From the #perspective of the MCU as a whole, the most #important #event of #Captain America: The Winter Soldier was the dissolution of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the subsequent #Edward Snowden-style leak of all its #classified documents.
On a personal note for characters like #Black Widow and #Hawkeye, this means they are now #public figures rather than anonymous government operatives. The general #public, meanwhile, has just had a bombshell dropped on their heads: For decades, governments across the globe have been conspiring to hide all sorts of extraterrestrial and superhuman threats from the public, and have probably detained thousands of people without trial. Not only that, but S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed itself to be infiltrated by HYDRA, who “shaped the century” by organizing various #covert #assassinations to topple governments and #manipulate #history to their own ends.
Looking at it this way, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to #imagine a lot of people #demanding more #transparency from the #government, particularly when it comes to superpowered beings. And as we know from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, S.H.I.E.L.D. spent years compiling a #database of #possible #superpowered #people around the #world—which was presumably made public at the end of_ #Winter Soldier.
Here’s why the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now perfectly primed for a “ Civil War ” movie.
Yet another fine blog…. 😅 