Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Main story and flashback)
- Stark Industries
- J.A.R.V.I.S.
Antagonists:
- Ten Rings
- Obadiah Stane (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- United States Air Force
- Adam Pratt (Death)
- James "Jimmy" Ryan (Death)
- Pedro Ramirez (Death)
- New York Mets (Mentioned)
- New York Yankees (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- James Earl Jones (Mentioned)
- Hirohito (Mentioned)
- Nazis (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Adolf Hitler (Mentioned)
- Howard Stark (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Manhattan Project (Mentioned)
- Robert Oppenheimer (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- US Presidents (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Woody Allen (Mentioned)
- Annie Leibovitz (Mentioned)
- Christine Everhart
- Leonardo da Vinci (Mentioned)
- New York Times (Mentioned)
- CNN (Appears on screen)
- Alexander Calder (Mentioned)
- Terrence Rhodes (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-199999
- Earth
- Afghanistan
- Santa Monica
- United States of America
- Long Island (Mentioned)
- Nevada
- Las Vegas
- Caesars Palace
- Las Vegas
- New Mexico (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mentioned)
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
- California
- Paris (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Sun
- Earth
Items:
- G.I. Joe (Mentioned)
- Myspace (Mentioned)
- Frankenstein (Mentioned)
- Zelig (Mentioned)
- Arc Reactor
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Mentioned)
- Jericho Missile
Events:
- Cold War (Mentioned)
- World War II (Mentioned)