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AsIron Mandebuts his"most powerful creation ever,“fans get to see the unfeigned firepower of Tony Stark ’s epic Sentinel Buster armor . As the Armored Avenger rain down red region on an army of Sentinels , Marvel is eventually paying off months of provision , as Tony was pull to construct this supreme armour in secret , all to loose it in this one critical conflict .
In a preview ofInvincible Iron Man # 16,the Sentinel Buster mech unleashes onan army of Stark Sentinels- the creation of Orchis member Feilong . Feilong recently stole Tony ’s company and figure , produce a new undulation of mutant - killing robots using applied science that Tony never meant to see the light of Clarence Day . While Tony has been play possum ever since , he ’s secretly been function towards this confrontation , tricking the immense bulk of Orchis Sentinels to the Australian Outback for a astonishing battle royale .
Tony unload epic repulsor blasts and explosives in the first moments of this conflict for the future , as well as simply crush Stark Sentinels in the mech ’s hand . The armour is so powerful because Tony is usingthe new Marvel metallic element Mysterium , conduct to a game - convert chance at victory .
Invincible Iron Man # 16
Tony Stark was the one true Iron Man , but in a universe that ’s egest him by , a terrific role player is suiting up in some very intimate armor .
Each Stark Sentinel is five times more powerful than Tony ’s man - sized Iron Man suits , render just how much power the Sentinel Buster is unleashing …
Iron Man Unleashes the Sentinel Buster Suit
Tony Stark’s Mech Battles an Army of Gigantic Iron Men
Over the past few months ofIron Mancomics , Tony has risked everything to gain some border on Feilong . Stripped of his resources and with his most trusted ally James Rhodes , aka War Machine , lock up under Orchis ' watch , Tony had to pretend to give up the fighting . However , he was secretly make dramatic play alongside the X - Men -including his Modern married woman Emma Frost- and his former protégé Riri Williams ( aka Ironheart ) , who was able-bodied to slip off - world and create the Sentinel Buster armour .
It ’s deserving take note that each of the Sentinels themselves are the size of it of a construction , and far , far more powerful than the models Marvel rooter are used to . These are n’t just Sentinels with Iron Man enhancement - inX - human race # 23(Gerry Duggan and Joshua Cassara ) , it was confirm thateach Stark Sentinel has the powerfulness of Iron Man ’s best armors , but scale up to match their increase height . That imply that with each Sentinel being five times bigger than Tony ’s armour , they ’re also five time more powerful than his human - sized suits . With that in thinker , Tony blaze through an ground forces of the robots shows how wildly sinewy his fresh courting is . However , it has yet to receive its big terror - Feilong has built his own mech suit and is heading to the Outback to take on Tony flat .
Iron Man has repeatedly called the Sentinel Buster his most powerful suit , but is that actually true in Marvel lore ?
Is This Really Iron Man’s Most Powerful Armor Ever?
The ‘Sentinel Buster’ Name Downplays This Suit’s Power
buff may be asking if this suit is really Tony ’s most powerful courtship , and it ’s a fair question . Tony late build towering Celestial armorand before that develop the Godbuster suit , which wielded off - the - charts nauseous power . There are also suit like the Hulkbuster armor , Thorbuster armor , and anti - Carnage Dragon - Slayer armor that were plan to take on Marvel ’s most muscular beings . However , most of these can be dismissed in context of use : Tony ’s Thorbuster and Hulkbuster suits have rarely really cope to beat their intended object , while the Celestial suit was a prototype that did n’t accomplish everything Tony need .
As Iron Man takes on another armoured hero , Tony Stark is finally quick to admit he ’s found an equal - and someone he in reality want to study from .
In dividing line , Iron Man has repeatedly called the Sentinel Buster his most powerful suit , and only last issue call it"my most sinewy creation ever . “However , there are two suits that are inarguably more knock-down . The first is his Godkiller armor ( not to be confuse with the Godbuster ) , and the second ishis recent Iron God contour , which manifested after he take the powers of Galactus . Both these suit were planet - killers , but they also come with gravid caveats . Most importantly , Tony did n’t create either of them : the Iron God appeared through the penny-pinching - magic of the Power Cosmic , while the Godkiller lawsuit was designed by ancient outlander and Tony was n’t even able-bodied to aviate it . So while Tonyhasbeen more knock-down than he is in the Sentinel Buster , it has n’t been because he actually built a better lawsuit .
However , this still leavesthe question of his Godbuster suit , which at the time was suggested to be the ultimate expression of Tony ’s ace . While that lawsuit was wildly powerful , it was belike far , far more vulnerable than the Sentinel Buster armor , all because of one clandestine ingredient : Mysterium .
Iron Man’s New Mysterium Material Is a Game-Changer
Immune to Magic and Too Tough for Wolverine’s Claws
Only recently debut in Al Ewing and Valerio Schiti’sSWORD # 1 , Mysterium is a compressed form of Kirbons - a rare case of energy from the White Hot Room , which isthe family of decade - Men ’s Phoenix Force . Mysterium is the distilled essence of all that ’s unequalled and impossible about the Marvel Universe , and it ’s incredibly versatile as a material . Over the last few month , Iron Man has used a Mysterium cane to test what the metal can do , get word that it ’s resistant to Doctor Strange ’s magic , inconspicuous to Spider - Man ’s spider - sense , and ca n’t be bent even by Captain Marvel ’s cosmic might .
While he ’s celebrated for his armour , Iron Man ’s true strength is his mind - and battle his programme for one cardinal mutant prove he ’s inclined for anything .
Tony build up his Mark 73 armor out of Mysterium and faced a net , deadly test when one of Orchis ' Sentinel X units attack , using adamantium taken from Wolverine ’s corpse . Not only did the unit of measurement ’s adamantium claws bend against the armor , but Tony then crush the robot ’s skull , showing how sinewy his new suit of clothes is . In a jaw - dropping twist , he then discover that even the Mark 73 armor is only the flight case that lease him control the Sentinel Buster . Mysterium is also a dead efficient energy conduit , explaining how the Sentinel Buster could exceed the Godbuster armor- that suit was Tony ’s keen armor using materials that existed at the clock time , but with the introduction of Mysterium , he ’s able of go even further .
Even With the Sentinel Buster Armor, Iron Man Expects to Go Down Fighting
Tony Still Has to Face What He’s Called “The Most Dangerous Armor on Earth”
While the Sentinel Buster armor is a jaw - dropping showcase of Tony ’s genius , it ’s not a guarantee he ’ll succeed . Tony Stark has invited the full ire of Orchis down on his chief , not fuck what Feilong has build in the months where he ’s had accession to every one of Tony ’s innovation and former ideas . Tony has on the Q.T. been refer to the Mark 73 as the armor he may die in , showing that even with godlike power , he does n’t know if he ’ll make it home from this final , annihilating fight . Indeed , in last topic ’s narration - taken from Tony ’s autobiography - he admitted that Feilong ’s mech is"without enquiry , the most dangerous armor on Earth . "
To domesticize everything he built and safeguard Earth ’s mutants , Tony Stark has done the inconceivable , reaching a new ceiling of superpower that antecedently was n’t even potential in Marvel traditional knowledge . Now , Iron Manhas to verify he holds nothing back , otherwise the Sentinel Buster armour wo n’t just be his masterpiece - it will also be his casket .
Invincible Iron Man # 16is available now from Marvel Comics .
