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* CombatPragmatist: The airport fight is filled with them, from Ant-Man and Cap teaming up to throw a fuel truck, to Cap adapting his fighting style when fighting Spidey, to Spidey tangling up Giant-Man's legs to Giant-Man first shoving a bus across the taxiway with his boot, then ripping the wing off a passenger jet and throwing it into the fray. Heck, even FRIDAY gets in on the action, using the fire suppresion system in Iron Man's armor to purge Ant-Man from it after the latter sneaks inside.
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* CombatPragmatist: The airport fight is filled with them, from Ant-Man and Cap teaming up to throw a fuel truck, to Cap adapting his fighting style when fighting Spidey, to Spidey tangling up Giant-Man's legs to Giant-Man first shoving a bus across the taxiway with his boot, then ripping the wing off a passenger jet and throwing it into the fray. Heck, even FRIDAY gets in on the action, using the fire suppresion suppression system in Iron Man's armor to purge Ant-Man from it after the latter sneaks inside.
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* HypocriticalHumor: The guy who uses a flight suit and calls himself 'The Falcon' says that Spider-Man's gimmicky.
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* HypocriticalHumor: The guy who uses a flight suit and calls himself 'The Falcon' "The Falcon" says that Spider-Man's Spider-Man is gimmicky.
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** Spider-Man catches Bucky's fist on-handed one-handed at the airport battle. He then takes a moment to tell him how awesome his metal arm is -- while ''effortlessly turning it around'' to better examine it. The astonished face Bucky makes is priceless.
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* TaughtByExperience: Ultimately, Tony's team includes people who have more on-the-ground experience than Steve's team. Yes, Steve's Ant-Man had his own motion picture, but Tony's Spider-Man (note the parallel) was fighting in actual, on-the-ground battles. Otherwise, Team Tony and Team Steve were ''very'' evenly matched. * TeethClenchedTeamwork:
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* TaughtByExperience: Ultimately, Tony's team includes people who have more on-the-ground experience than Steve's team. Yes, Steve's Ant-Man had his own motion picture, but Tony's Spider-Man (note the parallel) was fighting in actual, on-the-ground battles. Otherwise, Team Tony and Team Steve were ''very'' evenly matched. matched.
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** The Avengers have saved the world numerous times, but many people are growing tired of the amount of collateral damage the heroes leave in their wake, especially since becoming essentially an N.G.O. Superpower following the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the World Security Council.
** Rhodes' armor [[spoiler:won't do anything to cushion his fall from a great height]]. Especially notable since [[spoiler:the same thing happened to Tony in the first film, and he didn't suffer any major injuries from it]].
** The Avengers have saved the world numerous times, but many people are growing tired of the amount of collateral damage the heroes leave in their wake, especially since becoming essentially an N.G.O. Superpower following the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the World Security Council.
** Rhodes' armor [[spoiler:won't do anything to cushion his fall from a great height]]. Especially notable since [[spoiler:the same thing happened to Tony in the first film, and he didn't suffer any major injuries from it]].
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** Steve, Tony, and Bucky walk into the old HYDRA facility that housed the Winter Soldiers... only to see [spoiler:they've all been shot in the head. Zemo didn't give a damn about them. It was a RedHerring.]]
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** Steve, Tony, and Bucky walk into the old HYDRA facility that housed the Winter Soldiers... only to see [spoiler:they've [[spoiler:they've all been shot in the head. Zemo didn't give a damn about them. It was a RedHerring.]]
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Previous entries in the MCU have focused on Tony's fractious relationship with his father. Here we get to see how much he adored his mother. While it rocks him to see the security footage of the Winter Soldier beating his father to death, learning that he did the same to Tony's mother is what finally sends him into an UnstoppableRage.
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* MommasBoy: Previous entries in the MCU have focused on Tony's fractious relationship with his father. Here, we get to see how much he adored his mother. [[spoiler:While it rocks him to see the security footage of the Winter Soldier beating his father to death, learning that he did the same to Tony's mother is what finally sends him into an UnstoppableRage.]]
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** Falcon calls Ant-Man "Tic-Tac". And his little drone is named Redwing.
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** Falcon [[Creator/AnthonyMackie Falcon]] calls Ant-Man "Tic-Tac". And his little drone is named Redwing.
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** Tony's disgusted by Ross locking up his fellow Avengers in the Raft, a prison that makes Alcatraz look tame that's designed to hold supervillains. It's part of what inspires him to convince Sam to let him apologize to Steve and hear him out about Zemo.
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** Tony's disgusted by Ross locking up his fellow Avengers in the Raft, a prison designed to hold supervillains that makes Alcatraz look tame that's designed to hold supervillains.tame. It's part of what inspires him to convince Sam to let him apologize to Steve and hear him out about Zemo.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Tony might be willing to recruit a teenager to become a surprise addition to the fight that Steve and the others can't anticipate, he's still not willing to let the kid get hurt and tells him to stay out of the fight after Scott knocks him down during the Hoth maneuver.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
** Tony might be willing to recruit a teenager to become a surprise addition to the fight that Steve and the others can't anticipate, he's still not willing to let the kid get hurt and tells him to stay out of the fight after Scott knocks him down during the Hothmaneuver.maneuver.
** Tony's disgusted by Ross locking up his fellow Avengers in the Raft, a prison that makes Alcatraz look tame that's designed to hold supervillains. It's part of what inspires him to convince Sam to let him apologize to Steve and hear him out about Zemo.
** Tony might be willing to recruit a teenager to become a surprise addition to the fight that Steve and the others can't anticipate, he's still not willing to let the kid get hurt and tells him to stay out of the fight after Scott knocks him down during the Hoth
** Tony's disgusted by Ross locking up his fellow Avengers in the Raft, a prison that makes Alcatraz look tame that's designed to hold supervillains. It's part of what inspires him to convince Sam to let him apologize to Steve and hear him out about Zemo.
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** WordOfGod [[invoked]]has stated that Steve Rogers is no longer Captain America after this film, having to forfeit the identity.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Seeing his father murdered is difficult enough for Tony that he rocks back from the video. Then seeing that his mother was murdered, too, ''as collateral damage'' is almost enough to send him over the line. Learning that Steve knew that HYDRA murdered his parents and never told him sends him into an UnstoppableRage.
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** Steve, Tony, and Bucky walk into the old HYDRA facility that housed the Winter Soldiers... only to see [spoiler:they've all been shot in the head. Zemo didn't give a damn about them. It was a RedHerring.]]
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* AntiVillain: Thunderbolt Ross returns from his bus trip to provide a lot of antagonism. He's not ''entirely'' wrong that there's been a lot of damage, but he's the source of a lot of the MisplacedRetribution for the Avengers and drives the Sokovia Accords. In the end, he goes far enough that Stark rebels... if only slightly.
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** Iron Man is pro-Accords because he feels personally responsible for ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s rampage as well as the deaths in Sokovia.
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** Iron Man is pro-Accords because he feels personally responsible for ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s rampage as well as the deaths in Sokovia. In the third act, he realizes that his alliance with Thunderbolt Ross wasn't exactly the right way to go and he convinces Sam to let him go apologize to Steve and take the fight to Zemo, the real enemy.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Steve confirms he's not going to stop, Natasha apologizes, saying "Then I'm gonna regret this." and ... fires her shocking thingy at T'Challa so Steve and Bucky can escape.
* CunningLinguist: Bucky speaks multiple languages, as you'd expect from a guy who served in WWII and then got brainwashed by HYDRA in Russia, thus serving across the Cold War.
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** Crossbones's fight with Black Widow in the opening has him easily dominating her.
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** Crossbones's fight with Black Widow in the opening has him easily dominating her.her, thanks to the unexpected addition of new armor and gauntlets.
* DeadpanSnarker: Peter Parker, of course, enters the fight with a lot of chatter and keeps it up until the end.
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-->'''Sam:''' I don't know how many fights you've been in, but there's usually less talking.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Tony might be willing to recruit a teenager to become a surprise addition to the fight that Steve and the others can't anticipate, he's still not willing to let the kid get hurt and tells him to stay out of the fight after Scott knocks him down during the Hoth maneuver.
* GeniusBruiser: He's still a high school student, but, as is usually the case Peter Parker built his web shooters and designed the fluid himself. When ''Tony Stark'' is impressed by your tech, you know you're impressive. Unfortunately, Peter's costuming skills need some work.
* HeadbuttingHeroes:
** As you might expect from the title, the entire movie is about the breakup of the Avengers, above all Tony and Steve.
** Bucky joins the team and he and Sam butt heads over who's Steve's real best friend. It's petty and funny and gives some necessary levity to a dark movie.
** As you might expect from the title, the entire movie is about the breakup of the Avengers, above all Tony and Steve.
** Bucky joins the team and he and Sam butt heads over who's Steve's real best friend. It's petty and funny and gives some necessary levity to a dark movie.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Tony shows up to recruit Spier-Man and the kid is eager.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: Zemo's plan to turn The Avengers against each other involves framing Bucky Barnes for terrorist attack. Since relations between the team are already strained due to a SuperRegistrationAct, it works too well. His final strike: [[spoiler:revealing that Bucky killed Tony's parents while under Hydra's control, leading to a full-out brawl between Tony, Cap and Bucky]].
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: Zemo's plan to turn The Avengers against each other involves framing Bucky Barnes for terrorist attack. Since relations between the team are already strained due to a SuperRegistrationAct, it works too well. His final strike: [[spoiler:revealing that Bucky killed Tony's parents while under Hydra's control, leading to a full-out brawl between Tony, Cap and Bucky]].Bucky. The thing about the Winter Soldiers was just a RedHerring to draw the fight out long enough for him to set up TheReveal and trigger an even worse fight between the heroes]].
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: By 1991, Howard might have finally reproduced Erskine's formula. It may have been a failure of the formula that turned the new Winter Soldiers into rage monsters or it may have been that, as Erskine said, "Good becomes better. Bad becomes worse." and those Soviet soldiers weren't chosen for being good men and women like Steve was. Either way, it still took Howard around forty-five years to develop that new serum.
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** Previously a low-profile defender of Wakanda, T'Challa showing up to hunt Bucky throws a wrench in Steve's attempt to save Bucky from the police.
** Tony invokes this by recruiting a kid from Queens to be another unexpected fighter with abilities Steve and company can't anticipate.
** Steve does the same by getting Barton to recruit the Ant-Man, whose dust-up in San Francisco didn't really make anyone else's rader.
** Previously a low-profile defender of Wakanda, T'Challa showing up to hunt Bucky throws a wrench in Steve's attempt to save Bucky from the police.
** Tony invokes this by recruiting a kid from Queens to be another unexpected fighter with abilities Steve and company can't anticipate.
** Steve does the same by getting Barton to recruit the Ant-Man, whose dust-up in San Francisco didn't really make anyone else's rader.
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** Helicopters weigh thousands of pounds and they have the power to maneuver and lift those thousands of pounds. Sam shouldn't be able to send a helicopter into a spin by kicking the tail and Steve, unless his transformation made him weigh a thousand pounds to back up his super strength, shouldn't make a helicopter swing back to the ground as Bucky's taking off.
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** Steve and Tony are both driven, they ''have'' to fight, though Steve is driven by his need to stand up for the little guy and Tony is driven by guilt over not being able to save everyone. Steve has regrets, but no guilt.
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* {{Foil}}: The two teams compliment one another.
** Steve and Sam are both ''former'' soldiers who know the cost of war and what it can do the people who fight it. Sam in particular knows this as he used to lead group therapy. Steve feels betrayed by the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited HYDRA agents, leading to the organization founded by two of his best friends being infiltrated and turned into the organization he tried to destroy. Likewise, Barton has retired from active duty and joins the group that refuse to sign the Accords. Meanwhile, Rhodey and Natasha are both active service members, though she destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D., she never resigned.
** Sam, Steve, and Barton focus on personal loyalty their friends and fellow fighters. Natasha, Tony, Rhodey, and Vision all focus on service to larger organizations, focusing on public accountability rather than personal responsibility.
** Bucky and Natasha are both former victims of evil organizations that forced them to kill innocent people and they're both wracked with guilt over it, Bucky is on the run from the cops with no intention of turning himself in, while Natasha is signing the Accords and handing herself over to another government.
** Steve used to be a wide-eyed idealist just like Peter, who JumpedAtTheCall. Now Steve is more jaded; still an idealist, but less trusting of powerful people and organizations.
** Steve and Sam are both ''former'' soldiers who know the cost of war and what it can do the people who fight it. Sam in particular knows this as he used to lead group therapy. Steve feels betrayed by the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited HYDRA agents, leading to the organization founded by two of his best friends being infiltrated and turned into the organization he tried to destroy. Likewise, Barton has retired from active duty and joins the group that refuse to sign the Accords. Meanwhile, Rhodey and Natasha are both active service members, though she destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D., she never resigned.
** Sam, Steve, and Barton focus on personal loyalty their friends and fellow fighters. Natasha, Tony, Rhodey, and Vision all focus on service to larger organizations, focusing on public accountability rather than personal responsibility.
** Bucky and Natasha are both former victims of evil organizations that forced them to kill innocent people and they're both wracked with guilt over it, Bucky is on the run from the cops with no intention of turning himself in, while Natasha is signing the Accords and handing herself over to another government.
** Steve used to be a wide-eyed idealist just like Peter, who JumpedAtTheCall. Now Steve is more jaded; still an idealist, but less trusting of powerful people and organizations.
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** [[spoiler:Helmut Zemo said he wanted to watch an empire crumble. By that metric, his plan goes off ''flawlessly'', a shocking example for the MCU.]] A former black ops operative, fueled by ThePowerOfHate, [[spoiler:manages to cause a divide within the Avengers and cripple them, something that Comicbook/{{Loki}} attempted in the 2012 movie but failed to do. The Avengers are reduced to three members by the film's conclusion: Iron Man, Vision and the recovering War Machine, all of whom signed the accords. Captain America, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man are likely still on the run, along with Black Widow, who Tony said would also be hunted for stopping Black Panther at the airport.]] Not only that, he manages to do it without powers or unlimited resources, but with his own [[{{Determinator}} determination,]] [[ManipulativeBastard intelligence,]] and [[BatmanGambit cunning.]]
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** [[spoiler:Helmut Zemo said he wanted to watch an empire crumble. By that metric, his plan goes off ''flawlessly'', a shocking example for the MCU.]] A former black ops operative, fueled by ThePowerOfHate, [[spoiler:manages to cause a divide within the Avengers and cripple them, something that Comicbook/{{Loki}} ComicBook/{{Loki}} attempted in the 2012 movie but failed to do. The Avengers are reduced to three members by the film's conclusion: Iron Man, Vision and the recovering War Machine, all of whom signed the accords. Captain America, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man are likely still on the run, along with Black Widow, who Tony said would also be hunted for stopping Black Panther at the airport.]] Not only that, he manages to do it without powers or unlimited resources, but with his own [[{{Determinator}} determination,]] [[ManipulativeBastard intelligence,]] and [[BatmanGambit cunning.]]
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* TheMostWanted: ComicBook/BuckyBarnes is already on the run from the evil Comicbook/{{HYDRA}} and the multitude of self-interested governments that want him both for his potential usefulness as an asset and to make him pay for the murders he committed as the Winter Soldier. Zemo wants to use him to create dissension amongst the Avengers. Black Panther thinks Bucky killed his father. Even the "good" guys are looking to bring him into custody, albeit for varying reasons.
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* TheMostWanted: ComicBook/BuckyBarnes is already on the run from the evil Comicbook/{{HYDRA}} ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} and the multitude of self-interested governments that want him both for his potential usefulness as an asset and to make him pay for the murders he committed as the Winter Soldier. Zemo wants to use him to create dissension amongst the Avengers. Black Panther thinks Bucky killed his father. Even the "good" guys are looking to bring him into custody, albeit for varying reasons.
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** Hawkeye's new costume recalls his ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' look, as well as his short-lived ''ComicBook/HeroicAge'' costume.
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** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler:The Avengers are shattered, leaving the perfect opportunity for Comicbook/{{Thanos}} to strike. However, Steve springs the captive members of Team Cap from the Raft, and tells Tony that if the world truly needs them, they'll be back.]]
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** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler:The Avengers are shattered, leaving the perfect opportunity for Comicbook/{{Thanos}} ComicBook/{{Thanos}} to strike. However, Steve springs the captive members of Team Cap from the Raft, and tells Tony that if the world truly needs them, they'll be back.]]
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* GambitRoulette: Zemo's EvilPlan is simple, [[spoiler:reveal that the Winter Soldier killed Tony Stark's parents, and given Iron Man would not take such a discovery easily and Captain America would defend his best friend Bucky Barnes no matter what, break the Avengers from within by forcing its most proeminent members to fight each other]]. However, he pulls it off by somehow overcoming ''many'' impredictable variables (see XanatosSpeedChess below for more details).
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* GambitRoulette: Zemo's EvilPlan is simple, [[spoiler:reveal that the Winter Soldier killed Tony Stark's parents, and given Iron Man would not take such a discovery easily and Captain America would defend his best friend Bucky Barnes no matter what, break the Avengers from within by forcing its most proeminent prominent members to fight each other]]. However, he pulls it off by somehow overcoming ''many'' impredictable variables (see XanatosSpeedChess below for more details).
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** Inverted with Hawkeye (Clint Barton). He wasn't involved in the original ''Civil War'' because he was dead at the time, and instead Hawkeye II (ComicBook/KateBishop) participated in the conflict. Since he's alive and well during the MCU's version, he's one of the heroes involved.
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** Inverted with Hawkeye (Clint Barton). ([[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton]]). He wasn't involved in the original ''Civil War'' because he was dead at the time, and instead Hawkeye II (ComicBook/KateBishop) ([[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]]) participated in the conflict. Since he's alive and well during the MCU's version, he's one of the heroes involved.
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** Hawkeye, or rather Clint Barton, was completely absent during the original ''Civil War'' event due to being, well, dead at the time. ''A'' Hawkeye participated in the original ''Civil War'', but that was his successor ComicBook/KateBishop. Since he's alive here, he's front and center for the event.
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** Hawkeye, or rather [[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton, Barton]], was completely absent during the original ''Civil War'' event due to being, well, dead at the time. ''A'' Hawkeye participated in the original ''Civil War'', but that was his successor ComicBook/KateBishop.[[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]]. Since he's alive here, he's front and center for the event.
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''Captain America: Civil War'' is the 2016 sequel to both ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', directed like ''Winter Soldier'' by [[Creator/TheRussoBrothers Joe and Anthony Russo]]. ''Civil War'' marks the 13[[superscript:th]] overall film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and the first film of the MCU's Phase 3. It is based on the ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' limited series, [[PragmaticAdaptation albeit on a much smaller scale]]. The film also marked the beginning of a cross-company partnership between Marvel Studios and Creator/SonyPictures with the inclusion of Franchise/SpiderMan.
ComicBook/SpiderMan.
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** Averted for Spider-Man, who is being introduced in the MCU for the first time and is given no origin story at all. The film depends on a combination of there having been five movies about the character in the previous 14 years, as well as the fact that there are probably only [[Franchise/{{Superman}} two]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} other]] characters with origin stories as well known, even to the general non-comic-reading public.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the opening scene, Natasha (in the foreground) tells Wanda (sitting in the background) that "Looking over [her] shoulder needs to become second nature." Wanda turns to stare at Nat, and, due to their relative positions, she is indeed looking over her shoulder.
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* ArtisticLicense: Due to international diplomatic protocol, accords are named after where they are signed rather than their content. Therefore the Sokovia Accords should be called the Vienna Accords.
* ArtisticLicenseChess: the film briefly shows a chessboard in The Avengers Tower. It is set incorrectly, as the white and black pieces don't appear to be standing on their designated tiles.
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* EnemyMine: The Avengers on both sides of the conflict briefly team up to try to stop the brainwashed Bucky from escaping.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: Expanded Materials established that amongst the other terms of the [[SuperhumanRegistrationAct Sokovia Accords]] that any enhanced individuals who use their abilities to break the law or "are otherwise deemed to be a threat to the safety of the general public" may be detained indefinitely without trial. Likewise, any enhanced individuals who break the terms of the accords or interfere with their enforcement will be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without trial.
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* RevengeByProxy: Tony attempts to do this with Bucky, attacking and trying to kill him in a gruesome fashion, which the directors explained was done ''not'' to avenge his parents, but rather specifically to hurt and punish Steve for siding with Bucky over himself. Thankfully for Bucky, Steve is able to successfully disarm Tony before he can play this trope straight.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Tony attempts to do this with Bucky, attacking and trying to kill him in a gruesome fashion, which the directors explained was done ''not'' to avenge his parents, but rather specifically to hurt and punish Steve for siding with Bucky over himself. Thankfully for Bucky, Steve is able to successfully disarm Tony before he can play this trope straight.
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%%** [[spoiler:By refusing to turn over information about Siberian Hydra base to Zemo, Karpov sets in motion the UN bombing (and T'Chaka's death) which kicks off the plot of the film.]]
