So Age of Ultron has come out, and that’s
all fine and good, but Marvel’s not wasting
a single second getting on with their next
project.
Captain America: Civil War.
Recently, the full roster of heroes was announced
for this movie, and in case you haven’t
seen it, here it is real quick:
Captain America
Iron Man
Black Widow
Hawkeye
The Vision
Scarlet Witch
Agent 13
The Winter Soldier
Ant-Man
Black Panther
Falcon
Crossbones
War Machine
Baron Zemo
General Ross?
Martin Freeman in an undisclosed role
And of course Spider-Man
I considered making a video going over my
thoughts on this lineup, but I thought why
not instead get out what I hope to see in
this new hopefully epic movie.
So that’s what I’m here to do today.
Without further ado, let’s start.
Focus on conflict between Captain America
and Iron Man
Like I just pointed out, this movie is going
to be crowded as anything.
And I really don’t want this movie to be
Avengers 2.5.
There can be some focus on Falcon, The Winter
Soldier, and War Machine, because they’re
the right hand men for Cap and Iron Man.
But the rest of these characters shouldn’t
have big subplots.
They should be there because we need a lot
of people in this so there can actually be
a big epic clash of the titans.
Don’t get me wrong, you can devote some
time to these other characters.
But I don’t think we need a Black Widow
Ant-Man subplot, or Black Panther side mission,
or General Ross who for some reason is in
this movie.
My point is, I don’t want everyone pulling
away from what should be a Captain America
vs Iron Man movie.
Captain America is practically getting side
lined in his movie!
I want most of the movie to be dedicated to
Steve Rogers and Tony Stark’s conflicting
ideologies.
It doesn’t even have to be them fighting
for most of the movie, their clashing ideas
are interesting enough.
A character that I especially don’t want
to draw a lot of the attention is Spider-Man.
I’m not saying he should be a cameo, I do
realize that he plays an extremely pivotal
part in the story, but Marvel had a whole
script ready without Spidey and I’d hate
to see him completely shoehorned in.
He’s going to get his own solo movie a year
from this film anyway, so don’t have him
be too much of a major character.
And that leads me into my next point:
Don’t have Spider-Man unmask himself
This might seem strange at first, but hear
me out.
One of the most famous moments in comic book
history is when Spider-Man pulls off his mask
and reveals himself as Peter Parker to the
world.
It’s massively important to the Civil War
story and Spider-Man lore in general.
But here’s the thing.
As a couple of people have already brought
up, the reason that moment was so powerful
and effective is because there had been decades
of Spider-Man hiding his secret identity,
and that had been a big part of his story
for so long.
If they do it in this movie, it won’t nearly
work to the same effect.
Like, hey, this kid showed up in red costume.
He took his mask off.
Alright.
I really hope they don’t waste that scene
before we actually get to know this new Spider-Man.
One can argue that everyone knows Spider-Man
and everyone knows he’s been hiding the
fact that he’s Peter Parker.
But we don’t know what Marvel’s going
to do with the character.
So if they really want to do the Spider-Man
unmasking, I’d say they should do this:
have him be introduced in Civil War, where
we get an idea of who he is.
Then develop his character a lot more in the
solo movie that’s coming up, and then in
Infinity War or even a later film, you can
have that moment if you really want to include
it somehow.
I realize that it’s important to the Civil
War story in the comics, but Marvel has never
had to follow the comics that closely.
You know who else is a big player in Civil
War?
Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman.
See my point?
Don’t set up other movies
Something that I really liked about Avengers:
Age of Ultron is that, since this was Joss
Whedon’s last Marvel movie, he just went,
well, I’m not gonna set up the rest of your
movies.
Yes, there was Thor’s obligatory infinity
stones side mission, yes there was the end
credits scene, and yes there was that fight
between Cap and Iron Man.
But the movie was by no stretch an Amazing
Spider-Man 2, a commercial for the next film.
And I really want Civil War to be it’s own,
once off thing.
Sure, set up more Black Panther if you want,
that’s fine.
Or a bit of Spider-Man.
But this should be a film focused entirely
on the freedom vs security issue and the conflict
that arises from that.
We really don’t need Thanos to come down
in the last five minutes and say I’ll be
back in 2018, see ya!
Just have this be it’s own, independent
film.
Don’t spend too much time on the villain
Probably the thing I’m most excited for
in this movie is the fact that Tony Stark
will be the villain.
Sort of.
He isn’t exactly the villain in the comics,
you can side with either, but generally speaking
he comes across as the bad guy in the story.
Also, the film is called Captain America:
Civil War, so that should indicate something.
And that’s going to be so awesome, Tony
Stark, the guy we’ve followed and loved
literally since day one of the MCU, they guy
who is most people’s, including my own,
favorite Avenger, he’s gonna be the villain.
That’s gonna be so cool, flipping it all
on it’s head.
It’s like if in X-Men: Apocalypse, Wolverine
becomes one of the bad guys.
Which ironically enough might end up happening.
The reason I bring all this up is because
Marvel isn’t great with their villains,
especially compared to DC.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, they’re all
serviceable, but really, Loki’s great, Ultron’s
great, The Winter Soldier’s great, and Red
Skull is pretty good.
Besides that, the bad guys aren’t very memorable.
And now, they have an opportunity to use an
exciting and new kind of villain.
But instead they’ve got Baron Zemo, who
I’ll be completely honest, I know nothing
about.
I’m sure he’s a threatening guy, and they
got a good actor to play him.
But I’d much rather see Tony Stark be the
guy I have to root against than Generic Marvel
Villain number 7.
Have Captain America die (but not really)
My final wish for this movie is that in it,
Captain America dies.
Now, this whole thing might seem a bit far
fetched but just stay with me here.
So in Civil War, he gets killed.
How, doesn’t really matter.
You can have it be at the hands of Crossbones
like in the comics, since he’s in this movie
any way, but it would pack more of an emotional
punch if Tony kills him.
Regardless, Cap’s dead and this really throws
the MCU into chaos.
Bucky could potentially take on the mantle
and don the shield as he’s done in the comics
and as it was hinted at in the Winter Soldier,
or they could follow the newer comics route
and have Falcon become the new Captain America.
That could be a very interesting story arc.
Anyway, the other movies continue as they
would, and then we get to Infinity War.
There’s this huge crisis going down, Thanos
is destroying the world or whatever, and then
they bring Captain America back.
How?
Well, this is the Marvel universe, so you
can pretty much do it any way you want.
Maybe he faked his death.
Maybe he was nursed back to health by some
Russians.
Maybe he fell into space and then for some
reason didn’t actually die.
They could use the TAHITI project, the program
designed to bring back dead Avengers, as seen
in Agents of SHIELD.
The most likely scenario is that during the
battle the Avengers get their hands on an
Infinity Stone and use it to bring Cap back.
The most likely would be the time stone, as
they could go back and save him and then he
can help out in the final battle.
I don’t know, maybe it’s really dumb,
but I think that’s a solid idea.
Also, just a real quick thing that has nothing
to do with this but is just something I wanted
to address, I recently-ish hit 1000 subscribers,
which is amazing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,
I’m just a guy who likes talking about superheroes
and movies and comics and all that stuff,
and the fact that other people can also enjoy
that it’s pretty cool.
So anyway, what are your wishes for Civil
War?
Do you agree with what I want?
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