Captain America: Civil War - 10 MCU-Shattering Outcomes That Fans Want To See
2. Birth Of The Dark Avengers
Post-Civil War, perhaps the government will set up their own team that they believe will be more compliant than Iron Man, Cap, Hulk, Thor and their friends. The original Avengers that remain active-but-unregistered may need to operate in the shadows while a new government-sanctioned hero team take the public limelight. Theres a precedent for this in the comics. In the 2009 Dark Avengers arc, a thought-to-be-reformed Norman Osborn suited up as the Iron Patriot and assembled his own official Avengers team including other supervillains like Venom, Bullseye, Moonstone and Daken (an evil son of Wolverine). Its easy to picture how Marvel Studios could adapt this. General Thunderbolt Ross (or even Osborn himself, since Marvel now share the Spidey rights) could lead the team, with the likes of The Abomination, Justin Hammer and other surviving baddies coerced into helping out. In the comics, the villains wore disguises so the public wouldnt turn against them. The movies could do the same. The Dark Avengers would be a game-changing addition to MCU canon, allowing Marvel to produce movies about two competing teams (the good guys working in secret and the baddies hogging the glory) going forward, giving audiences more big blockbusters and returns for memorable villains. Win win.
