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Everyone inthe Marvel Cinematic Universehas a brother . Carol Danvers has Maria Rambeau , T’Challa has Okoye , Peter Parker has Ned Leeds , and Stephen Strange has Wong . But the most important MCU characters really havetwosidekicks . Thor has both Loki and Heimdall . Steve Rogers has both Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes . And Tony Stark has both James Rhodes and Happy Hogan . Rhodey is Tony ’s foresighted - time good friend , while Happy is his head of security ( although , when Tony became a superhero , the job became spare ) . Here are Tony Stark ’s 5 Sweetest Moments With James Rhodes ( And 5 With Happy Hogan ) .
Rhodey: Uniting forces against Whiplash (Iron Man 2)
Tony and Rhodey fall out inIron Isle of Man 2 , because Tony ’s drinking starts to get the good of him , and also because Rhodey disagrees with Tony ’s conclusion to withhold his Iron Man tech from the U.S. military . After a heated literary argument at Tony ’s birthday political party , Rhodey slip a suit of armor and takes it to the near Army base .
Later in the film , he returns to Tony in that suit of armour to put their differences apart and team up to fight Whiplash . With Justin Hammer ’s resources , Ivan Vanko build an USA of robot and Tony needs Rhodey to avail him beat the army .
Happy: The engagement ring (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
Tony Stark ’s patronage role inSpider - Man : Homecomingmeant that a couple of scenery could ’ve just as well been edited into anIron Man 4 . A prime exercise of this comes near the end of the moving-picture show . In terms of Peter Parker ’s journeying , the fit roll around Tony tender him a spot on the Avengers and Peter turning it down in favour of being a favorable neck of the woods Spider - Man .
But after Peter pass on , Tony consider center stage . Pepper Potts has a press conference assembled to announce Peter as the latest Avenger , and they ’re waiting for a news show storey , so Tony asks Happy Hogan to give him an engagement closed chain he ’s been carrying around since 2008 .
Rhodey: Calming down Tony as he confronts Cap (Avengers: Endgame)
The trailers forAvengers : Endgameled lover to trust that Tony could give-up the ghost within the movie ’s opening scene . He was stick in the middle of verboten space with no fuel , no food , and no means to get home . So , rooter did n’t expect him to make it — and more significantly , Tony did n’t expect himself to make it . Then , Captain Marvel showed up to save him , giving him a raw lease on life .
He did n’t at once see it as a grace . At first , he place the blame squarely on Cap and angrily confronted him . As Tony ’s skillful buddy , Rhodey stepped in to calm him down .
Happy: Training in the ring (Iron Man 2)
Jon Favreau is mainly a music director , having helmed Disney ’s live - activeness remaking ofThe Jungle BookandThe Lion King , but he get his start as an actor . He starred alongside Vince Vaughn inSwingersand had a recur role in an early season ofFriends . So , he usually gives himself supporting roles in his movies .
That ’s why he plays Happy Hogan in the MCU — he directed the first twoIron Manmovies . In the second one , we see Tony and glad preparation together in the ringing . Tony does n’t box somewhat , occasionally punch Happy in the face while they ’re sparring , but it ’s all in beneficial fun .
Rhodey: Trying to lift Mjolnir (Avengers: Age of Ultron)
There ’s a lot of stuff in Joss Whedon’sAvengers : years of Ultronthat fans were disappointed by , like the lengthy roundabout way to Hawkeye ’s farm , Ultron being a lackluster baddie , and the fact that it principally function to set up future MCU movies .
But one of the great thing Whedon did with the sequel was showing Earth ’s mighty Hero in their downtime . In the strip , we get a glance of the characters ’ everyday hold up , and we do n’t often get to see that in magnanimous summer tentpole blockbusters . InAge of Ultron ’s first act , the Avengers host a party in their towboat . Rhodey tells Tony and Thor “ a War Machine storey , ” and they pretend it ’s interesting .
Happy: “Is this the forehead of security?” (Iron Man 3)
Tony and Happy have such a close relationship that they can be brutally honest with each other . Happy is nowhere near as technical school - apprehension as his gaffer / friend , and Tony take any opportunity he can to point that out . InIron Man 3 , when Aldrich Killian comes into Stark Industries for a doubtful meeting with Pepper Potts , glad video - calls Tony to alarm him of the suspicious behavior .
However , Happy is n’t very adept at video - career and he holds the speech sound up too high , with the camera focusing on his os frontale . So , Tony uproariously quips,“Is this the forehead of security?,”before putting him in the fridge .
Rhodey: Tony gives Rhodey state-of-the-art leg braces (Captain America: Civil War)
The airport conflict inCaptain America : civic Wardidn’t take any life history , but it did end in tragedy . The Vision shot a electron beam out of his caput at the Falcon , but the Falcon dropped out of the way and the beam hit War Machine alternatively , sending him hurtle towards the earth .
This leave Rhodey ’s legs for good damaged , and Tony expended a net ton of money and resources to give his effective friend a yoke of Department of State - of - the - prowess leg brace to facilitate him walk again . And what ’s even sweet-scented about this scene is that it shows Rhodey has n’t misplace his sense of humor , barbing Tony after the FedEx guy calls him “ Tony Stank . ”
Happy: Hospital visit (Iron Man 3)
When Happy follows a blazing comrade of Aldrich Killian inIron Man 3 , he ends up getting put in a comatoseness by an Extremis explosion outside Grauman ’s Chinese Theater . This is what kicks Tony ’s fears about the Mandarin into top gear and leads him to do something stupid : reveal his home address to a knock-down terrorist that wants to make an example out of him .
Tony is shaken up by the attack on Happy , and continues to shoot the breeze him in the infirmary . He even gets the stave to put Happy ’s favorite show , Downton Abbey , on the TV in his way .
Rhodey: Tony’s dying moments (Avengers: Endgame)
Tony Stark ’s death scene inAvengers : Endgamewill remainone of the MCU ’s most grievous moments , even if it gets up to 300 moving-picture show , because it was the closing of an aroused electric arc of lineament growth that we ’d been closely be for 11 years .
All of Tony ’s closest jazz ones , from Peter Parker ( “ We won , Mr. Stark ! ” ) to Pepper Potts ( “ you’re able to rest now … ” ) , add up to his side to say their goodbyes . Rhodey was the first one there , and he guided Peter away as Tony steal into the light . Tony did n’t say a word during the death scene , whichwas Robert Downey , Jr. ’s own suggestionto sell the gravity of the berth .
Happy: “I’ll get you all the cheeseburgers you want.” (Avengers: Endgame)
This is n’t technically a “ Tony and well-chosen ” moment ; it ’s a “ Happy and Morgan ” instant . But just because Tony is n’t physically there , it does n’t mean he ’s not still front and center . His presence looms large over this grieve duo on the day of Tony ’s funeral in the mop up consequence ofAvengers : Endgame .
Happy ask Morgan if she ’s hungry and she says she wants cheeseburgers . Happy say her that her dad liked cheeseburgers — it was the first thing he asked for when he returned to America from Afghanistan , where he ’d been imprisoned in a cave with a boxwood of scraps — and that he ’d get her all the cheeseburgers she wanted .
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