The folks at Screen Junkies have just released an “honest trailer” for Captain America: Civil War and it goes like this…

What’s most humorous (or perhaps sad) is the realization I’ve had for a while now: Both Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War share a rather …curious… similarity in general plot.

I can’t say when exactly I noted there appeared to be similarities, though I suspect it happened in/around the time the first trailers for both films were released and it became clear each movie used the idea of massive super-hero influenced damage to hang their plot on (in BvS, Bruce Wayne witnessing the carnage of Metropolis from the end of the Man of Steel film pushes him over the edge in wanting to eliminate Superman, whom he feels is a danger to humanity.  In Civil War -which I still haven’t seen but should be getting to it very soon- it appears a similar carnage event causes Captain America and Iron Man to go after each other).

Curiously, I didn’t consider the other similarities.  That Captain America and Superman were essential the “All American” heroes and Batman/Iron Man were both playboy billionaires with plenty of toys at their disposal.  That each film introduced a number of characters for future works.  And, according to the Honest Trailer, both also featured the deaths of the Batman/Iron Man character’s parents as a sub-theme.

Weird how all those similarities found their way into each film.

Regardless and as I stated before, I’ll be getting to Civil War very soon (just picked it up yesterday) and will offer my take on it, for whatever its worth.