Excellent movie. Watched is Saturday with my son. Very politically timely movie and glad to see Capt. America lived up to his name in wanting America to be “special” and not beholden to the UN. A little surprised in Tony Stark’s stance since he’s traditionally a rebel and an outsider, but I guess somebody had to be on the other side. All in all a very good movie.
It’s never really elaborated on extensively in the movie, but the main reason Stark does a 180 and decides to support the accord is largely due to his guilt for having created Ultron. As was said, Stark has been reckless and anti-authority up till Age of Ultron, then his decision to ignore warnings led to Ultron’s creation and all the destruction and death he caused.
“A little surprised in Tony Stark’s stance since he’s traditionally a rebel and an outsider, but I guess somebody had to be on the other side.”
Well, even in the comics this choice was a real role reversal, since Cap would normally back the government up without question, and Stark would always question the government. I think they did it that way because otherwise the story would be more boring and predictable.
In the comics, you also had the Green Goblin working for the government leading a team of “heroes”, so there were even more role reversals going on to spice things up.
Part of Tony’s turn around was guilt, Ultron was his fault, he’s the one who brought the Hulk to Wakovia and that situation went out of hand. But also part of it is that Tony is an engineer even more than a rebel, and engineers fix things. He saw the problems that come when he (and the rest of the Avengers) get to do whatever they want without supervision and saw the obvious fix of supervision. Notice he even kept that engineer thinking when Cap was asking him what would happen if the oversight committee got corrupted or was just slow and his answer was they can fix the accord.