2016 seems to be the year of clashes. Batman vs. Superman, and Captain America: Civil War being the biggest examples. Not only is it the year of clashes in the film industry, but also in real life. We have the Rio Olympics coming up this summer. America is having a very intense and suspenseful election year. The clash of Cruz, vs Trump vs Clinton, vs Sanders. We had the Fine Bros. Youtube scandal that divided Youtubers for a while and Fine Bros. fought back to keep their channel form plummeting into the abyss. And the year isn't even halfway over yet.
   My point of this thread is to ask, is it really a coincidence that this Captain America movie has come out in the midst of an American election year? Is it possible that people are more likely to watch a "clash of heroes" movie in a time where political and other forms of battles are sweeping over the nation in real life? The movie might not have any intentions of influencing votes for the election, but it might just be a business strategy of some sort. The slogan for the movie is "United we stand, (underneath Captain America and his team) Divided we fall. (underneath Iron Man and his team)" Also, the "primary" colors of the poster are blue and red (Cap's side being blue, Tony's being red) which is the same as the two colors of America's main political parties.

I'm not sure which side would stand for which party though, because Cap. and Tony are not Presidents. They are just a couple of blokes who happened to get lucky and gained hero status. Cap. is just a "kid from Brooklyn" who had an experiment performed on him. Tony Stark is a rich party guy who acknowledges he and his family made mistakes and uses his inventions to correct those mistakes and help people. But then again I heard that this year is the year of "non-politicians" in the presidential race.

So the ideals could go either way. The will be both Republicans and Democrats who think Captain America is right, and also both Republicans and Democrats who think Iron Man is right. Even if one is portrayed as a good guy and the other bad. There might be debates over who was really the good guy/bad guy in the movie.

And also, do you think a movie like this could inadvertently influence voters to change their minds in the presidential election?

I'm gon a have to go with what Cox said, the movie has been in development for 3 or 4 years, heck whatever movie marvel does next has already been done as well, its not like they could have planned on releasing the movie in an election year when they started working on it. From what I have heard they have been working on this movie since the last election year (2012) so couldn't have had any idea when they would have released it.