Originally Posted by
Kalen O.
I would agree if not for the fact that we have no evidence that Ross has any idea what happened in Siberia - I don't think that Zemo being locked up is proof of that. It could easily be argued that Zemo was sent to Wakanda to be locked up because of the death of T'Chaka, but I don't actually think that's what happened. My interpretation was always that T'Challa just took Zemo directly to Wakanda without asking permission or informing anyone else of what happened. Zemo's crimes weren't just against Wakanda, he bombed an entire UN summit with 117 signatory countries involved in the Accords, of which Wakanda was one, having agreed to the Accords. Given that the Raft is where the Avengers were locked up for breaking the Accords and the threat level Zemo's imprisonment in Wakanda treated him as, I'd have thought Ross and other Accords members would have argued for Zemo to be locked up there too, since his crimes were against all the UN countries involved, not just Wakanda because their king was the only one we saw explicitly killed in the blast. T'Challa was shown to prioritize Wakanda's needs and justice over all else in his pursuit of Bucky, so to me it seemed that he wasn't interested in fighting the UN over who should get custody of Zemo, and he just took him.
Similarly, I don't see any reason to suspect Tony told Ross what happened in Siberia or even that he went there at all. In fact, given how eager and willing Ross was to have all the Avengers locked up, I would argue that he would have pushed to have Tony prosecuted for breaking the law. I don't think its a loophole that can be exploited, saying that Ross didn't tell him NOT to go to Siberia. It was repeatedly stated that the Accords were meant to be an oversight committee, it was to make the Avengers sanctioned rather than vigilantes. IMO there was a clear implication that the Avengers were not to act in any kind of combat scenario without explicit authorization, hence Steve's worries about 'what if there's something we have to do, have to be a part of to save people, but the committee won't let us'. So I don't think Ross would have just let Tony off with a stern warning for going to Siberia behind his back, he would have gone after him to his full capacity for acting like a vigilante rather than going through proper channels. I definitely can't imagine that he wouldn't have dropped some kind of stern warning about playing by the rules or not helping his friends when he called Tony to assist in defending the Raft from a break-in. The fact that the scene played that for laughs, with Tony defiantly placing Ross on hold to me spelled out that Tony wasn't remotely afraid of repercussions from that, which I can't imagine being true if he were already under scrutiny for going off to play vigilante again without Ross' permission or knowledge.
However, future movies may prove you right and me wrong here, and I'm willing to concede that. But as is, based on what we saw, my interpretation of things is that neither Tony nor T-Challa felt inclined to tell anyone what happened in Siberia and T'Challa took Zemo for crimes against his nation alone while Tony went home.