1.The Captain America/Iron Man Relationship Is Painfully Wrong
The best Captain America vs Iron Man story of all time already exists. Back to “Armor Wars” again, in that story the dynamic between the two characters is that of two friends who do not want to fight but neither will back down from their own positions. They pull their punches and when Tony eventually fights dirty to win, he feels legitimately bad about it. In the final battle of Civil War, Tony at one point looks up at Steve and says:
        “What are you waiting for, Steve? Finish it.”
The fact that Tony would believe EVEN FOR A SECOND that Steve would kill him shows just how wrong their relationship is here. I mean, god. As a lifelong fan of both those characters, that panel makes me physically ill to look at. Friends and heroes for decades, turned into a thug and a supervillain beating on each other surrounded by a bunch of cardboard cutouts with no purpose or impact.
Civil War, everybody.
Hopefully I’ve done a decent job of convincing you all why maybe a loose adaptation of Civil War isn’t the worst idea. And I fully trust the Russos to take this material and turn it into a truly great movie. Good luck guys, I’ll be rootin’ for you, because that trailer looked fantastic.
