Zebediah Stane

Zebediah Stane was the father of Obadiah Stane.

History
Zebediah was a degenerate gambler. One day while on a "lucky streak", Zebediah played a game of Russian roulette and shot himself in the head right in front of young Obadiah. When Obadiah gets trauma, he loses all of his blond hair and go bald. From there on, Obadiah became a ruthless manipulator who studies his adversaries to find weaknesses to exploit. When defeated, Obadiah Stane tells Iron Man that he believed that his father saw the world as his opponent and lost, then committed suicide via his repulsor from his hand in a similar to his father's fatal gunshot. Iron Man later briefly alludes to Zebadiah's degenerate gambler and drunk nature while remembering Obadiah after the first encounter with Ezekiel Stane.