Summary
Warning: Spoilers forVenomverse Reborn #2Iron Manhas gone above and beyond as a Marvel superhero many times before – but now he has taken the concept to an entirely new level, announcing himself asthe Marvel Universe’s first “hyperhero.“Considering how “super” has become synonymous with powerful heroes, it naturally took one of comics' greatest innovators to make the next great leap forward.
Venomverse Reborn#2 features the story “No Escape” – written by Adam Warren, with art by ChrisCross – which depicts an Iron Man AI program grappling with a cosmic Venom as they both battle for just who is in control of reality.
During the battle, the AI version of Tony admits that he finds that the term “superheroic” is a little demeaning. Considering just what he’s accomplished, keeping the entire Marvel cosmos from collapsing, he decides to upgrade to something a little more grandiose: “hyperheroic.”
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Iron Man Just Took Heroism To The Next Level, Becoming Marvel’s First HYPERHERO.
“No Escape” – Written By Adam Warren; Art By ChrisCross; Color By GURU-eFX; Lettering By Travis Lanham
This immortal dataform Tony Stark is just an extension of what he was always capable of; becoming an intellect on a level that can reach the reality-spanning potential which was always inside him.
The Marvel Universe continues to grow bigger and bigger, and a consequence of that is an equivalent escalation of the threats posed to the cosmos. As much as there is a grandtradition of spectacular cosmic storytelling at Marvel, the contemporary era has witnessed the scale of Marvel’s reality –from its overarching Multiverse, to the expansion of the known galaxy. As a result, a corresponding evolution in the idea of the “superhero” itself is in order.Enter the age of the hyperhero, with Tony Stark as its front-runner.
This evolution for Tony Stark is epitomized in “No Escape,” a story of cosmic struggle fromVenomverse Reborn#2, which features an artifical intelligence based on Tony Stark operating as a future version of Iron Man on a galactic scale. In a sense, this immortal dataform Tony Stark is just an extension of what he was always capable of; becoming an intellect on a level that can reach the reality-spanning potential which was always inside him. It isa fitting legacy for the human Tony Starkthat this copy of him is able to achieve the status of hyperhero.
Iron Man just ushered in the era of the hyperhero, of which he may be the first, but he certainly won’t be the last.
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As his history proves, time and time again,Tony Stark is more than capableof saving the universe. And in between all of this, when he’s bored, he can put other heroes out of business, like when heunleashed a more powerful version of Spider-Man’s webs. Superheroes are a thing of the past, and hyperheroes are the future. With the creation of an AI program version of him,Iron Man just ushered in the era of the hyperhero, of which he may be the first, but he certainly won’t be the last.
“No Escape” from VENOMVERSE REBORN #2 (2024)
Iron Man
Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, AKA Iron Man, is a Marvel Comics superhero who has enjoyed several years of the spotlight and has become a mainstay in several Marvel media franchises. After suffering a critical injury, Tony creates a specialized armored suit powered by an arc reactor, which keeps him alive. Egotistical but good-hearted, Tony utilizes his super intellect and inventions to fight to protect humanity from various threats, eventually becoming a founding member of the Avengers. In 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was kicked off with the film Iron Man, which starred Robert Downey Jr. as the superhero.
