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 might get frozen again.
- 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.
- 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.
- The wrong Human Torch is serving in World War Two.
- 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.)
- 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...
- Might also count as Actor Allusion for another Smith...
- 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.
- 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.
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