Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25692211-20160725174509/@comment-25692211-20160927081326

Hugues de Payens wrote: I heard that it was also leading to Cap not being Cap. It was his transition to becoming the Nomad. But he'll most like;y become Cap again for Infinity War. Yeah, I heard that too. It's also supposed to be an ironic echo of what happened at the end of TWS.

In Winter Soldier, Cap dropped the shield because he didn't want to hurt his friend, while in Civil War, he dropped it because he already did.