Biography for
War Machine (Character)
from Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (2011) (VG)

War Machine is Jim Rhodes. He is Iron Man's partner.

Tony 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.

The two men worked together on many occasions, Rhodes even risking his life and his career to aid Stark during the Armor Wars, when Iron Man discovered that his technology had been stolen and sold to various armoured villains.

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.

His armor is equipped with:

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.

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.

Plasma 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

Self-contained breathing system.

Grants Rhodes high levels of superhuman strength

Grants Rhodes high levels of superhuman durability