Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 film about a man who, after being deemed unfit for military service, volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.
- Directed by Joe Johnston. Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
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[edit] Col. Chester Phillips
- General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but are won by men. Our goal is to create the greatest army in history. But every army begins with one man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. We are going to win this war because we have the best men. And they, personally, will escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell.
- [to Erskine] You don't win war with niceness, doctor. [picks up a dud grenade] You win wars with guts. [tosses grenade at the exercising trainees] Grenade!
- [to Erskine after Steve passed a 'test'] He's still skinny.
- [to Captain America] I'm not kissin' ya!
[edit] Steve Rogers/Captain America
- [Steve is already in the capsule] It's probably too late to go to the bathroom, right?
- I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner.
- Bucky, I'm not gonna sit in a factory. There are men laying down their lives. I got no right to do any less than them.
[edit] Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
- Yggdrasill, the tree of the world, guardian of wisdom... and fate, also.
- [to Captain America] Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone.
- Captain America! How exciting! I am a great fan of your films!
- [Schmidt stands before his army] Tomorrow, HYDRA will stand master of the world, borne to victory on the wings of the Valkyrie. Our enemies' weapons will be powerless against us. If they shoot down one plane, hundreds more will rain fire upon them! If they cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA.
- You could have the power of the gods! Yet you have a flag on your chest and you think this is a battle of nations! I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!
[edit] Dr. Abraham Erskine
- Why someone weak? Because a weak man knows the value of strength, the value of power...
- One of the things people always forget is that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.
- The serum amplifies the inner qualities of its taker, as well as their physical attributes. Good becomes great... bad becomes worse.
- Ladies and gentlemen, today we take not another step towards annihilation, but the first step on the path to peace.
[edit] Dialogue
[In Tønsberg, Norway in March of 1942, they are being infiltrated by HYDRA; a young villager runs to an ancient monastary to warn the elderly tower keeper that they are coming for it]
- Young Villager: They've come for it!
- Tower Keeper: They have before.
- Young Villager: Not like this!
- Tower Keeper: Let them come. They'll never find it.
[HYDRA breaks through the front wall and the rubble crushes the Young Villager]
- HYDRA officer: Open it! [ordering his soldiers to push the lid off a rather heavy and ancient tomb] Quickly before he... [they all grow silent as their leader, Johann Schmidt enters]
- Johann Schmidt: [to the tower keeper] It has taken me a long time to find this place. You should be commended. [ordering his soldiers] Help him up.
[his soldiers help him up]
- Johann Schmidt: [to tower keeper] I think that you are a man of great vision. And, in this way, we are much alike.
- Tower Keeper: I am nothing like you.
- Johann Schmidt: No, of course, but what others see as superstition, you and I know to be a science.
- Tower Keeper: What you seek is just a legend.
- Johann Schmidt: Then why make such an effort to conceal it?
[he pushes the ancient tomb open with great ease to reveal the skeleton of a viking warrior clutching a cube and he takes it]
- Johann Schmidt: [holding the cube close] The Tesseract was the jewel of Odin's treasure room [he drops it and it shatters, knowing it not to be the real Tesseract] It is not something one buries. But I think it is close, yes?
- Tower Keeper: I cannot help you.
- Johann Schmidt: No. But maybe you can help your village. You must have some friends out there. Some little grandchildren, perhaps? I have no need for them to die. [he takes notice of a mural of Yggdrasil and approaches it] Yggdrasil. Tree of the world. Guardian of wisdom. And fate, also.
[notices a small swirling head on one of the roots and pushes on the eye, revealing a compartment which is a small box. He opens this small box and is engulfed in a great light revealing that this is the real Tesseract]
- Johann Schmidt: And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert. You have never seen this, have you?
- Tower Keeper: It's not for the eyes of ordinary men.
- Johann Schmidt: Exactly. [he closes the box and orders his men] Give the order to open fire.
- Tower Keeper: Fool! You cannot control the power you hold. You will burn!
- Johann Schmidt: I already have. [he mercilessly shoots the tower keeper as his soldiers are destroying the entire village]
- Enlistee: [Reading newspaper] They sure are killing a lot of our boys over there. Kind of makes you think twice about enlisting, huh?
- Steve Rogers: Nope.
[Steve attempts to enlist again but is caught up by Bucky]
- Bucky Barnes: Come on. You're kind if missing the point of a double date. We're taking the girls dancing.
- Steve Rogers: You go ahead. I'll catch up with you.
- Bucky Barnes: You're really going to do this again?
- Steve Rogers: Well, it's a fair. I'm gonna try my luck.
- Bucky Barnes: As who, Steve from Ohio? They'll catch you. Or worse, they'll actually take you.
- Steve Rogers: Look, I know you don't think I can do this.
- Bucky Barnes: This isn't a back alley, Steve. It's war. [Dr. Erskine comes by and overhears them]
- Steve Rogers: I know it's a war.
- Bucky Barnes: Why are you so keen to fight? There are so many important jobs.
- Steve Rogers: What do you want me to do? Collect scrap metal in my little red wagon?
- Bucky Barnes: Yes. Why not?
- Steve Rogers: I'm not gonna sit in a factory, Bucky. Bucky, come on. There are men laying down their lives. I got no right to do any less than them. That's what you don't understand. This isn't about me.
- Bucky Barnes: Right. 'Cause you got nothing to prove.
- Girl: Hey, Sarge! Are we going dancing?
- Bucky Barnes: Yes, we are. [backs away] Don't do anything stupid until I get back.
- Steve Rogers: How can I? You're taking all the stupid with you.
- Bucky Barnes: You're a punk.
- Steve Rogers: Jerk. [they hug goodbye] Be careful. Don't win the war til I get there! [Bucky salutes him]
- Bucky Barnes: Come on, girls. They're playing our song. [he walks away with his dates]
[at HYDRA's base of operations, Schmidt is workng with his head scientist Dr. Arnim Zola to harness the power of the Tesseract]
- Johann Schmidt: Are you ready, Dr. Zola?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: My machine requires the most delicate calibration. Forgive me if I seem overcautious.
- Johann Schmidt: And are you certain that those conductors of yours can withstand the energy surge long enough for transference?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: With this artifact I am certain of nothing. I fear it may not work at all.
[Schmidt takes the Tesseract and puts it into the machine and begins the transference process]
- Dr. Arnim Zola: [turning the machine to a higher calibration] Twenty Percent. Forty. Sixty. Stabalizing at 70%.
- Johann Schmidt: [Schmidt loses patience] I have not come all this way for safety, Doctor. [he turns it up to 100%]
[the machine transfers the energy but the energy surged throughout the room around Schmidt and Dr. Zola however they managed to succeed in harnessing the power of the Tesseract]
- Dr. Arnim Zola: What was that?
- Johann Schmidt: I must congratulate you, Arnim. Your designs do not disappoint. Though they may require some slight reinforcement.
- Dr. Arnim Zola: The exchange is stable. Amazing! The energy we have just collected could power my designs. All my designs. This will change the war.
- Johann Schmidt: Dr. Zola, this will change the world.
[Steve is a bit nervous for his procedure the next day and Dr. Erskine knocks on the door]
- Abraham Erskine: May I? [before he enters the room]
- Steve Rogers: Yeah.
- Abraham Erskine: Can't sleep?
- Steve Rogers: I got the jitters, I guess.
- Abraham Erskine: Me, too.
- Steve Rogers: Can I ask you a question?
- Abraham Erskine: Just one?
- Steve Rogers: Why me?
- Abraham Erskine: I suppose that is the only question that matters. [holding a bottle of schnapps] This is from Augsberg, my city. So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, my people struggled. They felt weak. The felt small. And then Hitler comes along with the marching and the big show and the flags. And he hears of me. My work. And he finds me. He says, "You." He says, "You will make us strong." Well, I am not interested. So he sends the head of HYDRA, his research division. A brilliant scientist by the name of Johann Schmidt. Now, Schmidt is a member of the inner circle. And he is ambitious. He and Hitler share a passion for occult power and Teutonic myth. Hitler uses his fantasies to inspire his followers. But for Schmidt, it is not fantasy. For him, it is real. He has become convinced that there is a great power hidden within the earth, left here by the gods, waiting to be seized by a superior man. So when he hears about my formula and what it can do, he cannot resist. Schmidt must become that superior man.
- Steve Rogers: Did it make him stronger?
- Abraham Erskine: Yes. But there were other effects. The serum was not ready. But more important, the man. The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great. Bad becomes worse. That is why you were chosen. Because a strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength. And knows compassion.
- Steve Rogers: Thanks. I think.
- Abraham Erskine: [poors two glasses of schnapps] Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.
- Steve Rogers: [he makes a toast] To the little guys. [but before he drinks it Dr. Erskine stops him]
- Abraham Erskine: No, no. Wait, wait. What am I doing? No, you have procedure tomorrow. No fluids. [he poors Steve's drink into his glass instead]
- Steve Rogers: All right. We'll drink it after.
- Abraham Erskine: No, I don't have procedure tomorrow. Drink it after? I drink it now. [he drinks the schnapps]'
[Dr. Zola arrives to see Schmidt who is getting his portrait painted but the painter is only using the color red and Schmidt dims the lights when he walks in to hide his true face]
- Johann Schmidt: Is there something in particular you need?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: I understand you found him.
- Johann Schmidt: See for yourself [Dr. Zola observes the pictures of Abraham Erskine on Schmidt's desk] You disapprove.
- Dr. Arnim Zola: I just don;t see why you need concern yourself. I can't imagine he will succeed. Again.
- Johann Schmidt: His serum is the Allies' only defense against this power we now possess. If we take it away from them, then our victory is assured.
- Dr. Arnim Zola: Shall I give the order?
- Johann Schmidt: It has been given.
- Dr. Arnim Zola: Good.
- Johann Schmidt: Dr. Zola! What do you think? [asks his opinion of the portrait]
- Dr. Arnim Zola: A masterpiece.
[Steve and Agent Carter are driving to the facility where he will get his procedure]
- Steve Rogers: I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner.
- Agent Peggy Carter: Did you have something against running away?
- Steve Rogers: You start running, they'll never let you stop. You stand up, you push back. They can't say no forever, right?
- Agent Peggy Carter: I know a little of what that's like, to have every door shut in your face.
- Steve Rogers: I guess I just don't know why you'd want to join the army if you were a beautiful dame. Or a... A woman. An agent. Not a dame. You are beautiful, but...
- Agent Peggy Carter: You have no idea how to talk to a woman, do you?
- Steve Rogers: I think this is the longest conversation I've had with one. Women aren't exactly lining up to dance with a guy they might step on.
- Agent Peggy Carter: You must have danced.
- Steve Rogers: Well, asking a woman to dance always seemed so terrifying. And the past few years, it just didn't seem to matter that much. I figured I'd wait.
- Agent Peggy Carter: For what?
- Steve Rogers: The right partner.
- Steve Rogers: That wasn't so bad...
- Abraham Erskine: That was penicillin.
- Steve Rogers: You save me any of the schnapps?
- Abraham Erskine: Not as much as I should have. Sorry. Next time.
- Agent Peggy Carter: How do you feel?
- Steve Rogers: Taller.
[he is questioning HYDRA spy, Heinz Kruger]
- Steve Rogers: Who the hell are you?
- Heinz Kruger: The first of many. Cut off one head, two more shall take its place. [begins thrashing in pain and foaming at the mouth] Hail HYDRA. [He then dies right there]
[Three SS officers sent by Hitler are sent to observe the work Schmidt is doing at his HYDRA facility]
- SS Officer 1: The Fūhrer is not accustomed to being ignored, Herr Schmidt. He funds your research because you promised him weapons.
- SS Officer 2: You serve at his pleasure. He gave you this facility as a reward for your injuries.
- Johann Schmidt: Reward? Call it what it is. Exile. I no longer reflect his image of Aryan perfection.
- SS Officer 1: You think this is about appearances? Your HYDRA division has failed to deliver so much as a rifle in over a year. And we had learned from local intelligence you had mounted a full-scale incursion into Norway.
- SS Officer 2: The Fūhrer feels... How does he put it? "The Red Skull has been indulged long enough!"
- Johann Schmidt: [utterly insulted by this] Gentlemen, you have come to see the results of our work. Let me show you.
[he shows them to his lab]
- Johann Schmidt: Hitler speaks of a 1,000-year Reich, but he cannot feed his armies for a month. His troops spill their blood across every field in Europe, but still he is no closer to achieving his goals. [pulls sheet off Tesseract-powered wūnderwaffe]
- SS Officer 1: And I suppose you still aim to win this war through magic?
- Johann Schmidt: Science. But I understand your confusion. Great power has always baffled primitive men. HYDRA is assembling an arsenal to destroy my enemies in one stroke, wherever they are, regardless of how many forces they possess, all in a matter of hours.
- SS Officer 2: Your enemies?
- Johann Schmidt: My weapons contain enough destructive power to decimate every hostile capital on Earth. Quite simply, gentlemen, I have harnessed the power of the gods.
- SS Officer 2: Thank you, Schmidt.
- Johann Schmidt: For what?
- SS Officer 2: For making it clear how obviously mad you are.
[SS Officer 3 notices a map of all the hostile capitals across Europe he is going to destroy but it also includes Berlin]
- SS Officer 3: Berlin is on this map!
- Johann Schmidt: So it is. [he aims his wūnderwaffe at the SS Officers]
- SS Officer 3: You will be punished for your insolence! You will be brought before the Fūhrer himself!
[Schmidt shoots and obliteratea SS Officer 3 and then shoots SS Officer 2 after a few missed shots]
- SS Officer 1: [he is cornered at the locked door] Schmidt! [he then finally shoots and obliterates him]
- Johann Schmidt: My apologies, Doctor, but we both knew HYDRA could grow no further in Hitler's shadow. Hail HYDRA.
- HYDRA Officers: Hail HYDRA!
- Dr. Arnim Zola: [Schmidt looks to him and Dr. Zola reluctantly says] Hail Hydra!
[the aftermath of the Heinz Kruger chase]
- Agent Peggy Carter: Any hope of reproducing the program is locked in your genetic code. But without Dr. Erskine, it would take years.
- Steve Rogers: He deserved more than this.
- Agent Peggy Carter: If it could work only once, he'd be proud it was you.
- Senator Brandt: Colonel Phillips, my commitee is demanding answers.
- Col. Chester Phillips: Great. Why don't we start with how a German spy got a ride to my secret installation in your car? [to Stark] What have we got here?
- Howard Stark: Speaking modestly, I'm the best mechanical engineer in this country. But I don't know what's inside this thing or how it works. We're not even close to this technology.
- Senator Brandt: Then who is?
- Col. Chester Phillips: HYDRA. I'm sure you've been reading our briefings.
- Senator Brandt: I'm on a number of commitees, Colonel.
- Agent Peggy Carter: HYDRA is a Nazi deep-science division. It's led by Johann Schmidt. But he has much bigger ambitions.
- Col. Chester Phillips: HYDRA is practically a cult. They worship Schmidt. They think he's invincible.
- Senator Brandt: So, what are you going to do about it?
- Col. Chester Phillips: I spoke to the President this morning. As of today the SSR is being retasked.
- Agent Peggy Carter: Colonel?
- Col. Chester Phillips: We are taking the fight to HYDRA. Pack your bags, Agent Carter. You, too, Stark. We're flying to London tonight.
- Steve Rogers: Sir? If you're going after Schmidt, I want in.
- Col. Chester Phillips: You're an experiment. You're going to Alamogordo.
- Steve Rogers: The serum worked.
- Col. Chester Phillips: I asked for an army and all I got was you. You are not enough. [he walks away]
- Senator Brandt: With all due respect to the Colonel, I think we may be missing the point. I've seen you in action, Steve. More importantly, the country's seen it. Paper. [his assistant hands him a newspaper of Steve] The enlistment lines have been around the block since your picture hit the newsstands. You don't take a soldier, a symbol like that, and hide him in a lab. Son, do you want to serve your country on the most important battlefield of the war?
- Steve Rogers: Sir, that's all I want.
- Senator Brandt: Then, congratulations. You just got promoted.
[after this he becomes a propoganda figure and an American hero called Captain America]
[Dr. Zola and Schmidt are walking through the factory which is loading many canisters of the harnesed power of the Tesseract]
- Dr. Arnim Zola: As you can see, production of the Valkyrie is progressing on schedule, even with components of this size. [gesturing towards bigger canisters]
- Johann Schmidt: Increase the output by 60% and see to it our other facilities do the same.
- Dr. Arnim Zola: But these prisoners, I'm not sure they have the strength.
- Johann Schmidt: Then use up what strength they have left, Doctor. There are always more workers.
[a HYDRA officer pushes Dum Dum Dugan's hat off with his stick]
- Dum Dum Dugan: You know, Fritz, one of these days, I'm gonna have a stick of my own.
[Rogers pushes a HYDRA officer on a cage of a group of captured U.S. soldiers]
- Gabriel Jones: Who are you supposed to be?
- Steve Rogers: I'm Captain America.
- James Falsworth: I beg your pardon?
[Rogers frees all the U.S. soldiers from their cages]
- Dum Dum Dugan: What, are we taking everybody?
- Jim Morita: I'm from Fresno, Ace.
- Steve Rogers: Is there anybody else? I'm looking for a Sergeant James Barnes.
- James Falsworth: There's an isolation ward in the factory, but no one's ever come back from it.
- Steve Rogers: All right. The tree line is northwest, 80 yards past the gate. Get out fast and give 'em hell. I'll meet you guys in the clearing with anybody else I find.
- Gabriel Jones: Wait. You know what you're doing?
- Steve Rogers: Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.
- Jim Morita: You know how to use that thing?
[to Jacques Dernier who actidentally fires the Tesseract-powered gun at a wall]
- Jim Morita: Okay.
[Schmidt and Dr. Zola are overlooking the battle and his forces being overrun by Captain America among others]
- Johann Schmidt: What is happening? [he sets off the explosives that will destroy the factory]
- Dr. Arnim Zola: No, no! What are you doing?
- Johann Schmidt: Our forces are outmatched. [he sets the rest of the explosives to 6 minutes]
- Steve Rogers: Bucky?
- Bucky Barnes: Is that?
- Steve Rogers: It's me. It's Steve.
- Bucky Barnes: Steve?
- Steve Rogers: Come on. [he lifts him up]
- Bucky Barnes: Steve.
- Steve Rogers: I thought you were dead.
- Bucky Barnes: I thought you were smaller
- Steve Rogers: [notices a map of Europe with the marked locations of the HYDRA factories] Come on.
- Bucky Barnes: What happened to you?
- Steve Rogers: I joined the army.
- Johann Schmidt: Captain America! How exciting! I am a great fan of your films! So Dr. Erskine managed it after all. Not exactly an improvement, but still, impressive.
- Steve Rogers: [punches Schmidt in the face] You've got no idea.
- Johann Schmidt: Haven't I? [punches a dent into his shield and punches Rogers to the ground; Rogers kicks him across the retractable bridge and Dr. Zola intervenes and retracts the bridge] No matter what lies Erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success! [removes his face to reveal the Red Skull]
- Bucky Barnes: [a bit awestruck] You don't have one of those, do you?
- Johann Schmidt: 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! [Schmidt and Dr. Zola then enter an elevator to escape]
- Steve Rogers: Then how come you're running? [Rogers says as the elevator closes]
- Johann Schmidt/Red Skull: You are failing! We are close to an offensive that will shake the planet, yet we are continually delayed because you cannot outwit a simpleton with a shield!
- Dr. Arnim Zola: This is hardly my are of expertise. I merely developed the weapons. I cannot fire them.
- Johann Schmidt: Finish your mission, Doctor, before the American finishes his.
- HYDRA soldier: Sir! [holding HYDRA scientist at gunpoint]
- HYDRA scientist: I'm sorry, Herr Schmidt. We fought to the last man.
- Johann Schmidt: Evidently not. [Schmidt shoots the HYDRA scientist]
- Bucky Barnes: Remember when I made you ride the Cyclone at Coney Island?
- Steve Rogers: Yeah, and I threw up?
- Bucky Barnes: This isn't payback, is it?
- Steve Rogers: Now why would I do that?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: Schmidt believes he walks in the footsteps of the gods. Only the world itself will satisfy him.
- Col. Chester Phillips: You do realize that's nuts, don't you?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: What? The sanity of the plan is of no consequence.
- Col. Chester Phillips: And why is that?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: Because he can do it!
- Col. Chester Phillips: What's his target?
- Dr. Arnim Zola: His target....is everywhere.
- Johann Schmidt: [Schmidt stands before his army] Tomorrow, HYDRA will stand master of the world, borne to victory on the wings of the Valkyrie. Our enemies' weapons will be powerless against us. If they shoot down one plane, hundreds more will rain fire upon them! If they cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA.
- HYDRA Army: Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA! Hail HYDRA!
[Rogers is captured by HYDRA and brought before Schmidt]
- Johann Schmidt: Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone. But there are limits to what even you can do, Captain? Or did Erskine tell you otherwise?
- Steve Rogers: He told me you were insane.
- Johann Schmidt: He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine. But he gave you everything. So, what made you so special?
- Steve Rogers: Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn.
[at this statement he beats him in a rage because he cannot accept that his equal is nothing more than a kid from Brooklyn]
- Steve Rogers: I can do this all day.
- Johann Schmidt: Of course you can, of course. But, unfortunately, I am on a tight schedule. [he puts a gun to Roger's head]
[but before he can shoot him, the Howling Commandos break in through the windows of his fortress]
- HYDRA Soldier: Hail HYDRA! Cut off one head and two more- [Soldier is shot and killed]
- Col. Chester Phillips: Let's go find two more.
- [Phillips is driving Rogers and Carter to catch up with the Red Skull]
- Peggy Carter: [right before Rogers jumps onto the Red Skull's plane] Wait! [kisses Rogers] Go get him!
- Col. Chester Phillips: [when Rogers looks at him] I'm not kissin' ya!
[Steve and Schmidt fight aboard the bridge of Schmidt's plane, the Valkyrie]
- Johann Schmidt: You don't give up, do you?
- Steve Rogers: Nope. [they continue to fight]
[Schmidt shoots at Steve]
- Johann Schmidt: You could have the power of the gods! Yet you have a flag on your chest and you think this is a battle of nations! I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!
- Steve Rogers: Not my future!
[Steve is taking with Peggy on the radio while he is on Red Skull's plane and it's about to crash]
- Steve Rogers: Peggy?
- Peggy Carter: I'm here.
- Steve Rogers: I'm gonna to need a rain check on that dance.
- Peggy Carter: All right. A week, next Saturday, at the Stork Club.
- Steve Rogers: You got it.
- Peggy Carter: 8:00 on the dot. Don't you dare be late. Understood?
- Steve Rogers: You know, I still don't know how to dance.
- Peggy Carter: I'll show you how. Just be there.
- Steve Rogers: We'll have the band play something slow.
- Steve Rogers: I'd hate to step on your...
- [the radio goes to static]
- Peggy Carter: Steve? Steve? [Colonel Phillips is nearby as a tear drops down Peggy's face] Steve?
[Colonel Phillips walks off. Peggy is alone, silently sobbing]
[he runs out into modern day New York City and is very shocked and confused]'
- Nick Fury: At ease, soldier! Look, I'm sorry about that little show back there, but we thought it best to break it to you slowly.
- Steve Rogers: Break what?
- Nick Fury: You've been asleep, Cap. For almost 70 years.
[Steve is silent with shock]
- Nick Fury: You gonna be okay?
- Steve Rogers: Yeah. Yeah, I just... I had a date.
[post-credit scene] [Steve is in a workout gym and he punches a punching bag across the room]
- Nick Fury: Trouble sleeping?
- Steve Rogers: You're here with a mission, sir?
- Nick Fury: I am.
- Steve Rogers: Trying to get me back in the world?
- Nick Fury: Trying to save it.
[edit] Cast
- Chris Evans - Captain America/Steve Rogers
- Hayley Atwell - Peggy Carter
- Sebastian Stan - James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes
- Tommy Lee Jones - Colonel Chester Phillips
- Hugo Weaving - Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
- Dominic Cooper - Howard Stark
- Richard Armitage - Heinz Kruger
- Stanley Tucci - Dr. Abraham Erskine
- Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury
- Toby Jones - Dr. Arnim Zola
- Neal McDonough - Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan
- Derek Luke - Gabe Jones
- Kenneth Choi - Jim Morita
[edit] Taglines
- Discover the origin of the first avenger.
- Avenge.