Captain America: The First Avenger/Trivia


 * Alan Menken: He penned the Captain America stage song.
 * Alan Silvestri: Doing the film's score.
 * Fake Nationality:
 * Australian Hugo Weaving, American Stanley Tucci, and Englishmen Toby Jones and Richard Armitage play Germans.
 * Englishman Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, American playboy and captain of industry.
 * Englishman David Bradley as the Norwegian keeper of the Cosmic Cube.
 * Romanian-born Sebastian Stan as American Bucky Barnes.
 * Was actually deliberately averted in the case of Captain America himself. The crew felt that it was necessary for the Cap to be played by a genuine American.
 * Thoroughly averted in the case of Neal McDonough as Dum-Dum Dugan, who shares the same nationality and home city of Boston, Mass, as well as Irish lineage, as well as Bruno Ricci (who is actually French) as Jacques Dernier.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * The wrong Human Torch is serving in World War Two.
 * Mace
 * Buck Compton has grown a mustache while away from the 506th.
 * The Tin Man traded his revolver for a shotgun.
 * V switched from anarchism to fascism.
 * Or, (Agent) Smith became a Nazi.
 * Even worse, Elrond going mad after living for so long into the 20th century.
 * Still worse, human Nazi Megatron.
 * Implied-facepalm-man is Cap's Sink or Swim Mentor. He does that.
 * Guy of Gisborne is back again.
 * Staff Sergeant Aubrey Stamps joined a desegregated unit.
 * The Dream Lord is now a Nazi scientist. And he even wears the same Bow-tie.
 * He was also Dobby.
 * The Mad Hatter, also known as Carter Baizen is Bucky Barnes.
 * M. Bison is Dum Dum Dugan.
 * Anne Boleyn plants one on Steve. (She's also had practice with ill-timed seduction during the Renaissance.)
 * Filch was safeguarding the Cosmic Cube.
 * Jack Benjamin gets sent to war, held hostage, and has to be rescued by his best friend again.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: In the Japanese dub:
 * Captain America is Hazama/Yuuki Terumi, Alto Saotome and Graham Aker/Mr. Bushido. (Also overlaps with Hilarious in Hindsight if you know what kind of characters are both Hazama and Graham, which are the opposite of what Captain America represents.)
 * And his little sister can't be THIS cute...
 * Nick Fury is Suberoa Zinnerman.
 * Peggy Carter is Crimson Viper and Aoi
 * Name's the Same: Schmidt (German for "Smith") seems to be a common name for Nazi scientists with special powers in Marvel comic movies. Which is probably why he goes by Sebastian Shaw now...
 * Might also count as Actor Allusion for another Smith...
 * Unlikely, given that Johann Schmidt has been around since 1941...
 * The Other Darrin: Dominic Cooper as the third to play Howard Stark.
 * Playing Against Type: Chris Evans, usually the Deadpan Snarker and Handsome Lech, as The Cape (trope).
 * Retroactive Recognition: Jenna Louise Coleman as one of the girls Bucky and Steve go on a double date with early in the film.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: When Peggy finds Captain America drinking in the pub, listen out for an ambulance in the background. The sound of the siren is from a type of siren that wasn't introduced in the UK until the 1970's. The period correct sound should be of a bell rung by hand.
 * Throw It In: When Peggy tries to touch the newly enhanced Steve. Hayley Atwell was Distracted by the Sexy.
 * What Could Have Been: Will Smith was the top choice at one point to play Captain America.
 * 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.
 * In addition, deleted scenes also had HYDRA explicitly attacking Nazis in addition to Allied powers.
 * Emily Blunt was offered the role of Peggy Carter.