Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3123266-20140303175822/@comment-2127388-20140511105805

War Machine was on his way to New York during the Chitauri invasion, but as he was in Central Asia he cant get there in time. Its more on that everyone who can get there fast enough will be fighting alongside Avengers to protect humanity. Ultron is evidently Stark's automated armor. No doubt about that. But I really dont understand your reason for that it will be Iron Patriot armor. The corruption of War Machine armors was becuase of one single reason. Smartass scientists got a hold of the armor to understand its programming. First Vanko, who got its hand son it when working for Hammer, and AIM are the smartest organization in world, who captured the armor.

It will be really boring if no new members will be joining the Avengers, seeing constantly just the same guys. In AoU there will be Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver as new members, with Vision also making his appearance. Since it isnt planned that there will be another Iron Man (4) film (true Mandarin will be ideal enemy for this), so War Machine is suitable to join Avengers. In Avengers 3 there will be with high probability Ant-Man and Wasp as new members, and maybe also Dr. Strange (not that certain of that), and who knows, maybe Falcon and Winter Soldier will be assisting as well, along with Guardians of the Galaxy. If there will be just the founding 6, it will be quite boring, dont you think? Also, Hawkeye was support character before Avengers ;)