Howard Stark

He then appears in both seasons of Agent Carter. In season one, Stark is framed for selling weapons technology to the Russians, and secretly recruits Carter to help him clear his name. He spends much of the first season in hiding, but returns during the finals days to help Peggy prove his innocence and recover the stolen tech. In the second season, Stark is living in California, having decided to try his hand at directing a movie—a vanity project if ever there was one, but don’t tell him that. Nonetheless, he is again pulled into Agent Carter’s case, helping her and Edwin Jarvis (among others) to save the world from the deadly scheme of Whitney Frost.

Howard Stark appears in video footage and flashbacks in Iron Man 2, Ant-Man, and Captain America: Civil War, as an older and more settled businessman. Tony Stark discovers footage of his father discussing the Ark Reactor and the elements needed to power it—elements not yet possible at the time, so he bequeathed the plans to his son. n Ant-Man, he appears in a brief sequence in which Dr. Hank Pym quits the Strategic Scientific Reserve (an antecedent to S.H.I.E.L.D.) to prevent it from acquiring his shrinking formula. Lastly, we see him in a flashback from Tony Stark’s memory at the start of Civil War, in the last encounter father and son had before the former’s death at the hands of The Winter Soldier. (A scene we eventually see in video footage, as does Tony Stark—which doesn’t go too well.)

Played by: Gerard Sanders in Iron Man; Dominic Cooper in Captain America and Agent Carter; and John Slattery in Iron Man 2, Ant-Man, and Captain America: Civil War

Currently, Howard Stark is: R.I.P.

Where will we see him next? As ever, only in the odd flashbacks or old footage.