+16)
Insight 3 (+6)
Persuasion 1 (+4)
Technology 4 (+10)

Advantages:
Inventor

Offense:
Unarmed +2 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Initiative -1

Defenses:
Dodge +0 (DC 10), Parry +2 (DC 12), Toughness +0, Fortitude +0, Will +4

Complications:
Relationship (Tony Stark)

Total: Abilities: 26 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 1 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 2 (39)

-Abraham Zimmer is one of many forgotten Background Characters in the history of Tony Stark- he was recruited in a 1987 story-arc that introduced the Ghost, as Tony was impressed by Zimmer's computer skills and his attempts at tracking this new high-tech mercenary. He was helpful during Armor Wars, tracking just who was using Stark's technology in their armor, and instrumental in creating an online "tapeworm" that would erase knowledge of Stark's tech from all the world's computers. In subsequent issues, he'd pop up typically to do research or search for random keywords (which, for the '80s, was pretty advanced knowledge), like looking up "spinal surgery" when Stark got paralyzed by a girlfriend, Kathy Dare. When Stark was dying of a parasite that affected his nervous system, he entrusted Zimmer with cryogenically freezing him upon death, and they both instituted the potential cure, telling the world (and Tony's friends) that Stark was dead. He even formed a relationship with Erica Sondheim, a doctor who'd helped them out, but they were still mostly side characters, often used as a means to an end.

-When Stark was killed and replaced by a teen version of himself, Zimmer was appointed one of the co-chairs of Stark's company, and enabled its takeover by the Fujikawa company- as one last mission, he was clearing out some of the old Iron Man gear in the "Hall of Armors" when The Stockpile- a gang of mercenaries- attacked in search of the same gear. He was able to kill their advance scout, Calico, with an electrical burst from a live wire, but he was then killed by the robot Brass, which knocked him out a window- Teen Tony tried mouth-to-mouth, to no avail- Zimmer was dead. While he was probably never a big deal (I'd never even heard of him until starting this set in 2022- though I obviously read Armor Wars, where he appeared, so I clearly just forgot about "Some Computer Scientist" hanging about), it's another example of comics usually wiping out side-characters like this. Many are doomed to just vanish into obscurity (check out the Doctor Strange set I did at how many random people he met in the '70s & '80s who never mattered much), but some actually get endings like this- he was around for about nine years, dying in the "Teen Tony" era.

-For stats, Abe is a very "Bystander"-y sort, but one with tons of computer skill, able to create programs that erase knowledge in computers worldwide and then keep going.
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Dr. Erica Sondheim

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DR. ERICA SONDHEIM
Created By:
David Michelinie & Bob Layton
First Appearance: Iron Man #120 (Dec. 1978)
Role: Side Character, Doctor

-Dr. Sondheim is a side character that goes WAY back, joining Tony Stark's team in 1978. I guess it figures that the dude with the heart condition would need a good doctor on staff. She actually debuted being kidnapped by Darren Cross, who was hoping to have the famed surgeon repair his own heart. She was rescued by Scott Lang, who was trying to get Sondheim to save the life of his own daughter, Cassie- Darren's heart gave out in the resulting battle. She & Lang later tried to cure Bruce Banner of becoming the Hulk, but it didn't take. Much later, she enters into a relationship with a fellow side-character, the older Abe Zimmer, mostly off-panel. She is later shown worrying about him attempting to take a more direct role in a rescue operation- she led the team in cryogenically freezing Tony during the time he was dying of a techno-parasite, saving his life.

-She is later named the Head of Stark Medical, but mostly disappears from the books, having a child behind the scenes named after Abe, who dies fighting some mercenaries in a 1996 book. Her final appearance was apparently in 1995, making her one of the characters who luckily/unluckily gets forgotten. Shockingly, however, she has shown up in very recent comics, being forced to transplant Cassie Lang's heart into Cross by Cross's son! This temporarily de-powered Cassie, who got an emergency new heart.
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