Thank you for reading and commenting! Rhodey deserves ALL THE AWARDS, especially if you go with comics!cannon and he's known Tony since his super awkward college years (which is something I don't think they've actually stated in MCU...? but that's always their backstory in my headcannon anyway).
I went back and forth on whether or not Tony would've demanded total control over War Machine (or, at least, dictated that Rhodey have complete control), and I think the fact that he was basically dying and he and Pepper were on the outs means that he didn't plan as well as he might have under more stable circumstances, and he's been fighting to get War Machine back under his control ever since. We'll see if IM3 brings it up at all, because I'm not well-versed enough in legal thingies to really puzzle that out to any depth. Um, so that was a long ramble, sorry. ^_^;;
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I went back and forth on whether or not Tony would've demanded total control over War Machine (or, at least, dictated that Rhodey have complete control), and I think the fact that he was basically dying and he and Pepper were on the outs means that he didn't plan as well as he might have under more stable circumstances, and he's been fighting to get War Machine back under his control ever since. We'll see if IM3 brings it up at all, because I'm not well-versed enough in legal thingies to really puzzle that out to any depth. Um, so that was a long ramble, sorry. ^_^;;