>>8877363Pic related is the virtual armor. Which I mistakenly referred to as the hologram armor.
My understanding is that Tony went into a coma in Civil War II. During this time, his brain was copied as AI Tony, the figure we’re getting in the Shang Chi wave. Classic Iron Man suit, but his head is all hologram-y. He was convinced that he was a clone of the actual Tony, since his memories cut off after, I wanna say Norman Osborn’s siege of Asgard.
At any rate, he uses a computer program to fix his body, and voila, Tony stark is alive again. However, he’s convinced that he’s an AI, considering his brain is a copy and his body was remade artificially. He shrinks a drone and checks out his cells at a microscopic level, to discover that they’re artificial, officially making him an “AI” and his body a “robot”.
With this in mind, he fights his brother Arno, the new Iron Man, and loses. He dies, and his body gets remade using genetic material from his parents, resulting in him getting a real body when he comes back to life again. Then, he uses his “virtual armor” to fight Arno and win.
Long story short, AI Tony is what we’re getting in Shang Chi wave, and “virtual armor” is what we’re getting in the iron man wave. Also comics are dumb and unoriginal, since Matt Fraction already did the “Tony’s brain is a computer” thing and it made more sense.
