Fan Casting Tony Stark / Iron Man in Marvel Absolute Universe

Tony Stark is not the charming billionaire playboy of the mainstream universe. Instead, he’s a battle-worn, intensely introspective man shaped by the scars of his father's legacy (Rami Malek’s Howard Stark), decades of industrial warfare, and the collapse of public trust in technology. Now operating as a blacklisted technologist and rogue hero, Tony works off-grid, using his Iron Man suits to dismantle the very systems he once profited from. Where his father was cold, nationalistic, and secretive, this Tony is ideological, rebellious, and haunted — fighting to fix a broken world his family helped break.