It begins with a heart wired to a car battery, its blinking light a desperate pulse in the darkness of a desert cave. This is where Tony Stark is reborn, not in a boardroom, but in the aftermath of an ambush, with the sting of iodine and the cold pull of a magnet in his chest. That grim surgery sparks a promise: to accept responsibility or be consumed by ruin.
Back home, his world is defined b...
