Captain America: Civil War ending explained (spoilers)

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Bucky didn't bomb the UN summit. Zemo did and framed him to tear the Avengers apart. Stark fights Cap and Bucky when he learns that Bucky killed his parents. Black Panther refuses to let Zemo commit suicide and has him imprisoned. Stark has Cap break out the imprisoned Avengers.

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Bucky didn't bomb the UN summit in Vienna. He was framed by Helmut Zemo, who intended to use the event as a means to further drive the Avengers apart, as revenge for the deaths of his family in Sokovia. Zemo, masquerading as a psychiatrist that he killed, says a series of words to activate the HYDRA brainwashing that Bucky had undergone. Bucky tells Zemo about the mission in 1991 where he stole five supplements of the super soldier serum before assassinating the transporters.

T'Challa's father the Wakandan King is killed in the bombing, and he takes on the guise of the Black Panther to avenge his father, siding with Tony Stark. Tony also recruits a young Peter Parker after seeing some of his spider-powered crime-fighting on YouTube.

After an epic battle consisting of Iron Man, War Machine, Black Panther, Black Widow, Vision, and Spider-Man vs. Captain America, Falcon, Bucky, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man, Black Widow allows Captain America and Bucky to take the Quinjet to Siberia, where they believe Zemo has gone to revive the other five Winter Soldiers.

In the battle Vision accidentally shoots out War Machine's arc reactor, causing his suit to lose power while in flight. The fall leaves Rhodes paralyzed from the waist down.

After helping Rhodes with physical therapy using an exoskeletal structure to help him walk, Stark receives a letter from Captain America with an untraceable cell phone telling him to call him if he needs him. The next scene shows Cap breaking the Avengers out of prison.

Stark visits the prison where Falcon, Ant'Man, Scarlet Witch, and Hawkeye are imprisoned. Silently disgusted by how they are being treated, he reveals to Falcon that he developed the prison and so can control it with his tech. He cuts all feeds so that Falcon can tell him where to find Cap and Bucky. He is followed by Black Panther in a stealth jet.

When Stark arrives at Siberia, he approaches Cap and Bucky in peace to understand why they are there. Zemo shows them how the soldier serums that were stolen were used to create five more Winter Soldiers, but unlike Bucky they could not be controlled, and so were placed in stasis in Siberia.

When Zemo replays the mission video from 1991, it is revealed that the transporters Bucky assassinated were in fact Stark's parents. Though Cap knew Stark's parents had been the targets, he never knew Bucky was the one who did it, and is also sympathetic to Bucky's brainwashing. Iron Man takes on Captain America and The Winter Soldider mano e mano, in the process destroying the five dormant Winter Soldiers, which is what Zemo really wanted. Outside, Zemo is confronted by Black Panther, knowing now that he was the one who bombed the UN summit killing his father. He refuses to let Zemo commit suicide now that he has nothing further to fight for.

Stark receives a letter from Captain America with an untraceable cell phone telling him to call him if he needs him. The next scene shows Cap breaking the Avengers out of prison.

Mid credits: Bucky voluntarily goes back into stasis deep in the Wakandan jungle until his brainwashing can be undone.

Post-credits: Peter Parker's web-shooter projects a Spider-Man symbol.

And the closing caption states, Spider-Man will return.

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Captain America (Matt Salinger) enters the Red Skullrsquo;s (Scott Paulin) fortress and saves President Kimball (Ronny Cox), and then the two of them team up to outwit and incapacitate some of the Red Skullrsquo;s goons. Kimball also gets hold of a phone and calls in the U.S. Marines to come to the fortress, and he encounters General Fleming (Darren McGavin) and punches him unconscious for betraying both him and his country.

Captain America finds the Red Skull on one of the higher floors, with his daughter Valentina (Francesca Neri) holding Sharon (Kim Gillingham) at gunpoint. After a distracting series of gunshots between Kimball and two of the Red Skullrsquo;s henchmen, Sharon gets free and heads to the top floor with Valentina in pursuit, and Captain America and the Red Skull duke it out. The battle eventually results in a chase up to the top floor, and Captain America finds the Red Skull at his piano holding an explosives detonator. He throws his shield at him, but misses, and it lands out of his reach.

Valentina and Sharon show up, and Valentina shoots Captain America. As Sharon takes her down, the tape player containing the audio track of the Red Skullrsquo;s family being killed the night he was taken and mutated falls from her purse. Captain America plays the tape, and as the Red Skull is lost in his thoughts over it, it gives Captain America the chance to retrieve his shield. He throws it at the Red Skull, sending him over the fortress wall before he can press the detonator. He violently bounces down the cliffside before falling into the sea. Valentina then grabs hold of her fatherrsquo;s machine gun, but before she can kill Captain America, the shield returns and decapitates her. The U.S. Marines then show up to get the good guys to safety.

The movie closes with a comic book image of Captain America, and the voiceover of a newscaster saying that President Kimball got 116 nations to agree to his environmental protection treaty, and in a brief statement after the signing, he gave his thanks to Captain America for being a key person that helped make this happen.

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Short Ending
After defeating the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) and foiling his master plan during World War II, Captain America (Chris Evans) pilots the missile laden jet fighter into the arctic snow. He revives in a room where a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game is being broadcast over the radio. A SHIELD agent (Amanda Righetti) comes in to talk with him, but Captain realizes that the room he is actuallyin a prison and breaks out. He discovers that he has been awakened in the 21st century and had been frozen in the arctic tundra for over 70 years. He and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) go off to talk about what lies ahead for Captain America.

Long Ending
Agents of SHIELD are investigating a jet-fighterwreck discovered in the Arctic. In the wreck, they find a star-spangled shield. We then flash back to the 1940s - World War II is in full swing.

Steve Rodgers (Captain Americas alter ego) is desperate to get into the Army and serve his country. His determination impresses Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) whosigns Steve up to be thefirsttest subject for the super-soldier program wherein they hope to make him into a superhuman to defeat the Nazi regime. While in Germany, Dr. Erskine had been employed by Hitlers protege,the Red Skull, who had taken an earlier version of the serum. Although the Red Skull became stronger and superhuman, the early formula burned away his skin, turned his skull red, and drove him mad with power. The Red Skull runs Hitlers super-science division named HYDRA and has plans to not only destroy the US, but also Germany, and take over the world. The Red Skull finds an ancient power sourcecalled the Cosmic Cube that originated in Asgard (Thors home planet) and intends to use the Cubes power tocharge his doomsday devices that Dr. Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) has built for him.

With the help of Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper - playing Tony Stark/Iron Mans genius father), the super-soldierexperiment is a huge success, increasing Steves size and strength. Shortly after the experiment ends, Dr. Erskine is assassinated by an undercover agent of HYDRA. The head of the anti-HYDRA division, Col. Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) has no faith in Steves abilities and Steve agrees to help the US government raise war bonds by going on a nationwide tour and filming movies as costume-clad hero Captain America! Despite his power he is nothing more than a super-powered actor.

When he arrives in Europe to perform for Col. Phillips squad, he learns that HYDRA has captured almost all of the squad, including his best childhood friend James Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). With the encouragement of British secret service agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), Captain America goes behind enemy lines and rescues all of the survivors. Col. Phillips gains faith in him and allows Captain America to form his own international squad to take down HYDRA bases. They outfit him with a star-spangled shield made out of the super-metal called Vibranium. He and Peggy develop a romance, but Steve becomes ever-more desperate to defeat the Red Skull when Bucky is killed in a mission after falling off a HYDRA train.

Eventually, they attack the last remaining HYDRA base. The Red Skull manages to escape on the HYDRA doomsday jet-fighter that Dr. Zola built and which he intends to use tobomb the world capitals, starting with Steves home NYC. Captain America manages to get on the jet just before it takes off. Captain America dispatches all the henchmen and fights Red Skull. During their fight, the Cosmic Cube is damaged. The Cosmic Cube ends up transporting the Red Skull into an alternate dimension before burning a hole through thejet and falling into the sea. The jet is still loaded with missiles, so Captain America decides to crash it into the Arctic where it cant hurt anyone, and does so while saying a tearful good-bye to Peggy.

Steve awakensin a room where a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game is being broadcast over the radio. A SHIELD agent (Amanda Righetti) comes in to talk with him, but Captain realizes that the room he is in is a prison and breaks out. He discovers that he has been awakened in the 21st century and had been frozen in the arctic tundra for over 70 years. He and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) go off to talk about what lies ahead for Captain America.

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It turns out that Rogue is actually Tom Lone, Crawfords supposedly murdered partner. When Rogue shot Lones wife and daughter, Lone overpowered Rogue and shot him dead. He then burned down the house, took Rogues passports and the like, and had reconstructive surgery to look like Rogue. While Rogue/Lone is battling Shiro, the leader of the Yakuza, Shiro reveals that he wanted Lone dead after wounding Rogue, and an FBI agent gave him Lones location; specifically, John Crawford. At the end, Lone shoots Crawford, maybe lethally, and kills Shiro and the Triad boss. In the next scene he is then shown getting into a car and driving somewhere, most likely to start a new life.