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Marvel Studios has spent eight years building a universe. Now it’s time to blow it up.

are doing what most burned-out, overworked professionals do when faced with unrelenting crisis: They’re turning on each other. This year’s Summer Movie Preview from Entertainment Weekly splashes the battle across four separate covers, with exclusive new photos and details showing how Marvel Studios pulled off its story of hero vs. hero.

“This is an argument and a struggle with your family,

your family,” says Chris Evans, who has now played the super-soldier Steve Rogers in six Marvel films (counting a cameo in

.) Normal people may not settle their quarrels by hurling each other through walls, but the actor says the emotional deathmatch in

is just an exaggerated version of an ultra-tense holiday dinner. “I think it’s much more relatable, much more akin to [disputes] we have in life,” Evans says. “Arguments with your family can be far worse than struggles with your enemy.”

Entertainment Weekly spoke with Evans alongside Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, the mastermind behind the interlocked movie franchise, and directors Joe and Anthony Russo, returning after

The four men met inside the Marvel headquarters conference room where they broke the story for

sliding photos of the characters across the table as they separated #TeamCap from #TeamIronMan.

They also tell the story of adding the historic first black superhero, Black Panther, to the universe, and bringing Spider-Man home from his own cinematic galaxy over at Sony Pictures.

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It’s no accident that the next four movies in the Marvel Studios line-up – 

. “That’s somewhat intentional to go and explore the other aspects,” Feig says. This movie will leave things broken for a while, at least until 2018’s 

We also break down exactly why the main characters choose their sides. No punches are pulled in

. There are plenty of Marvel Studios movies in the pipeline, but the scars of this one are going to last.

pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands Friday, or buy your choice of four collectible covers here – and subscribe now for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. 

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