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SKIN Armor

Image: Keron Grant, Rob Stull, and Edgar Tadeo
Image: Keron Grant, Rob Stull, and Edgar Tadeo (Marvel Comics)

Tony Stark, it seems, is really big into “metal-but-weird” as a concept when it comes to his armors. An early experimentation with that was SKIN, an adaptive liquid alloy that could simultaneously become as hard as adamantium and yet flexible enough to bounce and bend comfortably. Cool idea, sure, but how the suit “formed” is what made it goofy: the gold SKIN pieces would only form around the red parts on command, so Tony would be running around looking half-dressed.