Aldrich Killian (Earth-8312)

"How can I be pissed at you, Tony? I'm here to thank you. You gave me the greatest gift that anybody's ever given me. Desperation. If you think back to Switzerland, you said you'd meet me on the rooftop, right? Well for the first twenty minutes, I actually thought you'd show up. And the next hour, I...well I considered killing myself. But as I looked out over that city, nobody knew I was there, nobody could see me, no one was even looking. I had a thought that would guide me for years to come. Anonymity, Ollie. Thanks to you, it's been my mantra ever since, right? You simply rule from behind the scenes. Because the second you give evil a face, a Bin Laden, a Gaddafi, the Mandarin, you hand the people a target."

- - Mandarin to Iron Man

Aldrich Killian was the founder and CEO of the A.I.M. whose desire to improve his biology led him to partnering and financing the experiment on Extremis, developed by scientist Maya Hansen. Killian initially approached Tony Stark to help him finance another solution, but Stark arrogantly avoided him, which prompted him to start a dreaded path of corruption, deciding to use his intelligence for anonimity and to profit with the War on Terror by creating the false persona of the Mandarin, all the while he sold his eXTREMIS for the United States military in an effort to enhance the human race.

Early Life
Aldrich Killian was born with many physical disabilities that made it impossible for him to perform numerous tasks, many of which he attempted to overcome. His intelligence led him to found by himself A.I.M., a scientific think-thank. He used his father's quotes and wisdom as the sources for his betterment and growth.