![]() ![]() This goes far beyond even 'comic book logic,' into the realm of purely arbitrary plot twists. In the end, Iron Man learns something irrelevant, that causes him to totally lose his mind and nearly murder one of his closest friends. His presence is basically just an ad for the upcoming second reboot of his own franchise.įinally, there's the question of the 'civil war' itself. He's completely superfluous to any plot line within the film. Spider-Man is the most glaring insertion. ![]() Ironically, this is exactly the sort of billion-dollar collateral damage that the film starts out questioning. Culminating in a completely unnecessary battle between every superhero in the Avengers side of the Marvel cinema franchise - and the total devastation of a major airport. Instead, Civil War lapses into a succession of impressive but meaningless action sequences. (Mild spoilers ahead.) That last question never gets properly asked, let alone answered. ![]() ![]() Civil War starts by asking: what if the UN got involved? Should the Avengers yield their autonomy - their might-makes-right power, based purely on the accident of their own super-abilities? And furthermore, can even the UN or any other body be trusted to administer that kind of power? The question of vigilante justice has never been properly addressed in the superhero genre. This slide is doubly sad, because the film starts so well. This escalates into an all-out war between Team Iron Man (Iron Man, Black Panther, Vision, Black Widow, War Machine, and Spider-Man) and Team Captain America (Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant Man) while a new villain emerges.Īlas, this film marks the point at which the Marvel film franchise slipped from the realm of powerful drama with larger-than-life characters, into pure Biff! Pow! fan service, with colorful super-manikins pitted needlessly and inappropriately against each other. Iron Man stands with this Act, claiming that their actions must be kept in check otherwise cities will continue to be destroyed, but Captain America feels that saving the world is daring enough and that they cannot rely on the government to protect the world. This results in a division in The Avengers. With many people fearing the actions of super heroes, the government decides to push for the Hero Registration Act, a law that limits a hero's actions. ![]()
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