Author’s Statement:

(Lindsey) Since we decided to make our skit about the beginning of Civil War, we figured Spiderman should be a part of that discussion. Spiderman had a big role in the Civil War comics and there is a lot of speculation that he will be in the movie as well since Marvel recently acquired his rights from Sony. We figured adding Spiderman would be a good way to speculate how Marvel intends to make Civil War as an extension of the Avengers and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Because the Cinematic Universe is so different from the comics, a lot had to be changed around or erased from the comic storyline to the storyline we wrote for the skit. It was easy to write in Spiderman because we could practically make his storyline anything we want since this will be his first appearance in the Universe and therefore is no prior knowledge of him in the Universe. We tried to write Spiderman’s dialogue in a way we’d imagine Whedon would do so and mixed it with Spiderman’s own humor.

(Carsten) Iron Man is going to be a vital role in Civil War, as he is the head of his side of the argument against Captain America. In this skit, I will be playing as him and will be arguing as to why the protection is important for the Avengers. We made sure to add in his signature sense of humor, but also the confidence. Portraying him, I will replicate RDJ’s style so seem like the Iron Man from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Joss Whedon is great at being able to handle many characters at once, so we are doing that here ourselves here to a degree with Iron Man, Spiderman, and Captain America. With this, it will come off as the MCU/Whedon Avengers but made by fans and not  by the man himself.
(Matthew)    When myself, Lindsey, and Carsten, got together to decide what to do for our group project we all agreed to do something within the Marvel  universe Whedon has created. We eventually decided to do what we think will be the focus of Captain America: Civil War which will have Iron Man and Cap on two sides fighting each other with the other Avengers taking sides. We agreed to do this because it’s going to be interesting to see how much it differs from the comics and also how if it affects the two Avengers movies Whedon directed. Will be acting out what should be the beginning of Civil War with Cap and Iron Man disagreeing with their stances on what do to and then trying to convince Spider-Man to join one of them.  There’s no doubt that Spider-Man is Marvel’s standout superhero so it’s going to be interesting to see how our version will compare to how Civil War turns out next May.