

With his father now dead, Ivan Vanko focused his efforts in achieving his father's greatest wish. Vanko constructing his first Whiplash suit Seeing his father lying dead caused Vanko to take a large drink of vodka before screaming into the air in mournful rage. Vanko told his father not to think about this but his father kept speaking, reminding him that all he could now give him due to having no money was his vast knowledge before passing away. While watching the news footage of Tony Stark, the son of Howard Stark, confessing to the world to being the Iron Man, Anton called for his son to come help him eat his dinner.Īs he ate, Anton apologized to his son for not allowing Ivan to be in Stark's position, noting that it should be him there as the CEO of Stark Industries. Vanko cares for his dying father in SiberiaĪs living in their broken home, Vanko cared for his father Anton Vanko as he became older and more frail as their many years in exile went on. He was defeated by the combined efforts of Iron Man and War Machine, following which he chose to end his life by initiating a self-destruct feature within his armor. After he was broken out by Justin Hammer, who had recruited him, Vanko hijacked the Hammer Drones, as well as the Mark I War Machine Armor, in an attempt to assassinate Stark and destroy his legacy. Recreating an Arc Reactor based on his father's design and designing an armor similar to Iron Man's, Vanko attacked Stark in Monaco, following the events after he was incarcerated. When Vanko's father died penniless due to the actions of Howard Stark, Vanko swore to seek revenge by targeting Howard's son, Tony Stark.
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Ivan Antonovich Vanko (Russian: Иван Антонович Ванко) was a Russian physicist and the son of the disgraced scientist Anton Vanko. The truth, all I have to do is sit here and watch as the world will consume you." ―Ivan Vanko to Tony Stark And there will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come. "If you can make God bleed, the people will cease to believe in him.
