War Machine Armor
The War Machine Armor was created for fighting and combat. Rhodes found it and used it to take the Iron Man armor to Tony Stark and help him fight the Mandarin and Fin Fang Foom.
History
After the Stark compound was destroyed by the Tong and nearly all of the Armory's suits were destroyed, James Rhodes found the War Machine armor and used to deliver Tony's armor to him and aid him in fighting the Mandarin and the fifth ring's guardian, Fin Fang Foom. He had trouble in space, but he succeeded in delivering the armor, and as a side effect, he revealed Iron Man's true identity to Gene Khan.
They tried to fight Fin Fang Foom, but they didn't have much success. After Gene let himself get eaten to pass the test, he revealed himself as the Mandarin and easily took Rhodey down. Rhodey was knocked out cold for awhile during which Tony and Gene continued their battle.He stopped Gene from killing Iron Man and Gene tried to kill Rhodey and Pepper, but was stopped by Iron Man and was eventually defeated by him. Gene got away and Rhodey used the armor to fly him, Tony, and Pepper home.
Capabilities
The War Machine isn't as fast as the Iron Man armor, but it has more weapons, including more powerful weapons. The repulsors and unibeam are red in color instead of white.
- Superhuman Strength: War Machine can lift massive weights. He could push the giant dragon Fin Fang Foom into a wall, disorienting him for a short period of time.
- Enhanced Durability: This armor is highly durable. He can withstand being hit by a helicopter missile and a lightning blast from Gene Khan, although the latter knocked him out for a moment.
- Flight: The War Machine armor can fly by the use of jet thrusters on its boots, thighs, and its back.
- Repulsors: War Machine is equipped with more powerful versions of the repulsors. One blast can destroy a helicopter.
- Unibeam: It is equipped with a more powerful version of the unibeam. It should be noted that this was never used in his first appearance.
- Missile Launchers: It sports shoulder-mounted missile launchers that fire Sidewinder missiles.
- Gatling Guns: It has arm-mounted energy gatling guns that are capable of incapacitating a helicopter.
Other Features
- Voice Filter: This is used to hide his voice, it makes it slightly deeper and gives it a mechanical filter.
- Artificial Intelligence: War Machine has access to the same operating system that Iron Man relies on in his armor, it provides him information on opponents, surroundings, and other thing that he requires. The computer's voice is provided by Lisa Ann Beley.
Weaknesses
- The War Machine armor isn't as fast as the Iron Man armor
- It wasn't designed for operation in the coldness of space.
Trivia
- The code to disengage the safety protocols is "Howard01".
- At first, the armor's HUD color was dark red instead of the normal yellow, but in the second part of the episode, it has a yellow color for the rest of the episode.