Captain America: The First Avenger/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* During boot camp, when Phillips tosses the fake grenade at the trainees as a [[Secret Test of Character]], Rogers doesn't even flinch. He doesn't just jump onto the grenade, he curls up into a ball around it to minimize any damage it might have caused. This skinny, frail kid was ''fully'' prepared to perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] without a second thought (compared to the [[Jerk Jock]] who cowers behind a truck), and at the same time vindicates Erskine's faith in him.

** He's still skinny.

* Also from pre-Serum Steve, his [[Cutting the Knot]] moment with the flagpole.

* Cap being modest, yet somehow cocky at the same time.

'''Captain America:''' Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn. }}

* Pretty much any moment where Cap is acting as a [[One-Man Army]], punching his way through hordes of Nazis and HYDRA agents, not to mention that entire [[Montage]] of him and the Howling Commandos systematically dismantling every HYDRA weapon and base they come across.

** 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.

* Steve yelling for them to keep going with the procedure despite the tremendous pain. "'''NO, don't! I can do this!'''"

** 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.

* Am I the only one who loved that his 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.") to not just be an awesome and believable one for a hero like him, but just awesome that they summed up Cap's entire character in two sentences?

** Nope. It's perfect. Good writing, good characterisation. Props also to the writers for averting [[All Germans Are Nazis]] in the second scene with Erskine and Cap before the procedure, too.

* There is when Steve Rogers is presumed lost and Col. Philips is about to lower the boom on Peg Carter for allowing this. Just then, Rogers returns to base, with 400 men, confiscated secret HYDRA weapons and invaluable intelligence that he rescued by himself. At that point, the soldiers, who were jeering Rogers on stage, now cheer him as he shows that he is more than a stage clown, more than a soldier, he is truly Captain America!

** After all that Cap gives himself up to Gen. Phillips for going on the mission without permission. [[Lawful Good]] indeed.

* The kid that the Nazi spy uses as a [[Human Shield]] gets one. It looks like Cap is going to have to choose between [[Sadistic Choice|rescuing the child after he gets thrown into the river or chasing after the Nazi]] when the kid yells "Go get him! I can swim!"

* This exchange:

'''Cap:''' "Not my future!" }}

* Although she's just a ''little'' overshadowed by the title character, Peg Carter gets one or two great moments. One of the more noticeable ones is her putting a bullet through the skull of a driver [[Improbable Aiming Skills|at least one block away]].

** In the "grenade" scene, she ''also'' runs toward it (and Steve).

** In the climax, Peggy ''saves'' (a shield-less) Cap from a flamethrower-wielding HYDRA mook by gunning the enemy down.

** It should be mentioned that this is the prop shield that was part of his stage costume, not [[Fan Nickname/Comic Books|the Mighty Shield]]. Still, being able to bend metal with a punch is pretty badass.

*** Also a pretty awesome moment for Cap, holding the shield steady enough that the Red Skull puts a fist-shaped indention into the ''top of the shield.'' Normally, hitting the top of a shield with that kind of force would just cause it to slam into the other person's face, but not [[Badass|the Captain.]]

* Captain America figuring out SHIELD's ruse with the fake hospital.

* Let's just say practically everything involving [[Tommy Lee Jones|Col. Phillips]].

** That line has ''gotta'' be his crowner, though.

* It is a measure of Cap's total awesomeness quotient that {{spoiler|Nicholas freakin' Fury}} is deferential to him.

** Captain America miss a class, not likely. He just ignored it.

* A moment for the Skull that cements his status as [[Magnificent Bastard]], as well as being no fool at all. During Captain America's rescue mission, when the Skull spots Cap fighting his way in on a security monitor, he immediately (and without otherwise reacting) starts arming and activating the base's self-destruct mechanisms, noting to Arnim Zola that their troopers are obviously outmatched, and thus the smart tactical maneuver is to get out when the getting is good.

* Right before Steve jumps out of the airplane to rescue the hostages from the HYDRA base, he has this exchange with Peggy.

'''Steve:''' The hell I can't. ''[smiles]'' I'm a captain. }}

* The entire interrogation sequence between Col. Phillips and Zola, from where Phillips nonchalantly starts eating a delicious steak dinner in front of Zola to make him uncomfortable, and then reveals that he had sent a coded Allied message telling his superiors that Zola had defected. Of course, he tells Zola that he should have nothing to worry about since the message was encrypted, [[Magnificent Bastard|unless HYDRA had already managed to break their encryption codes]].

'''Red Skull:''' Evidently not. (Kills him) }}

* "You start running, they'll never let you stop. You stand up, push back."

 

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