History
Following his return from a coma, Tony Stark founded the company Stark Unlimited as a think tank for future technologies, as well as an ideas incubator for the Iron Man Armor. It was headquartered in a skyscraper located in Washington Square Park.[1] Stark Unlimited also served as a conglomerate, absorbing several other Stark companies as subsidiaries, including Stark Solutions, Stark Resilient and Stark International.[3]
After Tony Stark's personhood was delegitimized on the technicality that his then-current body had been engineered from scratch, which would make him an artificial being, his adoptive brother Arno laid claim to Stark Unlimited because the bio-restructuring pod used to build Tony's body was of his design, making Tony and all his inventions his property as well. Stark Unlimited was merged with Arno's other company, Baintronics. In the process, head of security Bethany Cabe was fired, and Armed Forces liaison Jim Rhodes resigned.[4]
Tony Stark eventually regained control of the company after the fall of Arno and Bain.[5] However, he divested himself from it to embark in a journey of self-discovery.[6] Stark's absence left the company ripe for a hostile takeover from Feilong, an anti-mutant industrialist who launched a multi-pronged attack on Stark's persona to lower the stocks of the company via association,[7] and in the process murdered Stark's confidant Zhong Wei, who had enough stock in Stark Unlimited to trigger a shareholder rights plan against a hostile takeover.[8] After reintroducing Zhong's shares into the market, Feilong acquired the company in order to use Stark's technology for the benefit of the pro-human organization Orchis.[9] Most notably, he used Stark Unlimited's resources to build mutant-hunting Stark Sentinels,[10] shifting the company toward weapons manufacturing in general.[11]
Following Orchis' ultimate downfall, Tony deposed Feilong and reclaimed Stark Unlimited. His attempts to shift the company away from weapons quickly clashed with the Feilong-appointed Board of Directors. Stark's grasp was further challenged by an alliance between A.I.M. and Roxxon, who exploited the alliegances of the board to offer a bid for the company.[11] Although Tony failed to convince the board to stop the merger, the existence of "Starxxon" was short-lived. When Roxxon's demonic broker Belasco revealed himself, Stark convinced his benefactors that the scale achieved by the merger was unsustainable due to risk of retaliation on his part. Combined with Roxxon and A.I.M.'s track record against the Avengers, Belasco's clients withdrew their support. In requital, they threatened the Board of Directors, giving Iron Man the chance to trade their safety for their resignations and the annulment of the merger.[2]
Executives and Staff[]
- Tony Stark - Chief Executive Officer[1]
- Melinda May - Member of the Board of Directors[11]
- Andy Bhang - Chief Roboticist[12]
- Ramon Vicente - Factory safety inspector[11]
- Steven Attewell - Factory worker[11]
List of Minor Stark Unlimited Members
Former Staff[]
- Feilong - Chief Executive Officer[9]
- Justine Hammer - Chief Executive Officer[2]
- Arno Stark - Chief Executive Officer[4]
- Zhong Wei (deceased) - Member of the Board of Directors[13]
- Jack Kooning Jr. - Member of the Board of Directors[11]
- Bethany Cabe - Head of Security[1]
- Jocasta Pym - Chief Robotic Ethicist[1]
- Col. Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes - U.S. Armed Forces Liaison[1]
- Amanda Armstrong - Upper Management Executive[14]
- Friday Stark - Assistant[14]
- Motherboard - Artificial Intelligence[14]
- Dr. Shapiro - Superhuman Biologist[15]
Subsidiaries[]
See Also
- 70 appearance(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 44 mention(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 21 image(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 26 member(s) of Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
- 3 item(s) used/owned by Stark Unlimited (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Tony Stark: Iron Man #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Iron Man (Vol. 7) #3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tony Stark: Iron Man #5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tony Stark: Iron Man #19
- ↑ Iron Man 2020 (Vol. 2) #6
- ↑ Iron Man (Vol. 6) #1
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #1
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #2
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #4
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Iron Man (Vol. 7) #1
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #4
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man (Vol. 5) #3
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Tony Stark: Iron Man #2
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #17
- ↑ Meet the Skrulls #5
- ↑ Tony Stark: Iron Man #12
- ↑ Iron Man (Vol. 6) #2