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Originally Posted by Greenskar

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.

Aping dialogue and jokes from the avengers is what I'm refering to. You can't keep audiences interested if you keep rehashing the same dialogue and jokes 5 different ways to sunday.

Stark mocking steve's outfit in Avengers, and then turning around and doing the same to rhodey would be reusing the same joke. It's not really funny enough to turn into a running gag that can start to come across as making Tony anti-patriotic which is a marketing point to avoid. Especially in these days. Though it is still fun to see Stark stick it to the government. xD

As for the spin-off potential. If it's on the table right now, in discussions there are many ways they can approach it with this movie as a setup. Either way though it'd need room to help establish rhodes more as a presence to prep him for it. As for Extremis, it can go any direction. This isn't the comics so he could end up becoming Detroit steel, stealing it, or just outright destroying it as Rhodes attempts to play secret service iron patriot for the president. Likely though, we'd see this armor sticking around throughout in some fashion (just maybe not sequels unless the armor wasn't built by stark, but instead was from another company stealing the plans or reverse engineering the old war machine armor). Because of the paint job, like captain america, it's iconic for america's technological superiority.
Though that could just be as simple as keeping the chest plate around as a trophy or the helmet too for the mandarin's mantle.

My point was, the story is entirely open depending on how they want to approach it. From the sounds of it though, we're getting a very spymaster/extremis/hands of the mandarin type story. There has been a lot of talk about Tony without his armor and where he's going next on the corporate end alongside corporate espionage happening to him. I'm also still wondering what's up with that armory goof or if it'll even be explained. All around though, when you're building a cinematic universe, this is how other stuff gets forced on directors. The same happened with Raimi on Spidey 3 when venom was going to spin-off out of it. Though in this instance, I don't expect the forced choices to be what hampers the movie. I'm kind of still concerned about their initial director pick.