Where is this birth date coming from for Anton Vanko?

I've been rewatching the MCU in chronological order recently, and I've been taking down notes as I do for the timeline. I just watched Iron Man 2 and this has got me confused. So, when Tony is looking up info on Anton and Ivan, it says their birthdays, and Anton's is apparently February 15, 1943 (I apologize for the roughness of the third photo displaying it, I took that off my TV with my phone).

But this had me quite confused because, I watched Agent Carter before this (which I've always believed as official canon, given its placement and creative involvement) and Anton shows up there as an adult in 1946. Which, I think also means that he couldn't have defected to the states in 1963, as the film says.

So I've taken that this initial birthdate has been retconned, for that to make sense. Or the showrunners probably just forgot they showed this. But where is the wiki getting this new date from? I'm having a hard time finding this info.

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_pixelcounterbot_2025-10-14 19:40

Props are almost never 100% accurate, even cgi ones

See Kamala Khan's SHIELD profile in the Marvels. Its copied straight from her comic version's page from the marvel wiki on Fandom

BrendanBatman522025-10-14 19:44

Oh, absolutely. I didn't know that about Kamala. But a lot of the time, these are the best info to work off of. So is this where the wiki is getting the year 1919 for Anton? Was this just something from the comics?

_pixelcounterbot_2025-10-14 20:01

I have no idea where the wiki got that from

blackbutterfree2025-10-14 20:12

Even says she's a polymorph INHUMAN lmao

no_not_luke2025-10-16 11:26

Which do exist in-universe, so she could have some kind of Inhuman ancestry

medyas12025-10-14 20:09

the source is literally on the citation on the wiki

in this case, almost the same screenshot you're showing, just a few frames offset

SEE FULL SIZE IMAGE, you can make out the vague 1919 lettering there

[https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Anton\_Vanko?file=Vanko-espoinnage-date-reference-iron-man-2-1-.png](https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Anton_Vanko?file=Vanko-espoinnage-date-reference-iron-man-2-1-.png)

BrendanBatman522025-10-14 20:21

Oh, is it on the very far right? Because I think I can see that date now. I guess I didn't think to look anywhere else after I saw that first date.

Wrong-Preparation8022025-10-14 20:55

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Pretty_Confusion72902025-10-14 22:30

Bro, It lists a bunch of science subjects (Physics, chem etc.) and then just "Spying".

ItzRaphZ2025-10-15 15:14

I mean, I guess it is important to note that he is known for Spying.

CaptHayfever2025-10-15 21:46

The 1943 has to be a mistake. Even without Agent Carter, Anton was established to be a contemporary of Howard Stark; this would make him a whole generation younger than Howard. Hell, Ivan is *older than Tony*.

BrendanBatman522025-10-16 01:23

Someone else here has pointed out that far off to the right of that image from the movie, you can just barely make out the 1919 date. I agree, though. I didn't like this date they gave. It's also weird they would have someone right that up there, even it's contradicting dialogue. But this is something that just happens at Marvel. Famously, the plack for Bucky in the museum in Winter Soldier says he was born in both 1916 and 1917.

I actually would almost rather that Anton be born another 6 years later in 1925, so that it doesn't make him too much older in his appearance in Iron Man 2. Because he doesn't look nearly 90 when he dies.