PLOT for CAPTAIN AMERICA #3?

Marvel Studios has refused to move CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 from the date WB has chosen for BATMAN VS SUPERMAN.

Seems suicidal doesn't it?  But the smart money should remember Marvel's track record.

THE WINTER SOLDIER arc in Captain America comics led directly into another company-spanning arc:  

CIVIL WAR

Upon the basic premise of CIVIL WAR lies an age-old debate on Freedom versus Security, 

and like any classic conflict, it comes with casualties on both sides:

The government can no longer ignore the growing threat that heroes now pose to the world. So the Superhuman Registration Act is born.

This law states that every hero has to register his full identity so they can be held accountable for any destruction happening during their ''rescues''.

{Remember the hue and cry from the politicians at the end of THE AVENGERS?}

This divides the universe in two camps. 

With Tony Stark backing the act at one side, and Steve Rogers, Captain America, rebelling against the US government on the other side. 

The story brings forth unlikely alliances, as not only heroes get teamed up against each other, vilians also join both causes. 

Steve Rogers has seen what Germany demanding Jews to register devolved into.  

As in THE WINTER SOLDIER, he says: "This isn't freedom.  This is fear."

While Robert Downey Jr. has brought a lot of charm, charisma, and humor to the role of Tony Stark, 

I think we see that he has a tendency to anger some people as much as he does charm others. 

It's this trait that gets him the role of Director of the new S.H.I.E.L.D.

During this time he commits some really horrible atrocities, 

he even lets Happy die when he realizes that he is courting Pepper. 

No doubt this would have to be changed for the movies, but it shows the effect the position has on Tony, 

and like they say, "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely". It's an age old story that resonates to this day.
 

And the story arc ends with Captain America being killed as Marvel is being rumored to do with Chris Evans.

 

Tony manages to do it with "clean" hands, but no one's hands are clean at the end.

Don't you think that storyline would give BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN a run for its money?

THE ONLY QUESTION NOW IS ...