Probably the only successful version of the original Heroes Reborn fiasco. Introduced in Iron Man Vol.2 #1 by Scott Lobdell, Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio, when many heroes sacrificed themselves to stop Onslaught, they were sent to a pocket universe created by Franklin Richard where they started their life all over against. For Tony, things start during a testing of the “Promotheus” armor, an Iron Man armor prototype, which causes the death of the pilot, Rebel. The company of Tony Stark is sued because of it, but he manages to be acquitted. Still, this causes an uproar among his workers and the common people, who despise Tony Stark because they saw it as another businessman using his money to get aquitted. One of them manages to sneak into the place and detonate the Gamma bomb created by Bruce Banner. Banner manages to prevent a destructive explosion, but not the explosion itself, and gets poisoned by gamma radiation. Instead of dying, that turned him into the Hulk. Hulk felled Stark’s helicopter. He survived but loses blood and the shrapnel may kill him if it reaches his heart. So, he sneaks into the testing grounds and dons Prometheus armor. He battles the Hulk and defeated Hydra.

Despite an near universal hate for the Heroes Reborn franchise, Iron Man’s armor from it is one of the most loved of the Shellhead armory. It would receive a figure as part of the Walmart Exclusive Ares wave.