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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Actually, having Hulk kick off the Civil War would have been interesting.
Lets say the Illuminati still shot him into goddamn space - some to get him out of the line of reprisals and some because the Hulk is just too difficult to deal with.
That would have been a good thing for the two sides to fight over.
And maybe it would have been a reason for Tony and RIIIICHARDSSSSSS to join the registration side. If the thing was still about registration. Registering Hulk doesn't seem like it would fix anything.
Certainly not the twelve skyscrapers he was thrown into while fighting the Juggernaut.
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That might be part of it, but given that they are called the Sokovia Accords, if we have to point to a single event that got the ball rolling on the Accords, it's probably going to be Sokovia's entire capital city getting obliterated. The Hulk's rampage would just be a little more fuel in that particular fire.
My general theory is that after the events of Age of Ultron, the leaders of the world started seriously talking about getting a better handle on superhero activities. Then a disaster happens in the opening act of Civil War that makes them decide that something needs to be done right now, and a draft proposal that Steve Rodgers is critical of gets rushed into implementation.
Then when Bucky gets blamed for the disaster, Steve ends up going rogue in order to protect his friend.
We actually don't know what starts it, only what we've been told. Which could be right, could be wrong, could be deliberately wrong, whatever.
I remember back during Buffy the Vampire Slayer when they would release a bunch of fake spoilers to see where the leak was coming from. And I also remember a bunch of fake spoilers for Winter Soldier, like the bad guy actually being the Red Skull and Peter Quill appearing at the end.
edited 19th Feb '16 1:15:23 PM by alliterator
Actually, we know exactly how it starts. The tie in comic ends with Cap and Falcon going to bring in Rumlow(who's now called Crossbones for some reason we'll probably never know)who they hear about while looking for Bucky and the first set photos we got was off Rumlow in costume and Falcon and Cap on set fighting him(with explosions and burning cars on the same set).
edited 19th Feb '16 1:51:04 PM by LordofLore
We know the movie opens up with a fight against Crossbones in Nigeria. We know the prequel comic ends with the Avengers going to Nigeria to stop Crossbones, who is about to commit some big terrorist attack to get back at the Avengers. We know from set photos there's a scene where something big presumably blows up because there are images of Cap and a bunch of civilians looking to the sky in horror. This is also a movie where the inciting event is probably going to happen relatively quickly for the sake of setting up the main conflict.
It's pretty obvious what happens.
edited 19th Feb '16 1:49:41 PM by comicwriter
I get the feeling that, if they are going to do the assassination of Captain America, they're not going to have Sharon Carter be the killer. The reason why I think so is the 75th anniversary Captain America special they aired before the Agent Carter Season 2 premiere. It spoke a ton about Bucky, Bucky as Winter Soldier, Peggy Carter, Civil War, the death of Cap, etc, but barely even mentioned Sharon. Since the special was partly advertising hype for the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, not mentioning Sharon suggests she's not going to play as large a role as she did in the comics.
edited 19th Feb '16 2:00:05 PM by Tuckerscreator
Civil War IS Dork Age IN Dawn of Moral Ambiguity
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Hey guys, remember when the Iron Man 2 trailer had a scene where Pepper and Tony engage in some witty romantic banter on a plane, and then she kisses his helmet and throws it out the door, forcing him to fly down and catch it?
And remember when that scene didn't exist in the movie and, instead, Tony just leapt out the door in his Iron Man suit? And he didn't hook up with Pepper until the end of the film?
If you can't even trust a trailer, then set photos definitely shouldn't be considered as ironclad evidence of the film's direction. Stuff changes in postproduction.
edited 19th Feb '16 2:23:20 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Regarding Crossbones, the prequel comic
makes him seem like the kind of guy who would pull a suicide attack and end it there in Nigeria rather than live on to remain a persistent threat. The comic also ends in Lagos, Nigeria with this bit
. So safe to say that we have a good idea of the film's opening.
edited 19th Feb '16 2:26:23 PM by AlleyOop
Once again, the prequel comic ends with the Avengers going off to stop Crossbones from pulling off a terrorist attack in Nigeria and the caption "To be continued in Captain America: Civil War!"
Unless the prequel is not a prequel but something happening in the movie, then the fight with Crossbones in Nigeria happens at the beginning of the film.
edited 19th Feb '16 2:28:33 PM by comicwriter
Yeah, and regardless of that, the Nigeria fight is going to take place very early on. That's where the event will occur.
edited 19th Feb '16 3:01:22 PM by comicwriter

You know, I really think the comics should have had the Hulk be the catalyst of Civil War. He has a history of going off the rails and it would have been better than throwing the New Warriors under the bus.
edited 19th Feb '16 12:28:25 PM by windleopard