Howard Stark
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Howard Stark is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a background character in stories featuring Iron Man and stories featuring Captain America. He is the founder of Stark Industries. Throughout the character's publication history, he has been featured in several incarnations of comic book series.
Howard Stark has also appeared in several animated television series and films. Actors John Slattery and Dominic Cooper have portrayed the character throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise.
Publication history
Howard Stark was created by Archie Goodwin and designed by artist Don Heck. He made his first appearance in Iron Man #28 (August 1, 1970).[2] He was loosely based on Howard Hughes, a film producer and aviator.
Described as a sarcastic scientist and ruthless businessman, Howard worked alongside his father on various projects, and later founded
Fictional character biography
Original depiction
Being the son of Howard Stark Sr., he was born in Richford, New York. An avid and brilliant inventor from a young age, Howard was a brilliant scientist throughout his life, becoming a power systems engineer. Stark and his father worked on various projects with his skills in engineering, and later founded Stark Industries. Throughout his young adulthood, Stark worked on various government projects dating back to the
Howard Stark married
On the
Iron Man was briefly trapped in Hell by
During the 2014 Original Sin storyline, a flashback revealed that Stark first met Nick Fury following the death of Woody McCord during the fight against the Tribellians. Stark decided to show Fury the work McCord had been doing as a defender of Earth, neutralizing any potential threat for the planet, and offered Woody's job. Fury accepted, and over the next years, would secretly fight different superhuman threats from aliens to Subterranean monsters and extra-dimensional beings.[9]
Howard Stark Sr.
Howard Stark Sr. is an obscure character. He is the father of Howard Stark and the grandfather of Tony Stark. He is occasionally mentioned in passing across various other comics under Marvel.[10][11]
Duplicate of Howard Stark
Iron Man confronted Arsenal and Motherboard on the eScape to which Arno Stark followed and discovered the digital engrams of Howard and Maria then salvaged these digital engrams when the eScape shut down.[12]
Arno is acquainted with the digital engrams of Howard and Maria and was able to give them a holographic form. With Jocasta's help, Arno is able to use bio-restructuring pods to give digital bodies to the digital engrams.[13]
During the Iron Man 2020 storyline, Arno has breakfast with the duplicates of Howard and Maria following a nightmare about the Extinction Entity.[14] After knocking out Mark One, the artificial simulation of Iron Man is brought to Arno's living quarters and learns the duplicates of their parents.[15] At Port Authority, Iron Man catches up to the duplicates of Howard and Maria who are instructed to not leave the safety of Bain Tower. Their condition gets worse because they left Bain Tower and that Arno had to use his own DNA to fill out the missing pieces behind them. They suddenly stop moving as Arno plans to fix them and Tony. Arno is at his work station, working on reviving his parents by recreating the Arsenal and Mistress bodies from the eScape.[16] Arno heads to the Stark Space Station with Arsenal and Mistress who now possess the memories of Howard Stark and Maria. The two of them state to Arno that they are proud. When Tony Stark uses the Thirteenth Floor to reach the Stark Space Station and confront Arno, Arsenal and Motherboard fight his allies until the arrival of the Extinction Entity.[17] As everyone engages the Extinction Entity, Tony, Arno, Rescue, Machine Man, Jocasta, Motherboard, and Arsenal push the Extinction Entity close to Earth's orbit as the Avengers, Force Works, and the A.I. Army attack it's tentacles. It then turns out that the Extinction Entity was just a simulation and was the result of the disease that Arno thought he cured himself of. He now states that the holographic armor made from the eScape is now part of Arno's life support as he allows Motherboard and Arsenal to download themselves to shape Arno's virtual world.[18]
Other versions
Earth-6160
During the "
House of M
In the alternate reality seen in the 2005 House of M storyline, Howard Stark was alive while Maria Stark's status is unknown. Howard turned over control of the company to Tony Stark when his son turned sixteen. Although officially listed as retired, he worked with Tony to build an armor capable of taking on the Sentinels and powerful mutants during the conflict.[22]
Howard and Tony began to work on Sentinels with
When Tony investigated a resistance group as Iron Man, Sentinels attacked. One, remotely controlled by Howard, scolded Tony for getting involved. Howard was secretly plotting against Magneto with Hank Pym.[23]
"Genome bomb" locations were discovered by Tony as Iron Man and the House was notified. Howard had programmed the Visions and Sentinels to serve him. He said this had all been part of a plan to make the mutants respect Tony for saving them. Tony would then use that as a chance to directly strike against Magneto. Tony refused to go along. Magneto suddenly appeared and personally dealt with Howard, killing him.[24]
Iron Inquisitor
As part of Mephisto's campaign against the Avengers with the aid of his multiversal counterparts, one of the many alternate reality allies he recruited is a version of Howard Stark from Earth-4111 who made a deal with Mephisto for eternal power and immortality.[25] Howard became enthralled to the Council of Red, to the point where he killed his son as part of the terms of the deal, and became the Iron Inquisitor, working as Hell's prime weaponer. As the Iron Inquisitor, he enacts Mephisto's will across the multiverse as his special agent.[26]
Far from Avengers Mountain, Multiversal
Following the death of King Killmonger, Iron Man is lured into a cave by Howard Stark out of his Iron Inquisitor armor who wants to parley with him. While he claimed that Mephisto wants him to kill Iron Man, Howard wants to put aside his differences with Iron Man and reshape the future. After Iron Man blasts him, Howard sets off an EMP trap that shocks Iron Man and destroys his armor. Then he proceeds to beat up Tony. After Iron Man regains control of his armor and destroys the Iron Inquistor armor, Tony breaks Howard's hands and leaves him behind to watch the world develop the right way. Howard dares Iron Man to come back and finish him off.[29]
Marvel Noir
In the
Ultimate Marvel
The
The real history for the Ultimate version of Howard Stark is told in
The Ultimate version of Howard Stark Sr., created by
In other media
Television
- Howard Stark appears in Iron Man (1994), voiced by Neil Ross in "The Origin of Iron Man" and by Peter Renaday in "Not Far From The Tree".[38] In the former episode, Howard is seemingly killed following a plane accident. In the latter episode, it is revealed that A.I.M. captured and cloned him in an effort to take over Stark Industries. While the plan is foiled, the clone escapes and vows to return.
- Howard Stark appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Fred Henderson.[38] This version was presumed dead in a plane crash and secretly captured by the Mandarin, who sought his help in finding the Makluan rings. Near the end of the series, Iron Man rescues Howard, who assists him and his allies in thwarting a Makluan invasion.
- Howard Stark appears in the introduction sequence of Marvel Anime: Iron Man.
- Howard Stark appears in Arsenal and a friend of Peggy Carter.
Film
- Early screenplay drafts written by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and David Hayter for New Line Cinema's Iron Man (2008) pitted Iron Man against Howard as War Machine.[39]
- Howard Stark appears in The Invincible Iron Man, voiced by John McCook.[38]This version is still alive, serves as the head of Stark International, and has a strained relationship with Tony Stark over Maria Stark's death until they eventually reconcile and agree to run the company equally.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Howard Stark appears in media set in the
- Gerard Sanders portrays Howard in a brief memorial slideshow presentation in the beginning of the live-action film Iron Man (2008).
- Slattery first portrays Howard in the live-action film Iron Man 2 (2010), in which he uses a film reel to posthumously reconcile with his son Tony Stark and help perfect the Arc Reactor.
- Cooper first portrays a younger iteration of Howard in the live-action film Tesseract.
- Cooper reprises his role in the live-action Marvel One-Shot film Agent Carter, in which he recruits Peggy Carter to help him form S.H.I.E.L.D. in 1946.[40]
- Cooper reprises his role in the live-action TV series
- Slattery reprised the role for a cameo in a flashback in the live-action film Hank Pym.[47]
- Slattery again reprised the role in a flashback in the live-action film Maria Stark's deaths are revealed to have been committed by Hydra's brainwashed enforcer, the Winter Soldier.
- Slattery portrays an alternate timeline variant of Howard in the live-action film Avengers: Endgame, in which he encounters and converses with a time-traveling Tony, but never learns his true identity.
- Cooper and Slattery voice alternate timeline variants of Howard in the Disney+ animated series What If...? episodes "What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?"[48] and "What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?" respectively.[citation needed]
Video games
- Howard Stark, based on Dominic Cooper's portrayal, appears in Captain America: Super Soldier, voiced by Liam O'Brien.[38]
- Howard Stark appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
- Howard Stark appears in Marvel's Midnight Suns, voiced by Peter Lurie.[38]
References
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- ). "The Controller Lives!" Iron Man, no. 28 (August 1970).
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- ^ Hickman, Jonathan (June 1, 2011). Chapter One: Terribilita. New York City: Marvel Comics.
- ^ Iron Man: The Iron Age #1–2 (August–September 1998)
- ^ Tales of Suspense #39. Marvel Comics (New York City).
- ^ Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1
- ^ Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #2. Marvel Comics (New York City).
- ^ Original Sin #5 (2014). Marvel Comics (New York City).
- ^ Iron Man: Legacy #9. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Civil War II: Ulysses Infinite Comic #3. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Tony Stark: Iron Man #10-11. Marvel Comics (New York City).
- ^ Tony Stark: Iron Man #15-18. Marvel Comics (New York).
- ^ Iron Man 2020 (vol. 2) #1. Marvel Comics (New York).
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- ^ a b Ultimate Iron Man #2. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Ultimate Iron Man #1. Marvel Comics.
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- ^ Ultimate Iron Man 2 #5. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Ultimate Comics: Ultimate Avengers vs New Ultimates #3. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Ultimate Comics: Iron Man #2. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars #4. Marvel Comics.
- ^ a b c d e f "Howard Stark Voices (Iron Man)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 24, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
- ^ "Iron Man - Script Reviews - Latest Movie Reviews and trailers". February 5, 2008. Archived from the original on February 5, 2008. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
- ^ Breznican, Anthony (July 11, 2013). "'Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter' – FIRST LOOK at poster and three photos from the new short!". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ^ Walker, Tim (June 6, 2014). "Hayley Atwell goes to war with Dominic Cooper". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- ^ "Dominic Cooper Returns as Howard Stark in Marvel's Agent Carter". Marvel. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ D'Esposito, Louis (director); Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (writer) (January 6, 2015). "Now is Not the End". Marvel's Agent Carter. Season 1. Episode 1. ABC.
- ^ Cragg, Stephen (director); Brant Englestein (writer) (January 27, 2015). "The Blitzkrieg Button". Marvel's Agent Carter. Season 1. Episode 4. ABC.
- ^ Platt, David (director); Jose Molina (writer) (January 26, 2016). "Better Angels". Marvel's Agent Carter. Season 2. Episode 3. ABC.
- ^ Abrams, Natalie (October 9, 2015). "Agent Carter casts Whitney Frost and more season 2 additions". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
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- ^ Hughes, William (July 21, 2019). "Marvel just released an extremely intriguing cast list for Disney+'s animated What If…?". A.V. Club. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
External links
- Howard Stark at the Marvel Universe wiki
- Howard Stark at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Howard Stark (Marvel Database)