God, I want a drink. That never stops. Doesn't matter how many days I can string together. When I can't get to a meeting after a tough day, I come up here. To the edge of space. When the thrusters are off, the only sound is my heartbeat. I listen to it for a while. It's proof--I AM ALIVE. 
Appearing in "The Autobiography of Tony Stark: Chapter Four"
Featured Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Main story and recap)
Antagonists:
- Stark Unlimited
- Feilong (Kelvin Heng) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Avengers (Only in recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in recap)
- Thor (Only in recap)
- Ex Nihilo (Only in recap)
- Aleph (Only in recap)
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (Only in flashback)
- Howard Stark (Only in flashback) (Death)
- Maria Stark (Only in flashback) (Death)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Main story and recap)
- Orchis
- Marielle Marcus (Mentioned)
- Zhong Wei (Mentioned)
- Obadiah Stane (Mentioned)
- Justin Hammer (Mentioned)
- Justine Hammer (Mentioned)
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (Mentioned)
- Blob (Fred Dukes) (Mentioned)
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters)
- God (Invoked)
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Armor (Hisako Ichiki)
- X-Force (Mentioned)
- White Queen (Emma Frost)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Gardeners (Only in recap)
- Asgardians (Only in recap)
- Alephs (Only in recap)
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Post-Humans (Named only)
- Frost Giants (Mentioned in narration)
- Celestials (Mentioned in narration)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Pacific Ocean
- Krakoa (Main story and flashback)
- Latveria (Mentioned in narration)
- Camelot (Main story and recap)
- Castle Camelot (Main story and recap)
- Mars (Only in recap)
- The Garden (Only in recap)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Iron Man Armor (Main story and recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 42 (Only in recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Only in recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 70
- Captain America's Shield (Only in recap)
- Captain America's Uniform (Only in recap)
- Mjolnir (Only in recap)
- Magneto's Helmet (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Only in flashback)
- Wikipedia (Mentioned in narration)
Synopsis for "The Autobiography of Tony Stark: Chapter Four"
The industrialist Feilong reminisces about the Avengers' fight against Ex Nihilo when he terraformed Mars. He resents the heroes for having done nothing with it, so by the time he tried to claim the planet for humanity, the mutants had already done so. Meanwhile, Iron Man thinks about the different bad days he's had in his life as he rushes in flight toward the New York Stock Exchange, where he deduced his saboteur would be, based off his last taunt.
Tony arrives unarmored at the NYSE to witness Feilong ringing the exchange's bell to celebrate his acquisition of Stark Unlimited. The industrialist pays no attention to Tony swearing that he will avenge Marielle Marcus and Zhong Wei. Fuming but restrained, Stark verbally spars with Feilong afterward, and recalls the ultimate fate of many of his corporate enemies. A bystander suggests the rivals fight outside, and Feilong condescendingly refuses for Tony's sake, but Stark insists they do. Once outside, Tony calls his armor to suit him up as he and Feilong trade jabs. Thinking to himself, Tony admits that he doesn't know much about Feilong, but he manages to strike a nerve with a comment about Feilong not knowing where his father is, provoking the villain into attacking first by abruptly firing at Tony with an energy blast from his mouth that sends him flying away into a car. Feilong decides to make the most out of it, and draws the public's attention to the scuffle. Iron Man agrees to keep on fighting, still indignated by the blood in Feilong's hands. He fires a repulsor ray which Feilong absorbs, but only as a distraction to laser a fire hydrant next to the villain, sending him flying, and follows up with two micro-missiles. Feilong gets back up on his feet, and takes a battle stance as Tony rips a parking meter off the ground. Feilong conceitedly instructs Stark to fight for his company and his legacy, and even offers fabricating his own defeat to set up a technological cold war to benefit humanity. Ignoring his discourse, Iron Man bats Feilong with the parking meter, sending him high and far into the air.
Tony takes off, thinking to himself that he regrets taking his eye off his company. He catches Feilong before he hits a school bus, and throws him again. The villain lands on his back against the Bull of Wall Street. Iron Man then fires nonlethal rounds that Feilong struggles to deflect with his shields. Declaring that the fight was fun but that he has work to do, Tony casts a giant, block-sized energy bubble to reset every electronic device in its radius. As the bystanders react to their phones malfunctioning, Tony lands in front of Feilong and grabs him by the collar. Tony rebukes him and orders him to turn himself over. Feilong retaliates with a punch, delivering a final offer for Stark to join him, but Tony catches it and breaks his fist, telling Feilong that it's his last chance to surrender. Tony drops Feilong on the floor, taunts him about using Stark Unlimited's health plan, which Wei instated, and takes off. Stark thinks to himself that he only wanted to scare Feilong into confessing, but decided to leave before doing something he would regret, knowing they are going to do this the hard way. Feilong is left holding his injured hand, yet he rejoices that he finally has a worthy nemesis.
At her law offices, Jen Walters receives cease-and-desists on Tony's behalf from the new management of Stark Unlimited pertaining to his Iron Man suit. She calls Tony to check up on him, and sees him out of her window, flying upward in the distance. Stark reaches the edge of space, where he shuts off his thrusters to meditate listening to his heartbeat, something he does to unwind and shake off his craving for alcohol when he can't attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He also does this to let the Earth rotate, so when he goes down he arrives at the mutant nation of Krakoa. In her White Palace, Emma Frost is informed about an incoming bogey by Armor. Emma dismisses her, stating that she's expecting her guest, just as Tony appears in front of her, asking her if the enemy of one's enemy is their friend.
Solicit Synopsis
GENIUS, BILLIONAIRE, PLAYBOY…MADMAN?!
• Tony Stark has met his dark counterpart, and his name is Feilong!
• This mutant-hating industrialist is the new owner of Stark Unlimited, and that includes all of Tony's tech!
• Can a furious Tony keep his cool, or will vengeance get the better of him?Notes
- When Feilong recalls the Avengers' fight against Ex Nihilo on Mars, an editor's note cites Avengers (Vol. 5) #3, the issue in which this confrontation concluded.
- Feilong's failed attempt to terraform Mars was first esablished in X-Men (Vol. 6) #1.
- Mutantkind's terraformation of Mars and rechristening as "Arakko" happened in Planet-Size X-Men #1.
- In his narration, Tony Stark references different days as runner-ups for his "worst day of your life."
- The recapping of Howard and Maria Stark's death corresponds to its version seen in A.X.E.: Avengers #1.
- The day that Tony discovered his technology had proliferated among his enemies correspond to Iron Man #225.
- Stark also makes a broad reference to any time he has tangled with Doctor Doom, with a panel corresponding to their arrival on Camelot from Iron Man #150.
- Tony Stark mentions Obadiah Stane, Justin Hammer and Justine Hammer as people who have tried hostile takeovers of Stark companies and ultimately died.
- Stane took over Stark International in Iron Man #173, and died by suicide in Iron Man #200 after being bested by Iron Man.
- Even though the Hammers didn't try to take over any of Stark's companies, they antagonized his businesses. Justin died in Iron Man: Bad Blood #4 and Justine in Invincible Iron Man #527.
- Tony also mentions that the job killed him once. He is most likely referencing when he underwent a cryogenic sleep, faking his death in the process, in Iron Man #284 to treat the techno-organic parasite that had infected his nervous system.
- When he is delivering his ultimatum to Feilong, Iron Man mentions that Stane and Hammer were smart enough to leave the few friends and family he has out of business. However, Stane killed Stark's business partner Morley Erwin when he bombed the headquarters of Circuits Maximus in Iron Man #299. Justin Hammer once kidnapped Stark's girlfriend Bethany Cabe in Iron Man #140, and Justine Hammer endangered the staff of Stark Resilient when she had Spymaster infiltrate the company.
Trivia
- When Iron Man fires the EMP bubble, he states in his narration that, "It took years and a fortune (and if you've read this far, you know that I had both)." This is a reference to the scene from DC Comics' Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in which Green Arrow exposes Superman to synthetic Kryptonite developed by Batman, who explains that doing so, "...took years...and it cost a fortune...luckly I had both..."