MCU: 14 Things You Learn Rewatching Captain America: Civil War

6. There's Genius In How It Doesn't Make You Choose A Side

Again, the marketing ahead of the film's release was very much aimed at a binary split to try and get fans more invested before the real story elements were actually revealed. You were encouraged to be either Team Cap OR Team Iron Man and it definitely worked for Marvel to approach it that way.

Far more ingeniously, the film itself never really encourages you to pick a side either way and not just because both Iron Man and Captain America are equally right per se - it's more that they're both equally wrong.

Tony might have logical reasons for agreeing with regulation (his opinion that doing that now is better than the alternative is entirely correct), but he mistreats Scarlet Witch, seems to be at least partly motivated by just getting Pepper back and ignores the limits that will be placed on The Avengers that would stop them saving the world. On the other hand, Steve is led too much by his emotions, is stubborn and ignores the consequences of unregulated superheroes.

The key is that both are flawed, despite being "supermen," which is a wonderfully complex approach instead of just throwing one of them under the bus as a villain.