Five Moments We Want To See In Captain America: Civil War

With the first trailer officially released, we are now on the road to Captain America: Civil War, a movie that will pit Captain America against Iron Man, and split the Avengers in two.

While the film is guaranteed to take some major departures from its comic book source material, there are still some moments from the Marvel event that we’re hoping make it into the film.

Click through this article to see the five moments we’re most hoping to see in Captain America: Civil War.

Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps—one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.

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The Bigger they are…

A significant turning point in the original Civil War story is the death of Goliath, who grew to immense size and was shot through the chest with a lightning burst by Ragnarok, a clone of Thor created by Tony Stark and his allies. It was this crossing the moral event horizon that caused certain members of Team Iron Man, including Spider-Man, to reconsider their allegiance.

While Goliath and Ragnarok are almost certainly not going to appear in Captain America: Civil War, this iconic moment could still be recreated. Rumor has it that Ant-Man will become Giant-Man in the film, putting the target on his chest. We don’t expect him to die – he does have an upcoming sequel to star in – but a significant wounding could cause certain allegiances to shift…

Vision disables Iron Man’s armor

During the events of the Civil War comic book event, the Vision was a member of the Young Avengers, who collectively joined Captain America’s Secret Avengers. He serves mostly as a background character, until the final battle. Then, he plays the key role of phasing through and disabling Iron Man’s armor.

In Captain America: Civil War, Vision starts out on iron Man’s side of the conflict. The way we potentially see this playing out is that the Vision, being the biggest gun on Tony’s side, is responsible for wounding Iron Man. This shakes Vision, and sends him over to Cap’s side, where his unique abilities provide Steve Rogers with the key to victory.

Captain America surrenders.

As the story goes, the Marvel editorial staff wasn’t entirely sure how they wanted to end Civil War, and were struggling find a way to bring the conflict to an end without having to declare a definitive winner and loser, or hero and villain. They tossed around many of the cliché ideas that fans most feared – the heroes were being mind-controlled, or had been replaced by shapeshifting Skrulls – when then writer of Astonishing X-Men and future director of The Avengers, Joss Whedon, made a suggestion: let Cap win the battle, while Tony wins the argument.

After spending the majority of Civil War on the ropes, Cap’s team had finally rallied enough support that they were turning the tide. Captain America himself, with Vision’s help, was taking it to Iron Man, when Cap was suddenly tackled by a group of first responders. In a moment of clarity, Cap surveyed the damage to property the battle was causing, noted the civilians their conflict was putting in danger, and realized that – having disabled the Iron Man armor – he had essentially been pummeling a defenseless man trapped in his own metal suit.

While Cap maintained that his opinion on the Superhero Registration Act was still valid, he realized fighting it out this way was only proving Tony’s point. As such, he surrendered, and ordered the Secret Avengers to do the same.

The Death of Captain America

After surrendering, Captain America was taken into custody, and eventually brought to trial, but that trial would never take place. As Captain America was escorted up the stairs of the courthouse, Crossbones snipes him, while a brainwashed Agent 13 delivers the killing shot up close. This would all prove to be the plan of the Red Skull, but we expect it will be tied to Baron Zemo in the film.

The Confession

One complain about the Civil War comic book series is that the characters are lost in all of the superhero fisticuffs. The Brian Michael Bendis written Civil War: The Confession is an epilogue to the core series that helps add some pathos to an otherwise action-oriented event.

After Captain America is shot, his body is taken away. Iron Man visits it, alone. As he stands over the body of his fallen friend, he realizes and says out loud that, even if he won and even if he was right to support the SRA, if it meant losing Cap the it simply wasn’t worth it. This scene alone goes a long way towards redeeming Iron Man, who was villainized throughout most of the series.