Virginia Potts (Earth-1954)

"We've been through so much. Stane, Whiplash, Stane's kid, the Mandarin. You have grow so much since then, but you started to fall deeper into the abyss. I love you, Ollie, and it's because I love you that I'll one day eventually have to accept that you're gone. And if I can't save you, then I have to save the world from what you've become."

- - Pepper Potts to Ollie Stark

Dinah "Pepper" Potts is Ollie Stark's wife and a minority shareholder of Stark Industries. Formerly Ollie's personal secretary, Pepper began developing a relationship with him following his return to the United States after he was kidnapped and held captive by the Ten Rings for three months in Afghanistan, eventually helping him with the Arc Reactor. Five months following, she became a minority shareholder of Stark Industries and started to advertise the company across the globe, crossing the path of Justin Hammer and Whiplash. She would soon marry Ollie, although the two often have heated arguments over his double life as a superhero.