What both versions of the story have in common is that someone exploded, taking a bunch of innocents with them. In that case it was the destruction of a town by an errant group of well-meaning but dumb low-level superheroes filming a reality show. In the comics, the inciting event was more small of a local concern, not an international one. Really, the damn gub’mint will just look for any excuse to pass laws restricting freedom, won’t they? Anyway… No matter how many folks the Avengers saved there, the cost in damage and human life was astounding…not to mention the PR disaster that “AI created by a superhero tried to destroy the world by dropping a country on it from orbit” must be. “The Sokovia Accords” refer to the catastrophic events from the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. All these two have in common is the idea of government regulation of superheroes and a divide ultimately led by Captain America and Iron Man. I say “loosely based” because really, it is. Captain America: Civil War is loosely based on Civil War, a comic book story by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. – So, let’s start with the most obvious thing here. So this movie’s flashbacks to earlier time periods is kind of a spiritual successor to the comics. For one thing, the Brubaker and Epting comics, while firmly set in the present day, constantly deployed flashbacks to fill in the blanks of Bucky and Cap’s history.
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