Differences Between Captain America: Civil War & Marvel Comics' Civil War

Hey everybody so if you read my review for Captain America (1990) you would know two things. One I found that movie to be awful and two I wanted to something else involving Captain America. So I decided to do another Differences Between. And just like my differences between Jurassic Park the movie and Jurassic Park the novel I'm just doing this for fun.







One of the many differences between the film and the comic is Spider-Man. Throughout Captain America: Civil War he does appear but not in his Iron Spider armor it was just he's regular costume. In the Civil War event comic however he does wear the Iron Spider armor to show he's divided loyalty between Iron Man and Captain America.





Another change to Spider-Man is him revealing his secret identity. In Captain America: Civil War this doesn't happen because this Spider-Man is new and Tony didn't want him to reveal his identity to the public. In the Civil War story arc Peter reveals himself to be Spider-Man because under the registering act you have to reveal your secret identity. Not only did Peter do that because it was the law but it was also because Tony Stark had convinced him that this was the right way to move forward.







The main reason for people changing their opinions on the heroes is in Captain America: Civil War it was because of the heroes previous battles in The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and then Cap's team assaulting Crossbones which ended with a building blowing up thus causing a lot of damage and loss of life. In the Civil War comic event it was because the New Warriors were fighting a villain called Nitro who made an explosion leveling the surrounding city which also included a nearby elementary school. It also didn't help that the New Warriors didn't call for back up.






The team roasters are also quite different. In Captain America: Civil War Captain America's team is himself, Hawkeye, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), The Winter Soldier, Scarlet Witch, and Falcon and Iron Man's team is himself, War Machine, Vision, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Black Widow. In the Civil War storyline Team Iron Man is himself, Spider-Man, Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man), Reed Richards (leader of the Fantastic Four), The Thing (one of the members of the Fantastic Four), She-Hulk, and Black Widow among others. Captain America's team is himself, Falcon, Daredevil, Hercules, Invisible Woman and Human Torch (the other members of the Fantastic Four), Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, and The Punisher among others including Vision. Also Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch were not part of the story like they were in the movie.





The people who enforced the Accords changed as well. In Civil War it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that enforces the Superhero Registration Act. For Captain America: Civil War the head of the Accords is U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, who aims to enforce the new law with the U.N. committee.





In Captain America: Civil War the real reason for the heroes fighting each other was because of a villain pulling the strings from behind the scenes that being Zemo. In Civil War there is no villain it was an actual conflict between two different ideals between superheroes.







Since were on the topic of villains let's talk about their part in all of this. Now there weren't any villains involved in Captain America: Civil War since some of them are either out of commission or dead. In Civil War however Team Iron Man recruits a team of "reformed" villains to show just how far he's fallen and how far he's willing to win this war.






Both Thor and Hulk's reasons for not being in both Civil Wars are also different. In the Civil War storyline the Hulk wasn't there because other heroes launched him into space because they thought he was too dangerous leading into the Planet Hulk storyline. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe Hulk went off the grid because it was his choice at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. In the Civil War comic we did have a Thor but it wasn't the real Thor it was an overly aggressive cyborg clone of Thor. Wow both saying that out loud and writing that sounded really weird. Now Thor was brought up in Captain America: Civil War but nobody including the Avengers know where he is.






Now in the Civil War comic event there were tons of Marvel characters thus making this feel like a war. In Captain America: Civil War there weren't they many which isn't too bad after all the MCU hasn't introduced a lot of characters to be involved in that movie and some characters such as the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, Marvel doesn't own the film rights to.





Captain America's reason for being anti-registration are also different. In the original Civil War story Steve is against the registration because one of the rules is the superheroes revealing the true identity, which Cap saw as a time honored tradition that kept them out from under government control. That didn't sit well with him at all, but while that was bad S.H.I.E.L.D. made it even worse by stating that they were going to hunt down unregistered heroes and they assumed Captain America would lead the charge. In Captain America: Civil War he's reason is he doesn't want the government to tell him where or when he's allowed to save people. The other reason is his longtime best friend Bucky Barnes aka the Winter Soldier is a wanted man who is being hunted down by the government and Team Iron Man for a bombing he didn't commit.






Now in Captain America: Civil War The Winter Soldier plays a very big role in the story. In the movie were shown his struggles with his brainwashing and his on the run when a bomb went off at a conference in Vienna. In the Civil War story while he is on Captain America's team he doesn't play that much of a role. The only time he was really involved was tie-in comics.






Another big differences between the two properties is Black Panther's origin. Decades before the Civil War story arc T'Challa became Black Panther because his father King T'Chaka is killed by the mercenary Ulysses Klaw who was seeking the Vibranium in their African nation of Wakanda. In Captain America: Civil War T'Chaka is killed but in a different way that way being a bombing during a conference in Vienna. Then after the bombing T'Challa becomes the Black Panther seeking vengeance for his father's demise.






The prison holding the rogue superheroes is drastically different from one another. In Captain America: Civil War Cap's team is held in an underwater detention center called The Raft, a multi-level maximum security prison on an island near New York's Riker's Island. In Civil War the prison is much worse, the heroes are transported through a portal from Riker's to Prison 42, a prison engineered by Tony Stark and Reed Richards, and housed inside The Negative Zone, making it inescapable.





Both the outcomes from these two properties have been altered but slightly. In Civil War Iron Man's team won and anybody who was against his team or refused to sign the registration are now fugitives or hiding out. In Captain America: Civil War while Iron Man's team still won and Cap's side is fugitives, the only positive note is Steve is still out there fighting a good fight.





Another differences is Captain America's fate. In Captain America: Civil War Steve doesn't die he survives the whole experience. In the aftermath of Civil War Steve is shot and killed in Captain America #25 in the storyline The Death of Captain America.



So those were some of the differences between Captain America: Civil War and Civil War. I hoped you enjoyed this. I might do another one of these I just don't know with what movie and story and the month, but when that happens you'll see it in the schedule down below.

State of The Project (Sept 7th - Sept 22nd)

Sept 7th - What You Probably Didn't Know About Stephen King

Sept 9th - It Review

Sept 11th - Cinematic Disasters - Captain America (1990)

Sept 14th - Things to Read/Watch Before Seeing Justice League

Sept 18th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures - The Forever War

Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War

Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.