As the first film in Marvels Phase Three, Captain America: Civil War has a tough job in front of it. The film needs to maintain a strong standalone story, but its also burdened with having to kick off an entire wave of new films for Marvel. While picking up the pieces from Age Of Ultron, Civil War is going to have to slowly shift the focus to the looming threat of Infinity War. To make matters more complicated, there are plenty of upcoming solo films, many of which star characters also appearing in Civil War. Keeping all of that in mind, Civil War has a lot of ground to cover in order to adequately set up all of these upcoming adventures. There are things the film could do that would tease some of these other films but none of them are things that Civil War outright has to do. In many cases, the other films could handle this work without a lead-in, but if threads are started in Civil War, it will give them time to develop and help flesh out the bonds between the films of the MCU. Civil War has a lot to handle on its own, and even if its occupied with Caps personal struggle, there are still plenty of easy ways it could hint at the future of the entire Marvel Universe.
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