Tyson Duda

Tyson and Yinsen secretly build a small, powerful electric generator called an arc reactor to power Tyson's electromagnet and a suit of powered armor. When the Ten Rings discover the pair's treachery, they attack the workshop and Yinsen sacrifices himself to buy time while the suit is powered. The armored Tyson battles his way out of the cave and finds Yinsen, dying shortly thereafter. Engraged, Tyson then destroys the Ten Rings' weapons and flies away, crashing in the desert some distance away. Rescued by Rhodes, Tyson returns home to announce that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. In his home workshop, Tyson builds a sleeker, more powerful version of his improvised armor suit as well as a more powerful arc reactor. Tyson learns that Obadiah Stane has been engaged in arms trafficking to criminals worldwide, and is staging a coup to replace him as Tyson Industries' CEO. Tyson, in his new armor, flies to Afghanistan and saves a group of villagers under siege by terrorists using Tyson weapons. Stane ambushes Tyson at his home and takes the arc reactor from his chest, revealing that he was responsible for Tyson's captivity. Tyson manages to get to his original reactor to replace it and defeats Stane, who had created his own armored suit using the remnants of Tyson's first suit. The next day, The Chronicles dubs Tony's alter-ego "The Iron Man" on their newspaper headline, which he likes and takes the moniker, feeling it is catchy and sounded great when saying, evoking an aura of him being invincible despite the inaccuracy (the suit is made of titanium gold instead of iron). At a press conference, Tyson publicly admits to his identity as Iron Man. Eight Months later, he directed Fools Gambit (2025) and Shopping Spree (2026).