History WMG / CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier

* Their long-term plan was for Steve to pass his Super Soldier genes on to his children, who SHIELD would be able keep a close eye on.

[[WMG: Nick Fury has top-secret and unseen bodyguard(s) who watch over his safety from a far, which even Maria and Natasha never learn about]]
Think about it, why would a superspy, ultra-ManipulativeBastard, and director of super espionage agency; driving ALONE on a public street with protection only from his armored and weaponized car? It's still a bit too risky, and it's almost TooDumbToLive for a man like him, considering how when the police ambush happens, the SWAT team's hydraulic battering ram easily causes some major body damage and the bullets from the cops' submachine guns also do a lot of damage. It is shown that his armored car is also not invulnerable (even the flying and communication systems are damaged rather quickly). Being a spy, Fury certainly has many enemies who haven't appeared on-screen yet. Would he risk his life by driving alone like that and basically invite his enemies to ambush and shoot him? Unlikely. Being him, he should be a CrazyPrepared for a situation like an assasination attempt, who can threaten him practically ANYTIME. Especially so if [[http://comicbook.com/2014/09/14/was-the-punisher-being-established-in-captain-america-the-winter/ this article]] is to be believed. The popular theory is that's [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]], but it could be somebody else. Whoever they are, their duty is to secretly protect Fury when he appears in public without apparent protection.

Which is why it's so awfully either LiteralMinded or ServileSnarker, or combination of both. HYDRA sabotaged it so Fury would be more difficult to escape the assassination attempt, and because [[EvilIsPetty it's hilarious]].

** Why would distance himself from this story? "His secrets have secrets".

*** "Insomniac aunt", actually. Lots of people have insomniac aunts. Its hardly a detail that would stick out if future movies decide to remove the link with Peggy.

*** Being an AI Zola has opportunity to do Hydra's motto of "Cut off one head, two would take it's place". Also it would make sense if the Insight algorithm is also an AI copy of himself.

** Someone (possibly either Nick Fury or [[spoiler:Bucky]]) FakingTheDead in order to disappear for a while (Steve and Maria's detached expressions could be because they're in on it.)

* Semi-Confirmed. There were HYDRA moles in the Soviet government too, and they were in charge of creating [[spolier: Multiple Winter Soldiers.]]

* [[Film/Ant-Man Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, and Scott Lang]]

* [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, & Darcy Lewis]]

* SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom

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* The Baron calls them "the twins", and they aren't going to be [[XMen mutants]]. And their origins (genetic manipulation) resemble those of the von Strucker twins from the comics.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}

* The man in the trailer that Steve talks to will be an {{Expy}} of NormanOsborn.

** His parents were SHIELD agents, and they were killed when [[spoiler: [[HeKnowsTooMuch they discovered HYDRA's in control of the organization]].]]

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* ...an ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' teaser. The first Cap movie came out about a year before Film/TheAvengers and had a trailer for that movie after the credits. And this movie comes out about a year before Age of Ultron...

** Coulson, with the scene being a flashback to just after ''Film/TheAvengers''

* Alluding to Thomas Kreschmann's [[TypeCasting tendency]] to play Nazis (Kreschmman has played, as of 2014, ''fourteen'' Nazi roles), it turns out Von Strucker was a Nazi equivalent of Nick Fury and had a billion other identities. Strucker was both [[Film/{{Downfall}} Fegelein]], [[Film/{{Stalingrad}} Hans Von Witzland]], [[Film/{{Stalingrad2013}} Peter Kahn]], [[Film/ThePianist Wilm Hosenfield]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Enemy_Hands_(film) Ludwig Cremer]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_in_the_Clouds Franz Bietrich]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_(film) Adolf Eichmann]], [[Film/{{Valkyrie}} Ernst Remer]], [[Series/TheSinkingOfTheLaconia Admiral Donitz]] and probably more. Turns out 70% of Nazi Germany's high ranking members were Von Strucker in disguise.

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HYDRA has infiltrated SHIELD, a government agency, from day one. But they appear to be playing both sides of the war on terror against each other, so it wouldn't be surprising if, in the MCU, al-Qaeda was a branch of HYDRA's, with Bin Laden as a HYDRA agent, and they carried out the 9/11 attacks as a small-scale version of Project Insight.

*** [[spoiler: Confirmed at SDCC, and it looks like she will be joining AgentsofSHIELD.]]