Who are these guys?

[Digifiend]

Rawlingstones on Reddit wants to know who these guys are.


Replies seem to have identified five of the six - Mandarin, Titanium Man, Controller, Spymaster, Kara Kilgrave... but who's the robot?

[Mike_Murdock]

I'm not sure Kara Killgrave makes a ton of sense. The rest are all Iron Man villains and silver age, while she's more bronze age and I have no idea if she ever fought him (she's mostly an Alpha Flight character). My first thought is that it's a miscolored Madame Masque. But, if that's the case, she's not wearing her iconic outfit.

No clue on the robot. He looks like he's almost wearing Iron Man's symbol on the chest. My first guess was Ultimo, but the head is certainly all wrong.

[MajorHoy]

Are these based on the comic books or possibly on an animated series that took some liberties with any characters?

[Digifiend]

There's a common thread... the first four are Iron Man villains who were used in the late 80s, and apparently that Mandarin costume was shortlived. Could the other two also be from Tony's rogues gallery?

[Digifiend]

I'm not sure Kara Killgrave makes a ton of sense. The rest are all Iron Man villains and silver age, while she's more bronze age and I have no idea if she ever fought him (she's mostly an Alpha Flight character). My first thought is that it's a miscolored Madame Masque. But, if that's the case, she's not wearing her iconic outfit.

Yeah, she's missing her belt and has a different neck line if that's her.

[MajorHoy]

Yeah, she's missing her belt and has a different neck line if that's her.

Not only that, but what's Madame Masque without that severe metal face-masque?!?

[Lee Stone]

Ooooh...
I love these!

I'll do some digging and see if I can help.

[L.R Johansson]

My immediate thought was that it was from the animated series - however, that's NOT the Mandarin design from that show.

http://animatedviews.com/2010/iron-m...vision-series/

The design is slightly reminiscent of the one Mandarin used in the Kurt Busiek -penned Heroes Return run, but the stylings is distinctly more 80's. Hmm... The artist on the blue woman looks a LOT like Mike Allred's style... has anybody considered asking him? The time-frame of the 80's makes no sense though, since Allred didn't break through until the 90's...

[Mike_Murdock]

Not only that, but what's Madame Masque without that severe metal face-masque?!?

That's why I said miscolored. Essentially, if it's supposed to be gold but is instead colored blue.

[MajorHoy]

That's why I said miscolored. Essentially, if it's supposed to be gold but is instead colored blue.

But the picture looked like a woman with blue skin.

Madame Masque's face covering doesn't look like just skin; it looks more like a gold, metallic face plate (closer to Dr. Doom's mask in texture with rivets and such).