Captain America: Civil War

***Captain America: Civil War*** is a 2016 superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. The film is a sequel to *Captain America: The First Avenger*, *Captain America: The Winter Soldier*, *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, and *Ant-Man*. It is the thirteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first installment of Phase Three. The film was released on April 27, 2016 internationally and on May 6, 2016 in the United States.

The film is directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, Paul Bettany as Vision, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, Marisa Tomei as May Parker, Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones, Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, with William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross, and Daniel Brühl as Helmut Zemo.

The fourth film in the series was announced on April 23, 2021, with Sam Wilson as the main character following him receiving the title of Captain America in *The Falcon and The Winter Soldier*.

## Connection To MCU Spider-Man

The film includes Spider-Man whom was approached by Tony Stark to join the Avengers Civil War in order to capture Captain America and the teammates following on his side.

## Plot

In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James "Bucky" Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum. In the present day, approximately one year after Ultron is defeated by the Avengers in the nation of Sokovia, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Wanda Maximoff stop Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon from a lab in Lagos. Rumlow blows himself up, attempting to kill Rogers. Maximoff telekinetically diverts the explosion, accidentally destroying a nearby building and killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers in the process.

Thaddeus Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State, informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided: Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron's creation and Sokovia's devastation, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of politicians. Meanwhile, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes' old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes' brainwashing. At a UN conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King T'Chaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom T'Chaka's son, T'Challa, vows to kill. Informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes' whereabouts and the authorities' intentions to kill him, Rogers decides to try to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from T'Challa and the authorities, but all four, including T'Challa, are apprehended by the Bucharest police and James Rhodes.

Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to activate Barnes's brainwashing. He questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away. When Barnes regains his senses, he explains that Zemo is the real Vienna bomber and wanted the location of the Siberian Hydra base, where other brainwashed "Winter Soldiers" are kept in cryogenic stasis. Unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Ross's permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades. Stark's team intercepts Rogers' group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. As Rogers and Barnes are escaping, Rhodes is inadvertently shot down by Vision, and becomes partially paralyzed. The rest of Rogers' team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, and Romanoff goes into exile.

Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers' destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware that they were secretly followed by T'Challa. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, who then shows them footage that reveals that the automobile Barnes had intercepted in 1991 contained Stark's parents, whom Barnes subsequently killed. Enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, leading to an intense fight, in which Stark destroys Barnes' robotic arm, and Rogers disables Stark's armor. Rogers departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Satisfied that he has avenged his family's deaths in Sokovia from the Avengers' actions by successfully fracturing them, Zemo attempts suicide, but he is stopped by T'Challa and taken to the authorities.

In the aftermath, Stark provides Rhodes with exoskeletal leg braces that allow him to walk again, while Rogers breaks his allies out of the Raft. In a mid-credits scene, Barnes, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found. In a post-credits scene, Parker explores the features of the web shooters built for him by Stark.

## Cast

* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
* Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
* Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
* Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
* Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
* Paul Bettany as Vision
* Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
* Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
* Emily VanCamp as Agent Sharon Carter
* Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
* Daniel Brühl as Helmut Zemo
* Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones
* William Hurt as Secretary Thaddeus Ross
* Martin Freeman as Agent Everett Ross
* Marisa Tomei as May Parker
* John Kani as King T'Chaka
* John Slattery as Howard Stark
* Hope Davis as Maria Stark
* Alfre Woodard as Miriam Sharpe
* Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y.
* Gene Farber as Colonel Vasily Karpov
* Florence Kasumba as Ayo
* Stan Lee as FedEx Driver
* Gozie Agbo as Theo Broussard
* Cornell S. John as Attaché
* Ann Russo as Helmut Zemo's Wife
* Unknown Actor as Officer Madao (uncredited)