Top 5: Craziest Iron Man Armors

5. Argonauts Armor

Who needs an Iron Man when you can have Iron Men? Showing shades of being the ultimate control freak, Tony Stark once built a set of five armors that would act as a team in his stead. The armor were the Submarine Argonaut, the Digger Argonaut, the Battle Argonaut, the Stealth Argonaut and the Hulkbuster Argonaut. Instead of fighting actual villains, they ended up going after heroes like Namor, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and even Iron Man himself. When reading the two issues these guys appeared in back in 2006, I was waiting for them to form into Voltron or something — unfortunately however, it  didn’t happen.

4. 1602 Armor

Cashing in on the Steampunk craze? Maybe. Back in the 1602 spin-off series New World, Greg Pak introduced a 17th century era Tony Stark named Lord Iron. This Spaniard (validating the Stark mustache, by the way) Tony Stark is forced to create the Iron Man suit but goes about making something that looks like a Junkion from the Transformers animated movie.

3. 2020 Armor

Everything’s cooler with spikey shoulderpads. This Iron Man suit predated the Image era by a dozen years or so, giving us a gritty futuristic Iron Man piloted by a first cousin of Tony named Arno. Although from the future, this suit was remarkably identical to the 1980s era Model 5 suit of armor with some custom mods like the shoulderpads and the Jaws-esque faceplate. Also, as any future hero would seem to have for someone from the 1980s, Iron Man 2020 had rollerskates.

2. Anti-Transformer Armor

Imagine if the Transformers were to show up in the Marvel U; would it make Iron Man look like an 80s cell phone next to the futuristic technology of the Transformers? I think so, and apparently so did Tony. When he learned of an impending invasion of the Transformers in New Avengers / Transformers, Tony made a Transformers-esque suit faster than a copycat iPhone.  But like some iPhone ripoffs, Tony’s Anti-Transformer armor had severe battery issues. Also, there were tons of Headmasters jokes.

1. Sorcerer Armor

Although Tony Stark’s shown to be very sensitive to people stealing his technology, What If… #113 showed he wasn’t above “borrowing” from others when he needed it. In this story, Tony Stark became the back-up Sorcerer Supreme when in a drunken rampage he damaged Dr. Strange’s hands. Wherein the Ancient One cured Strange’s hands in the Marvel 616, in this universe the Ancient One acted as as a defacto AA sponsor for Tony and trained him to become Socrerer Supreme. With that title and all the powers that came with it, Stark welded on the on Eye of Agamotto, the Cloak of Levitation and some metallic bell-bottom boots to kick some Dormammu butt. Iron Man in a cape.. man, that’s something.