Iron Man: Rise of Technovore

Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013) is a Japanese animated action film from studio Madhouse — watch it online on iFILM. Tony Stark has been framed for a terrorist attack, War Machine is gone, and two different parties are closing in: S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives Black Widow and Hawkeye on one side, and on the other, a young technobiological prodigy called Technovore who has dissolved the line between flesh and circuitry in ways that make every other Marvel villain look straightforward.

To get to the truth, Stark teams up with the Punisher — not the most comfortable partnership either man has ever had. Directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, the film runs a clean 88 minutes at full throttle, with distinctive Japanese animation that gives the action a different visual weight than the Hollywood Marvel output. Technovore himself is genuinely unsettling, which is rarer in animated superhero films than you might expect. Stream Iron Man: Rise of Technovore online on iFILM.