Captain America (GazzaB9)

Captain America is the first film in the MCU. It is based on the Marvel comics character of the same name and retells his story up until he is frozen in ice.

Cast

 * Jensen Ackles as Steven "Steve" Rogers/Captain America
 * Iwan Rheon as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
 * Karen Gillan as Margaret "Peggy" Carter
 * Zack Ward as Jack Fury
 * Oscar Issac as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
 * Bryan Cranston as Arnim Zola
 * Alfred Molina as Baron Heinrich Zemo
 * Stan Lee as Unnamed Newspaper Salesmam
 * Til Schweiger as Nicholas "Nick" Fury (end credits only)

Plot
It's the year 1940 and Steve Rogers is a weak, skinny and short man who, despite this, has a massive amount of courage. After seeing him try to stand up to a group of people mugging another man, Peggy Carter decides to put Steve in to the army, to which Steve happily agrees. While there, Steve shows off many of his skills, which helps Peggy prove to Jack Fury that Steve should be the test subject for "Project Rebirth". Steve agrees to the project, being injected with multiple chemicals which turn him from a small weak man to a large strong super soldier. With these powers, Steve becomes Captain America, a symbol of America, truth, justice and the Allies. However, on the Axis side, Nazi general Johann Schmidt, also known as the Red Skull, becomes obsessed with Cap, demanding his comrades Baron Heinrich Zemo and Professor Armin Zola to get a sample of Cap's blood so that the Axis can have its own super soldier.

Post Credits Scene
A group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are in a submarine for unknown reasons. While looking around, their radar picks up signs of life. They head for the signal, which turns out to be the frozen body of Captain America. Nick Fury is then revealed to be on the boat, as he walks out and simply says "well I'll be damned..."

Trivia

 * At the end of the film, Bucky sacrifices himself while saving the lives of millions by blowing up a missile mid air. This scene is lifted straight from the comics.
 * Throughout most of the film Zemo wears a mask and when Cap tries to take it off he panics, this is a nod to the fact in the comics Heinrich Zemo's mask is glued on to his face.
 * During a conversation with Red Skull, Zola offers to download Skull's mind in to a robotic body, to which he declines. This is a reference to Zola's robotic body, which in the comics he downloads his mind in to.