Jeff Bridges portrayed Obadiah Stane in the 2008 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man, and Kiff VandenHeuvel voiced him in the animated series What If...?.

Created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Luke McDonnell, the first character to use the alias is Obadiah Stane, who debuted in Iron Man #163 (Oct. 1982).

One day, his father considered himself on a "lucky streak", played a game of Russian roulette, and shot himself in the head while young Obadiah watched.

In adulthood, Obadiah ascends to the position of President and CEO of his own enterprise, Stane International, establishing himself as a prominent distributer of munitions.

He even considers selling the suit to the highest bidder or creating an army of Iron Mongers, using them to "take over any country he wanted".

[8] Stark recovers, joining Rhodes and the Erwin twins (Morley and Clytemnestra) in starting a new company in Silicon Valley,[9] which is then dubbed Circuits Maximus.

Stane eventually detonates a bomb planted inside the Circuits Maximus dome, killing Morley while wounding Rhodes and Clytemnestra.

[12] When Cly confronts Stark at the hospital, Tony faces Stane directly; Iron Man collects the newly completed Silver Centurion and flies to Long Island.

Stane tries to defeat Iron Man by tricking him into entering a room where Stark's friends (Happy, Pepper and Mrs. Arbogast) are being held in suspended animation tanks.

Refusing to give in, Iron Man calmly uses his armor's sensors to find the power source of Stane's trap, and destroys it with his chest-plate's uni-beam weapon, which requires no movement to fire.

[16] During the "Dark Reign" storyline, Stane in his Iron Monger armor was chosen as a member of Pluto's jury of the damned to decide the fate of Zeus.

[21] Joey Cosmatos was Tony Stark's former college classmate that builds a third version of the Iron Monger suit from Obadiah's plans.

[23] A group of renegade New York City Police Department officers calling themselves "the Cabal" commissions Stane International to design a suit of combat armor so they can hunt down and kill criminals like the Punisher.

Various members of the Cabal wear the Savage Steel armor at different times, coming into conflict with Iron Man and Darkhawk.

Ezekiel "Zeke" Stane, Obadiah's son,[24] gradually adapts his body to be a cyborg who regenerates injuries quickly, no longer needs to breathe, and generates as much energy as the Iron Man armor before constructing his own exoskeleton to help with excess heat and utilize more usable energy.

[25][26] Justine Hammer utilized her own Iron Monger armor via a special broach as part of a conspiracy alongside Roxxon and A.I.M.

The Iron Monger armor, manufactured by Stane International and code-named I-M Mark One, is an armored battle-suit of "omnium steel" (a fictional alloy), containing various offensive weaponry including a powered exoskeleton that amplifies the user's strength, repulsor rays fired from the gauntlets, and an intense laser beam housed in the battle-suit's chest unit.

He fails, but Howard gets shot in the process and is in the ICU and Tony sends War Machine to protect his father in the hospital.

Iron Man goes to Obadiah's house and confronts him on setting up Howard and sending him to prison for Zebediah's murder.

After Tony beats Loni and tends to Howard, Obadiah (mad that his mother abandoned him for dead with the poison gas) enters the room and kills her.

[32] The retconned Ultimate universe has Howard Stark Sr. in a human/machine armor, an amalgamation of Iron Monger and Titanium Man.

Obadiah Stane is an African-American man who is the business partner of Howard Stark, running Stark/Stane, one of the North American Union's main corporations, alongside him.

[35] Obadiah Stane appears in a flashback in Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, voiced by Takaya Hashi in the Japanese version,[citation needed] and JB Blanc in the English dub.

[37] Jeff Bridges portrays Obadiah Stane in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): An original incarnation of Iron Monger appears in the novel Spider-Man: Venom's Wrath.

This version is Daniel, a teenager who is dressed in a "cheesy exoskeleton" and wields a laser weapon he calls a "hydrogel blast".