agents and take them out before turning his attention to Potts. Since Stane heard their approach, he was able to ambush the S.H.I.E.L.D. As the S.H.I.E.L.D agents fanned out to search the rest of the facility, Potts stumbled upon the completed Iron Monger Armor with Stane piloting it. While they found the Mark I Armor, along with several more blueprints and computer readouts detailing the suit and a storage area where the suit was being constructed, they found that the suit itself was missing. investigated Stane's private facilities at Stark Industries Headquarters for further evidence.

Learning of Stane's recent actions against Stark and discovering the designs for the Iron Monger armor, Pepper Potts, Phil Coulson, and several other agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Obadiah Stane with his own Iron Monger Suit This forced him to confront Stark, paralyzing him with his Sonic Taser in order to steal his advanced, miniaturized Arc Reactor, while leaving Stark to die. However, because one of Stane's scientists was unable to fully grasp the technology that Stark had originally built into the suit, they were unable to create a power source that could adequately power the larger armor. After gaining possession of Stark's Mark I armor from the Ten Rings, Stane, only seeing the armor's potential as a new step in weapons technology, ordered a team of scientists under his supervision to reverse-engineer the armor to make a much larger, militarized version of the suit. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?' ― Obadiah Stane to Tony Stark Īngered by Tony Stark's actions to shut down Stark Industries' weapons production after returning from captivity in Afghanistan, Obadiah Stane began to take more direct actions against Stark, going as far as making an attempt to shut him out of his own company. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give.

'When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose.

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