[Greenskar]

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

That'd be aping avengers too much with the Tony Steve style talk.

It probably has a more prominent role than that. Really depends on how they plan to approach Extremis, but Rhodes and Pepper are Ironman Mainstays that'll get little to zero Avengers screentime. Chances are they'll use this to continue on that trend. Especially for war machine since they've been talking about a spin-off again. Now for that to happen though, this US War Machine armor will have to get pretty mangled up, taken away for a new pilot, or otherwise out of commission.

Who knows, really the story potential is full open for any direction so long as the main story is cohesive.

I'm not quite seeing where you were going with this. Aping the Avengers how? Since this world plays into the Avengers universe also, I can see the US military, post Avengers incident with Loki and the questionable status of Captain America who answers to Shield currently, attempting to establish Rhodey as a the definitive American symbol by painting his armor the colors of the flag (which fan boys will recognize as Iron Patriot design). I think you did misinterpret what I meant by rhodey having a small scene. I didn't mean a small scene for his character as a whole for the movie, I meant just a small cameo for the Iron Patriot armor with Rhodey in it. I can certainly see him reverting back to his grey and black armor and saving Tony's ass later in the movie.

Now while this is all conjecture on my behalf, I think something like the above is not only feasible but would make for some humorous dialogue between Tony and Rhodey who also happen to be friends, ie- "nice colors, not very original". It's certainly not unlike Tony to take verbal jabs at his friends, coworkers or pretty much anyone for that matter.

While a War Machine spinoff may be a consideration for Marvel Studios, that doesn't indicate whatsoever that this armor would be something extending beyond this movie for Rhodey himself but could be if, like others have suggested, this armor gets stolen and worn by someone like Coldblood. So if that's where you were going with it, then yeah I guess I could see that.