It is probably safe to assume everyone reading this is excited about the new “Avengers: Endgame” trailer. Things are looking bleak for our cast of heroes after Thanos got his way and (spoiler alert, I guess) snapped half of all living being out of existence. From what little we saw, it looks like Tony got t𓂃he shortest end of an already incredibly short stick, and is left drifting through space. He is already out of food and water, and will soon run out of oxygen. What is🦄 he going to do? Good luck trying one-liner your way out of this one, Anthony.
To be fair, he does have a lot of powers at his disposal to try to get himself back into the fight. A character that has been around since 1963 is going to have his power set improved upon multiple times by multiple writers, especially when his core personality trait is “good at building crazy things.” Turns out, if we dig a little deeper into both ౠthe comics and the movies, we see that Iron Man has a lot more going for him than just a flying suit that shoots stuff. He’s basically invincible. Or maybe he’s not, because if we scour pages and frames for his exploits, we also discover that he has a pretty big laundry list of weaknesses too. So here are some powers and weaknesses a lot of people have forgotten Tony has. Let’s hope Thanos doesn’t read this article.
33 ꦑ 🍃 Power: Space Flight
This is a weird one, considering Tony passed out from space travel in the first Avengers movie. But, in his latest outing against Thanos, we see him rocket up to catch up to Ebony Maw in his Q-Ship. Which means that Tony has figured out a waﷺy to breach Earth’s atmosphere in his suit.
This is a huge boon as Tony’s adventures get more and more ludicrous. He wouldn’t be much us🏅e to the Guardians of the Galaxy if he wasn’t able to occasionally fly around outside a ship. Even Star-Lord can do that in small bursts.
32 ಌ Weakness: Liquid Courage
ꦆWe’ve seen some slight hints of this in the movies, such as when Tony asks for a drink because he’s starving. He also goes on quite a bender during his birthday party when he has been poisoned by his own reactor.
In the comics, there is a huge character arc where Tony confronts the fa🐽ct that he has a seriously debilitating problem. It was nice to see some actual emotional growth from Tony for a change, something that usually needs to be dragged out of him in the movies.
31 Power: Technomancy ⛄
It’s safe to say that Tony is hyper reliant on technology to be of any use to anyone. I’m sure a lot of fans will chime ♔in about how he’s a super genius that can be useful even without his armor, but those people are wrong. A cool addition to Tony’s abilities is when he was given the ability to manipulate technology, any technology, from🧸 a distance. This power is somewhat exclusive to the comics, though.
Through a lot of Deus ex Machina level writing, Tony is now basically a living machine that can tap into the world netwo𒊎rk of technology. He can mentally manipulate phones, satellites, even vehicles💦.
30 🌄 Weakness: Magic
Tony is a very down to earth kind of guy. He see✃s everything as an equation, something that makes sense, and can be predicted. His mind isn’t very good at dealing with magic, which is why he almost always seems to fail when faced with it.
When up against someone like Doctor Doom, who basically has his own Iron Man suit that also uses magic, Tony pretty consistently needs to c🐭all in backup. He may be a genius at science, but when it comesꦚ to mysticism, he’s still in kindergarten.
29 🍒 Power: Cryo ꦿBeam
The ability to manipulate ice is a little overplayed in the sup🎐erhero genre, but when some of your enemies are known to spontaneously emit flame from their body, it can be useful. That’s why certain iterations of Iron Man can change his repulsors to shoot out ice cold beams.
We may have seen him use this in Infinity War.
Remember when Tony and Spider-Man blas🅘t Ebony Maw into space? Who’s to say that it wasn’t a version of the Ice Beam Tony used ▨to seal up the hole?
28 Weaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚkne🦹ss: Women
In almost every moꩵvie we have seen Tony try to flirt with a woman. He is easily seduced by Black Widow, can’t seem to keep his hands off of Aunt May, and he’s pretty much in love with his only female colleague. Oh, and he totally had a fling with the lady who invented Extremis.
While this hasn’t necessarily negatively affected Tony yet, how hard could it po💝ssibly be? He’s just lucky that all these women liked him, so far. He’s also lucky he didn’t try aಞnything on Gamora.
27 Power: Son☂ic Beam
At this point, the ability to make supersonic sounds emit from his suit seems kind of easy, doesn’t it? It would actually be a huge oversight of Tony to not include this i⛎n his suit, especially when he occasionally fi๊ghts foes whos main weakness is supersonic sounds (looking at you, Venom.)
Honestly, when you build a suit that is able to rebuild itself and fight off the Hulk, adding a few large speakers here and there should be a walk in the park. Knowing Tony, he would just use them to blast AC/DC in the middle of a fight.
26 Weakness: M🌼agnets 🌜
Magneto is already pretty OP. I’ve once seen him “channel the magnetic fields of Jupiter” to hit someone with all the power of the sun, which doesn’t exactly sound like science, but it does sound pain📖ful.
Matching Magneto up against a man in a metal suit doesn’t sound like a fair fight. Predictable, when Magneto shows up, Iron Man usually flies away to make a suit out of wood or something, and leaves the fighting to 💛his more meat based colleagues.
25 Power: Magnetic Manipulat𒆙ion 🧔
It might seem counter intuitive for me to say that one of Tony’s powers is ma💫g🐟netic manipulation when I just got finished telling you that he has a weakness to magnets. But he’s Tony Stark, he builds a specific suit to fight literally everyone.
After getting tro💯unced by Magneto one too many times, Tony flips the sc𓃲ript and builds a suit that is not only resistant to magnets, but utilizes them himself. So now he can pick up cars from a distance and chuck them at people.
24 🐎𒊎 Power: Radiation Proof
Seems kind of obvious that you would need a suit that can repel radiation when you’ve mastered space flight. Space is rife with weird levels of radiation that just sho꧑ws up out of nowhere (ask the Fantastic Four.) Still, considering how hard it is to defend against extreme radiation, it’s kind of a technological marvel.
When Tony wears this, he can pretty much walk into the core of Chernobyl if need be. No♑t only does it repel or mitigate the radiation, it actually converts it into his power source.
