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[Agent Z]

The Iron Man secret ID makes more sense than most to me. For one, nothing of his face or form is visible and the suit can modulate his voice. In addition, having Iron Man be an employee of Tony Stark is something that I think the public would accept pretty easily. When the military and Stark Industries claimed Iron Man had been killed by Firepower no one had any reason to think the 'new' Iron Man was the same person and Tony hiring someone else was the simplest explanation, and then Iron Man continued to operate during several periods when Tony Stark was presumed dead. There were even multiple times when two Iron Men appeared in public at once, sometimes to fight and sometimes to team up. The general assumption would be that there have been a bunch of Iron Men and multiple back-up Iron Men waiting to take over if something happens to the current one.

Iron Man's cover wasn't simply that he was Tony's employee, it was that he was his bodyguard. This cover only works if Tony and Iron Man are seen together on a regular basis. More often than not, Iron Man was involved in activity that didn't involve a threat to Tony's well being which would have at least raised suspicion that Iron Man either wasn't Tony's bodyguard or he was using him for something else entirely.

And how many times did multiple Iron Men show up in public?

[Agent Z]

Doesn't that assume that

1. they're always with people that they know?

That doesn't always have to be the case but if it happens enough times, someone is going to notice a pattern.

2. the superhero appears in the same place that the person once was?

That's exactly the scenario Mik proposed so I'm not sure what you're arguing here.

[CosmiComic]

Doesn't that assume that

1. they're always with people that they know?

2. the superhero appears in the same place that the person once was?

Because they always leave before the "hero version" arrives, and vice versa

Iron Man's cover wasn't simply that he was Tony's employee, it was that he was his bodyguard. This cover only works if Tony and Iron Man are seen together on a regular basis. More often than not, Iron Man was involved in activity that didn't involve a threat to Tony's well being which would have at least raised suspicion that Iron Man either wasn't Tony's bodyguard or he was using him for something else entirely.

And how many times did multiple Iron Men show up in public?

Exactly

That doesn't always have to be the case but if it happens enough times, someone is going to notice a pattern.



That's exactly the scenario Mik proposed so I'm not sure what you're arguing here.

Exactly

[marhawkman]

Iron Man's cover wasn't simply that he was Tony's employee, it was that he was his bodyguard. This cover only works if Tony and Iron Man are seen together on a regular basis. More often than not, Iron Man was involved in activity that didn't involve a threat to Tony's well being which would have at least raised suspicion that Iron Man either wasn't Tony's bodyguard or he was using him for something else entirely.

And how many times did multiple Iron Men show up in public?

Yeah the only reason Tony's cover ever worked was because he could remote control the armor. Then people figure out he could remote control the armor and that little distraction stopped working.