Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)

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Whiplash
Name	Ivan Antonovich Vanko
Current Alias	Whiplash
Aliases	Boris Turgenov
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Formerly Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems
Relatives	Anton Vanko (father, deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′11″ (1.8 m)
Weight	169 lbs (76.66 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Unusual Features	Prison tattoos
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human, technology user
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-199999
Place of Death	New York City
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	Russian
Occupation	Criminal, inventor Formerly physicist
Base of Operations	Mobile Formerly Siberia, Russia
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Justin Theroux,
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 If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe him. There will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come. All I have to do is sit here and watch as the world will consume you. 

—Whiplash

History

Ivan Vanko (Russian: Иван Антонович Ванко) is the son of a Russian physicist who had helped Howard Stark design the Arc Reactor, but who had been subsequently deported from the United States when it became clear that he was working for the money rather than for the benefit of humanity. Ivan's father fell into alcoholism and proceeded to abuse the young boy for many years. At some point he was caught selling Soviet grade plutonium to Pakistan and served 15 years in prison. Over the years, Ivan became highly knowledgeable in the fields of physics and mechanical sciences, while adopting his father's hatred for the Stark family. After his father died in misery Vanko vowed to avenge him and constructed an exoskeleton, powered by a miniature arc reactor, to use against Tony Stark in an effort to discredit him and live out his father's revenge.

Ivan building his armor

Vanko attacked Stark during the Monaco Grand Prix, using his Whiplash harness to destroy several cars in the race, but Stark ultimately defeated him using a portable Iron Man suit (MK V), and Vanko was sent to prison. While in custody, Vanko was asked by Tony why he didn't sell his technology to make money. Vanko replied that he wanted to remove Stark's awe from the people and demonstrate that Iron Man could be defeated. Ivan also deduced that Tony was being poisoned by the palladium in his arc reactor saying, "Palladium in the chest, painful way to die."

Vanko attacks

Later, Vanko escaped from prison with the help of Stark's rival Justin Hammer, who also orchestrated the faking of Vanko's death in the prison break. Hammer and Vanko then made a deal in which Vanko was to build armored suits like the Iron Man armor in exchange for Hammer Industries resources. Vanko changed the terms of the deal however, when he retrofitted Hammer's existing armor technology from wearable suits into unmanned drones.

Vanko was then locked up in the Hammer Industries New York factory, having enraged Hammer with the unexpected change. In the meantime, Hammer's plan to unveil the drones during the World Stark Expo went ahead, although Vanko again surprised his benefactor when the drones powered up and altered the simple unveiling to a full-blown demonstration. Vanko had killed his guards and remotely assumed control of the drones, as well as the War Machine armor worn by James Rhodes.

Ivan in his Mark II

As a lengthy dogfight involving both suits of Stark armor and the Hammer drones progressed, Vanko abandoned the factory and got personally involved in an armored suit of his own. The superior bulk and capabilities of his suit initially outmatched the combined efforts of Stark and Rhodes, but Stark remembered that firing repulsors at each other would cause an explosion in the middle and he and Rhodes fired at each other with Vanko in the middle. The explosion defeated Vanko and destroyed his suit. As he lay wounded in the remains of his armor, Vanko revealed that he had concealed self-destruct devices in his suit as well as all of the Hammer drones. His last words were "You lose."

Attributes

Powers

None

Abilities

While rarely utilized, Vanko is shown to be a capable hand-to-hand combatant, easily able to kill two presumably well trained guards of Hammer's with little damage to himself. He also is deceptively intelligent, his accent and thuggish appearance belaying a highly skilled mechanical and programming knowledge and cunning to outwit those around him, consciously manipulating Hammer and his men with their perception of him as weak or stupid. Vanko is bilingual, able to speak fluent Russian and intermediate English.

Weaknesses

Vanko's hatred for Stark clearly dominates him, causing him to waste considerable talent on petty vengeance. He also has an overly sentimental attachment to a pet cockatoo which immediately soured his working relationship with Justin Hammer.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Whiplash Harness: Vanko's first Whiplash construct was an exoskeleton worn on the upper body that connected an arc reactor to a weapon system of hand-held two plasma whips. It was never revealed if the harness had any other intended uses beyond supporting the whips, but it was able to generate heat from the main harness enough to burn through a boiler suit worn over the top. The whips themselves produced enough heat to knife through the reinforced body of a luxury car with ease. Hydraulic arm and leg attachments increased his strength up to three times.
• Whiplash Armor: Vanko's second Whiplash construct was a sophisticated fusion of Hammer technology armor with a miniature arc reactor adapted from Howard Stark's and Anton Vanko's earlier designs. Modelled with many of Tony Stark's Iron Man capabilities in mind, the Whiplash armor granted the wearer a wide array of enhancements. These included vastly magnified strength, a high degree of resistance to damage, and high-speed flight capability. The power output of the suit's on board arc reactor could be channeled into powering two arm-mounted plasma whips that could be controlled to have a level of prehensile grasping capability enough to firmly wrap around a person's neck and had a self-destructive sequence.

Notes

• Mickey Rourke portrays Vanko in Iron Man 2.

Trivia

• Vanko utilized the name Boris Turgenov in order to enter the United States, in Earth-616, Boris Turgenov was a KGB agent and the second wearer of the Crimson Dynamo armor.
• An alternative ending for Iron Man 2 showed Vanko attacking Pepper Potts at the Stark Expo, but being killed by War Machine.

See Also

• 6 appearance(s) of Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 3 mention(s) of Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 16 image(s) of Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)
• 3 item(s) used/owned by Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) (Earth-199999)