The Next Wave of Resurrection Technology

Thirteen years later, New York.

After more than half a year of healing from the trauma of war, New York City, which had been thrown into chaos by the Chitauri, had regained its former prosperity and stability.

And Stark Tower—the landmark building standing in the heart of New York—had recently become the site of an unbelievable event.

Howard Stark, the founder of Stark Industries and father of its current chairman, Tony Stark, had returned.

The man whom the public had believed to have died in an "accidental" car crash many years ago had somehow been resurrected alongside his wife, Maria.

This incident caused an enormous uproar not only in America, but throughout the upper echelons of society across the world.

Before Tony Stark offered any explanation for his parents' resurrection, auditing organizations around the world, driven by their admiration and near-superstitious faith in Tony Stark's extraordinary scientific talent, unanimously concluded that Stark Industries had mastered some kind of super technology similar to cloning—technology capable of bringing the dead back to life.

And as this rumor began spreading from America to the rest of the world, pushed along by certain interested parties, Tony Stark—normally obsessive about the integrity of his own research—rarely failed to step forward and immediately refute this absurd claim.

That only further confirmed the rumors that Stark Industries possessed some form of "Resurrection Technology." If it had been false, then given Tony Stark's arrogant personality, which could not tolerate even a speck of imperfection, he would never have allowed such an outrageous rumor to spread further and further.

After all, once people truly believed it, if Tony Stark came out to deny it but could not actually deliver the technology described in the rumor, he would feel as though he had lost face.

That was something Tony Stark