Line #48 Trivia/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger


1	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/NealMcDonough was not only from an Irish family who migrated to America, but he was also born in Boston, Massachusetts; just like Dum Dum Dugan himself!
2	* AwesomeDearBoy:
3	** The biggest reason why Creator/StanleyTucci took the role of Abraham Erskine was because he'd never had a role that required a German accent, and he wanted to try his out.
4	** Although Creator/HugoWeaving's MoneyDearBoy attitude towards the movie is pretty much well-known, in 2016, [[http://screenrant.com/captain-america-red-skull-hugo-weaving-role/ he has more positive opinion about his experience with Marvel]].
5	--->'''Hugo Weaving:''' ''"It was fun to play; I enjoyed the outrageousness of the German accent that I employed and I enjoyed the extraordinary mask and costume, even though it was unbelievably hot inside it. I enjoy mask work; I enjoy trying to animate masks and reveal certain things that the mask itself might not reveal. V for Vendetta was another example of that, but there was less animation within that mask versus the Red Skull. With Marvel, it's pretty basic stuff: accept the deal and enjoy the ride. It’s not a major stretch for an actor, but on the other hand the difficulty with the Marvel universe is maintaining a link to a human dimension within such an extraordinary, technological CGI universe. In terms of me going back and doing another one, I don't know. I'm not sure what they're up to with the Red Skull."''
6	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, the movie is called ''Captain America: First Clash''.
7	* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: A number of critics have pointed out the movie feels pretty close to a ''[[Film/TheRocketeer Rocketeer]]'' remake complete with the same director.
8	* DeletedScene: [[DeletedScene/MarvelCinematicUniverse See here]].
9	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChrisEvans got ripped, and waxed his body, for the role and dyed his hair golden blonde (he's a natural brunette).
10	* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/HayleyAtwell had not seen Creator/ChrisEvans' body before shooting the scene where Steve comes out of the testing chamber, meaning her flustered reaction to his muscular physique was quite genuine.
11	* ExecutiveMeddling: The infamous Marvel Creative Committee objected to the film's World War II setting on the ground that [[MerchandiseDriven the period vehicles and technology wouldn't sell enough toys.]] HYDRA's Tesseract-powered tech was added as a compromise.
12	* FakeAmerican:
13	** Englishman Creator/DominicCooper as Howard Stark, American playboy and captain of industry.
14	** English Creator/NatalieDormer as the American soldier who kisses the Captain. Although, amusingly, her only scene is set in England.
15	** English Creator/JennaColeman as one of the girls Steve and Bucky go on a double date with.
16	** English Lex Shrapnel as the American soldier Gilmore Hodge.
17	** English Laura Haddock as Captain America fangirl, who is most likely an American. Later retconned to be [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Peter Quill's maternal grandmother]], who is definitely an American.
18	* FakeNationality:
19	** Australian Creator/HugoWeaving, American Creator/StanleyTucci, and Englishmen Creator/TobyJones and Creator/RichardArmitage play Germans. [[spoiler: Well, three of them played Germans; the sequel revealed that Zola was Swiss.]]
20	** Englishman Creator/DavidBradley as the Norwegian keeper of the Cosmic Cube.
21	** Korean American Creator/KennethChoi as Japanese American Jim Morita.
22	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Steve mentions he's not much of a dancer but Chris Evans trained in ballet and credits it for developing his strong core and allowing him to take on such a physical role.
23	* MarketBasedTitle: Some markets simply called the film ''First Avenger'' out of fears that anti-American sentiment might keep audiences away if they kept "Captain America" in the title.
24	* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/HugoWeaving has gone on record stating that he is indifferent to the film and has very little interest in reprising his role as the Red Skull, due to the difficulty of the makeup process involved. Even though his attitude towards it has changed, Weaving declined to come back for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' due to monetary concerns.
25	* TheOtherDarrin: Howard Stark was portrayed by Gerard Sanders in still photos, Creator/JohnSlattery in archive footage and Creator/DominicCooper in life. Justified as all three depictions are from different time periods -- the still photos are from around Tony Stark's pre-teens and beyond, the archive footage from his childhood, and in real life it's the '40s long before he's even born, so Howard ages significantly between each depiction. Slattery and Cooper have continued to portray the character in subsequent MCU works depending on what the time period depicted is.
26	* PlayingAgainstType:
27	** Creator/ChrisEvans--usually the DeadpanSnarker, HandsomeLech and {{Jerkass}}--as [[TheCape Captain America]].
28	** Creator/DavidBradley, one of Hollywood's go-to EvilOldFolks, has a small role as the unsuccessful keeper of the Tesseract.
29	* RealLifeRelative: Eduardo Tejedo, Zola's Mexican Spanish VA, is the father of Creator/RicardoTejedo, the dub's ADR director.
30	* RealitySubtext:
31	** Cap's early career mirrors how Captain America started as a propaganda piece, and early issues of the comic are made in-universe to help this. In fact, [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Aged comics]] like ''Captain America'' were used to promote and sell war bonds. Hence the Superman cover asking readers to buy one to "[[ValuesDissonance slap a Jap]]."
32	** His poor reception with the troops is the same as several 1940s actors who got out of the draft because they were making morale-raising war movies.
33	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film languished in development hell as far back as 1997. In May 2000, Marvel teamed with Artisan Entertainment to help finance the film. However, a lawsuit arose between Marvel Comics and Joe Simon over the ownership of Captain America copyrights, disrupting the development process of the film. The lawsuit was eventually settled in September 2003. The rights were later acquired by Marvel in 2005 who were planning to independently produce several films with Creator/ParamountPictures distributing, and the film finally saw release on July 22, 2011.
34	* ScullyBox: For some scenes, Creator/ChrisEvans knelt down on boxes to get the height and eyeline correct for pre-serum Steve.
35	* StarMakingRole: For Creator/HayleyAtwell, Creator/DominicCooper and Creator/SebastianStan - though Cooper already had some prominence through his role in ''Film/MammaMia''. Additionally, while Creator/ChrisEvans did get noticed after ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', this film is what really launched him to stardom.
36	* ThrowItIn: When Peggy tries to touch the newly enhanced Steve. Creator/HayleyAtwell was actually DistractedByTheSexy.
37	* UncreditedRole: Creator/JossWhedon did an uncredited rewrite.
38	* UnderageCasting: Creator/StanleyTucci was in his early fifties while playing a character who's supposedly in his seventies.
39	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
40	** Creator/JohnKrasinski was the first choice for the role of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] before Creator/ChrisEvans was cast. However, despite him screen-testing in the actual Captain America suit, Krasinski immediately declared "I am '''NOT''' Captain America" after seeing Creator/ChrisHemsworth [[DistractedByTheSexy walk by in his muscular Thor body.]] Krasinski would eventually go on to play [[spoiler:a variant of [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]] in ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness]]''.
41	*** Creator/GarrettHedlund, Creator/ChanningTatum, Creator/ScottPorter, Creator/MikeVogel, Creator/ChaceCrawford, Creator/MichaelCassidy, Creator/JohnnyPacar, Creator/PatrickFlueger, Creator/DerekTheler, Creator/WilsonBethel and Creator/ChadMichaelMurray were also considered for the part of Captain America. Bethel would later go on to portray [[ComicBook/BullseyeMarvelComics Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter]] in ''Series/{{Daredevil\|2015}}'', while Murray would star as Jack Thompson in ''Series/AgentCarter''.
42	*** Creator/RyanPhillippe, Creator/ScottEastwood, Creator/EthanPeck, Creator/KellanLutz, Creator/RyanMcPartlin, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/ChrisPratt, Creator/ZacharyLevi and Creator/WyattRussell screen-tested for the titular role as well before the casting of Evans. Stan, Pratt, Levi and Russell would eventually go on to play Comicbook/BuckyBarnes, [[ComicBook/StarLord Peter Quill]], Fandral and [[ComicBook/USAgent John Walker]] respectively.
43	** Creator/EmilyBlunt was initially offered the role of ComicBook/PeggyCarter before Creator/HayleyAtwell was cast. Blunt was previously approached for [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]] in ''Film/IronMan2'', and her husband, Creator/JohnKrasinski, was the first candidate to portray Steve Rogers in the film.
44	*** Creator/AliceEve, Creator/GemmaArterton, Creator/RosamundPike and Creator/KeiraKnightley were considered for the part of ComicBook/PeggyCarter as well before the casting of Atwell. Eve would later go on to play Mary Walker in ''Series/{{Iron Fist\|2017}}''.
45	** [[Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight Stephen Ford]] auditioned for the role of [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] before the casting of Creator/SebastianStan. Ford would later go to write for ''Series/WandaVision''.
46	** Creator/JeffGoldblum was approached for a cameo as the senator who gets Steve involved in the USO, but it didn't work out. Goldblum would eventually portray the Grandmaster in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
47	** Creator/JeremyStrong was considered to be the body double for Steve Rogers' pre-serum body at one point. Despite Strong and Creator/ChrisEvans having grown up in Massachusetts together, he ultimately passed on the role due to being overly dissatisfied with Hollywood acting.
48	** Creator/ScarlettJohansson was rumored to appear as [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]]. It would have been most likely that her role would have been Creator/AmandaRighetti's role as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent pretending to be Steve's nurse at the end of the movie.
49	** Creator/MattSalinger, the star of ''Film/{{Captain America\|1990}}'', [[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201107/matt-salinger-interview-captain-america wrote to the director over]] [[MythologyGag a possible cameo]]. After a lukewarm reply, Salinger didn't push the offer any further and nothing more came of it.
50	** Creator/ChrisEvans turned down the offer to play Captain America several times; not out of dislike for the role, but because he feared what the effects of the sudden increase of fame would be on his private life. Then Creator/RobertDowneyJr convinced him to take the part and thus gain the freedom to sign on any other role he'd want to after, and [[StarMakingRole the rest is history]].
51	** Up until a very late stage in pre-production, HYDRA would have been a blatantly Nazi paramilitary organization, with swastikas on their uniform. The implication is still present in the final version, however, with Schmidt being portrayed with a swastika arm-band when threatening Erskine in a flashback. In addition, deleted scenes also had HYDRA explicitly attacking Nazis in addition to Allied powers.
52	** Early drafts of the script featured Baron Zemo and Baron Strucker working alongside the Red Skull. They ended up being cut because Christopher Markus and Stephen [=McFeely=] felt the characters would've been "wasted" in mere supporting roles. Red Skull wound up [[CompositeCharacter filling their roles]], while Strucker wound up appearing in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' while Zemo debuted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' (albeit as [[LegacyCharacter Helmut Zemo]], revamped [[AdaptationalHeroism to have no ties to HYDRA while still evil]], rather than his father Heinrich, reduced to a PosthumousCharacter).
53	** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Magneto}} were originally planned to have cameos (the former as a soldier and the latter in an internment camp), but it fell through due to copyright issues.
54	** Captain America's shield initially had a very different design than in the final movie, but it was canned due to Stephen Broussard and Kevin Feige believing that it looked far too cartoonish.
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56	* This was the last Marvel Cinematic Universe film distributed fully by Creator/{{Paramount}}, though their logo was contractually obligated to appear on the first two MCU installments distributed by Creator/{{Disney}}, ''The Avengers'' and ''Iron Man 3''. This was not Paramount's first involvement in the ''Captain America'' franchise. Since 1995, it has owned the US television rights to the [[Film/CaptainAmerica1990 1990 film]], a result of being acquired by [[Creator/ParamountGlobal Viacom]], which had held the US TV rights to the library of production company Creator/TheCannonGroup. Since 1999, it has owned the 1944 Creator/RepublicPictures serial, after Viacom acquired [[Creator/AaronSpelling Spelling Entertainment Group]]. Paramount would only own distribution rights to ''The First Avenger'' for two years; in 2013, Paramount sold its distribution rights to the MCU films it had distributed to Disney.

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