| Fei-Hung said: I had a fear Marvel will switch Cap to be the bad guy and Tony to be the good guy for the film.
The comics had it the other way around by Tony being Corporate America and representing the arms industry, even having a hand in the instigation of the civil war, creating a fake Thor to fool other heroes that he is doing the right thing with Cap being the liberal fighting for freedom. It's Stark who goes on a killing spree and torture and imprisonment of people with powers by creating a guantanamo for them.
The change is enough to dissapoint me and have me be completely be turned off by the avengers. |
The way it's done in this movie, it's actually a better allegory. Captain America is the American government, and in his zeal to "protect", he refuses to be bound by the UN, and as a result, ends up doing a whole lot more harm than good - and if he'd just trusted the others properly, they could have gotten out of the situation diplomatically.
It's possible that Bucky represents Israel.
I could construct an entire analogy between the movie and real world political stuff, but I'll leave it there.
