Whose side are you on? That's the question Marvel are posing to fans for Captain America: Civil War, which is not only their next movie, but their biggest ever outside of The Avengers. It's going to pit Steve Rogers against Tony Stark, and force fellow superheroes and the audience to take sides (I'm leaning slightly towards Team Stark as things stand). Exact details are being kept under wraps, but we do know that it's going to have pretty much every notable character from the MCU in it (with a couple of exceptions), have heroes facing off against each other, be loosely based on the Civil War comic arc, follow-on from The Winter Soldier, set the tone for the rest of Phase 3, and introduce a few major new characters, including Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spider-Man, who's finally web-slinging his way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's going to be one of the biggest movies of any genre next year, and hopefully one of the best. Understandably Marvel are currently in the midst of a balancing act, building excitement while not giving too much away (and hopefully that remains the case, unlike the marketing campaign for Age Of Ultron), which means that, although there's been plenty already revealed through teases, we still have a lot of questions...
12. What Exactly Are The Sokovia Accords?
In the comics it is the Superhero Registration Act that divides the heroes, with the government wanting them to register and effectively unmask themselves, giving up their secret identities. Iron Man is all for it, Captain America is against it, and boom - you have Civil War. The MCU has one obvious problem when it comes to this: it doesn't have secret identities. Hell, Tony Stark announced who he was to the world back in the first Iron Man film and Steve Rogers is a legend. Thus it's having to go down a different route for its take on Civil War, with something called the Sokovia Accords. It's believed these will focus more on the accountability of heroes, but exactly what that entails is unclear. It also isn't obvious what will cause the Accords to be put into place. Obviously Sokovia was a major location in Age Of Ultron, so is it those events that spark off the debate, or will there be something else at the beginning of the movie - similar to the New Warriors in the comics - to set the wheels in motion?
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