![]() ![]() That came from the cover of Civil War#7, the final chapter of the comic. – The whole chopper escape scene did faintly remind me of this scene from the comics, though…īut far more on-the-nose was that scene during the final Steve/Tony throwdown, where we finally see what happens when repulsors at full power meet a shield that’s made of a vibranium/adamantium (what? I’m allowed to say the a-word here even if Marvel isn’t on screen!) alloy! put out a music album in 2004 with the title “The Futurist.” It’s available on Spotify. It has also been pointed out to me by ACE and Drume in the comments that Robert Downey Jr. It was some tortured nonsense comic book dialogue, and good on this movie for making fun of it in a low key way. Essentially, Tony went on and on about being a “futurist” and that’s why he knew a law would be passed making life for superheroes difficult. – When Clint Barton starts giving Tony shit about being “the great futurist” that’s kind of making fun of some dialogue from the New Avengers: Illuminatiissue that set up the events of Civil War. However, the Miriam of the comics leads a very public (and tacky) crusade in the media, while here, she just makes a more quiet and dignified statement to Tony Stark. As in the comics, Miriam lost a child because of the aforementioned exploding superhero misadventures. – Alfre Woodard’s character is identified only as “Miriam” in the movie, but this is Miriam Sharpe. It sounds like things would be a bit more restrictive here. For many years in the comics, the Avengers did indeed have a UN sanction, although they mostly operated as an independent body. – It’s also interesting that one of the clauses of the Sokovia Accords is that the Avengers would become a UN sanctioned operation. Tony Stark went along with it pretty readily, Steve Rogers did not. What caused the split between the heroes in the comics was that the plan was to get everyone to register their real identities with the government so that they could be organized and monitored. What both versions of the story have in common is that someone exploded, taking a bunch of innocents with them. In that case it was the destruction of a town by an errant group of well-meaning but dumb low-level superheroes filming a reality show. In the comics, the inciting event was more small of a local concern, not an international one. Really, the damn gub’mint will just look for any excuse to pass laws restricting freedom, won’t they? Anyway… No matter how many folks the Avengers saved there, the cost in damage and human life was astounding…not to mention the PR disaster that “AI created by a superhero tried to destroy the world by dropping a country on it from orbit” must be. “The Sokovia Accords” refer to the catastrophic events from the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. All these two have in common is the idea of government regulation of superheroes and a divide ultimately led by Captain America and Iron Man. ![]() I say “loosely based” because really, it is. ![]() Captain America: Civil War is loosely based on Civil War, a comic book story by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. – So, let’s start with the most obvious thing here. So this movie’s flashbacks to earlier time periods is kind of a spiritual successor to the comics. For one thing, the Brubaker and Epting comics, while firmly set in the present day, constantly deployed flashbacks to fill in the blanks of Bucky and Cap’s history. ![]()
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