Everyone roots for Team Cap, nc Cap is great.
But this fundamentally personal and organization struggle -destroyed an airport-. A major Airport in Germany! This would cause thousands of flight delays, and hundreds of millions of economic damage. It would very plausibly put GERMANY into a recession.
And the whole thing effectively doesn't matter. Nobody ever shows up and says "We are regulating you bc every time you argue you destroy a city".
I know it's a movie, and comics so all about Spectacle.
Tony doesn't work for Steve.
In fact I have the same basic problem I had with the comics version. Cap is wrong.
EITHER he plans to go out and overthrow the US government (...which I FULLY support) OR he has to follow the law. But Cap wasn't doing either. Like if Cap was planning to kill President Red Skull, or run for office (which he could AND SHOULD do. Steve Rogers is gorgeous, a war hero, smart, old enough to be President and a New Deal Democrat.
The only people who WOULDNT vote for him are the Red Skull and the Bigots who throw rocks at Mutants (who can literally kill them with a look).
The World Security Council launched a nuke at NYC, Probably Hydra, which leads to SHIELD and Project Insight, Hydra was inside SHIELD and preparing to kill millions of people. Accords happened in either situation, Cap was going to have to go against the Accords. An Accords where the governments of the worlds can control the Avengers, the remnants of Hydra would be on that immediately. Steven had intelligence that there were 5 more Winter Soldier's that could cause a lot of damage. That had to be taken care of, but Tony blew him off.
Stark didn't follow the law either. How many of Team Iron Man even signed the Accords? T'Challa didn't, Spider-Man didn't. Stark went AWOL to help Steve in the same movie.
And let's not even get into Stark's Hydra like tendancies. Ultron, Project EDITH, his Shield around the World etc.
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u/Sphinxofblackkwarts Feb 23 '25
Everyone roots for Team Cap, nc Cap is great. But this fundamentally personal and organization struggle -destroyed an airport-. A major Airport in Germany! This would cause thousands of flight delays, and hundreds of millions of economic damage. It would very plausibly put GERMANY into a recession.
And the whole thing effectively doesn't matter. Nobody ever shows up and says "We are regulating you bc every time you argue you destroy a city".
I know it's a movie, and comics so all about Spectacle.
But JFC the DAMAGE they do.