Jim Rhodes: the pond in the woods near where he grew up, one of those golden August afternoons. The granddad who died that winter, before Christmas vacation. At the end of the afternoon, they haven't caught any fish, but it's dinnertime, so they get up and walk home together, and somewhere, in the trees and the last sunlight on the forest floor, Jim Rhodes dies.

Tony Stark doesn't appear in it, at least not as herself: the most she gets is her voice on the wind as Jim and his grandfather walk back. The wind says the same things Iron Man does when she lands with War Machine in her arms, but the words are gone as soon as the trees settle. Maybe Tony's face even appears on the surface of the pond for a moment, but no more than that.

Jim Rhodes dies in Tony's arms on the deck of the helicarrier, bleeding out between his plates and running onto Tony's gold-titanium ones, but Jim Rhodes has a family. Jim Rhodes has other things to miss when he is dead, other people who he regrets leaving behind.

Most of all, though, Tony Stark has no part in his happiest memory.