| Wright said: Well, I can think of some "legitimate" plot holes. Like the fact that Vision took down War Machine because he was "distraught" (I don't know how they say it in English, that's the literal translation from the Spanish version), but back when he tried attacking Falcon there was literally no thing that could distract him that moment. It was just some plothole convenience so that Captain America could escape. And I don't know if it counts as plot hole or as a really, really poor plot device, but there's no reason why Tony Stark should know Spider-Man's true identity. There's none given, unless watching youtube videos is proof enough. Which in itself makes no sense, why bring Spiderman to the fight when he has no real reason to be there? He's just so that Marvel screams to the audience "hey, we got him back!" Then there's just some flaws or the magic coincidence fairy that was also present on The Force Awakens here, like a camera on the middle of nowhere ready to film Bucky killing Tony's parents (had the car steered a little bit more and no footage would have been found!), Captain America knowing this information...because I don't know, frankly, how did he know about this? And how did the evil guy know that Iron Man would show up with the Winter Soldier to show him this footage?
Not hating on the movie, by the way. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, and these flaws didn't affect my perception on the overall scheme of things. But there they are, regardless of the situation! |
Vision seemed upset about the fighting in general. It's also pretty clear he had feelings for Wanda, who had just sent him through like ten floors of concrete. He's also an android just starting to deal with human emotions. This is the first time he's fighting someone he'd considered friends. You could say it's a little contrived, but within the realm of possibility.
Tony obviously had been looking into Spider-man for a while. It's not like he just whipped up a suit in ten seconds. It wouldn't be hard to narrow him down to a small area in queens (in early Spider Man books, like ten different villains figured he lived somewhere around his high school), and from there it's not hard to see how Tony could use his resources to find him. It's a case where they probably *could* have given you five or ten minutes of Tony figures out who Spidey is story, but why? Not really a plot hole, just something that didn't need to be shown.
As for why he's there, obviously it's mainly because Marvel wanted him there. But it's justified by the story. Spider-man is obviously a person who Tony had been watching for a while and was looking at for a potential mentorship or apprenticeship kind of thing. This mission made a good first run, because he was pretty confident Cap and his team wouldn't try to kill him. And keep in mind, he probably would have HAD to talk to Spider-man at some point in the near future, as the accords made him an outlaw if he kept Spideying on his own.
As for how the evil guy knew, that's fairly simple. He knew about the airport battle (kind of big news), and at that point he called in room service so they'd find the body of the UN psychiatrist. He knew they'd find the winter soldier disguise, and find out who he was. He knew Cap and Bucky were already after him, and he knew Iron Man would try to find him too, after revealing he had attacked the UN and framed Bucky. From there, he just had to wait for them all to show up. He was in a room that Bucky and Cap couldn't break into, so even if he just waited there and Tony showed up a few hours later, it would have been fine. It made it much better for him, and the viewers, that they arrived at the same time, but it wasn't necessary for his plan to succeed.
