Trivia / Civil War II

• Recycled Script: A lot of fans and commentators have pointed out that, blow-by-blow, Civil War II is virtually the same thing as the original Civil War - a team battles a threat way out of their league and characters are dropped by it, prompting Tony Stark and a "Captain" name-bearer to fight over the aftermath. Another hero dies part way through to change the stakes just a bit. A young hero allies with one side, but realizes they made a terrible mistake and abandons ship for the other. People are held in captivity for something they have no control over, leading to a city getting ravaged, one hero being victorious and the other side incapacitated in some way, the hero community divided.
• Schedule Slip: Just like Secret Wars (2015) the year before, some of the later issues are several weeks late.
• Troubled Production: The series was given another issue and a complete overhaul in the second half to wrap things up, as Bendis was dissatisfied with the originally planned ending.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Leaked spoilers from the #0 issue (which were otherwise proven accurate when the issue finally dropped) indicate that Ulysses' original name was going to be Homer.
  • A New York Daily News piece covering the writers retreat where the event was planned revealed a few details.
    • Bendis initially proposed Peter Parker as the hero who would be killed in issue #3 to prevent a future catastrophe. The idea proved unpopular and was quickly discarded.
    • The Human Torch was another potential candidate for the death in issue #3, but Bendis immediately vetoed the idea.
    • James Robinson suggested that the death in issue #3 be a suicide rather than a murder, with the incident being an allegory for the current cyber-bullying epidemic.
• Write What You Know: Civil War II: The Accused, which deals with Hawkeye's trial for the death of Bruce Banner, was written by Marc Guggenheim, who is a lawyer.
• Writer Revolt:
  • As with the original Civil War, many writers ended up taking the same side, but this time backing Tony - so they tend to show Carol as either too aggressive in her decisions or something of an idiot (this even includes Carol's own solo title as of issue #9).
  • A lot of the tie-ins - when they're not trying to clear up continuity errors, mischaracterisations and nonsensical writing choices from the main book - have characters in-universe being critical of the "war", and of "hero vs hero" fights in general. Seems that the writers have grown a bit sick of such events.