History
One of the five different Iron Man armors, created by Tony Stark. They where never used in action until the armors were activated via remote trigger when the son of Ho Yinsen was shot and killed by S.H.I.E.L.D. forces.[2]
The Fantastic Four fought the Digger drone near vital oil fields. The Thing was able to stop it from tunneling. While attempting to dispose of it, Iron Man was attacked by the Battle Argo. This armor's anti-metal was used to destroy the Battle Argonaut, which also caused it to be destroyed.[3]
Capabilities[]
This armor was intended to be a tunneling unit with a special helmet shielded with Antarctic vibranium, and equipped with a hybrid repulsor-unibeam unit to facilitate subterranean rescues. The Digger had massive boot thrusters and weighed in north of 68.7 metric tons. It also had limited stealth systems.Notes
- This armor was originally identified as the Iron Man Armor Model 33 in 2008's All-New Iron Manual. It was subsequently renumbered to Model 32 in the Iron Manual TPB, released later that year, due to the reclassification of the previously-designated Model 14 as a subset of the Model 13. In 2018, the "Many Armors of Iron Man" variant cover series for Tony Stark: Iron Man #1 split the Model 13 back into 13 and 14, implicitly moving up this armor's designation back to Model 33. The cover series implies other changes, as the designations for Models 42, 45, 50 and 51 remain unchanged despite the Model 13 split bumping up the designations for Models 16, 22, 29 and 37 (to 17, 23, 30 and 38, respectively). Since the limited scope of the cover series makes it impossible to determine the full extent of changes in numeration (as it only spotlighted twenty suits), the Marvel Database will prioritize the numbering from the Iron Manual TPB.
See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Iron Man Armor Model 32
- 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Iron Man Armor Model 32
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Iron Man Armor Model 32
- 7 image(s) of Iron Man Armor Model 32