Iron Man's 'Pinball' Armor Would Make Deadpool Lose His Mind
Marvel's Iron Man is known for making a ridiculous amount of armored suits over the decades, but his latest creation is sure to turn heads — especially Deadpool's. The character continually reinvents his suits, creating new and innovative ways to fight supervillains while also maximizing protection for the wearer. But Thunderbolts #143 gives the Armored Avenger his most ludicrous suit of armor yet: the «Pinball Amor.»
Iron Man initially had a rather featureless suit of armor to escape from the clutches of Wong-Chu, the Communist warlord from Sin-Cong (a very thinly-veiled Vietnam). The suit's primary function was to act as a pacemaker for Stark's damaged heart and an electromagnet preventing deadly shrapnel from reaching the organ. Aside from superior strength, jet boots were the main feature of the Mark I Iron Man suit — though they were quite crude, and the flight technology would only be refined and improved upon as Stark created more and more suits of armor.
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The variant cover of the Thunderbolts #143 depicts Tony in his Pinball Amor, complete with accompanying thunderbolts to better fit the title of the series. A pinball track wraps around Tony's arms and legs (complete with physics-defying pinballs rolling on the track), and the transparent chestplate reveals a fully-functional pinball table, with bumpers, flippers and even a display indicating a high score (perhaps wildly inflated thanks to Tony's insatiable ego). Even his biceps are replaced with heavy-duty springs and his shoulders are adorned with «TILT» signs.
Aside from giving Tony Stark a distinctive neon-lit appearance and possible pinball powers (the jury is out on exactly how those powers
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