2. Ripping Iron Man's Armour Off With One Blow - Civil War II
Marvel Comics
Civil War II may have just existed for the sole purpose of tying into the Captain America: Civil War film, but it did at least give us one spectacular fight between the Captain and another hero.
For those unfamiliar with the storyline, the plot revolves around the superhero community once again splitting into two different factions, this time due to a Minority Report-esque premise involving an Inhuman called Ulysses who possessed precognitive abilities. Captain Marvel deems it just to prosecute individuals before they've committed an offence, whereas Iron Man deems it to be an unethical breach of civil liberties.
Danvers, despite reaching the wrong conclusion regarding Ulysses' presence (turns out his predictions weren't all that accurate), she did emerge victorious in pretty much every single combat encounter, the last of which pitted her against Tony Stark in one of his most potent armours yet.
In a single blow, the Captain rips the armour right from his body. Talk about power.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
