Given that Iron Man is a very human superhero, it's fitting that his greatest weakness -- his kryptonite, so to speak -- be a very human one as well. Tony Stark's struggle with alcoholism was first introduced in the comic with 1979's groundbreaking "Demon in a Bottle" series, and has been revisited several times since.

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