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Iron Man  (Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark) is a fictional  superhero  appearing in  American comic books  published by  Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer and editor  Stan Lee , developed by scripter  Larry Lieber , and designed by artists  Don Heck  and  Jack Kirby . The character made his  first appearance  in  Tales of Suspense  #39 ( cover dated  March 1963). A wealthy American  business magnate ,  playboy , and ingenious  engineer , Tony Stark suffers a severe chest injury during a kidnapping in which his captors attempt to force him to build a  weapon of mass destruction . He instead creates a  powered suit of armor  to save his life and escape captivity. Later, Stark augments his suit with weapons and other technological devices he designed through his company,  Stark Industries . He uses the suit and successive versions to protect the world as Iro...

Sonic the Hedgehog  is a  video game  franchise created and produced by  Sega . The franchise centers on a series of speed-based  platform games . The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic blue  hedgehog  named  Sonic , whose peaceful life is often interrupted by the series' main antagonist,  Doctor Eggman . Typically, Sonic—usually along with  some of his friends , such as  Tails ,  Amy , and  Knuckles —must stop Eggman and foil any plans of world domination. The  first game in the series , released in 1991, was conceived by Sega's  Sonic Team  division after Sega requested a mascot character. The title was a success, it spawned many sequels, and it transformed Sega into a leading video game company during the  16-bit era  in the early to mid-1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog ------------------------------ Headphones (or head-phones in the early days of...