What's the most common way for comic book stories to hit readers right away with strong storyline? They kill someone off. In this case, they kill two major characters. If you don't want to know who, then stop reading now, but if you do decide to keep going, just so you know, there will be ***MAJOR SPOILERS!!!*** in the following post!
Last year's Secret Wars storyline started every comic book over with a new #1, and made a lot of new changes to characters aimed at diversifying the Marvel Universe. Jane Foster became the new Thor, X-23 took over the mantle of Wolverine after Logan died, and Black Bolt went "rogue", leaving Medusa to lead the Inhumans, which now include Beast and Human Torch. Speaking of Inhumans, after Secret Wars a Terrigen Mist was released over the Earth causing more Inhumans to pop up all over the place. Marvel is focusing on Inhumans over mutants, since 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the term "mutants." Inhumans are essentially the same thing, but the rights to that term is owned by Marvel. But I digress...
Civil War II introduces us to a new Inhuman named Ulysses, someone that has the ability to foresee the future. Think of him as one of the precogs from Minority Report, he can see things before they happen so others can stop or change it from happening. This brings about the rift between the heroes...should they act on the information that Ulysses gives them, or should they let things happen as they should? When our heroes stop discussing the ramifications to this question and decide to act on it, all hell breaks loose.
There are two factions that come from their acting on these predictions, The first group is led by Carol Danvers (a.k.a. Captain Marvel) who says she understands the dangers of using this sort of information and the consequence that could come from it, but decides to act on it anyway. The second group is led by Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) who sees using the information given to them by Ulysses as nothing but dangerous, and acting on it "tantamount to playing God." That was a quote from Robin Parrish, who works over at Screenrant. Gotta give credit where credit is due.
So after the opening battle in issue one, everyone is celebrating at Stark's skyscraper and that's when Medusa tells Tony how they knew that the attack was coming. Tony believes that these are just "possible" scenarios that could happen, and not carved in stone. A division takes place between the superheroes, and they start to discuss the ramifications of their acting on these visions of the future.
Sure enough, next time they go out after receiving one of Ulysses visions, War Machine gets killed and She-Hulk gets taken out. At the end of the issue, She-Hulk flat-lines and Tony blames Carol for War Machine's death by following through with acting on Ulysses vision.
So now you see where they are going to be going with Civil War II. Does this sound like an exciting storyline, or at least one that you are going to want to read? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below.
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