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7. Stark Resilient

(Invincible Iron Man #25-33)

The turning point in the series, and the source of the personally beloved Bleeding Edge armor, Stark Resilient was a tone setter that does a great job putting pieces in motion that will pay off later on.

After Tony lost his company, a directorship of S.H.I.E.L.D., and his armor during the horrors of Dark Reign, he had to build himself back up somehow. And that somehow was by creating Stark Resilient, a brand new company devoted to using repulsor technology to make the world a better place. As such, he completely dismantled the weapons-dealing facet of his company, pissing off the army. They turned to the Hammers – the daughter and wife of former Iron Man foe Justin Hammer – and they created a brand new weapon: Detroit Steel, a hyper-Americanized to the point of being jingoistic suit of murder-murder-death armor piloted by a redneck psycho.

This, as you’d expect, goes real bad.

This arc is also where we get Pepper Potts’ new identity as the emergency responder powered superhero, Rescue. The Rescue armor is friggin’ sweet.