10. Tony doesn't make it out of the reactor explosion.
When Pepper pushes the emergency overload button and runs out, Tony doesn't flip himself up and away from the blast in time. He gets hit with the blast just before Obediah does, and goes flying into the air only to fall back down on top of Obediah, causing them both to tumble down into the factory. Pepper makes it out in time and barely gets out of the way of the blast.
When the explosion has calmed down, the SHIELD clean up team finds Tony and Obediah, but neither of them are recognizable.
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9. The Iron Monger crushes Tony on the highway.
"How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it's best one ever. And now, I'm gonna kill you with it!" These are the last words Tony Stark hears before the man he treated like a father figure, began to crush him with his own prototype of Tony's suit.
Tony would like to tell you that his last thoughts were of Pepper, or his parents, or really anything better than what it actually was. His last thoughts were of how sometimes he was so close to Obediah, that he could tell where he had missed a spot or two shaving.
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8. Tony dies when Obediah takes his arc reactor.
When Obie took Tony's reactor for his prototype, Tony should have been able to get up, and drag his body away to that backup arc reactor, thanks to Pepper. But he didn't.
Obediah sits with Tony, staying with him until the very last moment. Obie smiles that sinister, yet sweet smile he does, and watches Tony die. He knew that if he left Tony would get out of it, he always did. Tony's eyes begin to slowly close, and Obediah checks his right wrist for a pulse. He holds his hand on Tony's wrist, feeling nothing.
When he doesn't feel a pulse, he gets up and takes a final look at Tony, with a certain expression that you wouldn't quite be able to place.
He turns the lights out as he exits the living room.
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7. The F-22 Raptor does shoot Tony down.
After Tony saves Gulmira, and blows up the tank that failed at taking him down, he flies home expecting a smooth flight. He is humming a song to himself, when two F-22 Raptors appear behind him, threatening to blow him up just with their existence. He ducks and rolls, and they shoot and they miss, and Rhodey calls him.
Just as he answers the phone, one of the F-22's does hit him, and he plummets down into the ground. He dies upon impact, but the suit doesn't go out. Jarvis is still able to run a diagnostic to tell whether he's dead or not, and as he finishes doing so, the suit's power dies.
It doesn't take Rhodey long to realize what had happened.
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6. Tony dies while saving Gulmira.
When the tank shoots him down from the sky, he falls. When it tries to shoot him again after he stands up, it doesn't miss. It hits him square in the chest and Tony goes flying backwards into a large mound of dirt and rock; but he doesn't die. He tries to get up, tries to forget about the pain, only to be hit once more in the chest by the tank.
This is when he dies.
The military find him a week later when they are finally cleared to go into Gulmira.
At first they don't realize who it is, and having his best friend identify him only hurts that much more.
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A/N: Kaaay, I don't really know what this story is, so I'll try to explain it. Basically I was watching the Iron Man movie, and spotted out a few times that Tony could've died. So I numbered out times, starting with 1 in the beginning, and ended with 10, at the end. So I started the fic with the last, and will work my way to the first. It hurt so much to kill off my favorite character, but the idea festered in my head and I had to write it. Please tell me if its crappy xo
