History Awesome / CaptainAmericaCivilWar

--->'''Scott:''' [[YouShallNotPass You wanna get to them? You gotta go through me!]].

** War Machine downing Wanda with sonics.

** Cap taking on Black Panther and dominating, while also fending off War Machine.

** Spider-Man takes on Falcon and Bucky inside the airport, managing to web down both of them before Redwing drags him off. He even catches a punch from Bucky's metal arm with one hand and remarks on it while moving it. For comparison, the Winter Soldier Bucky fought had to use both hands to overpower his metal arm, while Spidey is ''casually'' moving it around.
** Spider-Man mostly dominating Cap in their fight thanks to Tony telling him to go for Cap's legs. Spider-Man then maintains his distance and uses his superior speed and agility to blitz attack Steve. Cap uses his experience, fighting skills, and CombatPragmatism to even the odds. Cap ends the fight by cutting out the supports of a passenger stairway over Spidey, who is able to hold up a collapsed passenger stairway and continue talking! No wonder Cap [[WorthyOpponent complimented him]]. At the same time, it's made clear (and Tony lays this out to Peter) that Steve is holding back.

** Black Widow beating around Ant-Man without the use of goggles that can detect him like Falcon's.

*** Giant Man grabs War Machine by transforming when right on top of him and then throws him across the airport. Spider-Man tries to catch him with his webs but only goes flying along with him a long way before he is able to slow him down.
*** Spidey gets a CMOA in that when he hits a truck hard enough to knock it over but isn't too bothered by that, showing how tough the web-slinger is.

*** War Machine carries an entire truck and then smashes it on Giant Man's shin.
*** Then Spidey takes a page out of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and uses his web to tie Giant-Man's legs together before Iron Man and War Machine [[CombinationAttack punch the guy down simultaneously (ala a]] {{Shoryuken}}), not unlike how the Rebels use the Snowspeeder's tow cable to take down an [[HumongousMecha AT-AT]]. Spidey even refers to the film by name!
*** The fact that Giant-Man needed to be defeated by the combined effort of [=#TeamIronMan=]'s three heavy-hitters (sans Vision) shows us how powerful and resistant Giant-Man is. He took a volley of missiles to the chest like it was nothing. He was unbothered by sonic attacks. He swung his arms around and walked about and still caused huge damage. He threw airplanes and vehicles around like tennis balls. He really TookALevelInBadass.

*** War Machine downing Wanda with sonics.
*** Black Widow decides to let Cap and Bucky escape. She manages to keep Black Panther at bay long enough with a paralyzing gadget of hers for Cap and Bucky to take off with the Quinjet. Black Widow is the only person in the entire movie (excluding Scarlet Witch) who was able to incapacitate Black Panther for more than a few seconds. Granted, it still wasn't very long, but it still counts.
*** Black Panther then takes a running leap into the air, grabbing onto the jet in a vain attempt to stop it. He gets shaken off pretty quickly, but that was incredibly daring.
*** Falcon sacrificing Redwing by having it ram Iron Man directly in the face to distract him.
*** While Wanda did not pull off any particularly big plays, her powers helped save her teammates from otherwise devastating blows at the last second by pulling away, blocking, or distracting the other side's attacks. Also, she took the cars from the parking lot nearby and made them ''rain'' on Iron Man and one-shotted Black Panther when he tries to kill Bucky.
*** One of the many [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you-miss-it]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] moments during the splash panel shot: After having received a [[CurbStompBattle rather thorough thrashing from him earlier, it's nice to see Hawkeye actually one-up The Vision of all people, if only briefly. He nails Vision with a couple of electric arrows early in the splash-panel clash while the android is distracted by War Machine vs Falcon, sending the poor fellow offscreen for most of the fight!]]
*** After the fight, Iron Man effortlessly blocks a punch from, and then restrains Spider-Man when Spidey thought he was someone from the opposite team trying to sneak up on him. Stark then orders him to go home before he gets hurt any further.

-->'''Spidey:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Holy shit!]]
** Scott's line to Black Panther after he blocks his way after the transformation:
-->'''Scott:''' [[YouShallNotPass You wanna get to them? You gotta go through me!]].
** Giant Man grabs War Machine by transforming when right on top of him and then throws him across the airport. Spider-Man tries to catch him with his webs but only goes flying along with him a long way before he is able to slow him down.
** Spidey gets a CMOA in that when he hits a truck hard enough to knock it over but isn't too bothered by that, showing how tough the web-slinger is.
** When Giant-Man picks up and swings a boarding gangway at War Machine, Rhodey proceeds to unload his arsenal on the gangway, obliterating it, showing that he is still reluctant to use his full arsenal on Giant-Man.
** Vision sends Giant-Man reeling with a flying headbutt to his midsection. That's right, Giant-Man can take missiles to the face no problem, but Vision's headbutt to the midsection staggers him enough to knock back the plane behind him.
** War Machine carries an entire truck and then smashes it on Giant Man's shin.
** Then Spidey takes a page out of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and uses his web to tie Giant-Man's legs together before Iron Man and War Machine [[CombinationAttack punch the guy down simultaneously (ala a]] {{Shoryuken}}), not unlike how the Rebels use the Snowspeeder's tow cable to take down an [[HumongousMecha AT-AT]]. Spidey even refers to the film by name!
** The fact that Giant-Man needed to be defeated by the combined effort of [=#TeamIronMan=]'s three heavy-hitters (sans Vision) shows us how powerful and resistant Giant-Man is. He took a volley of missiles to the chest like it was nothing. He was unbothered by sonic attacks. He swung his arms around and walked about and still caused huge damage. He threw airplanes and vehicles around like tennis balls. He really TookALevelInBadass.
** Vision is not fooled by Giant-Man's diversion for long and passes through him, then tries to prevent Cap and Bucky from reaching the Quinjet by collapsing the nearby control tower over the hangar with his forehead beam, and Wanda gets her own moment by holding up the tower and, as it clearly shows, with supreme effort.
** War Machine downing Wanda with sonics.
** Black Widow decides to let Cap and Bucky escape. She manages to keep Black Panther at bay long enough with a paralyzing gadget of hers for Cap and Bucky to take off with the Quinjet. Black Widow is the only person in the entire movie (excluding Scarlet Witch) who was able to incapacitate Black Panther for more than a few seconds. Granted, it still wasn't very long, but it still counts.
** Black Panther then takes a running leap into the air, grabbing onto the jet in a vain attempt to stop it. He gets shaken off pretty quickly, but that was incredibly daring.
** Falcon sacrificing Redwing by having it ram Iron Man directly in the face to distract him.
** While Wanda did not pull off any particularly big plays, her powers helped save her teammates from otherwise devastating blows at the last second by pulling away, blocking, or distracting the other side's attacks. Also, she took the cars from the parking lot nearby and made them ''rain'' on Iron Man and one-shotted Black Panther when he tries to kill Bucky.
** One of the many [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you-miss-it]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] moments during the splash panel shot: After having received a [[CurbStompBattle rather thorough thrashing from him earlier, it's nice to see Hawkeye actually one-up The Vision of all people, if only briefly. He nails Vision with a couple of electric arrows early in the splash-panel clash while the android is distracted by War Machine vs Falcon, sending the poor fellow offscreen for most of the fight!]]
** After the fight, Iron Man effortlessly blocks a punch from, and then restrains Spider-Man when Spidey thought he was someone from the opposite team trying to sneak up on him. Stark then orders him to go home before he gets hurt any further.

* Ant-Man becomes [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Giant-Man to provide a distraction while Cap and Bucky run to the Quinjet. His Giant-Man form seriously cripples the Pro-Regs, who are barely able to take him down.]]
** Spider-Man's reaction sums it up perfectly.

** Black Widow beating around Ant-Man twice without the use of goggles that can detect him like Falcon's.

** Featuring the one, the only... [[Franchise/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]!

** Tony's big moment in this fight was using F.R.I.D.A.Y. to analyze Cap's fighting style. One moment, Tony's getting relentlessly pummelled. The next moment, [[PunchCatch he blocks Cap's shield, bringing the fight to a solid stop,]] then dishes out a frighteningly efficient NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him.

** Just after Cap and Tony have exchanged words, Cap raises his arms and Hawkeye shoots out the webs restraining them, followed by a shrunk Ant-Man jumping on Spider-Man, back-flip kicking him, snatching away the shield and returning it to Cap.

** Spider-Man mostly dominating Cap in their fight thanks to Tony telling him to go for Cap's legs. Spider-Man then maintains his distance and uses his superior speed and agility to blitz attack Steve. Cap uses his experience, fighting skills, and CombatPragmatism to even the odds. Cap ends the fight by cutting out the supports of a passenger stairway over Spidey, who is able to hold up a collapsed passenger stairway and continue talking! No wonder Cap [[WorthyOpponent complimented him]].

*** The fact that Steve is able to put up a fight at all, let alone win (admittedly he couldn't have won himself), is a testament to how much more powerful the movie version of the character is compared to the comics. In the comic Civil War arc, in the times the two sides clashed, Steve couldn't even come close to being able to stand against Tony in a fight. His only option was to set up a way to disable Tony's suit completely and wail on him while Tony couldn't move, and once that wore off, Tony effortlessly beat the tar out of him anyway.

** Also, on two occasions in the final fight, Tony gets an advantage over Cap and Bucky through pure skill when fighting them one-on-one. When Bucky starts wailing on him with a metal pipe, Tony grabs the pipe, pulls Bucky towards him, disarms him, spins him around, and gets him in a sleeper hold, all in one move. Then later, when Cap gets him in a sleeper hold, Tony pulls off a thruster powered backflip to get out of the grip, and then when Cap uses his right hand to grab Tony's left hand for a follow-up, Tony immediately moves in and pins Cap's right side under his weight and starts pummeling him. Both times the supersoldiers needed their partners to bail them out of it

** He's essentially a rookie holding his own in a battle featuring far more experienced heroes. The Anti-Accord heroes have fought [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Nazis with energy weapons,]] [[Film/TheAvengers2012 an alien army, a god,]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier heavily armed HYDRA operatives,]] [[Film/AntMan a "genius billionaire" CEO,]] [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron and thousands of killer robots to save the entire planet]] and yet this 15-year-old rookie is holding his own against them!

** He's essentially a rookie holding his own in a battle featuring far more experienced heroes. The Anti-Accord heroes have fought Nazis with energy weapons, an alien army, a god, heavily armed HYDRA operatives, a "genius billionaire" CEO, and thousands of killer robots to save the entire planet and yet this 15-year-old rookie is holding his own against them!

* The entire final battle. A three-way fight between Captain America, the Winter Soldier, and Iron Man, where both sides pull a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown against each other with extreme efficiency. Iron Man, who has now a [[YouKilledMyFather personal vendetta]] with the Winter Soldier, fights both of them in the most ruthless way he's ever displayed in the entire MCU, while Cap and Bucky give as good as they get with brilliant teamwork against the enraged Iron Man. Despite being outnumbered and Bucky [[AttackItsWeakPoint attempting to tear the Arc reactor off his armor]], Iron Man still manages to even the odds and ''blows Bucky's mechanical arm off.'' Cap then roars back into the fight and corners Tony under an avalanche of blows, which Tony can only stop by having Friday take over the armor. He then lays a brutal beatdown on Cap and is seemingly ready to kill him...until Bucky makes one last final distraction move with his remaining arm. Tony brutally kicks him down again, but it's enough of a distraction for Cap to, against all odds, knock Tony down and take his helmet out. Cap then seemingly prepares himself for the unthinkable, raising his shield to deliver the coup de grâce to Tony's exposed head... only to [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt slam shield in Tony's chest Arc reactor]], destroying it and therefore disabling the armor.

'''T'Challa:''' ''[''catches bullet in palm'', armbars Zemo]'' The living are not done with you yet.

** Blink and miss but just as he comes in Tony also [[PunchCatch blocks a punch form Bucky's human arm with both hands]]. Granted Bucky may not having been putting his full strength, but Tony is showing no effort either. Sure those implant do nothing more than summon your armor Tony?
** While it does have better demonstrations, the clip also shows the sheer power of Bucky's metal arm when compared to humans. Natasha is using both of her arms and both legs to try and pry it off of her throat, and is completely failing before T'Challa arrives

'''Stark:''' That's ''good''. That's why I'm here. When I realized what my weapons were capable in the wrong hands, I shut it down, stopped manufacturing.\\

** Simultaneously, when Cap's vehicle is overturned and flipped into the air by crashing into the debris, ''Cap jumps and runs out of the vehicle in mid air faster than the vehicle flips over to them'' and proceeds to tackle Panther before he can slash Bucky.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajZX4nkjyQ The MTV TV Spot]] showcasing Cap, Falcon and Wanda's assault on an enemy base. For those who cannot access, you can use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvqnVcd3rhE this]] version. The team-work, skill and power they show off in this video is incredible:
** Falcon in mid-air throws Cap at an enemy soldier like a human missile, shield-first onto the poor schmuck, smashing him through a pick-up truck window and knocking him out, and Sam disappear within a second. Doubles as a MythologyGag to the time in comics where Cap and Falcon pulled off a similar CombinationAttack to take down the AxCrazy SuperSoldier Nuke

** Then he takes out another soldier with a high speed shield toss-and-return before their gunner can get a bead on him before performing the drop kick we saw in the trailers on the gunner

** Wanda then flings Cap, at his insistence, through a window shield-first into a gas filled room on the third floor, while simultaneously removing the gas with her powers

** It also has Panther proving he is a peer to Cap not only in speed but in strength as well, grabbing Cap's shield and forcing it down

* The trailers all show a guy in a PoweredArmor giving Cap a run for his money, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom even once sending him flying with a punch]]. Apparently HYDRA finally decided to be clever and send an actual superhuman to take out Cap.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xBet_kt-PI Black Widow vs Ant-Man]] - Ant Man says he doesn't usually fight girls, but Black Widow shows him why he should. He immediately makes her regret it

* Wilson's upgraded wings and experience in general. Specifically he smoothly lands in front of Wanda and turns his wings into a shield to protect them both. He has mini-missiles in his suit!!
* The perfectly-executed lab robbery in the opening, courtesy of HYDRA. First, they crash a truck through the gates while the driver ditches it. Immediately, a few more trucks arrive, blocking the roads and sending out armed men with guns blazing and in gas masks, taking out the well-trained and well-armed guards. Then they shoot knockout gas canisters into the building, clearing out any more opposition. Then just as they think everything is finished, cue Cap-missile!

** The whole time Steve is inside he's surrounded by some sort of gas. As soon as he snatches a gas mask off a HYDRA operative, the guy starts choking. Steve is ''holding his breath'' the whole time he's fighting these guys.

* After his father's death, T'Challa is sitting on a bench, staring off into space. Nat tries to offer her sympathies as he holds his father's ring in his hands, explaining his people's beliefs to a sympathetic Natasha. But then his face hardens, he puts the ring on, and coldly declares one hell of a BadassBoast. Up until now, all the audience has seen is a young, somewhat headstrong, Wakandan prince. As soon as that ring goes on his finger, we're looking at ''Black Panther''.

** Cap pulls the old fashioned trick of pulling the rug from underneath an officer's legs to trip him.

** What makes this scene more awesome is that both Steve & Bucky do this with the intent of making sure [[EverybodyLives no one is killed, and they succeed brilliantly]]! The only hiccup is when Bucky knocks one of the policemen over the rail, but Steve is able to catch them, gives Bucky a brief and exasperated "Come on, man!", before placing the policemen out of harms way.

** Steve, Bucky and Black Panther all outrunning cars. Bucky and Black Panther are busy running up and down cars ''while they're driving down a highway''. Steve, meanwhile, knows how fast they all are and he also knows that they while they can outrun a car at highway speeds, none of them can outrun a ''speeding'' car. So he throws himself on an approaching police SUV and [[HeroStoleMyBike hijacks it.]]

** Bucky and the motorbike, specifically how he snatched it from under its rider, threw it up, swung it round and vaulted onto it before motoring away, all in one move. Anyone who says that their jaw did not drop when they saw that is lying.
** During the chase sequence Bucky is able to hold T'Challa by the throat with one arm just like Steve did during their helicarrier battle. However what's really impressive is the fact that Bucky is choking T'Challa. Worth repeating: Bucky is choking T'Challa through his vibranium suit ''with his human hand.''

** He's only 15 and yet has invented his own effective web shooters and even has a makeshift costumes. When he gets to the airport, he then shows how utterly powerful he is by catching Bucky's punch, moving too fast for anyone to catch up with him, webbing Falcon and Bucky to the floor, throwing Cap around like he's a ragdoll with his web threads and taking down Giant Man. By the end of the movie, while the Avengers have been practically destroyed, he's still there to continue fighting crime and helping the little guys survive.
** He's essentially a rookie holding his own in a battle featuring far more experienced heroes. The Anti-Accord heroes have fought Nazis with energy weapons, an alien army, a god, heavily armed HYDRA operatives, a "genius billionaire" CEO and thousands of killer robots to save the entire planet and yet this 15 year old rookie is holding his own against them!
** One for Tony's tech skills. He whips Spidey up a new suit, including capabilities like webbing and googles that he couldn't know about before meeting Pete, in no time at all. A skin tight suit that we find out especially [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming later]], that is stuffed to the gills with tech.

* When Black Widow and Tony are tasked to find Falcon, Cap, and Bucky within 36 hours, they decide they need some help. Black Widow is thinking of Black Panther, and asks Tony who he's thinking of. Then there's a cut, and the location name on the screen reads [[Comicbook/SpiderMan "QUEENS"! Queens]] audiences reportedly went ''crazy'' when this happened.

** While everything Black Panther does is awesome, his fight with Hawkeye has two specific moments of awesome: 1) he dodges multiple arrows from Hawkeye, who, as stated only a minute prior, never misses, and 2) he catches two explosive arrows midair and then [[NoSell doesn't even flinch at the small explosions that occur inches from his face.]] These would be the same explosive arrows that ruined ''Loki's'' day in ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.

** One for Hawkeye as well. He manages to hold his own against someone of Cap's level, and fared better than Black Widow did.

** After the fight, Iron Man effortlessly blocks a punch from, and then restrains Spider Man when Spidey thought he was a someone from the opposite team trying to sneak up on him. Stark then orders him to go home before he gets hurt any further.

** The reason it happened? One of the riot guards decided to try and control the other Winter Soldier by hitting him. [[BullyingADragon Bad move. A CMOH as well, since the other super soldiers immediately jumped up and attacked when the guard struck their fellow soldier. AxCrazy killing machines or not, they went into the program together and are still comrades to the end.]]

* The entire final battle. A three-way fight between Captain America, the Winter Soldier and Iron Man, where both sides pull a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown against each other with extreme efficiency. Iron Man, who has now a [[YouKilledMyFather personal vendetta]] with the Winter Soldier, fights both of them in the most ruthless way he's ever displayed in the entire MCU, while Cap and Bucky give as good as they get with brilliant teamwork against the enraged Iron Man. Despite being outnumbered and Bucky [[AttackItsWeakPoint attempting to tear the Arc reactor off his armor]], Iron Man still manages to even the odds and ''blows Bucky's mechanical arm off.'' Cap then roars back into the fight and corners Tony under an avalanche of blows, which Tony can only stop by having Friday take over the armor. He then lays a brutal beatdown on Cap, and is seemingly ready to kill him...until Bucky makes one last final distraction move with his remaining arm. Tony brutally kicks him down again, but it's enough of a distraction for Cap to, against all odds, knock Tony down and take his helmet out. Cap then seemingly prepares himself for the unthinkable, raising his shield to deliver the coup de grâce to Tony's exposed head... only to [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt slam shield in Tony's chest Arc reactor]], destroying it and therefore disabling the armor.

** The mere fact that Tony was able to hold his own is impressive: Steve and Bucky are hand to hand fighters, with their training and powers going in that direction, while Tony's greatest advantages are his mobility and long-range weaponry, and from the previous scene at the Raft, he is also sporting an injured arm. There, fighting in a confined space with no room for maneuvers, he couldn't put his ranged capabilities to good use, and had to fight in melee multiple times with his injured arm, the field his opponents are best in.

*** The fact that Steve is able to put up a fight at all, let alone win (admittedly he couldn't have won himself) is a testament to how much more powerful the movie version of the character is compared to the comics. In the comic Civil War arc in the times the two sides clashed, Steve couldn't even come close to being able to stand against Tony in a fight. His only option was set up a way to disable Tony's suit completely and wail on him while Tony couldn't move, and once that wore off Tony effortlessly beat the tar out of him anyway.
* T'Challa is so stealthy as Black Panther that he managed to track Bucky, Steve and Tony to the Siberian compound, sneak around the base behind their backs and capture Zemo, all without them noticing that he was even there.

* Bucky willingly going under ice for God knows how long so that his brainwashing can be completely removed. Same goes to Panther for giving Bucky and Cap refuge during the process, and for being willing to put the safety of Wakanda on the line for his new allies.

** Also, Tony [[MundaneMadeAwesome deciding to put Senator Ross' call for help on hold, knowing that it's probably Steve since he's already in the middle of reading his letter, which pretty much allows the breakout to succeed while Tony]] [[GuileHero just looks like he was too busy at the moment to respond]].

* The last shot of the post-credits scene. For the first time in film we get to see [[BatSignal The Spider-Signal!]]

-->'''May:''' Well, I hope you got few good licks in.\\

* This movie highlights Tony's hand to hand combat very brilliantly. While yes, he mostly fights with his suit, during his brief fight with Bucky early in the film he displays some decent talent with little more than a fingerless mechanical glove weapon to help him. Later, when fighting Cap at the airport, he also shows martial arts talent that shows it isn't just the suit that makes Tony a good fighter.
** Also, on two occasions in in the final fight, Tony gets an advantage over Cap and Bucky through pure skill when fighting them one-on-one. When Bucky starts wailing on him with a metal pipe, Tony grabs the pipe, pulls Bucky towards him, disarms him, spins him around and gets him in sleeper hold, all in one move. Then later, when Cap gets him in a sleeper hold, Tony pulls off a thruster powered backflip to get out of the grip, and then when Cap uses his right hand to grab Tony's left hand for a followup, Tony immediately moves in and pins Cap's right side under his weight and starts pummeling him. Both times the supersoldiers needed their partners to bail them out of it

** Black Panther gets another one for one thing: being one of the few people in the MCU capable of taking on Cap and Bucky in hand to hand combat and have the advantage at times.

* In one of the deleted scenes, Natasha strolls into a room to psychoanalyze T'Challa, calling him 'naive' at one point in thinking he could take Bucky as his prisoner, only to find out that T'Challa has anticipated her tactics and secured an extradition before she even walked into the room. This is the same Black Widow who outwitted the God of Lies, and she just got shellacked in less than a minute by a guy who didn't even need to get out of his chair.

* T'Challa overcoming his thirst for revenge because he realizes he and Zemo are NotSoDifferent. After being an unreasonable, revenge-driven jackass for most of the film, he chooses to be the better man.