Disclaimers: For all future chapters, Iron Man is owned by Marvel. The writers whose work the following is based on include: Stan Lee, Mike Grell, Matt Fraction, Denny O'Neill and Warren Ellis, among others. No infringement meant, only tribute.

Notes: All of these stories are 100% comics based.

He made his first million at age nineteen. Landmines. Maybe he was nineteen. The nineteen and the landmines and the million didn't matter because he was making innovations in miniaturization and that was where his mind was, not ages or money or even the physics of killing.

Sometimes, at his most guilty and self-loathing, he wonders how things would have been different if he'd known her then. If he would have thought about what he was doing. If he would have cared.

(Answer: It would all be exactly the same. He forgets he didn't always care about her opinion.)