Appearing in "Machinery of War Part Two: Smart Weapons, Foolish Choices"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Stark Solutions / Maria Stark Foundation
- ⏴ Pepper Potts ⏵
- ⏴ Happy Hogan ⏵ (Appears on screen)
- ⏴ James Rhodes ⏵
- ⏴ Dr. Glenda Sandoval ⏵
- ⏴ Jocasta ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Baintronics Inc. (Main story and flashback)
- ⏴ War Machine (Parnell Jacobs) ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
- ⏴ Rampage (Stuart Clarke) ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
- ⏴ Sunset Bain ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
- Several unnamed security officers
Other Characters:
- U.S. Air Force
- Smitty (First appearance)
- Several unnamed pilots
- The Devil (Invoked)
- Maria Stark (Mentioned)
- ⏴ Warbird (Carol Danvers) ⏵ (Only in flashback)
- Alcoholics Anonymous (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- James Bond (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Ultron (Only in recap)
- Machine Man (Aaron Stack) (Referenced)
- High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham) (Referenced)
- Terminus (Referenced)
- Howard Stark (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Kree Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Robots (Main story and recap)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Pacific Ocean
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Washington (Main story and recap)
- Seattle
- Baintronics, Inc. Facility (Main story and recap)
- Astrodyne Systems, Redmond (Mentioned)
- New York (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback)
- Midtown (Only in flashback)
- Fifth Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Avengers Mansion (Only in flashback)
- Fifth Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Midtown (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback)
- Long Island (Only in flashback)
- Queens (Only in flashback)
- Flushing (Only in flashback)
- Stark Industries Headquarters (Only in flashback)
- Flushing (Only in flashback)
- Queens (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Only in flashback)
- M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Referenced)
- Washington (Main story and recap)
Items:
- War Machine Armor Model 2
- Iron Man Armor Model 11 (Only in flashback)
- Warbird's Suit (Only in flashback)
- Iron Man Armor
- Safe Armor (Main story and flashback)
- Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Machinery of War Part Two: Smart Weapons, Foolish Choices"
War Machine tests his new additional armaments by destroying two fighter jets. Meanwhile, Pepper picks up Rhodey and Glenda at the airport where Rhodey explains he thinks he knows who the new War Machine is: Glenda's husband Parnell. Pepper takes Rhodey & Glenda to Stark's estate, where Glenda insists that Parnell cannot be War Machine, as he promised her he had given up mercenary work. Stark arrives at Baintronics where Sunset explains what she needs him for: a decoding problem with Project Brainpan. Stark begins, secretly intending to circumvent her security to find confirmation she was behind War Machine's attack on Aerodyne; he starts to recognize a pattern in the Al code, but Sunset arrives and distracts him with a kiss. Stark gets back to work and soon realizes he's trying to decode Jocasta, recalling that the last time he saw her was in this same plant after she had been damaged fighting Terminus' construct. He enters the password "Queen of Thebes," unlocking her personality. An alarm warns Sunset that Stark has discovered her secret, and she orders her men to apprehend Stark but he's disappeared. He steals a truck while staying in contact with Jocasta and calls his armor. As he returns as Iron Man he's attacked by War Machine. While they fight Sunset uses an unwilling Jocasta to target her smart weapons on them both.
Notes
Chronology Notes[]
A flashback in this story affects the chronology of the following characters:
War Machine (Parnell Jacobs)
- Pag. 8, Panel 6 - Pag. 9, Panel 3 take place between Iron Man (Vol. 3) #18 and this issue.
- ⏴ Pag. 12, Panel 5 ⏵
- ⏴ Pag. 15, Panel 6 - Pag. 17, Panel 3 ⏵
Legacy Numbering[]
- Based on the Marvel Legacy renumbering infographic, this issue is Iron Man #364
