As a comic book reader and someone who loves to go to conventions, I find it very humorous and sometimes frustrating when I'm at a convention or store and someone walks in and this conversation takes place:
Customer: Excuse me, I would like to to buy the Captain America: Civil War comic books
Store Employee: I'm sorry sir, but there is no comic book with that title but we do have (grabs a complete put together collection of Civil War) this.
Customer: That's cool but that's not CAPTAIN AMERICA: Civil War, that's just Civil War.
Store Employee: Yes sir, I understand what you're saying but what I'm trying to tell you is that there is no comic book, graphic novel, or series titled Captain America: Civil War.
Customer: But I just watched Captain America: Civil War which is based on comic books, so there for you don't know what you are talking about or you don't know the books exist.
Store Employee: Excuse me sir but the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the comic books are very different. The movies are loosely based on the comics, have their own stories, and change plots and characters to make the story work for the movie studios.
And the conversation goes on and on until one of three conclusions happen:
- The information finally clicks in the customers mind and buys the comics bundle
- Customer understands and doesn't want to buy the bundle
- Customer gets pissed off because he/she doesn't understand and storms out of the store
The reason for this blog is to help those who have not read the comic books and would like to know the similarities and differences of the movie and comic series. For writings sake I'm only going to compare the beginning because one, Im just now starting to write and that's quite a bit for me to compare the whole story, and two that would be a lot to read.
Marvel Comics Civil War:
- The Comics: The Story begins with a group of teenage supers called "The New Warriors" have their own reality tv show taking down a group of bad guys. One of the members spots a very powerful super named Nitro and suggests that the group attempts to take him out. The fight ends with Nitro using his power blowing up several city blocks which included a school. The casualties were upwards to 600 people including children.
-MCU Civil War: (Skipping mission report December 16, 1991)
Captain America, Black Widow, The Falcon, and Scarlet Witch are looking for Brock Rumlow aka Crossbones. They group thinks that Crossbones was going to hit the police station but in fact his target was a chemical warehouse. Crossbones and his men hit the warehouse and obtain an unknown chemical. A skirmish takes place until Crossbones tells the remaining men who weren't taken out by Captain America and his friends to take the chemical and split up. Widow and Falcon take on the lackeys while Captain takes on Crossbones alone. Black Widow (with the help of Redwing) obtains the chemical. Captain America and Crossbones duke it out until Cap finally wears out Crossbones. Crossbones falls on his knees, takes off his helmet, and then Cap picks him up. Crossbones mentions Bucky and Cap tries to intimidate as much info out of him. But Crossbones was using Bucky as a distraction to blow up Cap but when Crossbones detonates the bomb Scarlet Witch uses her powers to conceal the blast. In an attempt to save the people around them she throws Crossbones and the concealed blast into the air but the blast is to much to handle and it takes out a section of the building resulting in many casualties.
In both the comics and the movies both events are the linchpin in the government deciding to start the superhuman registration act. The differences also being the movie Civil War reflects back on the events in Avengers in New York, Captain America in Washington, and Avengers: AOU* Zekovia, and the incident with Scarlet Witch blowing up the building. In the comics it focused more on the mutants New Warriors and their carelessness taking on villains they had no business confronting and the overall fear of mutants.
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