Starting with the very first Civil War trailer, Jesse Plemons delivered one of the most chilling lines that set the tone of the film. “What kind of American are you?” Plemons’ soldier character asks Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura’s journalists as they seemingly hit some sort of checkpoint on their travels. The tense moment set the stage for Civil War as a divisive question in the current political zeitgeist now had deadly consequences.