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(i know it won't 🥹)

Tony and Rhodey are surrounded by frogs🐸

#james rhodes #tony stark #iron man

Look at Rhodey's shorts, they have Steve's shield pattern on them

#warshield #steve rogers x james rhodes #james rhodes #steve rogers #james rhodes x steve rogers

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Frog bakes an apple pie for Toad

indiarosecrawford

cute-animals-only

ixoracl

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likeatreebesidetheriver

but can we consider that Rhodey does, in fact, outrank Steve Rogers?

now picture rhodey meeting steve and steve snapping a salute

that is all

bonitabreezy

and Rhodey would be totally serious about it until the second Steve walked out of the room and then he’d totally turn and look at Tony with crazy eyes and Tony would be like “JARVIS TOOK PICTURES FROM EVERY ANGLE YOU’RE WELCOME”

theangrygeek

You want to bet Cap doesn’t have the Medal of Honor? I will not accept any canon or fanon where he wasn’t awarded one. Trust me, Rhodey would be saluting him. The regulations don’t actually formally *require* it, but I’ve never actually seen a Medal of Honor recipient not get saluted by pretty much everyone in uniform, pay grade notwithstanding.

likeatreebesidetheriver

even better! because rhodey would have no idea how to process this because he should be the one saluting steve, had been halfway to it when steve’s reflexes beat him to the punch until they’re standing there, salutes aimed at each other in mutual respect.

and after a while, when they’re friends and the shock and awe of Captain America has faded into casual friendship, rhodey asks him about it

and steve just smiles, and glances over to where tony is knee-deep in circuitry and mechanisms. “you were his family when we couldn’t be, and you’re a hero same as us.”

likeatreebesidetheriver

this also solves a few issues (mainly Rhodey being either Marines -as in the comics- or Air Force -as in the MCU- and therefore in separate chains of command, and also the odds on that they would be indoors when it occurs/wearing civvies, negating the necessity for a salute) it’s about respect as well as rank, an acknowledgment that both of them have fought for their country regardless of what issues it may have, and that steve recognizes that bravery and strength in rhodey when so often it goes unnoticed.

actual dorito Steve Rogers.

This is in line with Rhodey's personality