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Post by Red Impact on Aug 31, 2014 23:27:46 GMT -5
I think you can justify their roles. {Spoiler}Captain America wasn't ever really stooge for the government though, he fought for freedom and justice as principles, not because the government wanted him to. So him opposing the government forcing heroes to register makes sense, he doesn't want to punish everyone for the mistake of the few, he wants true justice for everyone involved.
Iron Man took up the armor to atone for his past and try to fix his mistakes. Atonement was a major theme for him, so it makes sense that he'd see the errors of unchecked godlike heroes and the collateral damage it caused and want registration to prevent it from happening again.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 31, 2014 23:43:27 GMT -5
It wasn't even like the third time that Cap stood up for the government.
It's still a bad story though. Ham-fisted attempt to mirror the real world notwithstanding, a completely anti-climax of a conclusion, characters acting out of character to justify their roles in the story (mainly thinking of say Reed and Pym), and big moments that didn't matter at all just a few months later.
Put aside how dumb and out of character it is for Spidey to reveal his identity when he wouldn't have had to anyway; (and it was stupid, but then that same year was the whole Mephisto deal, so not a banner year for Pete's intelligence) but there WOULD have been some interesting stories to tell from that had it lasted even a little while. Instead, the aforementioned Mephisto deal retconned that within a few months, and what could've changed a ton of things is just a shock/publicity move.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Sept 1, 2014 6:27:09 GMT -5
Captain America felt that people should be free to chose if they register or not, while Iron Man felt it was mandatory to do so. I get where Captain America is coming from because the Registration Act was for every superhero not just ones with powers, street level basic crime fighters would have to register like Jack Flagg I know that, but wouldn't it be more typical of Captain America to honor what both the government and the vast majority of public opinion wanted? Wouldn't that be the "American" thing to do? And wouldn't Iron Man scoff at such a notion, and disagree with politicians like he usually does? I understand how the plot went down, I'm just saying each leader was terribly miscast and it would have been truer to their characters to have them leading the opposite teams. Captain America has disagreed with the Government before because of various reasons, it even led him to becoming Nomad
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Post by Jiren on Sept 1, 2014 6:40:04 GMT -5
Civil War was ASS, Marvel ultimate Alliance 2 did the story better IMO {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}It would have been cool though if Miriam Sharpe was a skrull and her whole vendetta against super heroes & somewhat helping start the Civil War (Although Nitro & Speedball's crew were the catalysts) was to help the Skrull secret invasion by putting the Super hero community into disarray.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 1, 2014 7:27:23 GMT -5
I'll say one thing for Civil War it did give Nitro some credibility after many wilderness years of doing absolutely nothing. A villain who can explode should be more of a threat than he is often portrayed.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 1, 2014 12:04:42 GMT -5
Civil War was ASS, Marvel ultimate Alliance 2 did the story better IMO I can agree to that
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