Superheroes usually manage to roll back the various apocalypses but rarely use their powers to build a better world. The villains are the ones constantly dre...
The only good part of that movie was T'Challa's arc, which is legitimately compelling. Everything else was poorly adapted nonsense compared to the source material. The "civil war" is a zero-stakes boxing match in an airport lmao
Yeah, but I don't think they could have adapted the comic ending where the Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration sides fight in the middle of Manhattan causing untold amounts of property damage
Captain America gets Iron Man on the ropes and is about to finish him off when a group of policemen, firefighters and EMT's run up and tackle him "Being all like, no don't kill Iron Man, he's a real hero like us!"
Captain America looks around at the destruction and is all like "Well shit, this isn't what I wanted" and gives up
Then on the way to his trial, Crossbones gives Cap the ol' Jack Ruby treatment, but then it turned out that Crossbones was a distraction and the Red Skull had hypnotized Sharon Carter to kill Cap instead
I don't disagree with your larger point, but let's not pretend the comic arc was anything even remotely good to begin with. Tony Stark started off as an egotistical billionaire arms dealer and that arc still managed to character assassinate him by being just cartoonishly fash (well, beyond the baseline background fashiness of course).
The only good part of that movie was T'Challa's arc, which is legitimately compelling. Everything else was poorly adapted nonsense compared to the source material. The "civil war" is a zero-stakes boxing match in an airport lmao
Yeah, but I don't think they could have adapted the comic ending where the Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration sides fight in the middle of Manhattan causing untold amounts of property damage
Captain America gets Iron Man on the ropes and is about to finish him off when a group of policemen, firefighters and EMT's run up and tackle him "Being all like, no don't kill Iron Man, he's a real hero like us!"
Captain America looks around at the destruction and is all like "Well shit, this isn't what I wanted" and gives up
Then on the way to his trial, Crossbones gives Cap the ol' Jack Ruby treatment, but then it turned out that Crossbones was a distraction and the Red Skull had hypnotized Sharon Carter to kill Cap instead
Comics!
I don't disagree with your larger point, but let's not pretend the comic arc was anything even remotely good to begin with. Tony Stark started off as an egotistical billionaire arms dealer and that arc still managed to character assassinate him by being just cartoonishly fash (well, beyond the baseline background fashiness of course).
I haven't actually read the comic (or any comics really) so I'll take your word for it :stuff: