I honestly thought that’s what things were leading during my first viewing of The Winter Soldier, for example, which had a callback or two to the Secret Empire story from the comics that ended with Cap adopting another costumed identity. It’s the emotional stakes that are going to give it all that much more weight.įrom a comic book standpoint, Steve Rogers has a long history of going underground and giving up the Captain America mantle. It’s one thing to raise the stakes with someone of insane power levels (an Infinity Gauntlet wielding Thanos), but really, anyone can do that with special effects these days.
Dramatically, when we see Steve and Tony on the same side again in the face of a much larger, cosmic level threat, it’s going to make for the feel good ass-kicking of the year. But Steve’s conciliatory gesture to Tony (and Tony’s haunted demeanor at the end) more than leave the door open for a reformation of sorts in time for Avengers: Infinity War. Yes, the Avengers are totally fractured at the end of Civil War, far more so than they were at the end of Age of Ultron. The Sokovia Accords passed, and now the heroes who opposed them are operating outside the law.īut there are a couple of things to consider, here. Even though Steve and his friends won the battle (after all, Bucky is still alive, and everyone who sided with Steve has been broken out of the super security prison, The Raft), he lost the war. He sees a real opportunity to mentor someone.That was a rather downbeat way to end that flick, wasn’t it? Then again, when you think about it, none of the Captain America movies have had anything you might traditionally describe as a “happy ending” and it seems like Steve Rogers is forever destined to be a man out of time and an outsider. “There were similarities we knew (Tony would) be attracted to in this kid, namely that he’s a technological genius as well. Not only does it set the stage for the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming (in theaters July 7, 2017) but also ties into the Peter/Tony dynamic seen earlier when Iron Man recruits the wide-eyed teenager for his squad. After May leaves, Peter looks in awe at the next-level Spider-tech and a neato Spider-symbol emanating from his wrist web shooters, seemingly a gift from his new billionaire best friend (and science bro) Tony Stark. His Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) checks in on him, and Peter tells her he got beaten up by “a big guy” named Steve - a reference to getting walloped by Cap. The second scene comes after all the credits have rolled and features Peter Parker (Tom Holland) tending to his bumps, bruises and a major-league black eye after his first massive superhero throwdown as Spider-Man.
This idea that he would offer refuge to Cap, this guy he’s been fighting the whole movie, and Bucky, this guy who he’s been trying to kill the whole movie … is just a really cool arc for him to go through and it’s inspiring.” “Black Panther’s arc is one of our favorite things about the movie: He’s driven so powerfully by vengeance and he gets to a point at the end of the film where he realizes what that drive has done and is doing to other people and he’s able to set it down and move forward. His brother Anthony adds that the scene also gave them a sense of needed closure: 16, 2018) explores the high-tech landscape, so they instead gave a quick peek at a misty forest and a fearsome panther statue “representing the defiance of T’Challa and the mystery of what the place is,” says Joe Russo. The Russos didn’t want to show too much of Wakanda before director Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (in theaters Feb. Black Panther’s response: “Let them try.”
Bucky has decided to go into icy suspended animation until a cure can be found for the Hydra brainwashing he went through as the deadly Winter Soldier, and Cap warns T'Challa that people might come after them. The first mid-credits scene acts an epilogue to Civil War’s ending, where Captain America (Chris Evans) has left his star-spangled shield behind and gone into hiding after breaking Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and other teammates out of the supermax prison The Raft.Ĭap and his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who has lost his robotic arm after a tussle with Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), are shown as fugitives from the federal government given asylum by T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), aka Black Panther and new king of the African nation of Wakanda.