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[series]: Iron Man (Marvel)
[character]: James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes (War Machine)
[character history / background]:
movie!verse
comic!verse (for reference only, since I’ll be taking him from movie!verse)
Notes: Rhodey’s history in movie!verse is rather ... bare. He wears an MIT ring, though, implying that he graduated from the same university as Tony, so it may be assumed that they got to know one another in college.
[character abilities]:
Rhodey is a US air force pilot, rank of Lieutnant Colonel; as such he has the military training to go with it. Said training includes both armed and unarmed combat as well as piloting. He’s a good strategist.
In addition, he is capable of piloting and fighting in the Iron Man Mark II Suit / the Variable Threat Response Battle Suit (VTRBS).
[character personality]:
Rhodey is a man who takes things seriously when it comes down to it - his responsibilities as well as his friendships. Throughout the entire Iron Man 2 movie, he can be seen attempting to balance those contrasting interests, serving his country and following orders while also trying to protect Tony and their friendship. Tony Stark is obviously very important to him, and Rhodey is clearly worried and protective of his friend. At the same time, however, he doesn’t take any of Tony’s bullshit, cutting him off mid-sentence to tell him to “deal with it” and stopping Tony when he, drunk, becomes a danger to the guests at his birthday party. In the conflict of responsibilities - friendship, he leans more towards the responsibility side of things throughout Iron Man 2, perhaps also due to the fact that Tony is so obviously (if with good reason) not fulfilling his own responsibilities. In the end, however, he also apologises for not trusting Tony enough, and they fight side by side.
He is not afraid to state an uncomfortable truth of get into someone’s (Tony’s, mainly) face and tell them what they should be doing. He’ll speak his mind, whether faced with his best friend, a Senator or his commanding officer. He steps up when the situation requires it, donning the mark ii armour and stopping a drunk Iron Man.
Despite being a man who takes things seriously, Rhodey is not above the occasional one-liner - more or less witty (“get a roof!”).
He gets macho-points for wanting to be badass and considering himself the biggest gun when in armor as compared to Iron Man, but he isn’t above telling someone (Tony) that they don’t have to go through whatever they’re going through alone and recognizes standard-macho-behaviour when he sees it.
All in all, Rhodey comes across as a calm and responsible man who will do what he can. He possesses a certain strength of character. At the end of the day, though, Rhodey is a soldier and follows orders, even if they might go against his own moral code (such as accepting technology from Hammer and presenting the Suit.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Immediately after the end of Iron Man 2.
[journal post]:
[ voice ]
What-- [ the device has conveniently latched on to the suit’s communication systems, transmitting James Rhodes’ reaction of discovering that he is no longer where he thought he was, live. Just another service the City provides. ]
The suit hasn’t been compromised-- Tony, whatever it is you’re doing, cut it out.
[third person / log sample]:
All things considered, Rhodey thought things had gone well enough. The bottom line was that Tony had pulled through and wasn’t dying anymore - and he wasn’t above admitting that he’d been worried about his friend, but that didn’t mean he’d actually tell Tony anytime soon. Things had been uncomfortable enough between them for a while there-Rhodey had, essentially, stolen the suit from Tony after all. In a way. On the other hand, though, he know that if Tony had truly not wanted him to have the suit, there was no way he ever could have donned it in the first place, much less piloted it and fought in it. Rhodey considered himself an intelligent man, but he couldn’t keep up with Tony Stark when it came to technology, and he knew that Tony had codes written into these suits to prevent unauthorized access. Which meant Rhodey was authorized- and that was really permission enough, wasn’t it?
Handing the suit over to the military had been the right thing. With the abilities of the suit came responsibilities and Tony wasn’t always up to fulfilling those, even if he did pull through in the end. Rhodey hadn’t been comfortable with the order to let Hammer fashion the suit with weapons, nor with introducing the suit at Hammer’s presentation at the Expo, but an order was an order, and Rhodey wasn’t willing to sacrifice his military career for the sake of Tony’s pride.
And yet, he’d been right to be uncomfortable. Hammer technology didn’t hold what it promised - certainly not the ex-wife - and the presentation had gone straight to hell. In the end, Rhodey was glad he’d been there, though, because he didn’t think Tony could’ve won the fight with Vanko without the explosion the combined firepower of their suits brought. That had been some good thinking on Tony’s part. But then, the man was a genius.
Rhodey chuckled to himself, the sound only barely swallowed by the sound of the flying suit. He could get used to this- the flying, but also the additional firepower and ability to withstand damage. There was a lot of good a soldier could do with this kind of weapon, and Rhodey intended to be such a soldier.