Some of the heroes, such as Iron Man, embrace this as an inevitability that needs to managed rather than opposed, and others, such as Captain America, see it as an excessive limit of civil liberties and free activity and resist it completely. A series of public disasters involving superheroes leads the government to pass legislation giving them certain domain over superheroes’ activities, including oversight, accountability, and control. In both the comics from 2006-2007 and the current film, the superheroes are split over the issue of government supervision. Why are the Marvel superheroes having a “civil war”? White, author of A Philosopher Reads…Marvel Comics’ Civil War: Exploring the Moral Judgment of Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man, talked to us about philosophical themes in the film, including good vs. The superhero film Captain America: Civil War was released in the US last weekend, grossing $181.8 million and ranking it the fifth largest film opening of all time in the US.

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