User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/Fin Fang Foom for Iron man 4 WHO'S WITH ME!!/@comment-6496530-20130302053603/@comment-4651179-20130307220121

There will be a new Iron Patriot in the pages of Secret Avengers... I wonder who could he be?

I think Marvel is doing this thing of "introducing new character/concept similar to our next Iron Man movie before the movie premieres, but obviously wasn't intended to be created unitl we heard about the movie because the character/concept we will use in the movie is not like the comics" they did with Whiplash. In this case, making Rhodes the new Iron Patriot.