16 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About Captain America: Civil War

16. It Shouldn't Be Marketed As A Captain America Movie

Clearly, Marvel have an obligation to fulfil each individual star contract they have ongoing, and they still owe Chris Evans at the top of the bill. But with the Bucky story still to be resolved and Red Skull still possibly floating around in the ether somewhere, there was more than enough to warrant a proper stand-alone.

The alternative - of effectively making Avengers 2.5, but marketed as a Captain America movie - means Marvel are gambling with their box office return. Civil War is the kind of story event that should make a billion, and it would have if marketed correctly as an Avengers movie: but as a Cap movie it might struggle. Considering The Winter Soldier - arguably the best stand-alone in the MCU - made just over $700m, you have to question the logic of the title.

To a certain extent, Captain America is at the heart of the Civil War story, given that it ends with the tragedy of his death in the comics, but he is in no way the lead star of it. Ironically, that's precisely what he rails against when Iron Man makes a symbol out of Spider-Man.

And whether you double-stuff the film with other Avengers or not, the audience will still wonder why it's a Cap movie and not an Avengers one.