60 Fun Facts About Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War was the first film released in which of the MCU's numbered slates?

It kicked off Phase Three in May 2016; the phase ran through Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019.

Which directing duo helmed Captain America: Civil War?

The brothers were rehired after test screenings of The Winter Soldier impressed Marvel executives, three months before that film even opened.

In what year is the film's opening scene set, where the Winter Soldier intercepts a car carrying super-soldier serum?

The Siberian mission bookends the film: the footage of what happened on that road is the fuse Zemo lights in the third act.

In which city do the Avengers try to stop Brock Rumlow at the film's start?

The market scenes were shot in Downtown Atlanta, in an area near Philips Arena known as The Gulch.

What is the name of the UN document that would place the Avengers under a UN panel's oversight?

They are named for the country levelled at the end of Age of Ultron, roughly a year before the film begins.

In which city is the UN conference bombed?

Security footage frames the Winter Soldier for the blast, which is exactly what the real bomber intended.

Which character is killed by the bomb at the UN conference?

His son vows revenge on the man he believes planted it, which pulls Black Panther into the manhunt.

In which European capital do Rogers and Wilson track down Barnes?

All four fugitives, Black Panther included, end up arrested by the local police and James Rhodes after the rooftop chase.

Zemo impersonates whom in order to get access to the captured Barnes?

He recites the trigger words from a stolen Hydra notebook, then uses the resulting rampage to cover his own escape.

Where do the two Avengers factions have their big set-piece fight?

The real airport is in Schkeuditz, Germany, and production moved there in early August 2015 after finishing in Atlanta.

Which hero is accidentally shot down by Vision during the airport battle and left partially paralyzed?

Stark later builds him exoskeletal leg braces so he can walk again, a set-up for his return in Infinity War.

Where are the members of Rogers' team detained after they are captured?

It is an underwater prison, and Rogers breaks his allies out of it in the film's final minutes.

Zemo's footage reveals that the car Barnes intercepted in the opening scene was carrying whom?

Stark is enraged less by the killing itself than by the discovery that Rogers already knew and kept it from him.

What does Rogers leave behind when he walks away from the fight with Stark in Siberia?

Stark tells him he does not deserve it because Howard Stark made it; the shield stays on the bunker floor.

Who stops Zemo from taking his own life once his plan has succeeded?

Having overheard the truth, he decides vengeance has consumed enough people and hands Zemo to the authorities instead.

In the mid-credits scene, what does Barnes choose to do?

He asks to be frozen until a cure for the brainwashing is found; Wakanda grants him asylum in the meantime.

What is Peter Parker examining in the post-credits scene?

The gadgets project a Spider-Signal onto his bedroom ceiling, a nod to the character's Ditko-era comics.

Which actor makes his debut as Black Panther in Civil War?

He did not audition; instead he had a discussion with Marvel about what they wanted to do, then signed a five-picture deal.

Who plays Peter Parker in the film?

He deliberately did not read the whole script so he could not accidentally leak the plot in interviews.

Whose casting as May Parker was only revealed at the film's premiere?

Her aunt is decades younger than the comic-book May, which the film has Stark comment on immediately.

Emily VanCamp's CIA agent Sharon is the niece of which earlier character?

She works for the CIA in this film and tips Rogers off to where the authorities have found Barnes.

What is the name of Sam Wilson's robotic drone?

In the comics Redwing is a real falcon Wilson has a telepathic link with; the film made it a drone.

Which comic-book identity does Scott Lang take on for the first time during the airport battle?

Feige said the reveal was chosen because none of the Ant-Man and the Wasp plans depended on it, so it could be spent here as a shock.

Who plays Helmut Zemo?

Unlike his comic-book counterpart, this Zemo never wears the purple mask, and he goes by several names in the film.

Zemo is a former colonel from which fictional country?

His family died when the Avengers fought Ultron there, which is why he wants the team to destroy itself.

What was cited as the reason the actor playing Zemo was cast?

Brühl said he did not consider the role a stereotype, calling Zemo a clever man acting from an understandable motive.

Which character does Martin Freeman play?

Freeman signed a three-film contract covering this film, Black Panther and its 2022 sequel.

Which Hydra official oversaw the Winter Soldier program?

Gene Farber plays him; his notebook of trigger words is what Zemo steals in the first act.

Alfre Woodard plays Miriam Sharpe. Who is she?

Downey suggested her for the part before Marvel learned she had been cast as Mariah Dillard in Luke Cage.

What is Stan Lee's cameo role in Civil War?

He delivers a package to "Tony Stank", a joke Rhodes immediately promises never to let go of.

Which member of the directing team cameos as Theo Broussard?

Broussard is the real doctor Zemo kills and replaces before the interview with Barnes.

Damion Poitier, who played Thanos in The Avengers (2012), appears in Civil War as what?

Josh Brolin had taken over Thanos by then, freeing Poitier to show up in a very different role.

The Wakandan language spoken in the film was based on which real language?

John Kani, who plays the king, taught it to Boseman, who kept the accent up whether or not cameras were rolling.

Who wrote the 2006–07 Marvel Comics "Civil War" storyline the film borrows from?

Millar was lukewarm on the result, saying he could not remember what the movie was about after a good opening twenty minutes.

What was the film's working title during production?

Marvel uses throwaway working titles on call sheets to keep locations quiet; the others here belonged to different MCU shoots.

Which sequence was shot with IMAX's digital 2D cameras, making Civil War the first film to use them?

The camera was a customised Arri Alexa 65; the rest of the film was shot on Arri Alexa XT cameras.

Roughly how many minutes of the film were shot on the IMAX Alexa 65 cameras?

The directors called that stretch the "splash panel"; there was late talk of shooting the whole film that way, but time ran out.

Without Robert Downey Jr., which Captain America comics storyline would the film have used?

That storyline was eventually recycled as a plot point in the first season of Agent Carter.

Which hero, whose costume was revealed at the end of Ant-Man, was cut from an early draft?

Feige said Marvel was saving her first suited-up appearance for a film where her dynamic with Scott Lang could breathe.

What part of the film did Marvel Entertainment executives object to, leading Marvel Studios to move under Disney?

The executives wanted the Avengers to unite against Zemo in Siberia; the Russos were ready to walk if that ending were forced on them.

Which Walt Disney Studios chief backed the directors in the dispute over the film's ending?

The episode helped shift oversight of Marvel Studios from Marvel Entertainment to Walt Disney Studios in 2015.

Which of Downey's early films did Lola VFX study when de-aging him for the holographic MIT scene?

The shot ran close to 4,000 frames with Downey turning his head repeatedly, which made the work unusually hard.

Which company's Atlanta headquarters doubled as the Avengers' headquarters?

Nearby, the Atlanta Civic Center played three different locations: the Lagos lab, MIT and part of Berlin.

Which director was on the Civil War set for Spider-Man's scenes to keep continuity with his own film?

He offered ideas on Parker's wardrobe and bedroom so Homecoming would pick up exactly where this film left the character.

Which future Black Panther director contributed dialogue for Black Panther during reshoots?

Feige revealed the contribution in April 2016, less than a month before the film's release.

Which character is said to have broken up with Stark, but never appears on screen?

Gwyneth Paltrow was reported to be joining the reshoots, but her Marvel contract had ended after Iron Man 3.

Who composed the score?

He wrote a new central Civil War theme so the music would not push audiences toward either side of the fight.

On which show did the first trailer debut in November 2015?

It became the number one trending topic on Twitter within hours and was seen 61 million times in a day.

Roughly how much was Civil War's worldwide box office gross?

That made it the highest-grossing film of 2016 and, at the time, the fourth-biggest superhero film ever.

Which two films finished ahead of Civil War at the 2016 U.S. and Canada box office?

It was still the top film of the year worldwide, and the first 2016 release to pass $400 million domestically.

What was the film's opening weekend gross in the U.S. and Canada?

It was the fifth-biggest opening of all time at that point, and $16 million of it came from IMAX screens.

Which film knocked Civil War from the top of the North American box office in its third weekend?

The birds also overtook it in several overseas markets that same weekend.

Which was the film's largest market outside the U.S. and Canada?

It also had an unprecedented 1,989-theater opening in South Korea, the largest non-Korean opening there ever.

Civil War opened at number one in every market except one. Which country?

It opened third there behind a Detective Conan film and Zootopia.

What grade did CinemaScore audiences give the film?

PostTrak reported an 88% overall positive score and a 75% definite recommend on the same opening weekend.

Which director made the mockumentary short Team Thor, included with the digital release?

The short explains what Thor was up to during Civil War: sharing a flat in Australia with a man named Darryl.

Variety reported that Robert Downey Jr. would receive how much, plus backend, for the film?

Marvel initially wanted a smaller part for Stark, but Downey pushed for a more substantial role in the plot.

How much did Chris Evans earn for the film?

Civil War was the final solo Captain America film in his contract, though he went on to Infinity War and Endgame.

How many teenage actors screen-tested against Downey and Evans for the Peter Parker role?

Downey said the winner alone brought the gravitas and confidence to carry the mantle.

Which character's alter ego, Red Hulk, was considered for the film but cut as too much for the cast?

The Russos felt he worked better as the face of the government's agenda than as another super-powered fighter.