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<\/a><\/p>\nSecond: the pitfalls. While audiences are left to form their own opinions on the Sokovia Accords, much of this is because the movie becomes horribly distracted from this premise. Plot threads are introduced and dropped nearly as quickly. This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to say the film is bad or unenjoyable, but it could\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been great had the writers stuck to one over-arching plot instead of many. The debate over being at the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beck and call could easily have occupied the entire film. Instead, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re treated to a convoluted plan of a rather forgettable antagonist. Zemo (intentionally?) misleads the Avengers into thinking he wants to take over the world with five additional winter soldiers. This causes them to follow him all the way back to a defunct Hydra base in Siberia, where he then (cue dramatic music) SHOWS THEM A VIDEO OF BRAINWASHED BUCKY KILLING TONY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S PARENTS!!! What a twist! What, though, would he have done had Tony actually followed the Accords? There was very little to be gained without both Bucky and Tony there (and Steve, too, really; Tony would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve straight-up murdered Bucky in the heat of the moment otherwise). This great, evil, diabolical plan hinged on many small details that could\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve easily gone awry. There were probably much easier ways to sow discord amongst the Avengers which weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite so susceptible to failure. Honestly, Zemo (and Bucky, for that matter) could easily have been written out of the script. A more streamlined approach would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been better for the characters, the plot, and the emotional punches they could pack. Illogical convolutedness is hardly compelling (and I enjoy many, many convoluted messes! JRPGs tend to be prime examples.).<\/p>\n
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As has tended to be the case, the MCU still has a problem with portraying diversity in meaningful ways without brutalizing their characters (if they even bother to include certain groups at all). A black man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death and his grieving mother are the impetus for Tony to accept the Sokovia Accords. Another black man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death\u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the king of an exoticized, imagined African nation at that\u00e2\u20ac\u201c is Black Panther\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s primary motivation through much of the movie. Of the Avengers, the only one to suffer a serious injury is Rhodes, whose paralysis will likely take him off the team permanently, despite however much money Tony will throw toward his rehabilitation. Representation for women of color is even worse. The only major WOC characters I can think of off the top of my head come from the TV shows. And would it kill anyone to have even just one queer hero? I think not. Hogarth, her wife, and her mistress of Jessica Jones<\/em> are a decent first step (and shows that sexuality has nothing to do with how much of an asshole you are; many forms of media shy away from this, usually opting to kill queer women instead), but I want more! And not just as minor characters!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Civil War<\/em> does a great many things well, but also falls into the same traps plaguing the MCU as a whole. As a summer blockbuster, it gets the job of entertaining audiences done well. Hopefully, the next MCU entry will avoid handing out disparate plot threads to everyone who goes to watch it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Brittany Teodorski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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