War Machine (real name James Rhodes) is a superhero who appears in the Marvel Comics animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
War Machine was created by writers David Michelinie and Bob Layton and artist John Byrne.
Role in the series[]
In "Iron Man is Born", Tony goes to his house, Rhodes accompanies him and tells him that S.H.I.E.L.D. is the only who should fight giant robots. Arriving Pepper informs Tony that HYDRA is attacking the United Nations, Rhodes says Tony to be careful. While Iron Man fought against HYDRA Robots, Pepper was concerned about Tony but Rhodes tells Tony's armor is indestructible but Pepper is not concerned about the armor but for Tony. After the battle, Tony informs Rhodes that S.H.I.E.L.D. stole his technology.
In "Alone Against AIM", Rhodes meets Black Panther and Captain America (Skrull), who went to Stark Industries to take the Iron Man armors and carry them to the Avengers Mansion. Suddenly they were attacked by AIM scientists. Captain America (Skrull) asks him to puts the War Machine armor because they were outnumbered. Rhodes puts his armor and easily defeat the AIM scientists.
In "New Avengers", As the Avengers were erased from the timeline by Kang; War Machine alongside Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Thing, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage were recruited by Iron Man to be the New Avengers. They try to stop Kang but they fail in their attempt. Spider-Man then suggests that everyone should work together; others agree with the idea. Eventually the Avengers return to their timeline after Spider-Man stops the time machine of Kang.
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