Maria Stark

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Maria Stark
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceIron Man #104 (November 1977)
Created byBill Mantlo (writer)
George Tuska (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoMaria Collins Carbonell
SpeciesHuman
Team affiliationsStark Industries

Maria Collins Stark (née Carbonell) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is Howard Stark's wife/Tony Stark's mother.

Fictional character biography

Maria Stark was born into a wealthy family in

Obadiah Stane. While staying in Monaco during a flight scale, Maria escaped from her bodyguards at a casino, where she deliberately lost large sums of money at baccarat and was escorted from the premises. Howard Stark
(who owned the casino) noticed herself being forcefully escorted by her bodyguards and they followed her back to her hotel room. Maria and Howard formed an unlikely duo as they successfully took down the guards and escaped in a car. Their sudden camaraderie left Maria feeling captivated by this unforeseen adventure.

Maria married Howard sometime later, and together they adopted their son

Arsenal robots with Maria's brain patterns.[1]

On the

Roxxon Oil Company.[2][3] Afterwards, Tony ran his father's company and started a charity in his mother's name (which donated funds to finance various charities and renovation projects as well as the Avengers
).

Duplicate of Maria Stark

Iron Man confronted Motherboard and Arsenal on the escape when Arno Stark (Tony's previously unknown brother) went into the escape, discovering that Tony's opponents have the digital engrams of their parents. When the escape system shut down, these digital engrams were salvaged by Arno.[4] Arno became acquainted with the digital engrams of Howard and Maria and was able to give the two a holographic form. With Jocasta's help, the bio-restructuring pods Arno created gave physical bodies to the digital engrams.[5]

During the "

Arsenal and Mistress' bodies from the escape.[8] Arno heads to the Stark Space Station with Arsenal and Mistress, who now possess the memories of Howard and Maria. The two tell Arno that they are proud. When Tony 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.[9] As everyone engaged the Extinction Entity, Tony, Arno, Rescue, Machine Man, Jocasta, Motherboard, and Arsenal pushed the Extinction Entity close to Earth's orbit as the Avengers, Force Works, and the A.I. Army attacked its tentacles. It then turns out that the Extinction Entity was just a simulation and was the result of the disease that Arno thought he was cured of, revealing that the holographic armor made from the escape is now part of Arno's life support and allows Motherboard and Arsenal to download themselves to shape Arno's virtual world.[10]

Other versions

Ultimate Marvel

The

Gregory Stark when he jokingly says how he "came out of [Maria] before [Tony]".[12]

In other media
  • Maria Stark appears in
    Hydra orders, which was covered up and reported to be a car crash. Producer Kevin Feige revealed that another actress had been cast to appear as the character in Iron Man 3 in a flashback sequence that did not make the final cut.[13]

References

  1. ^ Avengers Annual #9 (1979). Marvel Comics.
  2. ^ "Iron Man (Anthony Stark)". marvel.com. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  3. ^ Iron Man - The Iron Age #2 (1998). Marvel Comics.
  4. ^ Tony Stark: Iron Man #10-11. Marvel Comics.
  5. ^ Tony Stark: Iron Man #15-18. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #1. Marvel Comics.
  7. ^ Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #3. Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #4. Marvel Comics.
  9. ^ Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #5. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #6. Marvel Comics.
  11. ^ Ultimate Iron Man #0-5. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ Ultimate Comics: Avengers 3 #3. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ Breznican, Anthony (May 8, 2016). "Iron Man's mom: Let's talk about her for Mother's Day". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
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