Good stuff. I’d also like to add that Civil War is the warm up act, and unless you’re a horror movie, you don’t start dropping guys in the warm up act, especially when you can still have story-altering events without using deaths as a crutch (which ironically is something that super hero COMICS are often criticized…

Exactly. At this point, the “official” Avengers team is Stark and Vision, and neither of them really seems to have his head in the game. Saying that there were “no consequences” to Civil War is disingenuous if no flat-out wrong.

Disagree. I don’t know Zemo’s comic incarnation, but I think the version in the film is the best villain we’ve seen in a Marvel film since Loki.

They’re not exactly all in the same exact place - Captain America and his team are all wanted fugitives after breaking out of prison. When Captain America can’t set foot in America anymore, that’s a big deal. And it doesn’t seem like Stark got any closer to forgiving Bucky, so as long as Cap is protecting him there’s…

Thank you. This was a rather adept dismantling of the “this movie really needed a cliched, overdramatic major character death” argument.

Nothing happened?

Half of the Avengers are fugitives from international law, possibly all hiding out with asylum in Wakanda. Iron Man and Captain America are at best estranged friends, with Tony back in charge of whatever remains of the Avengers and Steve’s letter serving as a mea culpa with no clear resolution to…