Does New 'Iron Man 2' War Machine Footage Reveal Too Much?

by Rick Marshall


New footage from "Iron Man 2" is set to debut on tonight's episode of "Entertainment Tonight," and by now you've probably seen the promotional clips that hit the 'Net earlier today, so we have to ask: does all of the footage reveal too much?

With today's peek at what's likely to be even more footage from "Iron Man 2," it stands to reason that a lot of the questions floating around Splash Page HQ have found their answers. In fact, we can deduce most of the storyline involving Iron Man and War Machine from today's promo ads alone.

So consider this a big ol' SPOILER ALERT, folks — because we're about to get all sorts of theoretical.

In the first pair of images culled from the "Iron Man 2" footage, we not only get our first peek at Don Cheadle donning the War Machine armor, but it also looks like James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Cheadle) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) are on good terms... for the moment.

Given the comments of Cheadle and Sam Rockwell, who plays weapons dealer Justin Hammer, it sounds like Rhodey and Hammer team up to build the War Machine armor — but don't seem allied in the use of it.

As we see in the promo spot just before Cheadle and Downey suit up, a mysterious armored character is seen flying through the sky and torching a large group of cars. A rogue armor-wearer, perhaps?

But it's the end of the footage when things really get interesting. The clip appears to show War Machine and Iron Man fighting side-by-side against an army of armored combatants.

Could the split between Iron Man and War Machine be bridged by the threat of an army of Iron Man clones? Could Justin Hammer's backroom dealings with the U.S. government force Stark to divulge the specs for his armor, resulting in a replica of the armor for Jim Rhodes (and an army for Hammer on the side), make that threat a reality? Have we just sorted out the entire War Machine plot of the film?

Well, at least there's still Whiplash to wonder about...

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