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I just came up with a better ending for Captain America: Civil War.


Spoilers ahoy!



OK, so in the movie, Zemo shows Stark the footage of Bucky killing his parents and goes ham on Bucky leading to the fight between Iron Man, Cap, and Bucky. The problem is that it's such a weak ploy. Stark knows that Bucky was basically a zombie assassin and not terribly responsible for any of his actions. Further, it's such an obvious ruse to get a rise out of Stark that he, a super-wealthy, super-genius, industrialist should see right through it. In fact, until Cap confirms it, Stark might believe it was faked -- after all, Zemo is good at faking stuff.

So with all of that, the motivation for that end fight seems incredibly weak.

So my better ending is thus: Stark is pissed as hell, but he's pissed at Zemo for going through all this effort to manipulate him. Sure, he can still be mad at Bucky and Cap, but he knows that's what he's being pushed to do and he resents that even more. So he starts burning through the blast shield to get at Zemo. Perhaps he even gets close to killing Zemo. Cap and Bucky have to step in to stop him and then we get that final fight. Hell, if they even just talk him down from killing Zemo that might be a better ending than a three-way fight.

My 2-cents anyway.