Maybe he's lost a few months of his life, or perhaps even a few years. Regardless of when a Skrull replaced Rhodey, the actual War Machine is about to wake up in a world he doesn’t know. And since Fury and Varra have been together at least since the Invasion of New York, which happened in 2012, there’s no telling if a Skrull has impersonated Rhodey for all those years. Furthermore, while Varra genuinely falls in love with Fury, she chooses to impersonate Priscilla to get closer to the spy. Jackson) wife, Varra/Priscilla ( Charlayne Woodard), has been working for Gravik all along. For instance, in Episode 4, we learn that Nick Fury’s ( Samuel L. Some evidence in Secret Invasion indicates that Gravik has been playing the long game with his insurgence. In fact, Rhodey could have been replaced by a Skrull way before, with the real James Rhodes missing the events of most of the Infinity Saga. Since Skrulls are shapeshifters specialized in deception, there’s no telling if the Rhodey we’ve seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was already a Skrull. That’s because, now that we know a Skrull has been impersonating Rhodey, we are forced to ask where the human hero is and how long he has been trapped in one of Gravik's mind cells. While all of that can already feed the plot of one heck of a good MCU, Secret Invasion’s Rhodey twist has drastically shifted our expectations for Armor Wars. Of course, that creates an immediate conflict with Rhodey’s position as a Lieutenant Colonel who acts under the United States military hierarchy - because, at some point, he would be forced to choose between being a hero or being a soldier. So, we were all expecting Armor Wars to close Rhodey’s character arc by allowing him to reflect on the destructive power of Stark Industries' tech and the responsibility those who wear it must bear. As years passed, Rhodey became more of a person of his own until he finally stood up as an equal in the events of Avengers: Endgame. While Rhodey has been part of the MCU since the release of 2008’s Iron Man, the character has stayed chiefly in Tony Stark’s shadow. So, while everything is uncertain for now, it's likely that Dominique Thorne will show up as Riri Williams, Stark’s successor in the comic books who recently debuted in the MCU with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Most of the MCU’s projects after Avengers: Endgame have been ensemble movies, making it fair to assume that’s also true with War Machine’s first adventure as a leading hero. So, instead of a six-episode limited series, Armor Wars is now a big-budget movie, which means we can probably expect other heroes to join Rhodey in his crusade against crime. While we can only guess the actual plot of the MCU’s Armor Wars, last year, Marvel Studios announced it was reworking the project as a theatrical release. Since the MCU’s Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr.) sacrificed himself in Avengers: Endgame, we can expect War Machine to fill up the shoes of his late friend to retrieve the Stark tech that has fallen into the wrong hands. While Marvel Studios likes to keep its secrets, the series title comes from a comic book storyline in which Tony Stark must hunt down all the supervillains who used the designs of his revolutionary armor to create dangerous weapons. Armor Wars was revealed in 2020 as a Disney+ series focused on War Machine, the superhero persona of Rhodey.
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