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Captain America: Civil War – Who’s Battling Who And Why?

It’s all well and good cramming countless popular heroes into your movie, and then making your movie about those heroes being on two sides of an epic conflict, but it’s tricky to keep the individual plot arcs straight in the mind. With the exception of Black Panther and Spider-Man, each of the heroic characters in Captain America: Civil War is coming in to the movie with a history and plot that is already established in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s at least 11 threads to tie together in a coherent fashion.

Sarah Myles

Published: Apr 28, 2016 11:24 am

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Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) is another character that has seen the big picture, albeit at the other end of the scale. While Iron Man saw the vulnerability of Planet Earth through a space portal, Ant-Man saw the scope of universal reality when he briefly visited the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man. Given that the Captain America: Civil War trailer places Ant-Man at the side of Captain America in battle, this big picture glimpse seems to have had the opposite effect for him, than it did for Iron Man, though.

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As a character that led his own movie, Ant-Man is seen to be a man that is unable to accept authority in his life. He is, when first we meet him, in jail for breaking the law. As a renowned thief, he has spent his days living outside the rules, and it takes almost the length of a whole movie for him to accept Dr Hank Pym as an authority figure – let alone S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government. In this way, it is no great logical leap to set Ant-Man on the side of Captain America and freedom from official interference.

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