Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.)’s Timeline and Summary

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• Iron Man swoops down with the Avengers as they attack Baron von Strucker's Sokovian headquarters. His blasters are set to "y'all ain't ready for this."
• When he realizes that his Hydra foes' missed cannon blasts are landing on a nearby town, Iron Man sends in the Iron Legion—a team of robo-clones that look a lot like him—to politely evacuate the citizens to safety.
• He busts into Strucker's lab and downloads the evil-doer's computer files.
• Out of his Iron Man suit, Tony Stark discovers a secret lab-within-the-lab, where Loki's scepter is being kept.
• He's zapped from behind by Wanda Maximoff and suffers some intense hallucinations as a result.
• He sees all the Avengers lying dead on some alien planet, while the giant aliens that transported the Chitauri invaders in the first Avengers cruise past on their way to Earth.
• He snaps out of it and grabs Loki's scepter. Back on the Quinjet, he gets the okay from Thor to examine the scepter before Thor takes it back to Asgard.
• With the help of his cyber-butler J.A.R.V.I.S., Tony Stark discovers that Loki's scepter is housing some kind of alien super-intelligence. He shares his findings with Dr. Bruce Banner, who is suitably impressed.
• Stark is super-jazzed. He wants to upload this intelligence into his Iron Legion bots in order to create "Ultron," a force to protect the world and end war, once and for all.
• Cue the montage: Stark works with Banner to harness the power of the alien brainforce.
• The montage doesn't work, though. Stark decides to take a break from his work to focus on a good-bye-slash-victory party for his buddy Thor.
• After Ultron crashes the party with his newly-converted Iron Legion clones, Tony helps to fend them off by short-circuiting one with a metal rod to the neck.
• After Ultron escapes, Tony's Avenger pals are super-peeved at him. He defends what he was trying to do with Ultron by reminding them of the Chitauri invasion.
• The group forgives Tony enough to let him come with them when they attack Ultron off the African coast. Iron Man helps to bust up Ultron's attempt to buy vibranium from a South African arms dealer, then tussles with the bad bot one-on-one.
• He blows Ultron up, but of course the cyber-creep just uploads himself elsewhere.
• Iron Man doesn't have much time to pout about Ultron's escape. A hexed Hulk is busy destroying nearby Johannesburg.
• Iron Man calls up "Veronica," a satellite that houses some autonomous defense features, like a metal cage that lands on poor Hulk-buddy and an even bigger "Hulkbuster" suit that goes over Iron Man's suit.
• He sure needs it, as Hulk quickly gets out of his cage and starts tossing Hulkbuster Iron Man around like a rag doll.
• Iron Man recovers enough to drop an entire skyscraper on the Hulk. Talk about tough love.
• After finally subduing the Hulk, Tony Stark is back on the Quinjet, in a reflective mood. When he and rest of the Avengers arrive at Hawkeye's house in the country, he joins Captain America for some wood chopping —and he's pretty good at it for a city-dwelling billionaire.
• He and Cap argue about the purpose of the Avengers. The Captain is still sore about Tony's Ultron idea, but Tony insists that the goal of the team is to make itself obsolete, because they've made sure that the Earth is finally safe.
• Before they can start throwing wood chips at each other, Laura Barton (Hawkeye's wife) walks up and asks Tony to check out their broken tractor in the barn.
• Tony obliges, but as he's working on the tractor out pops none other than Nick Fury—surprise.
• Nick wants Tony to drop his idea for Ultron, but Tony's got his reasons. He recounts the vision he saw (courtesy of Wanda Maximoff) of the dead Avengers and the invasion of Earth. Tony wants to make sure that never happens.
• With Nick Fury's help, the Avengers regroup and come up with a new plan of attack. This involves Tony visiting an installation in Oslo, Norway called "Nexus." It's the hub of the internet (we always thought it was Google, but what do we know?). Tony's there to locate a mysterious hacker who's been thwarting Ultron's cybernetic efforts to obtain nuclear launch codes.
• After Hawkeye returns Ultron's android cradle to Avengers HQ, Tony shares his new idea with Bruce Banner. It turns out that the mysterious hacker thwarting Ultron's cybercrime was none other than J.A.R.V.I.S. Tony wants to upload J.A.R.V.I.S. into the android, instead of Ultron.
• By appealing to his credentials as a "mad scientist," Tony convinces Bruce Banner to help him do exactly that.
• One small problem: Captain American and his new buddies the Maximoff twins show up to shut down their new science project. Tony's not having it, and straps on his Iron Man armor before taking on Captain America mano-a-mano.
• Before things can progress too far, Thor interrupts the fight by calling down a lightning strike to activate the android himself, making all the pushing and shoving pointless.
• After the group agrees to work with the new J.A.R.V.I.S. android to defeat Ultron, Iron Man flies in to a church in Sokovia where Ultron is waiting for him.
• The fisticuffs fly for a bit, but then Ultron soon gets distracted trying to kill the new J.A.R.V.I.S. android, then later Thor. This gives Iron Man time to fly around Sokovia—which is now rising into the air, thanks to Ultron—to see how he can bring the city back safely to Earth.
• Iron Man detects some endangered civilians stuck in a skyscraper, but he flies them to safety in a bath tub (quick thinking, I.M.) before the building collapses.
• After Nick Fury shows up to evacuate the civilians in a Helicarrier, Iron Man high-tails it over to the vibranium core to stop Ultron from sending the city crashing back down to Earth.
• Iron Man teams up with Thor and the new android. All three zap Ultron at once until the big baddie finally realizes that he's had enough and runs away.
• Iron Man's got one more job to do, though. He flies to the bottom of the flying island of Sokovia. When one last Iron Legion bot manages to crawl its way toward the vibranium core and trigger the island's descent, Iron Man works with Thor to destroy Sokovia before it can reach catastrophic meteor status for folks back on Earth.
• Iron Man dodges the falling debris successfully.
• The next time we see him, Tony Stark is at the new Avengers headquarters in upstate New York. After saying good-bye to Thor and Captain America, he hops into a flashy orange sports car and peaces out.