Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers.Steve receives a text informing him that Peggy Carter has died. The team is divided on the terms and break into debate.

Secretary Ross presents the Avengers with the Sokovia Accords, legislation signed by 117 nations that would subject the Avengers to oversight from a United Nations panel, in response to previous incidents involving the team that resulted in mass destruction. Steve and Wanda are watching news footage criticizing the Avengers when the Vision announces that Tony has arrived, bringing with him the Secretary of State, Thaddeus Ross. Downstairs, a woman confronts Tony after the presentation, telling him that her son was killed in Sokovia during one of the Avengers' battles, leaving Tony with intense guilt. She looks at the destruction in terror, and Steve calls for assistance.Īt MIT, Tony Stark is giving a presentation to students, showing them a projection of the last time he saw his parents before their deaths. Wanda Maximoff contains the explosion and inadvertently releases it into a nearby building. After a fight, Rumlow taunts Steve that Bucky remembered him, and detonates a bomb strapped to his body. In the present day, one year after the battle of Sokovia, the Avengers are on a mission in Lagos, facing off against Brock Rumlow and a team of mercenaries, who break into a lab to steal a biological weapon. They send him on an extraction mission to recover a case of super soldier serum from the back of a vehicle. He is subject to excruciating torture as the agents recondition his brain by reciting trigger words from a HYDRA journal until he is under their control.

They awaken Bucky Barnes, one of the participants and Steve Rogers' best friend from World War II. The film opens in December, 1991, at a HYDRA base in Russia, where agents are running the Winter Soldier program. This riot polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies. Following the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity.

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