History Awesome / CaptainAmericatheFirstAvenger

-->'''Jones:''' That one. Zündung.\\

** A small one for Schmidt avoiding the VillainBall. As soon as Captain America shows up, he blows up his base and escapes to fight another day. Of course, that doesn't last long...

*** A small one for Schmidt avoiding the VillainBall. As soon as Captain America shows up, he blows up his base and escapes to fight another day. Of course, that doesn't last long...

--> '''Erskine:''' So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.

--> '''ComicBook/RedSkull:''' You are deluded, Captain. You pretend to be a simple soldier, but, in reality, you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind. Unlike you, I embrace it proudly. Without fear!\\

--> '''ComicBook/RedSkull:''' What makes you so special?\\

--> '''Red Skull:''' I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!
--> '''Cap:''' Not my future!

-->'''Hydra Mook''': CUT OFF ONE HEAD, TWO MORE SHALL--''[[[KilledMidSentence Phillips shoots him with a shotgun]]]''
--> '''Col. Phillips''': ''[[[DramaticGunCock pumps shotgun]]]'' [[ShutUpHannibal Let's go find two more]]!

--->'''Steve''': Where am I?
--->'''Nurse''': You're in a recovery room in New York City.
--->(Steve sits in silence, before listening to the baseball game playing on the radio)
--->'''Steve''': ...where am I ''really''?
--->'''Nurse''': [[OhCrap (confused) I'm afraid I don't understand.]]
--->'''Steve''': The game. It's from May 1941. [[ImposterForgotOneDetail I know, 'cause I was there.]] (gets up) Now, I'm going to ask you again. ''Where am I?''

-->'''Peggy:''' You can't give me orders!
-->'''Steve:''' The hell I can't. ''[smiles]'' I'm a captain.

-->'''HYDRA Soldier:''' Sir! I'm sorry, Herr Schmidt. We fought to the last man.
-->'''Red Skull:''' Evidently not. ''[kills him]''

'''Dum Dum''' ''[starts the tank]'' I didn’t know you spoke German.\\

-->'''Man Reading Newspaper''': ''[at the recruiting office]'' Lotta guys getting killed over there. Kinda makes you think twice about joining, huh?
-->'''Steve Rogers''': Nope.

* An understated one: during Steve's one-man raid on the complex where the 107th is being kept prisoner, his main aim is to find Bucky. He finds him in a laboratory with a map showing all of [=HYDRA=]'s places, and he probably did not look at it for more than a few moments before getting Bucky off the table and out of there. Yet, hours later, after a grueling fight, nearly dying in an explosion and guiding the 400+ survivors of the 107th through enemy territory in the middle of the night back to friendly lines, he still remembers all the features in that map with an almost pin-point precision, his comment about 'I just got a quick look' notwithstanding.

** A minor moment for [[ThoseWackyNazis [=SS=] General Schneider]], who makes an impressive NonchalantDodge when Schmidt first attempts to shoot him with his Tesseract-powered cannon. He does not, however, dodge the next blast.

** In the climax, Peggy ''saves'' (a shield-less) Cap from a flamethrower-wielding HYDRA mook by gunning the enemy down.
*** She specifically [[AttackItsWeakPoint shoots at the flamethrower's fuel tank]], [[KarmicDeath causing his weapon]] [[ManOnFire to explode!]]

* Steve's response to whether or not he wants to kill Nazis ("I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies, I don't care where they're from.") is an awesome and believable one for a hero like him. They summed up Cap's entire character in two sentences! Props also to the writers for averting AllGermansAreNazis in the second scene with Erskine and Cap before the procedure, too.

** And right afterwards, Rogers' chamber opens up and with the theme music playing, it is revealed that because of his kind of courage and fortitude demonstrated when it was needed most, the treatment worked perfectly, turning the sickly loser into the ultimate man mountain.

** Doubly so when you realize that, at this point, the only superpower he knew he had was above average height.
** At one point he runs over ''broken glass'' in his bare feet without even slowing down.

--> '''ComicBook/RedSkull:''' You are deluded, Captain. You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind. Unlike you, I embrace it proudly. Without fear!\\

** Highlights of the Montage include Cap, without any warning, throwing his shield at a HYDRA sniper hidden in a tree. Also, Cap pulling a HYDRA soldier out of a three story tank with one hand, and throwing in a bandoleer of explosives with the other. The final shot of Cap jumping from the exploding tank in slow-motion puts an appropriately badass end to that montage.

* The moment Jacques slips underneath a HYDRA truck, attaches a bomb and lets it roll over him unscathed like it's no big deal.

* Heinz Kruger is pretty awesome. He sneaks into a top secret project he knew about less than a day in advance, posing as someone from the State Department, causes a distraction by detonating explosives disguised as a cigarette case with a remote disguised as a zeppo, shoots Erskine, steals the last remaining sample of the serum [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4n3RtEAxs and takes off]], not slowing down even when Peggy shoots him in the shoulder. He's an evil Nazi spy, sure, but you've got to admire his dedication, and his dying moment when he kills himself with a CyanidePill to avoid being taken alive.

** Bucky tries his regular pick-up lines on her when she's talking to Steve. Peggy acknowledges what he's saying, but she's using his lines as her own stepping stones to let Steve know that she is very much interested in him. At the same time she is putting down Bucky, she's using him to put moves on Steve. Bloody hell, girl knows how to play pick-up.

* Steve yelling for them to keep going with the procedure despite the tremendous pain.
--> '''Steve:''' ''NO!! DON'T! I CAN DO THIS!''

* In a meta sense, Creator/ChrisEvans' performance. [[TomHanksSyndrome Before this, he was better known as a wise cracking comic relief jock-type character.]] But here he was required to play Captain freakin' America completely straight, and he nailed it, creating a very likable and relatable character to the extent that critics have compared him to the still-unmatched Creator/ChristopherReeve as Film/{{Superman}}.