So will Tony be taking the mantle of bad guy?
“I wouldn’t put it that way,” Downey Jr. counters. “Ultimately it’s Steve’s story; it doesn’t say ‘Iron Man 4: Civil War’. I think that’s great too.”

We will, he stresses, see an ever-more commanding Steve Rogers move further and further from his Hydra-bashing roots. “I think Chris [Evans] has been hungry to bring even more of an underside and some shadow to that. I remember the comics - on the surface you got the sense that Cap was baseball and apple pie, but underneath there was all this churning stuff of being a man out of time. Now we know he’s made his peace with that. What’s the bigger issue? It can have a little something to do with the past, but it can be about someone becoming more modernised in their own conflict.”