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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Again, per Word of God, Cap is still the main character. It makes sense to call it Captain America. Calling it Avengers or just Civil War implies the narrative focus is spread around to the team as a whole, which I don't think is going to be the case.
Well that's why they pay writers to write. We have no idea how it's going to go down because we have very little plot info so far.
edited 17th Mar '15 8:42:20 PM by comicwriter
They've mentioned in the past not wanting to put the SHIELD characters on TV because of potential Continuity Lock-Out so I imagine that's still the case. Even with the Inhumans plot, so far most of the characters introduced seem to be Canon Foreigners rather than the people who are likely to be in the movie.
The Netflix shows could go either way but from the way they're talking about it they want to make them more their own thing. I would like Daredevil to cameo in Civil War though.
I wouldn't mind being forced to watch the Netflix shows. I have more faith in them than I do in Age of Ultron. But I have little to no interest in watching a superspy show about discount X-Men.
I would prefer Civil War be treated like an ensemble piece rather than home in on Cap and be titled as such, but that's just me. I prefer ensemble stories in general, which is probably why Guardians is my current favorite of the MCU.
I feel like it'd be a better idea to wait until Black Panther and Spider-Man get solo movies (with their plots happening at the same time as Ultron) along with Daredevil's first season (as a prequel to Ultron) and then do an ensemble Civil War movie so we don't have to introduce them as a Spotlight-Stealing Squad for a Captain America movie - but rather appear as natural additions to a third Avengers film. Or Marvel-in-general film. Whatever.
"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."Spider-Man 3 had a lot of problems, and a lot of them go back to introducing too many brand new characters in a movie that didn't have the benefit of a shared universe.
The difference here is we're going into this with most of the characters already introduced so save for the new characters like Black Panther and Baron Zemo, you don't need to devote large chunks of screentime to introducing them or explaining their origins.
edited 17th Mar '15 9:19:30 PM by comicwriter
I have high hopes for AOU and even Ant Man personally speaking.
The one I'm most worried about is Doctor Strange, since the director they chose has, quite frankly, a dismal track record, not unlike the directors chosen for Marvel films in the early 2000s that weren't Singer or Raimi.
Thinking about it, I'd like a Villain Episode in the MCU at some point. Maybe Venom or somebody; he seems like the most logical choice but there's a better option out there, I feel.
"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."Thor: The Dark world didn't really impact Ao S all that much aside from the Lorelei episode, but The Winter Soldier did, big time. Even The Avengers had some long lasting effects. Marvel doesn't want that watching the show becomes a requirement for watching the movies, but there are nevertheless intersections. And they have canon foreigners as well as actual comic book characters.
I believe it was officially stated that they don't plan on directly linking the Netflix series to the movies, also for Continuity Lock-Out reasons. There might be some nods to the Avengers here and there, since the problems in Hell's Kitchen are the result of the attack on New York, but nothing super in-depth.
MARVEL has proven before it's really good at doing multiple forces reacting to the same over arching status quo independently and interlinked.
For example during Dark Reign you could understand the story just be reading one book line, because all of them showed different ways that Big Bad Norman Osborn got increasingly over his head. You didn't need to read Siege to understand why he lost his job, but you could if you wanted to enrich the narrative.
That should be doable with TV plots running parallel to Movie plots.
Exactly...I so often read that Marvel's unwillingness to let the TV shows influence the movies too much shows a lack of "commitment", but I think it is smart. It is enough to know that the stories happen in the same universe and that sometimes big events have a big impact...and big events naturally belong on the big and not the small screen.

They could also call it Marvel: Civil War if they really want to. I think Marvel has enough brand recognition that they can sell one of these movies without slapping Avengers or Captain America on it.