Polite Dissent

So there’s a rumor going around that Tony Stark may be a Skrull. Original idea, right?

Not so much, it turns out. Here’s a page from Iron Man (Volume 2) #13:

Admittedly, this is from the horribly screwed up “Heroes Reborn” universe — and on top of that, it’s from the “let’s take a bad idea and make it even worse” issue where the Heroes Reborn universe is amalgamated with the Wildstorm universe (hence the Daemonite reference) — so it’s not a particularly well-remembered (or even well liked) storyline.

So if Tony Stark winds up being a Skrull, remember you heard it here second — and in Iron Man #13 first, ten years ago.

Of course, now that I look at the scene again in the light of day, I notice that the Skrull brags about how Iron Man’s armor protects him from detection from humans, but when he reverts back to Skrull form — his “armor” reverts as well — which means he wasn’t even wearing the armor he was bragging about in the first place.