Justin Hammer

Cinematic and Comics

Modern, Comics: Hammer hired the Spymaster to steal Iron Man technology and sold it to criminals, triggering the Armor Wars.

Cinematic

An American arms contractor and former head of Hammer Industries, Stark Industries' business rival. After failing to copy the Iron Man suit and being humiliated before the Senate, he springs Ivan Vanko from prison to build drones and a War Machine upgrade. Vanko turns the drones on the Stark Expo, and Hammer is arrested and held in Seagate Penitentiary.

Comics

Justin Hammer is a British industrialist and arms financier who bankrolls costumed criminals and is Tony Stark's long-running rival. In 1979 his firm hijacked Iron Man's armor to frame him for murder. He later kidnapped Bethany Cabe, sold stolen armor technology in the Armor Wars, and took over Stane International. Dying of cancer, he moved to an orbital station and died there in 2000.

Timeline 6 events

1. Bronze · Comics: Hammer's engineers built a device to override Iron Man's armor, and he used it to make Iron Man kill a Carnelian ambassador.
2. Bronze · Comics: Stark tracked Hammer to a floating villa in the Mediterranean, wrecked the override device and defeated his hired criminals, but Hammer escaped.
3. Bronze · Comics: Hammer kidnapped Bethany Cabe and held her on his submarine; Iron Man damaged the vessel but could not catch him.
4. Modern · Comics: Hammer hired the Spymaster to steal Iron Man technology and sold it to criminals, triggering the Armor Wars.
5. Modern · Comics: Hammer acquired Stane International stock, collaborated with the Hand and Hydra against Stark, then sold the stock back to Stark.
6. Modern · Comics: Dying of cancer, Hammer moved to a space station in Earth orbit and plotted against Stark with 'rogue cells'; Iron Man blew a hole in the station and Hammer froze in space.

enemy of

Iron Man, War Machine (James Rhodes), Ivan Vanko

allied with

Ivan Vanko, Thaddeus Ross

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