Tony Stark | Why do you have Peter Parker's emergency private number? |
Mary Jane Watson | It's... complicated. |
Tony Stark | Are you his biological father? |
Mary Jane Watson | What? No. |
Tony Stark | Then it's not that complicated. What's the skinny? |
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Stark Industries
- Mary Jane Watson (Joins)
- Friday (As a hologram)
- Unnamed members
- War Machine (Jim Rhodes)
Antagonists:
- Southeast Asia Crime Syndicate (Unnamed)
- Biohack Ninja
- Tomoe (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Howard Stark (Photo)
- Tony's biological father (Mentioned)
- Victor von Doom (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Yukio (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
- Pepper Potts (Mentioned)
- Nick Fury, Jr. (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Parker Industries (Mentioned)
- Richard Parker (Mentioned)
- U.S. Military (Mentioned)
- U.S. Marines (Mentioned)
- Tomoe's parents (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Riri Williams (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Stark Headquarters (First appearance; unnamed)
- Hall of Armor (First appearance)
- Empire State University (Mentioned)
- Stark Headquarters (First appearance; unnamed)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- California (Cameo)
- Los Angeles (Cameo)
- Hollywood Hills (Cameo)
- Griffith Park (Cameo)
- Hollywood Sign (Cameo)
- Griffith Park (Cameo)
- Hollywood Hills (Cameo)
- Los Angeles (Cameo)
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Japan
- Honshu
- Tokyo
- Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture (Named only)
- Honshu
- Pacific Ocean (Cameo)
- United States of America
Items:
- Iron Man Armor Model 1 (Cameo)
- Iron Man Armor Model 31 (Cameo)
- Iron Man Armor Model 51 (Model-Prime Armor)
- Cloak of Levitation (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Ms. Marvel's Suit (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Spider-Armor MK IV
- Web-Shooters
- Riri Williams' Armor (First appearance)
Synopsis for 1st story
Mary Jane Watson is waiting for Tony Stark at Stark Headquarters. He arrives forty minutes late, and after greeting Mary Jane, he asks her to follow him. While reaching the Hall of Armor, Tony explains to MJ that he wants her to work for him to help Tony be "less of a hot mess." MJ thinks that Tony truly wants to be better, but she clarifies he will need to listen to her. Tony additionally reveals to her the way his mind works, that he had already envisioned the conversation he and MJ just had, making it hard for him to be surprised by human interactions, so she understands the type of person she's going to work with. However, MJ surprises Tony by telling him that she had called Pepper Potts, but she won't tell him what did they talk about.
Friday suddenly appears, surprising MJ, in order to make Tony focus on his primary operations. Tony suddenly realizes that there's one person missing in their meeting, Jim Rhodes. After concluding that Rhodey is missing, Tony decides to suit up and fly to Tokyo. MJ questions if he doesn't have anybody in the region that could help him right now while he's on his way. Friday informs Tony that Peter Parker is there. After failing to reach him through the phone, MJ gives Tony his emergency number, and Stark is perplexed, for which Mary Jane clarifies that they've known each other since college. Tony proceeds to call Peter and ask him a favor.
In Tokyo, Peter, as Spider-Man, swings to the last known location of War Machine. He finds nothing, and decides to keep swinging around. As he questions how did Tony get his private emergency nuber, two ninja observe Spider-Man from the distance.
Rhodey wakes up inside a warehouse trapped inside his armor, shut down and chained. A woman followed by several ninja enters the room and confronts him, mocking his presence as an act of cowardice of Stark. With the gesture of an arm, she strips Rhodey of his War Machine Armor and dons it herself, making it bulkier using other components from the warehouse. She introduces herself as Tomoe, and warns Rhodey that he has walked blind into their world. She also tells him that he will be interrogated.
Meanwhile, in the M.I.T., two students knock the door of a young girl they call Riri working in a lab late at night, asking her to be quiet. The young girl ignores them and slams the door on their face, and continues working in something that looks like a War Machine Armor.
Solicit Synopsis
"THE WAR MACHINES" PART 2!
• War Machine and Iron Man team up to stop a brand new threat to the Marvel Universe... like only they can. All this plus more hints to next summer's insane Marvel blockbuster event.Notes
- The cover originally solicited for this issue would later be used for Invincible Iron Man #596.
Legacy Numbering[]
- Based on the Marvel Legacy renumbering infographic, this issue is Iron Man #574