Talk:War Machine Armor Mark VII/Iron Patriot Mark II/@comment-65.101.75.172-20190517162415/@comment-29433749-20191130151508

How do you know the Mark 6 barely has any weapons? The closest we get to seeing it in combat is when it gets buried under Avengers HQ and when Rhodes backhands Quill in the face on Morag. These moments surely aren't showing the suit at it's full potential.

If the number of weapons a suit has determines how strong it is, and we're assuming the movies show us every weapon available, then by that logic the Iron Man Marks 4, 42, 43, 45 and 47 are all weaker than the Mark 3. It's not the movie's job to demonstrate every suit's full capabilities.

Don't forget Tony Stark's engineering philosophy was to design new technologies and then make them smaller and more efficient. Maybe the WM Mark 6's weapons are really compact. Maybe it's a traditional War Machine exoskeleton with nano weapons. Plus we've seen that not every new suit means more weapons. Perhaps the Mark 6 features tougher armour or multiple arc reactors.

My current theory is the War Machine Mark 5 is the suit pictured at the top of this page. Stark eventually replaces it with the Mark 6; almost exactly the same capabilities but smaller and more efficient. We see that before the main event of Endgame, Tony records a message for Pepper and Morgan. What if his goodbye present for Rhodey was to upgrade the War Machine Mark 5 (as an upgrade would be quicker than designing a whole new suit), and as a joke he gave it the Iron Patriot rebrand.