Thor is also apparently working for Shield too, as a pro-registration member. Didn't see that one coming! Looks like that automatically means that Sentry will be anti-reg to balance things out if they're gonna have their big fight. Or Thor is still loyal to Cap but is working on the inside to get an advantage. Who knows.
Hot damn! What an issue! 😱
Do NOT read the following spoilers if you have not yet read Civil War 3, or you do not want to be spoiled. This will contain MAJOR SPOILERS, as it is a very detailed OUTLINE/SUMMARY of the third issue:
Spoiler:
Okay, some of the more important point of the issue: at the beginning of the issue, we see Mr. Fantastic talking to T'Challa about Petey unmasking him. T'Challa asks about Johnny, and Reed sort of blows it off, saying something similar to, "Well, I haven't checked in for days, but Sue hasn't really left his bedside." He goes on about something else, and then T'Challa gives him a look and says "Word of advice, Reed. Call Susan."We see Yellowjacket and the Wasp at Strange's house; they learn he won't be supporting Tony's side, and he has gone into seclusion in the arctic.
Tony Stark talks to Emma Frost about the ordeal. Emma tells him straight-up that they won't be choosing a side; in other words, they're going to remain neutral. Before Tony leaves, Bishop comes out of some bushes. "Iron Man?" he says, "Can we talk?"
Then we see Captain America, Hercules, Daredevil, and Goliath all out of costume. They are reciting they're new civilain identities, supplied to them by Nick Fury.
They get a distress call about some fire, so they go off to rescue people that are trapped.
We see Johnny Storm making his way down a hospital hallway. He reaches the desk, and says "Does anyone know where my sister went?"
Cap's "Secret Avengers" make it to the fire. Cable notices something's wrong, and then shouts "Get the hell out of here, boys! It's a trap!"
Some bullet-looking things come out of the ground, hitting Cloak and Wiccan.
Next page, we see Iron Man, Yellowjacket, Mrs. Marvel, She-Hulk, Thing, Mr. Fantastic, and that tall guy from the Thunderbolts with the A on his head. Iron Man says some words, while Hulkling's looking over Wiccan's motionless body.
"Just a little tranquilizer to make sure nobody gets teleported away, kiddo," says Spider-Man, standing behind the rebels along with Sue Storm, Radioactive Man, Wonder Man, Mach IV (I think), and somebody else I don't know. "Sky-Bird One, you got these guys in your sights?"
A helicopter responds "Ready when you are, Spider-Man." But Maria Hill tells the helicoptors to wait: They are only "support capacity."
Cap has some great lines with Iron Man. Spidey even says something to Cap, telling him that he's "going against every principle you ever believed in."
Cap serves up one of the best lines in the entire series so far. He looks over his should, eyes determined, and says "Don't talk to me about principles, Spider-Man. I saw that little stunt you pulled on TV. Is Mary Jane happy about the Sandman having her zip code now?"
Ooooh... I know that one stung.
Iron Man tries to talk Cap into coming over to the Pro-Reg side. Cap shakes his hand, saying "You've got five minutes."
Iron Man pulls his hand away. We see Cap eyeing the helicopters hovering above. Iron Man looks down at his hand. There's a little device on it... "What the hell?"
SMACK!
Cap punches Iron Man right in the jaw, while explaining the device is a scrambler developed by Fury's team in case Iron Man "ever went over to the other side."
The battle's on.
Goliath grows up, screaming "Head for the water! GO!" Yellowjacket grows too.
Now we see both sides locked in an intense battle.
We see the helicopters hovering, with presumably Hill talking to them. She tells them not to get involved, and that "'Codename Lightning' is up next. I repeat, hold your fire until Iron Man give the go-ahead."
Codename Lightning? Wonder what they could be?
We see Thing punching Hulkling, and then Spider-Man dodging Cap's shield. As it passes him, he snatches it out of the air with a claw and smacks both Daredevil and the Vision with it. Then, he waves jovially and disappears into the surrounding flames.
Patriot asks what happened, and Cap begins to explain the suit before...
SMACK!
Spidey leaps out of the furnace and gives Cap a clean uppercut with his own shield!
Iron Man comes back into the action, hurtling through the air with one target in site: Captain America. He slams him through a building and lays the freakin beatdown on him. Hercules sees Cap getting bloodied up, and he begins to freak out. He smacks his way through Doc Samson (I think), Spider-Man, and She-Hulk, desperate to get to his endangered friend. "HOLD ON, CAPTAIN!" He's screaming at the top of his lungs. His eyes are bulging with rage. "I'M COMING!"
We switch to Hill and a Shield agent. The agent tells her there are five hundred more cape-killers surrounding the perimeter. "Hold them on standby," she replies. "'Codename Lightning' has first pass at this..."
There's that Codename Lightning again. Hmm...
The next panel, we see a nice shot of Hercules being lifted into the air by the force of a--you guessed it--gigantic bolt of lightning!
We see the new Hawkgirl (or whatever, from the Young Avengers), Dagger, and Luke Cage all looking skywards. "What the hell--?" He gets cut off. All three of them are taken down with numerous electrical bolts.
Cable and Daredevil are also looking up: now in the rain. Daredevil's face his one without hope.
"My God..." he whispers, not believing what he is seeing.
We are treated to a full-page, spectacular drawing of the man--or God--himself. His token hammer is held high up. Offshoots of electrical energy are flowing from Mjolnir, held by the one and only... THOR!"
And that's the end. So Thor's siding with Tony on this one, eh? Can't say I saw that one coming; I don't think many people did. But damn, this war is heating up.
I'm encouraging everybody who can--go get this issue as soon as you can! Don't just wait for the scans!
OMG Thor's returned and siding with Tony, the majority if not everyone thought he'd be with Cap to "even the odds" but I guess not, well atleast Sentry hasn't picked a side just yet. Maybe there will still be that titanic battle next issue with Sentry laying down the law. I haven't been into comic books for some years but I think that Civil War might change that.