Another character seemingly poised to join Marvel's Avengers as a playable hero, James "Rhodey" Rhodes (aka War Machine) gets a minor shout out in one of the game's collectibles - a message sent to him by Tony Stark in the wake of A-Day.
Tony thanks his friend for sticking up for him at the hearings, hints at the War Machine armour and name-drops who I can only assume is Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, a Marvel military general who you may recognise from such comics as The Incredible Hulk, and Thunderbolts.
Ross' potential inclusion isn't something that many fans had considered, but with "echo" characters rumoured to be on the way, a red re-skin and re-dub for Ross as Red Hulk could end up being a fun and easy piece of content for Crystal Dynamics to add at some point in the future.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
