If you've not seen the Captain America: Civil War trailer, watch it now before reading any further...
Now let's take a much closer look at the trailer, and potentially what lies ahead for Cap, Bucky, and – given the stakes – the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The analysis in the video above and written below contains a good deal of speculation, with some bits more grounded in fact and quote than others, but since we might strike on the truth, consider this a spoiler warning.
00:10 – The opening shot takes place in the workshop we first saw in the post-credit sequence of Ant-Man. Steve and Sam appear to be interrogating Bucky, whose metal arm is trapped in an industrial vice.
Have they been torturing him? There's what looks like a piece of Bucky's shirt torn-off in the foreground. The last we saw of the Winter Solider was visiting the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, shortly after saving Cap from drowning. There were signs that Bucky's mind was returning.
00:18 – "Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspaper in your shoes." The dialogue certainly seems to confirm that James Buchanan Barnes has regained his memories. Bucky is back.
00:20 – And this micro-expression from Cap shows what that means. His friend, who was always with him to the end of the line, is back. The trailer positions Cap and Bucky's relationship at the very heart of the movie, the prime motivator for why Cap makes a stand.
00:22 – "You're a wanted man."
"I don't do that anymore."
The dialogue is elided but I think you can infer that Bucky is being accused of new crimes, of which he is innocent.
The shot below shows the destruction of what looks like a gathering of the UN (look at the logo on the lectern). We're not sure if this is the UN's New York HQ, though exterior shots look like it might be elsewhere. Perhaps some sort of summit in Wakanda?
Either way, it's clear a lot of people died. Given the UN's logo appearing later in the trailer on the front of the Sokovia Accords, perhaps this is the event which pushes that controversial piece of legislature through.
We don't buy that Bucky did this. What if Hydra is pinning these attacks on the Winter Soldier as a way to divide earth's mightiest heroes?
00:27 – "But the people who think you did are coming right now..."
What follows are two shots of SWAT teams assembling in two distinct locations which recur multiple times in the trailer. The first depicts a more exotic locale. We think this could be Wakanda, the African nation set-up in Age of Ultron and, of course, the home of Black Panther.
00:28 –This shot shows the German Polizei storming a flat in a German tower block. Is this where Cap and Bucky have been hiding out?
00:32 – Who's tipped-off the police? And why are they in Germany? Bucky and Cap obviously both have strong ties to the country given their exploits during the war. Have they returned to help rehabilitate Bucky? To find out what really happened to him?
00:34 – Bucky seems to escape. Does Cap hold off the police to allows Bucky to get free?
00:43 – Here's someone we haven't seen in the MCU for a long time, not since the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008): General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. From the trailer, he seems to be the main mouthpiece for the Sokovia Accords, the legislature that demands heroes submit to some form of registration and control.
We last saw the General in a sequence tagged onto the end of The Incredible Hulk. Tony Stark pays Ross a visit to discuss The Avengers initiative. You can learn more about the events surrounding that encounter in The Consultant(2011), a Marvel One-Shot which delves into the bureaucracy surrounding the formation of The Avengers and how the Abomination almost made the team.
But what's he been doing for the last 8 years? Is he still working for the government? Is he Hydra? In the Marvel source material, Ross eventually transforms into the Red Hulk. It's possible Civil War might seed this transformation.
Where is Ross? Is this a security facility they've built to contain heroes who refuse to comply with the Sokovia Accords? In the source material, Reed Richards builds a prison in the N-Zone, which probably isn't the case in the MCU for obvious reasons. Has Ross constructed a prison in international waters? Is that water the chopper is heading to?
00:48 – This looks like the new Avengers HQ established at the end of Age of Ultron, a spruced up facility in New York State once belonging to Howard Stark.
00:50 – Ross is paying the Avengers a visit to outline the Sokovia Accords. The Avengers – being the world's most prominent superheroes and with notable ties to the government via SHIELD – would naturally be the first approached in relation to the bill. Who is Ross speaking on behalf of? The UN? The US military?
00:52 – After everything he's done to save his country and the world, unsurprisingly Cap isn't taking too kindly to the news.
00:53 – 'Farmacia' – could be Spanish or Italian. We're unsure if this is before Bucky is caught by Cap or after he goes on the run following what goes down in Germany. Either way, we think he's in Europe somewhere.
00:58 – Ross tables the Sokovia Accords, the document which precipitates the Civil War. In Mark Millar's wildly influential comic series, superheroes faced the Superhero Registration Act. The Sokovia Accords appears to be very similar. Its subtitle – Framework for the Deployment of Enhanced Individuals – implies a degree of governmental regulation. There are very few secret identities in the MCU, so it's more an issue of control than privacy.
The new name also reflects recent events in the MCU. Sokovia is the fictional Eastern European nation that was destroyed at the end of Age of Ultron, and it's also the home of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. This bill was likely drawn up following its obliteration, but we reckon the more recent terrorist-like events alluded to in the trailer, especially the one on the UN itself, result in the bill being passed.
01:14 – Cap surrenders in Germany. The help of Polizei implies this isn't just an American issue anymore. There's a real international flavour to the Civil War, implying this is now very much a global issue.
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Posted by Captain America on Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Now let's take a much closer look at the trailer, and potentially what lies ahead for Cap, Bucky, and – given the stakes – the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The analysis in the video above and written below contains a good deal of speculation, with some bits more grounded in fact and quote than others, but since we might strike on the truth, consider this a spoiler warning.
00:10 – The opening shot takes place in the workshop we first saw in the post-credit sequence of Ant-Man. Steve and Sam appear to be interrogating Bucky, whose metal arm is trapped in an industrial vice.
Have they been torturing him? There's what looks like a piece of Bucky's shirt torn-off in the foreground. The last we saw of the Winter Solider was visiting the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, shortly after saving Cap from drowning. There were signs that Bucky's mind was returning.
00:18 – "Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspaper in your shoes." The dialogue certainly seems to confirm that James Buchanan Barnes has regained his memories. Bucky is back.
00:20 – And this micro-expression from Cap shows what that means. His friend, who was always with him to the end of the line, is back. The trailer positions Cap and Bucky's relationship at the very heart of the movie, the prime motivator for why Cap makes a stand.
00:22 – "You're a wanted man."
"I don't do that anymore."
The dialogue is elided but I think you can infer that Bucky is being accused of new crimes, of which he is innocent.
The shot below shows the destruction of what looks like a gathering of the UN (look at the logo on the lectern). We're not sure if this is the UN's New York HQ, though exterior shots look like it might be elsewhere. Perhaps some sort of summit in Wakanda?
Either way, it's clear a lot of people died. Given the UN's logo appearing later in the trailer on the front of the Sokovia Accords, perhaps this is the event which pushes that controversial piece of legislature through.
We don't buy that Bucky did this. What if Hydra is pinning these attacks on the Winter Soldier as a way to divide earth's mightiest heroes?
00:27 – "But the people who think you did are coming right now..."
What follows are two shots of SWAT teams assembling in two distinct locations which recur multiple times in the trailer. The first depicts a more exotic locale. We think this could be Wakanda, the African nation set-up in Age of Ultron and, of course, the home of Black Panther.
00:28 –This shot shows the German Polizei storming a flat in a German tower block. Is this where Cap and Bucky have been hiding out?
00:32 – Who's tipped-off the police? And why are they in Germany? Bucky and Cap obviously both have strong ties to the country given their exploits during the war. Have they returned to help rehabilitate Bucky? To find out what really happened to him?
00:34 – Bucky seems to escape. Does Cap hold off the police to allows Bucky to get free?
00:43 – Here's someone we haven't seen in the MCU for a long time, not since the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008): General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. From the trailer, he seems to be the main mouthpiece for the Sokovia Accords, the legislature that demands heroes submit to some form of registration and control.
We last saw the General in a sequence tagged onto the end of The Incredible Hulk. Tony Stark pays Ross a visit to discuss The Avengers initiative. You can learn more about the events surrounding that encounter in The Consultant(2011), a Marvel One-Shot which delves into the bureaucracy surrounding the formation of The Avengers and how the Abomination almost made the team.
But what's he been doing for the last 8 years? Is he still working for the government? Is he Hydra? In the Marvel source material, Ross eventually transforms into the Red Hulk. It's possible Civil War might seed this transformation.
Where is Ross? Is this a security facility they've built to contain heroes who refuse to comply with the Sokovia Accords? In the source material, Reed Richards builds a prison in the N-Zone, which probably isn't the case in the MCU for obvious reasons. Has Ross constructed a prison in international waters? Is that water the chopper is heading to?
00:48 – This looks like the new Avengers HQ established at the end of Age of Ultron, a spruced up facility in New York State once belonging to Howard Stark.
00:50 – Ross is paying the Avengers a visit to outline the Sokovia Accords. The Avengers – being the world's most prominent superheroes and with notable ties to the government via SHIELD – would naturally be the first approached in relation to the bill. Who is Ross speaking on behalf of? The UN? The US military?
00:52 – After everything he's done to save his country and the world, unsurprisingly Cap isn't taking too kindly to the news.
00:53 – 'Farmacia' – could be Spanish or Italian. We're unsure if this is before Bucky is caught by Cap or after he goes on the run following what goes down in Germany. Either way, we think he's in Europe somewhere.
00:58 – Ross tables the Sokovia Accords, the document which precipitates the Civil War. In Mark Millar's wildly influential comic series, superheroes faced the Superhero Registration Act. The Sokovia Accords appears to be very similar. Its subtitle – Framework for the Deployment of Enhanced Individuals – implies a degree of governmental regulation. There are very few secret identities in the MCU, so it's more an issue of control than privacy.
The new name also reflects recent events in the MCU. Sokovia is the fictional Eastern European nation that was destroyed at the end of Age of Ultron, and it's also the home of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. This bill was likely drawn up following its obliteration, but we reckon the more recent terrorist-like events alluded to in the trailer, especially the one on the UN itself, result in the bill being passed.
01:14 – Cap surrenders in Germany. The help of Polizei implies this isn't just an American issue anymore. There's a real international flavour to the Civil War, implying this is now very much a global issue.
01:17 – Iron Man enters midway through the trailer and firmly seems to be on the side of the Sokovia Accords, a proponent of control and regulation. In Stark's words... "if we can't accept limitations, we're no better than the bad guys."
01:19 – That black eye. Stark later says "Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth." Does Cap get in the first punch?
01:23 – Again, this looks like it's taking place in Germany – we can see the Polizei and the BMW police bike. On the right of the shot, we can see what looks like Agent 13 and Martin Freeman's character. We don't know exactly who the British actor is playing but we do know he works for the American government and is trying to help curb the power of superheroes. His true loyalties are as yet unknown.
01:43 – Here we return to what we think might be Wakanda. The 'IFID' – if other leaked set photos are to be trusted – stands for Institute for Infectious Diseases. Wakanda is traditionally a prosperous nation, a centre of science and industry. We think Cap might have got a tip-off that someone is trying to steal a biological weapon from the facility. Maybe they're trying to pin another atrocity on Bucky.
01:47 – The first of two contrasting shots. Here we see Iron Man's side in the Civil War – well, it's not much of a side. It's just him and War Machine. We know from promotional images that Iron Man's side will also consist of Black Panther (though Feige has hinted the character spends most of the film as a neutral party), Black Widow, and the Vision, who is totally absent from this trailer.
It'll be interesting to see how much the film contrasts the Stark-Rhodey relationship with the Cap-Bucky one for dramatic effect.
01:47 – Here's Cap's team: Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Bucky. Again, we know from promotional images, the Ant-Man tag, and the D23 footage that Cap also recruits Paul Rudd's Scott Lang to be a part of his team.
01:50 – The first major stand-off between our heroes appears to take place at Leipzig airport. In the foreground, you can see what appears to be Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye fleeing from missiles fired by either Iron Man or War Machine. Are they aiming to kill?
01:51 – Despite lengthy set-up in Age of Ultron, this is the first time we've seen T'Challa, aka Black Panther.
Here's what MCU overlord Kevin Feige said regarding his involvement: "The reason we introduced him in Civil War is because we needed a third party. We needed fresh eyes, who wasn’t embedded with the Avengers and who has a very different point of view than either Tony or Steve. We said, ‘We need somebody like Black Panther… why don’t we just use Black Panther?’ That’s how it went in the development process."
While he might start off as a disinterested party, his presence in Germany implies he might take Iron Man's side during the events of the movie.
01:53 – Does something bad go down in Wakanda that forces T'Challa's hand? Strap yourself in for a big theory... what if T'Challa's father, T'Chaka, is killed in the explosion at the UN gathering, and T'Challa believes the Winter Soldier is responsible?
01:55 – Here we see Black Panther in pursuit of Bucky, while also being chased by Cap. Does Black Panther have a vendetta for Bucky in particular, which just happens to align him with Iron Man?
01:58 – Leipzig airport is wrecked. This sort of thing probably won't help Cap's case much.
02:00 – Bucky figures out the most effective way to take down Iron Man is to remove the arc reactor.
02:04 – Did he learn this by doing the same to War Machine at Leipzig airport?
Look closely at Rhodey's chest and you can see the reactor has been torn out. Rhodey has crashed some distance from the terminal. We're assuming he's injured but what if he dies? From the look on Tony's face, clearly this is the turning point.
02:09 – "I'm sorry, Tony. I wouldn't do this if I had any other choice, but he's my friend."
"So was I."
Breaking up is never easy.
02:14 – The trailer ends with a brilliantly choreographed sequence in which Cap and Bucky wail on Iron Man, chucking Cap's shield back-and-forth to deliver a succession of brutal hits. But where is this? We know a lot of the film takes place in Europe. Is this somewhere near the Hydra base in the Alps where Bucky 'lost' his life in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)? If so, why are they going back there? To recover his memories. We suspect it's where Daniel Brühl's Baron Zemo might be hiding out.
So there's no sign of Vision, Zemo, or Spidey, but there's more than enough going on in that trailer. Did you spot anything we missed? Feel free to let us know and discuss in the comments below.
SOURCE IGN
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