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*** Before that, the [http://i.imgur.com/Wbd5m.jpg first photograph] of him in the role showing [[Dyeing for Your Art|how much he bulked up for the role]] won over many people who feared he wouldn't take it seriously or wouldn't be convincing.
** Howard Stark actually getting screen time, a rare thing in any continuity. And then they decided not to do the typical [[Jerkass]] version of him some continuities did, and there was much rejoicing.
** For some, the news that the film would be directed by [[Joe Johnston]], director of the highly underrated [[WW 2]]-set superhero movie ''[[The Rocketeer (
* [[Anvilicious]]: Power makes good men into great men. It makes bad men worse. ''[[Comes Great Responsibility|So never give bullies power!]]''
** [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]
** [[Alan Silvestri]]'s Captain America March just makes you wanna stand up and salute something. The full thing is finally heard over the credits while numerous wartime propaganda posters appear. '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXwAeJ87Bk Let's hear it for Captain America!]''''' (Too bad it wasn't included on the soundtrack album...)
** The Staaaaar Span-gled MAAANNNN, WIIIITH A PLAAAAAAAAAN!!
* [[Base Breaker]]: Peggy.
** Her fandom usually focuses on her Badass/Action Girl status.
** Her hatedom focuses on her Jerkass tendencies which make her [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]], and her lack of plot-purpose.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Johann Schmidt. It's the ''[[Red Skull]]'', people. Is anyone surprised?
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: The Hydra mooks with the arm-mounted flamethrowers. Cap is forced to yield every time they appear, regardless of how much ass he was kicking prior.
* [[Ear Worm]]: "The Star-Spangled Man," brought to you by [[Alan Menken]] and [[Hercules (
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** Madame Hydra, from the tie-in video game.
** Hodge
** Tommy Lee Jones as Colonel Philips is in full-on jerkass authority figure mode, and is funny as hell.
** Also, Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan is both visually and character-wise one of the most awesome characters in the film, and provides much badassery while being completely human.
** Similarly, JJ Feild as Falsworth, who despite having such a small role, is pretty badass and classy.
** Erskine's also pretty awesome in his own way.
** The nameless kid that gets thrown into the drink, too.
* [[Evil Is Cool]]: The Red Skull, of all people. It probably helps that he's played by [[Hugo Weaving]]. He's a [[Large Ham]] [[Bad Boss]] and in some ways he's [[Up to Eleven|more evil than Hitler]], he wears a [[Badass Longcoat]] and can fight [[Captain America (comics)]] to a stalemate. Note, however, that in between all the [[For the Evulz]] plotting, he has ''one'' [[Pet the Dog]] moment. The cool thing is, it's to the benefit of both his minion [[Cool Car|and his car]].
** He also wants to ''kill Hitler and take over everything he has''. That's pretty cool in itself.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Gratuitous Norwegian]]: While the words and sentence structure are correct, Norwegian theatres burst out laughing at the way the actors in the Tønsberg church pronounced their lines.
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*** {{spoiler|1="Some sort of experiment" + "no body" + "plunge into icy river" = "Yeah, there's no way movie Bucky's actually dead." Winter Soldier, here we come!}}
*** {{spoiler|Add to this the fact that Bucky's actor signed a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios, and it's no longer a question of IF he's just hiding. He'll be back.}}
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Considering how Hugo Weaving made the phrase "Mister Anderson" [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]], they had a golden opportunity for him to address Captain America derisively as "[[Mister Rogers]]". We can only assume they didn't because the scenes where Cap and Red Skull meet aren't the best times to slip so spectacularly hilarious.
** Why is Brooklyn-born Steve so notably bereft of [[Brooklyn Rage]]? [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
* [[I Knew It!]]: {{spoiler|The SHIELD agent that welcomes Cap into the 21st Century and is a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] of Peggy? Turns out she's Sharon Carter--a close relative and Steve's main [[Love Interest]] in the comics.}}
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Cap. You can tell he's sad about waking up after most people he knew were dead, but he won't let that get in his way.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: The title character himself. He's shipped with Peggy, Howard, all of his Avengers "love interests," Bucky, every single one of the Howling Commandoes...Super-Soldier's a super-suitor.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
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"Nope!" }}
** Red Skull's line '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVmBAd76kak "YOU ARE FAILING!"]''' has been getting some recognition.
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Locked in a metal coffin, screaming in agony...
* [[Pet the Dog]]: The Red Skull giving Dr. Zola the keys to the Hydramobile. Subverted in that act from such a [[Complete Monster]] means he is at least in part making sure that his car will be delivered to him at the rendezvous.
* [[The Problem
** In fact, in the preview of the game, one of the designers even lampshaded this trope and explained that they planned to subvert it.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To Joe Johnston's ''[[The Rocketeer (
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: Played with. All the scenes in the trailers occur in the movie, but the context of several of them gives them a whole different meaning. In a good way, natch.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailer touting the fact that it's the #1 movie in America not only partially spoils a character death, but ''the final scene in the movie''. Not cool, editors. Not cool.
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