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===Iron Man===
: An American tycoon, wounded in some brushfire colonial war, he turns to the power of Steam to save his life; now, Tony Stark manages his transatlantic commercial empire as well as fighting the good fight in his pneumatic armor.
: Tesla and Starkweather:   Nikolo Telsa is the world's most reknowned theorist on the variety of uses of electricity but one of his students has recently returned from study back to his homeland. Sir Anthony Starkweather is particularly famous for adding his expertise to the using electricity for countless British inventions. His family munitions business in Starkweather Enterprises is a staple of the British Empire with most of the shells in their Navy being made by them. 
: However, the Queen is concerned since Sir Starkweather has been something of a recluse ever since returning from China. The formerly gregarious and libertine gentleman has barely left his mansion and spent all of the rest of his time travelling to his factory in a carriage. He's dismissed half the workers and the other half are kept from certain areas. He's even turned away several of the Queen's more trusted agents. Most disturbingly of all is the fact that they have noticed he's constantly accompanied by Chinamen that came back with him.
: In truth, Anthony Starkweather was critically injured in the Boxer Rebellion by a knife blow to the heart. A Taoist mystic and rabble rouser saw the failure of his design and combined his knowledge of 'chi' mysticism with Stark's own electrical studies to keep his heart going through routine applications of electricity to his body. This man, known as the "Mandarin" to the Chinese immigrants of London has returned with his newly enslaved British Lord in order to force him to construct devices that will allow him to wreck all of London including a powerful mechanical man. Stark is meanwhile designing a clock like device to keep his heart going.
: Can the Avengers defeat Stark in his giant electrical Steam-Machine? If they do, can they do so without harming him and realizing he's on the side of angels? If they do, they might find out that the Mandarin is not relying solely on Stark but has tremendous mystical powers to draw upon if Western Science does not fail.
: The British museum has brought in countless Terracotta warriors and a Dragon Statue into their front doors...
: Lord Iron: Baron Anthony Stark was a English manufacturer of weapons and scientist far ahead of his time when he was captured by Captain Nemo after his latest battleship was sunk. Studying the strange sciences under Nemo, he realized that he needed to serve a greater cause than himself.  Having adapted the technology, the Steam powered Iron Giant now protects London as he has constructed his own sub and operates from a Mysterious Island alcove off the British isles. He struggles with drink and his own prediction of a War like any other.  Maybe Stark could build a drilling machine, or while testing his new Mk3.2 Airship it gets blown of course and crashes in the Land time forgot.
: Curse of The Steam monster
: Anthony Starkweather is Iron Man in this origin with his Telsa origins being able to tie him into the mad science of the day. His Boxer Rebellion origins fits his original origin and the use of electricity to stimulate his heart as a defilibrator as he works on a pace maker is a nice way of keeping anachronistic technology believable yet tying into Tony's origins.
: The Mandarian in this story is a Chinese Revolutionary but his origins are more clearly magical in nature despite his using of technology. He takes heavy influence from Fu Manchu.
: The Terracotta warriors as Golem shocktroopers is based on the Invincible Iron Man cartoon.
: The Jade Statue is Fing Fang Foom, Iron Man's occasional Godzilla like Dragon opponent. Here, he is no longer an alien but an orietental dragon.