Pick a side...Captain America and Iron Man are going head-to-head in a superhero-stuffed face-off that could change the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. Just don't go calling it Avengers 2.5.
It’s the first time Steve doesn’t really know the answer,” admits Chris Evans of Mr Rogers’ conundrum in his latest ‘solo’ adventure. “In the first Captain America it’s pretty clear Nazis are bad. We can all agree with that. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it’s S.H.I.E.L.D. being run by Hydra. In the Avengers movies, aliens are no good; we want to fight them.” For a complex cinematic universe that so far comprises 12 movies across two distinct ‘phases’, he has a way of making it all sound pretty simple. One of the most thoroughly decent good guys in a landscape of sometimes shady, often snarky antiheroes, Steve Rogers (aka Captain America) has found himself with reasons to rally against authority since emerging from the deepfreeze, but Captain America: Civil War – the first film in the MCU’s Phase 3 – sees the clean-cut soldier at his most conflicted when he finds himself facing off against his former teammate Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.
“It’s always been pretty cut and dry for him to know which side of the coin to fall on, but this one is tricky because this conflict is a little more akin to a day-to-day struggle that we all go through where there are no clear lines between what is right, and what is wrong,” continues Evans. “There’s just a point of view, and I think it’s hard for him to understand what the right thing to do is and what his role is this time around.”
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