Steel

John Henry Irons was originally a brilliant weapons engineer for Amertek Industries, who eventually became disgusted when the BG-60, a powerful man-portable energy cannon he had designed, fell into the wrong hands and was used to kill innocent people overseas. Faking his death, he came to Metropolis under the assumed identity "Henry Johnson," where one day, while working a construction job high up on a skyscraper, he fell off while saving a friend from the same fate. His own life was saved by Superman. During Superman's fatal battle against Doomsday, Irons was buried in rubble amidst the devastation. Shortly after Superman's death, he finally awoke, to find out that gangs in inner-city Metropolis were fighting a bloody gang war using BG-80 Toastmasters, an upgraded version of his earlier design. Irons created and donned a suit of powered armor in Superman's memory in order to stop the flow of weapons--and find atonement.

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