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Events of 616

Civil War

  • The narrative begins with the New Warriors broadcasting themselves ambushing a safehouse of criminals. Nitro explodes in the scuffle killing 600 people

  • The government opts to have superheroes register to keep tabs on how many heroes there actually are and to officially regulate heroes 

  • 23 heroes meet in the Baxter Building to discuss this idea. Cap meets with Maria Hill and refuses to arrest Avengers who protect the people and don't want to register

  • Cap becomes a fugitive from S.H.I.E.L.D. 

  • The Resistance has 23 safehouses for anti-reg heroes all known only to Nick Fury

  • Spiderman reveals his true identity to the public after which J. Jonah Jameson is completely shocked and even faints

  • Emma Frost (as leader of the X-men) refuses to register the X-men but agrees not to join Cap’s side 

  • Pro-reg set a trap for anti-reg heroes and a battle ensues

  • Thor arrives who is actually a clone and kills Goliath) Bill Foster

  • Pro-reg heroes employ the Thunderbolts to work for them. A team originally put together by Helmut Zemo hence a team of criminals

  • Captured heroes on anti-reg side are put in a prison in the Negative Zone 

  • Spiderman switches sides

  • Spiderman is ambushed by Jack O’ Lantern and the Jester, two villains of the Thunderbolts, and is critically wounded. Punisher saves Spiderman and kills them both

  • Punisher joins the anti-reg team while a panel shows Tigra calling pro-reg

  • Punisher infiltrates the Baxter Building to study and find the plans of the Negative Zone

  • Punisher is kicked out from anti-reg due to the way he operates 

  • Uatu tells Dr. Strange he can end it all with a simple incantation yet he refuses to intervene because he believes there is no absolute right or wrong

  • Black Panther and Storm join anti-reg

  • Anti-reg team infiltrate Ryker’s Island penitentiary as that is where the portal to the Negative Zone is 

  • Another battle ensues

  • Namor joins anti-reg

  • After realizing that they were fighting just for the sake of fighting, Cap surrenders to pro-reg and the fighting stops. Tony Stark becomes head of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Maria Hill and implements the Fifty-State Initiative