In retrospect, releasing a line-wide crossover event with the tagline “Choose Your Side” might have been reading the room a little too well back in 2016, a year where the U.S. Presidential election seemed as much like an outright culture war as has ever been the case. That the tagline was particularly close to that of Marvel’s 2006 Civil War event a decade prior wasn’t an accident. After all, this was Civil War II.
