Quick-whitted, highly intelligent and charming... You'd think Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) has it all! After his father's passing, he decides to take over the family weapon business thinking that things would run just as smooth as usual. Little did he know that he´d be captured by a terrorist organisation and forced to create weapons. During his capture, he is severely injured, so the young billionaire begins an operation on himself creating an almost unlimited source of energy which also keeps the leftover shrapnel inside his chest away from his heart. He does eventually escape the death camp, with the help of an iron suit he built powered by his core.