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War Machine; James Rhodes
Topic Started: Aug 29 2007, 12:39 AM (69 Views)
Ruke Stone
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Is it better to be feared? Or respected?
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Name: James Rhodes
Codename: War Machine
Age: 25
Side (Hero/Villain): Hero
Appearance: Posted Image
Personality: Rough, "soldier"-like
Power(s) (If Any): Repulsors: Laser-guided particle beam emission units mounted in the palm of each hand.
Unibeam: Multi-band light and force beam emitter. Can be adjusted for a variety of effects such as search light, heat beams, tractor beam, lasers, image inducers, ultraviolet light, and electromagnetic pulse. While not present in the original model, it was added for Rhodes.
Pulse Bolt Generators: Plasma discharges that build in intensity as they travel through the atmosphere, picking up static and ambient energy.
Force Shield: A focused photon emitter on the back of his left wrist that shapes into a shield.
Gatling Gun: Shoulder-mounted and using an electronic firing system. This is a state of the art gatling machine gun firing caseless ammunition. It can be loaded with a wide array of various bullet types including stun and armor-piercing. Default loadout is 1800 rounds of Depleted Uranium bullets.
Double-barreled cannon. Wrist-mounted, fires various ammo types. Ammo is user-selectable and is fed from belt circling the upper wrist.
Flamethrower. Uses napalm gas. Effective at all types of combat.
Laser Blade.
Micro-Rocket Launcher. Holds a variety of up to eight rockets, including High Explosive, Concussion, Smoke, Flare, and Sub-Nuke.
Particle Beam Discharger.
Forcefield-based stealth technology (which Rhodey referred to as the "Romulan Cloaking Device")
Self-contained breathing system.
Granted the wearer high levels of superhuman strength
Granted the wearer high levels of superhuman durability
Weakness: Iron Man
Main Objective: N/A
History:
James Rupert Rhodes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He first met billionaire industrialist Tony Stark while flying combat missions in Vietnam. Rhodes' helicopter had been shot down by Viet Cong rocket fire, and while trying to get the aircraft airborne again, he encountered Stark, who had just escaped from the prison camp of the Vietnamese warlord Wong Chu in a bulky prototype suit of powered armor. At that moment the Viet Cong attacked, and Stark, in his suit, helped to drive them off. Together, Rhodes and Stark made their way to a nearby enemy base where they stole another helicopter, flying it back to the American lines.
After the end of the Vietnam War, Stark, who had secretly become the superhero named Iron Man, offered Rhodes a job as his personal pilot, and Rhodes soon became one of Stark's closest associates and confidants as well as Stark Industries' chief aviation officer. As a result, he had numerous adventures with his employer where his daring and skills were valuable assets.
When Stark lost his company to Obadiah Stane and relapsed into alcoholism, Rhodes took over the armor and role of Iron Man in Stark's stead. However, he began to experience headaches while using the armor, and over time, his behavior began to grow more erratic and aggressive, prone to violent solutions to given problems. Rhodes's manic mental state was later revealed to be the result of his using armors whose cerebral interfaces were calibrated for Stark's brain, leaving any other long-term user disoriented and confused. When Stark was on the road to recovery, he helped Rhodes maintain the armor, but Rhodes became increasingly paranoid, believing that Stark meant to retake the armor.
Rhodes went on a rampage, and Stark was forced to don a crude, prototype suit of armor much like his original suit to stop him. Rhodes came to his senses and the two fought together for a time until Rhodes was injured by Obadiah Stane and Stark took the new armor.

Stark also subsequently designed a heavier-armed version of the Iron Man suit, the "Variable Threat Response Battle Suit" to battle the Masters of Silence, and it became known as the War Machine armor. Rhodes used the War Machine armor as Iron Man when Stark faked his own death while recovering from a life-threatening illness. When the ruse was revealed, it damaged the friendship between the two men, and they went their separate ways.
Rhodes, however, continued to use the War Machine armor in a solo superhero career, and it eventually was replaced by a symbiotic alien suit, known as the Eidolon Warwear. When Stark died during a battle with Kang the Conqueror, Rhodes rejoined Stark Enterprises (which was bought by Fujikawa Industries) to protect his old friend's legacy. To prevent Stark's armor technology from being misused, he used the abilities of his alien armor to erase all trace of Stark's designs from the Fujikawa systems, but the armor was destroyed in the process. Rhodes gave up his superhero career and started his own salvage company.

Later, perhaps unsurprisingly, Stark once more returned from the dead, forming a new company, Stark Solutions and taking up the Iron Man identity once more. The two men were reconciled and Rhodes and Stark teamed up again to stop a new villain (also calling himself War Machine) who was wearing what looked like a version of the old War Machine armor, including a heavily-gunned exo-suit, but was in fact not based on Stark technology. Rhodes later became one of the main characters in the comic series The Crew. In the series first issue, his sister, Jeanette, died and he was declared bankrupt, while avenging her murder he becomes one of the driving forces that brings the team together.
Jim Rhodes later became the commanding officer and head combat instructor for Sentinel Squad O*N*E, and a key member of the Office of National Emergency (O*N*E). In that role, he wears an armour derived from the Sentinel technology, and painted in the same colour scheme as the larger Sentinels.

Rhodes soon once again becomes War Machine, with a new suit of armour resembling Tony Stark's, to help train the new recruits of The Initiative program. During a recent issue, he fought alongside new superhero Komodo to depower Spider-Man (while he was in the middle of a battle with the Shocker, Hydro-Man and Boomerang). During World War Hulk, before Stark's confrontation with the enraged behemoth, Rhodes was thrown off by Stark's talk of the Hulk's threat reuniting the splintered hero community. Rhodes seems to feel that, despite his support of Stark, too many questionable and borderline things have happened at Stark's behest for those wounds to be casually undone. Whether this sharp disagreement is simply part of the sometimes-contentious long friendship between the two, or the first seeds of real doubt in Stark's cause by Rhodes, remains to be seen.

(TEXT EXTRACTED FROM WIKIPEDIA © I DO NOT OWN WAR MACHINE OR ANY OF ITS RELATED ASPECTS, © MARVEL COMICS © WIKIPEDIA)
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