Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25938300-20160530130915

Okay people, so as we know, at the end of Civil War, Zemo leads Bucky, Steve and Tony to the old facility where Hydra was keeping the 5 other Winter Soldiers. There, Zemo reveals to Tony that Bucky is the person who killed his parents. But people are believing that it's just luck that Tony turned up with the other two. Here's the smart part though:

The reason Zemo called the maid to his hotel room, where a dead doctor can be found, was to make it public as soon as possible, so that there was a better chance of Tony or someone on his side finding out that Steve was actually right the entire time, which made them go on to help Steve and Bucky defeat the Winter Soldiers and apprehend Zemo at the facility (and Tony was the one who was given the location even though it could've been anyone else on the team). Once Tony got there, Zemo revealed that it was Barnes who killed Howard and Maria Stark and like I said, it could've been anyone else on the team, Natasha or Vision, but only Stark felt up to helping, so he went. If someone else had gone however, Zemo still would have shown them the footage and someone else probably would've gone back to Tony and said "Hey man, so Bucky is the dude who killed your parents k bye." and then the fight between Tony, Steve and Bucky would've erupted anyway, it would've just been delayed.

While it's logic that works on very thin ice, it's still logic, therefore it still works. No matter who was at the facility with Barnes and Steve, Zemo still would've presented the footage, Tony still would've found out and Zemo still would have won, the Avengers still would have disassembled. Zemo wasn't working off of hope that everything would work out because he knew that either way, it would. 