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** It's "first Avenger", not "oldest Avenger". Cap was a founding member of the team, since in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse he's explicitly unfrozen before then, unlike in the MarvelUniverse. And when they write down that first roster, the only way anyone else could go ahead of him is if they write down the aliases in alphabetic order and count Black Widow first.

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** It's "first Avenger", not "oldest Avenger". Cap was a founding member of the team, since in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse he's explicitly unfrozen before then, unlike in the MarvelUniverse.Franchise/MarvelUniverse. And when they write down that first roster, the only way anyone else could go ahead of him is if they write down the aliases in alphabetic order and count Black Widow first.
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** Canonically the Super-Soldier serum makes it so that his body fluis can't crystalize; so when frozen his blood and cells don't rupture, so he has basically a cryp-sleep treatment already built-in. Now, it only looks even more far fetched because in the original comics Cap wakes up about 20 years after the war; not 70.


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** It's safe to assime the in-universe comic books only share the covers with the real comics, and it's more or less implied throughout the movie that this version of captain America doesn't have a "secret identity"; so the public at large knows that Steve Rogers is an actual Captain in the US military whereas in the real world comic books his title is honorary nad he doesn't have an actual military rank. The guy has a museum dedicated to him in-universe, so he is an actual historical figure in the MCU.


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*** Because it doesn't do 'anything interesting' in Stark's eyes; remember that only Cap has the strenght to throw and catch the shield and develops the skills to ricochet it off surfaces; the real catch with the shield is that it absorbs kinetic energy without damage to the user and a side benefit it doesn't lose momemtum when rebounding off surfaces. Steve develops an entire combat style out of those uses, wich Stark couldn't have even imagine would be possible. Chances are they DID test the shield and found it's ONLY indestructible, but couldn't figure out a way to weaponize it.
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** Uh, no. Waking up seemingly at the exact moment Japan announced their surrender to the Allies would probably make Cap extremely agitated and confused. He would have a thousand questions and the pretend nurse would have a hard time coming up with answers to all of them on the spot. He might become excited enough to try and run out into the streets of New York to join in the city-wide celebration that is surely happening... or he might become extremely suspicious that he can't hear any cheering crowds outside of his (fake) hospital window. Waking up in a warm bed as a baseball game plays on the radio is something a Brooklyn kid like Steve Rogers would (in theory) find very familiar and comforting. It probably would have worked fine if [[CriticalResearchFailure somebody had done the research]] and used a recording of a baseball game from ''after'' Cap was frozen.

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** Uh, no. Waking up seemingly at the exact moment Japan announced their surrender to the Allies would probably make Cap extremely agitated and confused. He would have a thousand questions and the pretend nurse would have a hard time coming up with answers to all of them on the spot. He might become excited enough to try and run out into the streets of New York to join in the city-wide celebration that is surely happening... or he might become extremely suspicious that he can't hear any cheering crowds outside of his (fake) hospital window. Waking up in a warm bed as a baseball game plays on the radio is something a Brooklyn kid like Steve Rogers would (in theory) find very familiar and comforting. It probably would have worked fine if [[CriticalResearchFailure somebody had done the research]] research and used a recording of a baseball game from ''after'' Cap was frozen.
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* Is there an advantage to the first wall defence to the final HYDRA base having two large ramps that could be driven over from the outside?
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** Right, that was my thought as well. The serum isn't sapient, it just makes you more of what you already are. A good man like Steve becomes great, a bad man like Schmidt becomes worse, and a guy with anger issues becomes, well...[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk a guy with REALLY MAJOR anger issues.]]
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** In the tie-in comics ''First Vengeance'', Schmidt approached Hitler with a pitch for mystical weapons. Hitler is interested and schedules an appointment, but Gruppenführer Kaufmann throws Schmidt out for distracting the Führer with nonsense. However, Himmler approached Schmidt outside of the Deutsches Opernhaus and expressed ''his'' interest.

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