Captain America Civil War: 10 Worst Plot Points The Film Must Ignore

By Tom Baker /

10. Lots Of Dead School Children

It's clear that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is setting up two opposing sides in superherodom already, with Tony Stark managing to p*ss off most of his Avengers colleagues with his reckless actions in Age Of Ultron. That's giving a bit of a lead-in to Civil War, just as the comics were a culmination of a bunch of plotlines. But it was one inciting incident really kicked the source material off. Namely, an untested and untrained team of young heroes called the New Warriors €“ whose exploits are filmed for a reality show, kids these days eh €“ attack a supervillain safe house and it goes a bit wrong. Which is to say one of the villains, called Nitro, detonates himself and causes a huge explosion in a small suburb. And he does that whilst a school bus is driving past, meaning loads of kids die. Civil War, in the comics, begins because some superheroes accidentally let a bad guy murder lots of small children. That's a little bit too hardcore for the movies. Obviously the third Captain America will have no New Warriors, but hopefully it won't be as violent either, because it'd be tonally off-base. And gross.