Ivan Vanko
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Modern, Comics: A man in a stolen Iron Man suit attacked Volstok and killed Vanko's father; Vanko shot him and kept the chest plate.
Cinematic
A Russian physicist and son of Anton Vanko, who blamed the Stark family for his father's ruin. Jailed in 1993 for selling plutonium, he built an arc reactor and electric-whip armor, attacked Tony Stark as Whiplash at the Monaco Grand Prix, and was recruited out of prison by Justin Hammer. He turned the Hammer Drones against the Stark Expo and died in 2010 when his armor self-destructed.
Comics
Anton Vanko is a Russian scientist from the village of Volstok who built the Whiplash armor to avenge his father's death, blaming Tony Stark. He learned Stark was framed yet kept fighting him. He later joined the Masters of Evil, took part in a raid on Stark Tower, attended a Hood-led meeting, and attacked Stark Tower's ruins and the Capitol, becoming a Thunderbolts member in 2022.
Timeline 16 events
- Modern · Comics: A man in a stolen Iron Man suit attacked Volstok and killed Vanko's father; Vanko shot him and kept the chest plate.
- Modern · Comics: Vanko built an armor with energy whips from the chest plate and set out to kill Tony Stark.
- Modern · Comics: He learned the syndicate that destroyed Volstok was hired through Putin, yet still tried to kill Iron Man before escaping.
- Modern · Comics: Vanko joined the Shadow Council's Masters of Evil in Max Fury's scheme to free the Abyss.
- Modern · Comics: Whiplash was among the villains Spymaster gathered to raid Stark Tower while the Avengers were away fighting the Builders.
- Modern · Comics: The raiders were ambushed by Spymaster and a Kree buyer on a spaceship, then escaped and fought alongside the real Iron Man.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Whiplash attended a criminal meeting the Hood called over the Pleasant Hill prison facility.
- Secret Wars · Comics: He attacked the ruins of Stark Tower, angry that Iron Man was in a coma, and was stopped by the Thing.
- Secret Wars · Comics: He attacked the Capitol during a hearing and was beaten by Kitty Pryde and Colossus.
- 1968 · Cinematic: Born in Russia as the son of Anton Vanko, who was deported from the United States after Howard Stark accused him of espionage.
- 1993 · Cinematic: Convicted of selling Soviet-era weapons-grade plutonium to Pakistan and sentenced to fifteen years in Kopeisk Prison.
- 2010 · Cinematic: After his father dies, he builds an arc reactor and whip armor and gets a ticket to Monaco from a Ten Rings agent.
- 2010 · Cinematic: Attacks Tony Stark at the Monaco Grand Prix as Whiplash, cutting through cars until Iron Man defeats him and he is taken into custody.
- 2010 · Cinematic: Fakes his death in a prison bombing and is taken by Justin Hammer to Hammer Industries, where he redesigns the armors into drones.
- 2010 · Cinematic: Seizes control of the Hammer Drones and the War Machine armor at Stark Expo and attacks Stark.
- 2010 · Cinematic: Defeated by Iron Man and War Machine, he dies when the self-destruct devices in his suit detonate.
enemy of
Iron Man, War Machine (James Rhodes), Happy Hogan, Howard Stark, Justin Hammer
allied with
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