Does anyone ever think about Civil War in a 'this isn't really a Civil War' type way? Cus I re watched it today and ??? What was that?
What is a Civil War? "A Civil War is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country)" if say in this case it's a team not state or country is that fair? ok so Captain America Civil War should be a fight between the Avengers cus that's the organized group we had in 2015? Ok rosters:
Tony (day1): Rhodes (Avenger AOU), Natasha (Avenger day 1 but tbh she's on her side), Black Panther (not an Avenger he's here to kill Bucky), Vision (Avenger AOU), Spider-Man (Not an Avenger, doesn't actually know why he's here).
Steve(day1): Sam (Avenger AOU), Clint (Avenger day1), Bucky (not an Avenger, wants to go home), Wanda (Avenger AOU), Scott (not really an Avenger?)
4/12 were Avenging since AOU so like a year ago? (Sam, Rhodes, Wanda, Vision) In the beginning of CW it looked like they were still training Wanda.
4/12 aren't Avengers or were just made 'avengers' for this (Bucky, Peter, T'challa, Scott)
4/12 are day 1 Avengers (Nat, Tony, Clint, Steve)
...would you say these people all were on the same team? I wouldn't. Outside of fanfic has Peter hung out with Nat? Or Bucky? Or Wanda? No, sorry. He hasn't even hung out with Tony at this point. Scott, has he talked to anyone besides Sam before CW? I'd call it a stretch for Wanda to have had an actual canon conversation with Natasha. What have Clint and Sam done together? Clint literally introduces himself to T'Challa during the 'battle'! I wouldn't call four of them Avengers at all (at this point) and not to mention it's 12 people!
This isn't an organization fighting amongst itself, it's little groups in a trenchcoat pretending to be one group, all an airport hanger fighting for 5 different reasons. an encounter? Sure. a skirmish? maybe. possibly even a dispute but this damn well ain't a 'Civil War'.