12 Greatest Red Herring Movie Endings

6. Zemo Kills The Super-Soldiers - Captain America: Civil War

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It's explained earlier in Captain America: Civil War that HYDRA attempted to create a team of Winter Soldiers by injecting five extremely skilled operatives with the Super Soldier Serum, but when they proved too volatile for the field, they were put in cryo-stasis.

From the moment we hear of these other super-soldiers, it feels like they're going to make a re-appearance in act three, and that they certainly do.

But when Cap (Chris Evans), Bucky (Sebastian Stan) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) arrive at the Siberian HYDRA facility to face Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl), they find that Zemo has actually murdered the other Winter Soldiers in their sleep.

Considering how generic and conventional it would've been for Cap, Bucky and Iron Man to face off against a team of super-soldiers, it was a huge relief to see the Russos ditch that thread in favour of a far more enthralling 2-on-1 superhero battle.

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