Didn't notice it mentioned anywhere, but I was looking through the dials and noticed the power:

Upgraded Armors: When Tony Stark hits one or more opposing characters, after actions resolve, place a promotion token on his character card. you may then roll a d6 that can't be rerolled and add 1 for each promotion token on his character card; on a result of 8 or higher, you may replace this character with any character with this trait and a point value of 75 or less the same number of clix from its starting line.


So I started looking through the rest of the dials to see what options he had, and discovered the only one was 001 Iron Man Mk 7:

Upgraded Armor: (75pts) Modify Iron Man Mk 7's Speed and Attack values by +1.

So here's the rub. Notice the lack of pluralization on the power. Right now, I think a person would be within their right to say "Sorry, you can't swap him out. That's a different name than what Tony specifies". It'd be a dink move, but they'd be technically right.

You know the intent... go with that, point it out to your judge before game starts.

I'm not impressed with this one. I would of prefer if they would if made him an AE instead of the battle promotion.

I would absolutely rule it to be good. I use the precedent back in the day defining Skrull and Skrulls as the same thing

Hmmm, this seems like an awkward place to use the "this trait" wording if that's how it's supposed to work (I haven't bought any of the set). I know that the ruling is that a special power/trait is "the same" if it has the same name, but common sense would make one think that the "same trait" would do largely the same thing as well.

Regardless of all that, make sure you post the issue to this thread so it can be addressed in the next Player's Guide.

I wouldn't be in violation of this rule, would I?

No, its an error in the wording. You are fine to make a post.