What side would you have taken?

Iron man was a wuss and the governments puppet, i would follow captain america to the end!!!

Im with the Captain on this one! Btw, it should be 'taken' not 'took' in your headline.

civil war made me hate iron man until the movie came out. civil war is the reason i love cap so much. when i was younger i thought he was the most boring character ever. until civil war and ed brubaker happened. i am with cap. spiderman voted iron man and look where that got him.

I'm playing the devil's advocate on this one. To all you Iron Man haters, ya'll do realize that Tony Stark had good reason to be fed up with the rebellions of countless of superheroes, especially when he was simply trying to save them from what Washington would have done had they been given full control. With every act of rebellion that was being committed by Cap and his team, the American people as well as the government were becoming more and more fearful of what the superheroes were capable of. If I recall, Cap wouldn't even listen to what Iron Man had to say. If he listened, they might have been able to reach a compromise and save the lives of countless of individuals.

I'm not for the Registration Act. But I think it's wrong to consider Iron Man the bad guy in all of this. The real bad guy was Washington D.C., and I think Iron Man was trying to save all of the heroes before Democracy took effect.

i would side with iron man with one condition. ONLY the government would know the secret identities, not everybody. look what happened to spiderman.

I'm going to have to side with Iron Man. Freedom always has to be balanced with public saftey. People can't have unlimited freedom when the public saftey is at risk. Tony was looking out for people's saftey, and realized that some super humans could be dangerous if left uncontrolled. It's a matter of personal freedom vs the public saftey.

While I agree Captain America fears are sensible in the sense of not being used as weapon, but also he should realize that the saftey of people should be important as well. Iron Man realized that certain people are to dangerous to be left unregulated (examples The Hulk, Storm, the Human Torch whoses powers are so extreme and could seriously hurt a lot of people).

So I would have sided with Iron Man and the saftey of the public.

With the exception of making everyone work for the government, Iron Man was right. Stamford proved it. You can't have inexperienced heroes going out and being wreckless and possibly getting civilians killed because of it.

Look at it like this, you have to register with the government just to be able to drive a car down the street. If not, then you would have children driving around, and accidents and loss of life would be through the roof. Thats just to drive a car. Most heroes have way more power, and the ability to hurt far more people than one car.

So no, Iron Man wasn't wrong, he was actually right as far as that goes. It was the part where they made all the registered heroes into government lap dogs, where he started to be wrong.

Also, Captain America was certainly not right. He's supposed to uphold the ideals of America. Well, if you all remember, in Civil War, the American people VOTED to have the Registration Act enabled. Thats the basis of our whole country, is that the people vote for what happens. The good Captain went against that ideal. He's supposed to serve the people, and when he went against what the American people voted for, he went against the most important part of American ideals. Thats why he surrendered at the end. He realized he wasn't doing what the people wanted, he was doing it for himself and the heroes. By doing that, Captain America himself admitted he was wrong. Thats all the answer anyone should need.