The story picks up after Avengers: Age of Ultron, as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body.
Karpov: [in Russsian] Longing. Rusted. Furnace. Nine. One. Seventeen. Freight Car.. [he shuts the book].
Ready to comply? I have a mission for you. Sanction and extract. No witnesses.
- Brock Rumlow: This is for dropping a building on my face!. [he extracts a blade from his suit and goes to stab Steve with it but Steve moves his head in time]
Steve Rogers:
I’m glad you’re back at the compound. I don’t like the idea of you rattling around a mansion by yourself. We all need family.
- I thought by not telling you about your parents, I was sparing you, but I can see now that I was really sparing myself. And I’m sorry.
Tony Stark gives a speech at MIT
“The challenges facing you are the greatest mankind’s ever known.”
- As of this moment every student has been made an equal recipient of the inaugural September Foundation Grant.
- At the Avengers compound Steve catches Wanda watching a news report on the Lagos attack and how they blame her for it. Wanda Maximoff apologizes to Steve and tries to explain that it was not her fault. Steve Rogers reminds her that it is her job to save as many people as she can, but if she can’t find a way to live with that then no one gets saved.
Two people in a room can get more done than a hundred
T’Challa: In my culture, death is not the end. It’s more of a stepping-off point. You reach out with both hands, and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into the green veldt, where you can run forever.
- Natasha Romanoff: That sounds very peaceful, doesn’t it?
The Sokovia Accords
Approved by a hundred and seventeen countries, it states that the Avengers shall no longer be a private organization. Instead, they will operate under the supervision of a United Nations panel, only when and if that panel deems it necessary.
- Three days from now, the UN meets in Vienna to ratify the Accords.
Vision: Do you know, I don’t know what this is?.
I know it’s not of this world, that it powered Loki’s staff, gave you your abilities, but its true nature is a mystery. And yet, it is part of me. One day, who knows? I may even control it.
Thaddeus Ross: Talk it over.. Natasha Romanoff: And if we come to a decision you don’t like?.
Zemo: Then you retire..
Do you remember me?
Bucky Barnes: Yes, I do.
