With Iron Man leading the pro-registration camp, and Captain America very much anti-registration, the Marvel Universe splits down the middle as friendships, teams and even families are torn apart. So if you have 30 characters fighting, people are going to be lost.Get all sides to the story of Marvel's most incendiary epic in this 11-volume box set! When the New Warriors kick off a deadly disaster in Stamford, Connecticut, the cry goes out for superhuman registration. Avengers 2 almost had the problem, it was so many characters it was hard to keep up. We were just sitting there thinking, what can we do with Spider-Man for three pages? And that worked.” Can It Work Without Fox’s Marvel Characters?“I think if you have too many characters, it would be really confusing for that same reason - comic fans will get it, but the regular viewers can handle maybe eight, maybe ten characters on screen. To be honest, it was just a way of boosting up our sales. It's a seven-issue series, which is 150 pages or something, and Spider-Man appears it it for three pages, one of which is a splash. But What About the Part Where Spider-Man Reveals His Secret Identity?“People remember that because it was such a good stunt. You've got to like both of these guys, they're both correct, and that's why guys we like go to either side with them, too. Because the moment you demonize one of them, then the story loses its power. Captain America, and they're both right, they're both good guys. That's what Civil War is - it's Iron Man vs. It's an ideological argument between the two, and that's all that matters. And it's sensible but Captain America's against it because he comes from a simpler time and he feels superheroes should be autonomous and not be involved in politics. You have a license, you make sure this guy is okay, you make sure he doesn't have a criminal record and all this kind of stuff. And it's sensible when you think about it. They should be maybe working for the government the same way cops work for local government. “What it's about is Iron Man feels anybody who is walking around with a nuclear reactor on their back or whatever should be under government control of some kind. I was like, alright, so I made it about something else. Everyone, even Daredevil, had given up their secret identity at this point. When I was writing that book, I was thinking about having the superheroes having to expose their identities and get brought under government legislation, and then I said to Marvel, 'Who's got a secret identity?' and they said, “No one.” There's basically Spider-Man.

Weirdly, people get really hung up on the whole secret identity thing. It has nothing to do with secret identities. What Civil War Is (And Is Not) About“The important thing really is the Superhero Registration Act essentially.

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