Editor's note: The below contains full spoilers for Secret Invasion.As soon as Armor Wars was announced in 2020, Marvel Studios fans celebrated the idea of James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) stepping out of Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) shadow and getting his first solo adventure as War Machine. In 2022, the project was reworked as a feature film so that the creative team behind the story could have the budget they needed to do War Machine justice. The announcement also came with the reveal Secret Invasion would set up the events of Armor Wars, which it most definitely did. Now that the MCU’s spy thriller series is done, we have a clearer idea of where Rhodey’s journey will take him next.
