Armor Wars' New Setup Isn't What You Expected (& That's Smart)
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Ms. Marvel.
Marvel Studios' latest Armor Wars setup comes in Ms. Marvel and is totally unexpected, but in a good way. The upcoming Don Cheadle-led Disney+ series may still not have any release date, but due to MCU's penchant for playing the long storytelling game, it is already laying the groundwork for its narrative. Surprisingly, Marvel Studios uses Ms. Marvel as a launching pad for Armor War's central conflict.
Based on the comic book storyline of the same title, Armor Wars's story focuses on Iron Man keeping his creations out of the hands of those who want to use them for the wrong reasons. Marvel Studios has previously tackled this narrative in the first two Iron Man films, albeit only loosely. In Iron Man 2, he famously fended off the government from trying to get its hands on the Iron Man armor tech. Now that the genius billionaire is no longer around, this responsibility rests on the shoulders of those who survived him. Rhodey, in particular, is tasked to make sure that his best friend's legacy doesn't get tainted because bad guys got ahold of his inventions.
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There's currently a scarcity of official information about Armor Wars given the MCU's stacked release schedule. Despite that, Marvel Studios has more actively started laying the groundwork for the show's narrative and in an unexpectedly genius way through Ms. Marvel and the Department of Damage Control. The organization was created by Tony Stark after the Battle of New York to clean up messes after every Avenger incident. As seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home, they have seemingly turned villainous, now chasing down superpowered individuals. The MCU doubles down
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