Avengers: Infinity War - 15 Things Marvel Want You To Forget First

11. War Machine's Injuries

When It Mattered

In Captain America: Civil War, the accidental grave injury sustained by James Rhodes - AKA War Machine - at the hands of Vision during the exceptional airport battle was supposed to be extremely important. It not only gave Tony Stark a more personal reason to be annoyed at Team Cap, but it also fit in with his anxiety about putting his friends (and the entire world) in danger.

Sure, it was cruel to use Rhodey as a narrative morality tale, but he wasn't doing much else by that point.

But Now...

Thanks to some excellent off-screen magic - confirmed by Don Cheadle as being down to Tony Stark's genius - Rhodey is able to walk just as well as if his spine WASN'T horrifically crushed. Almost as if the dramatic tension built in Civil War was a huge inconvenience when it came to the Russos wanting to use him in Infinity War.

Like, seriously, shouldn't he just be retired? Or offering his military expertise backstage like a Marvel Oracle? Nope, he's front and centre and thanks to some plot armour augmentations, it's like his injuries never happened. Which is probably exactly as Marvel wish.