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Banging these out because I need to know what happens up to The Avengers 😂

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CAPTAIN AMERICA PATREON WATCH ALONG!

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Kevin Charley

Spoiler for the Avengers: they save the world

LittleGalaxyBoy

Steve & Bucky's Origin: Captain America made his first appearance in Captain America Comics #1 (1940) created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon with the iconic cover of Captain America punching Adolf Hitler across the face. You can actually see this very same comic in this film being handed out to a bunch of kids. In real life this comic released a year before America joined the war as well, Both Simon and Kirby were Jewish so they took note of what was happening in Europe a year before the U.S declared war on Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Bucky would also appear alongside Captain America in this comic as well, a teenage sick kick to Captain America similar to the the dynamic duo of Batman & Robin with Robin appearing in Detective Comics #38 (1940) the very same year. Post WW2 Superhero's started to die down in popularity with Captain America having his last appearance in 1950 with a revival in 1953 that was shot lived. Combined with the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954 who greatly censored comics giving birth to the more campy and colourful silver age of comics there simply was no room for a hero like Captain America. This changed in the 1960s when Stan lee took, changing the name of the company to Marvel and kickstarting the Marvel Age of comics with the creation of The Fantastic Four (1961) and of course Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men, The Avengers etc. Just three years later in The Avengers #4 (March 1964) Captain America was brought back thanks to the Avengers finding a frozen Captain America in the ice. Showcased in a flashback within this same comic it was revealed that Captain America along with Bucky tired to stop Nazi agent Baron Zemo from stealing an allied prototype drone. As the plane took off they were hanging on to the outside. Bucky got stuck and kicked Steve off the plane which then exploded killing Bucky and hurling Captain America into the freezing North Atlantic. Peggy would also show up in Tales of Suspense #75 (March 1966) a two years later shown in a flashback that explored Steve's time during WW2 both Civilian life and his time fighting as a solider. Peggy like the film was a war time love interest to Steve with Peggy joining the French Resistance as a field agent where she met a young Captain America. Film Differences: The film does have a few differences to the comic. For one Bucky is around the same age as Steve both childhood friends while in the comic Bucky was a teenager with no connection to Steve's past. Again closer to that of Batman & Robin. The Ultimate Universe of the 2000s Bucky was a childhood friend of Steve Rogers but rather than being a sidekick of Captain America he was a simple war time photographer who accompanied Captain America on missions. This Bucky would actually survive the war and go on to marry marry Steve's fiancé Gail who is kind of like the Peggy of this universe. Bucky and everyone else assumed Steve was dead until Steve retuned fifty years later and met with this older Bucky, Gail though refused to let Steve see her as an old woman. The other difference is how Bucky died, falling off a train rather than blowing up attached to a rocket/advantaged helicopter. The helicopter in the comic actually looks like the plane flown by Red Skull in this film when escaping the factory so maybe that was meant to get people thinking this was when Bucky was going to die. And finally the major difference, Steve being found by Shield rather than the Avengers. Captain America was not a founding member of The Avengers as he missed the teams formation but for the MCU they of coursed wanted him to be apart of the big Avengers movie. Some Fun Details: During the Stark Expo you can see a display for the android known as The Human Torch also known by name of Jim Hammond. He was introduced in Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939) back when Marvel was known as Timely comics and is credited as being one of Marvels first superhero's. He was created by Professor Phineas Horton and would later go on to help other heroes as war broke out in Europe and the Pacific during WW2. This was all before the Stan Lee era of Marvel which began with The Fantastic Four #1 (1961) credited as Marvel's First Family along with the name change to Marvel Comics. Stan along with Jack Kirby then introduced Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, The X-Men, And the Avengers to name a few. Pretty much the iconic characters we know and love today with others coming later into the 1970s and following decades. Fantastic Four would also introduce Johnny Storm better known as The Human Torch sharing his name with the android Jim Hammond. Most fans when they hear the name Human Torch think of The Fantastic Four and Johnny Storm, Jim Hammond is pretty unknown thanks to rarely being used much. Moving back to the Captain America comic. Marvel does exist within the Marvel Universe so instead of writing comics about fictional hero's they instead write comics based on the adventures of real life Superheros. These comics can even be used in court as evidence. And on a final note I'm so sad that we never got the X-Men cameos in this film. Again Marvel trying to find a way to bring the X-Men universe and the MCU together but Fox not allowing it. Both Captain America and Wolverine have history in the comics so it just made so much sense.

MotoDork

And here it is. Yay.

Chris Bruneau

My God, Hayley Atwell is stunningly beautiful. She and Chris make a very nice couple!

Chris Bruneau

Shanelle, your chattiness is a feature, not a bug!

MotoDork

Yes you missed Stan Lee. You were talking about something. :-/ It was the scene where the guy was standing up at the microphone to give Cap a medal, but Cap wasn't there. To reiterate, these movies are all good, but when we get to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they start getting REALLY better, progressively better, all the way up to Endgame.

M4V3R1CK

Love your reactions, couple of non-spoiler answers that aren't expressly addressed in later films 1. How Red Skull became that way was hinted at throughout the film. First in Norway when the village leader told him he'd burn for taking the cube he replied "I already have". Then when Steve and Erskine are talking the night before the procedure flashbacks show Schmidt stealing the serum at gunpoint then screaming after injecting himself. Steve asks if it worked and Erskine answered yes but with side effects. He implied the combination of the serum not being ready and Schmidt's evil nature caused the reaction that turned him into the Red Skull. 2. While they look very similar the blue chest in Thor and the blue cube in this movie are separate artifacts that have nothing to do with each other other than both were in Odin's possession at one time or another. I made the same mistake on my first watch through. 3. This is more for Thor but you mentioned it in this reaction, Thor doesn't time travel, Asguardians just live for a really really long time. When Odin fought the Ice Giants for Earth during the Vikings age, Thor and Loki were babies making Thor over 1000 years old when he was banished to Earth and met Jane. His exact age might be mentioned in later films but I can't remember and looking it up would get close to spoiler territory.

My Ex Boyfriend

Lol, two in a row on missing the Stan Lee cameo. I will admit this is a hard one to see and you did have tears in your eye and were looking away while making a comment. Yes, Hitler for real did have ambitions for so call wonder weapons and super soldiers and also looted the world for ancient relics. Overall I am glad you enjoyed the movie and are looking forward to the avengers. For me this still a highly ranked movie in the MCU. Will you do a tier list after you watch all the movies?

steven engler

I always thought this movie was making a joke at "raiders of the lost ark" . When red skull finds the tesseract in Norway, he says "and Hitler digs for trinkets in the desert". These events happening around the same time.