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Captain America: Civil War

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          In Captain America: Civil War, the Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes, aka Steve Rogers’ lifelong best friend, is framed by a guy by the name of Zemo for exploding the United Nations. It is revealed that this action by Zemo was done for the purpose of watching the Avengers destroy themselves. The effects of this plan were enhanced by the division between team Iron Man and team Captain America over the Sokovia Accords. Team Iron Man was in support of global government oversight of Avengers operations while team Cap was against it. So, long story short, team Cap is momentarily stopped by team Iron Man, in the name of the Accords, on their way to find Zemo, a big fight ensues, and Rhodes gets seriously injured, planting a seed of vengeance in Tony’s heart. Later, Tony’s vengeance reaches its peak when Zemo reveals that Bucky, as the Winter Soldier, killed Tony’s parents. It didn’t help the situation that Steve reveals that he knew about Bucky killing h...

Ant-Man

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          In Ant-Man, Hank Pym and his daughter, Hope Van Dyne, struggle to find a way to stop Hank’s former mentee, Darren Cross, from stealing Hank’s idea for a formula and suit to decrease the distance between molecules (shrinking powers). Hope wants to be the one to use the suit to infiltrate Pym Technologies, the company formerly owned by Hank and now owned by Darren. Hank doesn’t want her to be the one to do so and it’s pretty clear to Hope that his reasoning for that decision is connected to her mother’s seeming death which he never told her about. The continuous act of Hank’s withholding this information from his daughter gives her some resentment towards him. They end up finding Scott Lang for the job, but this doesn’t cause any of her resentment to even subside. Resentment is only a hindrance to relationships. There is no growing closer to one another with resentment – only growing apart. King Saul, upon hearing that Samuel anointed David to be ki...