#too good for this world #too pure
Listen, after the whole debacle with Ultron settles, Tony actually goes and sees the satellite footage of however many combat missions Rhodey had flown by now as War Machine.
He then pays a top-notch editor a ton of money to produce a video montage of the War Machine story, including never before seen footage of Rhodey from Tony’s personal archives.
The next morning, he makes a rare appearance on Good Morning America and just says, “I came here because it’s gonna be the fourth of July soon and I wanted to honor one of America’s finest. A true hero in every sense of the word, who has gone above and beyond the line of duty for his country and his friends. I’ve brought some footage with me.”
By this point everyone is expecting a cheesy video montage honoring Captain America but instead, boom, the 5 minute 32 seconds clip about Rhodey airs instead – including an aerial shot of him dropping the tank in front of the General’s palace with an underlying soundtrack from Die Hard.
And later, Rhodey is sitting his dumb ass in a conference room full of senior air force and army personnel, all of whom are watching the video because it’s become a viral hit already. Everyone is talking about War Machine – America’s newest hero. Meanwhile, Rhodey is doing his best to keep his composure and to blink back tears, when his phone goes off. It’s a text that reads: Got room for a gold titanium alloy sidekick, Honeybear?
Tag: rhodey
like honestly yall understand how important it is that rhodey basically does.not.give. a flying fuck about steve’s military status like hell rhodey probably doesnt even see him as a fellow soldier; i love the headcanons of rhodey & steve (&/or bucky) engaging in healthy air force vs army banter but like ??? rhodey probably doesnt even consider steve an actual military person ??? much less someone ??? superior to him ????
#‘rhodey would call steve ‘sir’; rhodey would salute steve first’ mmmm no ????#rhodey: that sounds fake#like give me an oblivious to historical army facts rhodey that found out later on in his life that steve rogers was an actual captain#& not just some war propaganda image#rhodey in his early twenties going ‘lmao captain america was an actual captain wtf??’
I see that and raise rhodey being like “he didn’t even earn his title tony. they gave him it. tony. TONY. TONY YOU’RE NOT LISTENING.”
lets keep going on this; imagine young rhodey getting invited to a dinner with the stark family & having to endure howard stark going on for hours about his Honorable Army Soldier Friend Steve Rogers who was just about the Epitome of A Good Soldier & rhodey going absent-mindlessly like “but wasnt he just given his title tho?” & tony nearly choking on his water bc of the look howard gives rhodey later; rhodey doesnt catch on it & he continues “yeah i mean, i just learned all of this recently but he was basically given the title so it sounded pretty when he toured in that fancy, colorful outfit” & like, they all sat mute in the dinner afterwards
re: rhodey first meets the avengers post battle and steve is obviously gearing up for a Big Speech but before he even opens his mouth rhodey is just “so like, is it an army thing?” and steve is just like “what?” “every time you throw a punch at a fake actor you get a rank.”
But omg even more though, Rhodey having the other WWII soldiers on high regard and like going on longwinded rants about them every time somebody talks about Captain America. Like “Captain America marched into the base and -” “Yeah that’s great but DID YOU KNOW THAT GABE MCFUCKIN JONES CAUGHT ARNIM ZOLA THOUGH?? LIKE, did you know about the real MVP?”. And dinners at the Stark household are horrible because Howard has all these stories about Steve but Rhodey knows them all and jumps in with counter points about the other soldiers who fought their way through and didn’t have the serum. Any time the 200 Hitler punches are mentioned Rhodey twitches and Tony leans back with a muffled laugh because there goes Rhodey talking about war propaganda and OMFG MR. STARK CAN WE TALK ABOUT LITERALLY ANYONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY PUNCHED THE GUY INSTEAD OF AN ACTOR?! AND HE GOT A RANK FOR IT, LIKE DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO –
Tony tries to record it the fifth time it happens. It’s the only video involving his dad that he likes.
#imagine
rhodey’s bitter ass going to the smithsonian exbit wrinkling his nose
at nearly everything but the stuff that includes the commandos#(& peggy)#like as his visit is about to end he sees a group of kids; some school tour they did to the exibit; & he shamelessly goes#‘remember the real heroes are those guys back there this guy here is cool & all but he didnt really punch hitler 200 times’#tony has to pull rhodey the third week he does it bc ‘rhodey u cant just go to the captain america exbit & tell ppl#‘captain america didnt really punch hitler#thats lie the governments trying to feed you’#rhodey: bUT CAPTAIN AMERICA DIDNT REALLY PUNCH HITLER & I#; AS A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL#; CAN CONFIRM THATS A LIE WE’RE TRYING TO FEED TO THE PPL’(via @zackbilly)







