Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist: adjectives that inevitably remind you of Iron Man Every superhero has its origin and although the birth of Iron Man is the result of injuries from a bomb explosion, Tony Stark’s roots are to be searched also during studies.
After boarding school experience, young Tony Stark enrolls at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the important and renowned technical universities in the world. As told in Iron Man # 288, Tony began his university career when he was only 15 years old and earned two masters in physics and engineering without too many problems. Later, at the age of 19, Tony Stark earned two doctoral degrees in physical engineering and artificial intelligence.
In 2016, in International Iron Man, author Brian Bendis revealed that before he started working at his father’s company, Stark Industries, he Tony also attended Cambridge University, in the UK, although details of Stark’s studies on this occasion are unclear.
After the university experience, Tony immediately starts working at Stark Industries and takes over the reins after his father’s death. As is well known, his role at Stark Industries later led him to visit a US military base in Vietnam in the middle of the war: From the subsequent ambush, Iron Man is finally born.
The partnership between MIT and Tony Stark was resumed even in the cinema: The first Iron Man film explains that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark graduated summa cum laude from MIT at the age of 17. In Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man is physically present at MITwhile holding a conference announcing the September Foundation. Speaking of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark, new details about the Iron Man audition recently surfaced.
Unsurprisingly, Tony Stark studied at MIT, the most prestigious school in the United States in its field. Iron Man indeed he’s not the only Marvel superhero to graduate from MIT: Reed Richards, the Fantastic Lord of the Fantastic Four, the world’s smartest man in Marvel Comics, was also a student. At the same time, Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman, and Victor Von Doom, who, by the way, was almost mentioned in an Easter egg in the film Black Widow, also visited MIT.
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