Captain America: Civil War

That's exactly what they do in the comics. Why wouldn't in work in a film? One of the biggest gripes behind the Spidey situation is the fact that Wolverine can't team up with the Avengers.

Wolverine was brought onto the team at a point when the Avengers title was in desperate need of some new blood.  The Avengers of the MCU are brand new, and there are still plenty more traditional members of the team who have yet to be introduced.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were not finagled onto the team for Age of Ultron.  They are traditional members of The Avengers.  Their time as members of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants was very brief.  They first appeared as part of The Brotherhood in 1964, and joined The Avengers in 1965.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have been mentioned by name numerous times by Marvel Studios in relation to Age of Ultron, so the names are clear.  It is true that they will not be mutants. 

As for why Wolverine won't work as an Avenger, there's a few reasons.  Wolverine has always been the star of every movie he's been in.  The Avengers is all about teamwork, and Wolverine has never been able to do that successfully.  He constantly runs off on his own to deal with a personal issue.  To suddenly alter the dynamic the audience is accustomed to seeing Wolverine in from the lead hero to just one of many equal members of an ensemble cast wouldn't work for the average moviegoer.  Then there's casting.  Hugh Jackman is done with the role once X-Men: Apocalypse and Wolverine 3 are complete.  It's going to be hard enough on the fans to accept a new actor in the role once Hugh is gone, but for the new guy to also suddenly pop-up alongside an already familiar team of Avengers would be even worse.  The new Wolverine needs to be introduced with all the other new actors playing the X-Men.

That is saddest thing ever.

Just let Spidey play, Sony man!

The creative control part is where the deal was dumb anyways. Let Feige in and join Spider-Man with the MCU, and allow them creative control. I would think that would be the whole point. To make better Spider-Man movies. Instead, it seems like Sony was only interested in banking on Spider-Man joining the universe to gain more positive exposure, and hopefully make more money from their stand-alone films as a result.

Looking at the numbers, I don't know how much more money Marvel Studios would be able to add to the Spider-Man movie franchise for Sony.  Amazing Spider-Man 2 made profits comparable to those of the average Marvel Studios film.  Marvel Studios makes more money because they also get the profits from the huge number of merchandising deals they have in place to sell toys, t-shirts and lunchboxes.  Sony was so desperate for cash back in 2011 that they sold the merchandising rights to Spider-Man back to Marvel, so they don't get a dime from any Spider-Man toys sold in the wake of any Spider-Man movies anymore.

Don't get me wrong.  I'd prefer for a deal allowing Spider-Man to move to the MCU to be made, and it could very well happen.  With the two companies having to split the profits though, the benefits of such a deal in the eyes of Sony Pictures are kinda limited.  Either way, nothing is going to happen until the "Spidey Summit" in January.

More details are popping up about Marvel's proposal. Apparently, the reason why talks broke down is because Marvel didn't want anything to do with Andrew Garfield or even Tobey Maguire. The Spider-Man who would have appeared in Civil War would have been a stand-alone character. That's why Sony was like, "nah. forget it." From their point-of-view, that confuses the audience and doesn't benefit their Garfield franchise.

And remember the proposed "new trilogy" made by Marvel but distributed by Sony? They wanted "no romance", which is very odd. I can understand if they're using Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as an example, but the chemistry and relationship between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone is the ONLY thing everyone loves about the new movies. Plus... Peter Parker's love-life has always been a major part of the comic books. So it makes sense why Sony ended talks with Marvel. They didn't have the right ideas either. 

I think the best option is to go back to Sam Raimi, which they did attempt, according to leaked e-mails. Wyldstaar can bitch all he wants about Raimi, but the numbers don't lie. Audiences embraced all three of his movies. Yes, even the Internet hated Spider-Man 3 was the highest grossing movie of 2007.

You sure the universes are similar enough?

Amazing Spider-Man 3 and the spin-off's are up in the air. Garfield might be done.

That was a no-brainer decision. Good deal.