Iron Man: Is This War Machine?

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 24, 2008

Images of a Wal-Mart Exclusive toy called “Iron Man – Stealth Operations” have recently started to appear on a few online outlets. To any fan of the comic, the resemblance to the War Machine armor is very clear. And with the casting of Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes, perhaps we’ll get a glimpse of the real deal War Machine. In the comic books, Rhodes stepped in as War Machine, an Iron Man replacement, when Stark had to abandon the job for awhile.

War Machine later went on to have several of his own comic appearances and without a doubt looked bad-ass, often equipped to the teeth with more visible weapons than the traditional Iron Man costume.

So while these pics are no guarantee that we will get a War Machine in the new upcoming Iron Man flick, the packaging and the costume design seem to indicate that this release is definitely tied into the new upcoming flick and that the War Machine armor may appear at some time or another.

And for the curious, a picture of War Machine from Avengers: The Initiative #1 (November 2007):

War Machine

Sound Off: What do you think, is this War Machine?

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Yevacles

Sure looks like war machine, shoulder mounted rockets and all. Would love to see Rhodes make like a cavalry save.

Cody

do they make a Kevin Carr version? It would take a lot of iron.

Josh Radde

And with his shoulder blaster, War Machine should also be sporting a Ghetto Blaster screeching "YOU KNOW IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP!"

And Cody, a Kevin Carr model would take something stronger than iron to case all that girthiness. Can someone make an artist rendering?

Bill Brasky

Obtaining enough iron to make Kevin an iron suit would definitely help the GDP in these weakening economic times

Josh Radde

Yeah, but not if they sell it at Wal-Mart for $14.96.

Matt

Definitely looks like it.

Anthony

Don't know if we'll see him in the suit but on the back of the pack it states that Jim Rhodes wears this armor on missions that are too dangerous for Tony Stark.

Marvin

It looks like War machine with the rockets, machine gun, and coloring. I would love to see both of those caracters in the movie (Iron Man and War Machine). This is the only movie that I'm really exited about watching.

jef

it looks like the prototype of the iron man in the movie. but the array of weapons make it look like war machine

Arturo

i have already sean the movie in mexico and Jim rhodes looks at the mark II and says "next time, baby" but but war machine does not appear and its supposed to appers in the next sequels

Iron Man: Is This War Machine?

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