Tough Act to Follow is about a series that is so good, so universally beloved or acclaimed, that being able to repeat or surpass that success seems impossible. It has nothing to do with sales, really (because lots of things can sell well and then become derided or hated—see The Phantom Menace for example. The definition of the trope and the spirit of the trope are about a story which is seen as the pinnacle of a creator's work to the point that there's almost nowhere to go but down.
Having a hard time seeing the first Civil War qualify for that.
Grigor II, I notice that this is the second time (I'm aware of) that you've basically tried to shill the first Civil War storyarc. The other time was on YMMV.Captain America Civil War, where you added the example of the Argentinian article which said that the movie was disappointing for not following the comics more closely. I defended your point there, but here this is starting to look like a Single-Issue Wonk.
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In regards to Hydra-Cap and the current real life political scene, I'm not going to delete anything but I must advise rule of cautionary editing. Politics right now might as well be a big kindle-box and I'd just advise careful additions regardless of one's political standing, least we set off a flame war.