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TheMarvel Cinematic Universeis going through some big change after the events ofAvengers : Endgame , and there are a quite a little of interrogative sentence over how the next phases of the MCU will develop without the lead heroes of the Avengers like Captain America and Iron Man .
While the macrocosm look to Spider - Man to fill in for the deceased Tony Stark , it ’s really Jim " Rhodey " Rhodes who can ill-use up and take his position in the MCU like he has done many multiplication in the comics . So we ’ll be taking a look at a few plot line that could be used for a solo War Machine story in the MCU .
LEGACY OF IRON
Tony Stark / Iron Man has die quite a few meter in the comics over the years , though it was in the " Legacy of Iron " story that his death really impact his best friend Rhodey , despite their friendly relationship going through a rough maculation in late age .
Tony ’s " destruction " ( he was in reality put in cryostasis and healed at a later escort ) resulted in Rhodey being give the key to Stark Enterprises and the newly - create War Machine armour , effectively making Rhodey his heir . We ’ve get a line the MCU Rhodey already debut as War Machine , but seeing him deal with the other ramifications of Stark ’s death could be interesting .
ARMOR WARS
Tony Stark has had a few defining comic storylines that were get out undiscovered on the big screen , including " Demon in a Bottle , " which deal with Stark ’s potomania , and " Armor Wars , " which saw a crazed Stark attempting to take down other armor - wearing characters that might have used his engineering .
With Stark dead in the MCU , have on the chore of protecting his technology could very easy devolve to Rhodey , giving him the chance to lead his own " Armor Wars " while introducing other villains like Spymaster , the Controller , or even the armored Guardsmen of the supervillain prison known as the Vault .
THE CREW
Rhodey has worked with a few teams over the year as War Machine , but there was a brief full stop of time where he operate without his War Machine armour as a fellow member ofThe Crew , which was a short - lived funny serial that gathered a street - level group of heroes to deal with crew and corruption in a New York City neighborhood .
The Crewfeatured Rhodey as he investigated the decease of his sister , which brought him in conference with characters like White Tiger ( Kasper Cole ) and Josiah X ( Word of the first inglorious Captain America ) . There was a more recent interpretation of the Crew forge by Black Panther that featured characters like Storm , Luke Cage , Misty Knight , and Manifold that could also expand the franchise .
FORCE WORKS
Force Works develop after the West Coast Avengers were disbanded . Iron Manput together his own squad to deal with the threat that the Avengers were forced to stay by from due to their involvement with the governing .
War Machine was originally only an friend and casual phallus of Force Works , but he has taken a more fighting part in the latest iteration of the squad that has appeared in theIron Man 2020event . With Iron Man go and the Avengers ' fate up in the air , War Machine and his Force Works could be a fun irregular switch in the MCU .
TIME WAR
Rhodey asterisk in his first on-going comic serial in the ' 90s that saw him take over a human rights non - profit organization known as Worldwatch , which gave Rhodey his own team to work with that helped him figure out where War Machine was want the most around the Earth .
While investigating a neo - Nazi terrorist system that was set about to institutionalise modern artillery through time to WWII Nazi Germany , War Machine trip back in metre and do work alongside Captain America , Bucky , and the Howling Commandos , which would provide a great opportunity to bring those fictional character back into the MCU .
EIDOLON WARWEAR
Unfortunately , Rhodey ’s adventures in time resulted in his departure of the War Machine armor , though he was n’t defenseless for long as he was soon watch up in a battle between exotic races that resulted in him make headway a knock-down fresh suit of armour make love as the Eidolon Warwear .
With Tony Stark go , War Machine ’s chances of ever getting a new suit are fairly slender , so introducing the Eidolon Warwear into the MCU might be a way for War Machine to keep prepare his armor like Iron Man while introducing yet another alien chemical element into the MCU .
SPOILS OF WAR
" spoliation of War " cite the title of the storyline from the first appearance of Parnell Jacobs , a former military ally of Rhodes who went private and became a soldier of fortune and subsequently an arms bargainer . Jacobs would repay as an imposter War Machine ( belike using the armor that was lose in the Time War ) during a metre when Rhodey was retired .
Jacobs fag out an enhanced variation of the War Machine armour while wreak for Sunset Bain and her company Baintronics , and while it was Iron Man who finally took the fake War Machine out , a film rendering could keep the struggle between the two former friends for a climactic battle between War Machines .
SENTINEL SQUAD O.N.E.
The Sentinels were mutant - hunting golem that mostly appear in the 10 - Men title . However , the Sentinel program was taken over by the government and reworked into a fleet of piloted Sentinel automaton that became known as Sentinel Squad O.N.E ..
These Sentinels were create for the government by Tony Stark , and Jim Rhodes was put in charge of the training as the commander of the Squad . While mutants and the hug drug - Men have yet to be introduce into the MCU , it would be absorbing to see Rhodey demand with Sentinel Squad O.N.E. at some gunpoint to help marry the characters together .
WEAPON OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
While the surprise twist of the Skrull refugees inCaptain Marvelalmost wipe off any chances we ’d see the SkrullSecret Invasionevent play out in the MCU , there is still a small chance the next stage of the MCU could research that plot line .
When Tony Stark was incapacitated inIron serviceman : Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.,he give the only person he could trust admission to a newfangled weaponized planet that was soon revealed as a giant Satellite Armor that Rhodey then used to fight the Skrull encroachment in space and around the world .
DARK REIGN
Rhodey would continue to employ the Satellite Armor as War Machine , though due to serious injury he had received in the line of work of duty that left most of his torso exchange with cybernetic systems , he had limited time before his consistence give out on him to finish his foreign mission ( Rhodey would return to a fully human shape at the last of hisDark Reignseries ) .
He brought Parnell Jacobs on to the artificial satellite to serve him refit the War Machine armour with extra firepower as he dealt with Norman Osborn and his coup of S.H.I.E.L.D. , and even added other pilots as War Machine Armored Support , which would look great on the self-aggrandising covert .
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