In what messed up world are you living in where a film that brings its characters to its lowest points by making one hero (one that has connected with audience for 17 years) downright unlikable for half the film and giving one a brain disease, to the point of killing both off (not to mention the tone throughout which is creating a completely and utterly unique feel for a superhero film) is "hardly even a competition" with something like Civil War? You're ignoring the entire films that came before each one for your point and that doesn't hold up. It comes off as frankly lazy. The midway point where Xavier and the family dies is bolder than anything in Civil War's beginning two acts. But even taking the third act into account, Civil War ends with no real consequences other than Cap going into hiding. Both heroes are portrayed as coming out scratch free and agreeable...yet again, and everything wraps up in a nice little bow for audiences. Every risk Civil War takes is done in a very calculated way to keep the widest possible audience satisfied. That's not a fault of the film or Feige's way of doing things, because it works. And like I said, I think Civil War is brilliant, but it's certainly not as bold as the last scene of the film being the burial site of the franchise's lead hero.

Are you actually doing the body count thing now? What's next? You're going to tell me that because Han Solo dies in Awakens and nobody dies in Empire then the former is a more fearless film too?

Pat Stew gets the mentor's death treatment. Which is that he marks his influence on the lead character and then it's time to leave him alone to do the right thing by himself. It hardly really qualifies as bold. If anything it has been done way too many times.

Jackman was old, they had to cast someone else along the way at some point, they gave him the heroic death at the end thing. Something Marvel is going to have to do at some point too and it's really not going to make any of their films bold in that regard. If Jackman had decided to retire when he was still 10 years younger like how Bale did at the peak of success, then you could tell me that they went gutsy.

What is so fascinating about Logan is indeed the tone, the setting and the characters but all of that is at least to some extent undone when you wake up to that generic ending and realise that you were just witnessing another hollywood superhero story after all. It's as uninspired of a conclusion as it comes. Like with Apes the ending is also problematic in other regards, but it stays in tone with what the film is all about, instead of making it about fist fights and muscle and superpower determining who's going to win in the end.

What Civil War does is that it plays with the idea of making well intentioned people confronting each other and then it makes a case for why the fight has to get dirty. It's like no other superhero movie in that sense. There are clear consequences in the end, the entire film is centered around those consequences. Unless all that qualifies as consequential in your eyes is old characters dying giving the mantle to the youngins, which has been a done to death concept and a natural order for storytelling for many many years.