Doesn't seem right, especially since Coulson is such a big fan of rules and rank and following orders when it comes to his own team. How would he feel about Mack or Simmons conducting their own operations without informing him? What makes his confinement of in humans on base different from Stark restricting Wanda's…

They did say "alpha". And th did say "primitives".

Or just really drunk.

"His entire plan revolved around throwing that information in Tony's face."

An MCU western maybe.

Gun registration was brought up several times in the original storyline.
But that's beside the point. You can't control a metaphor. People see what they want to see, and that becomes the main subtext.
Do you think that when Lee and Kirby created the X-men in 1963 that they intended them to be a LGBTQ allegory?
Anybody…

Also, after forty years of character development and relationship, it is hard to buy that those two characters would let things get out of hand so quickly.

Hunting down Nitro was just a way of keeping him conveniently out of the conflict. As a mutant, he was already registered. And after his ridiculous "public Enemy of the State" story line, taking EITHER side of the Civil War would have made him look like the ultimate hypocrite.

Come meet my grandparents and see for yourself.

But Cap is one of the powerful.

That was the first time they pulled the "tie-in issue" nonsense.

Nasty thievsing hobbitses?

Hulk Carter of Mars?

Seems strange for such an anti-authoritarian guy to use a superhero name with a military rank.

The similarities are too hard to ignore. Freedom vs. Safety is one of the usual themes of any gun debate.
Start the story with a bunch of dead schoolchildren in Connecticut and calls for regulation in Washington; and Mark Millar looks eerily prophetic.

Less than two years? That can't be right.

Tony drives around in an open convertible sports car.

It was an intramural/friendly fight. He wasn't sending Peter in to fight Ultron.

Or all the costumed vigilantes that are presumably roaming the rooftops of Beijing, Mumbai and Buenos Aires.

First Tina Fey, now Paul Feig. Internet critics are the new villain dujour.