Captain America Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) tells a story about his grandfather working as an elevator operator who clutches a lunch bag filled with $1's and a small gun. Jackson has confirmed his real-life grandfather operated an elevator who carried a sack of $1's and a gun.

The sound clip used during cap lifting Mjolnir is the same that they played during cap jumping the bridge in his first movie.

For the briefest moment, we see Meredith Quill(Starlords mother) saying hi to Captain America.

May is wearing Ben's wedding ring around her neck

During his stage performance Steve Rodgers punches a man dressed as Adolf Hitler, which resembles the cover of Captain America #1 comic (1941).

When they are chasing the plane at the end of the movie, Tommy Lee Jones' character presses a 'K' button that makes the car go faster, referencing his role in Men In Black as K.

End Credits scene

Vision is seen contemplating the role he played in the "catastrophe" he had predicted. He is holding a Rook, the only chess piece that represents a thing instead of a person.

Rhodey's suit has mini decals of Ultron,displaying the number of robots he killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Civil War (2016), the audience is silent during Tony Stark's B.A.R.F. presentation. But in the flashback to that same scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), the audience is laughing, implying that Mysterio remembers this moment as a lot more humiliating than it actually was.

The First Avenger, the "German" tank used in the propaganda movies is actually an m3 Stuart, an American light tank, as they were much easier and cheaper to find, especially at the start of the war

It's super clear that Schmidt's wearing a mask from the first scene. Also Filch appreciation.

the scene with Steve watching the news, you can see to his right the drawing of the monkey in the Captain America suit he drew in the first Captain America movie (2011) regarding how he thinks the public views him in both films.

Members of Team Captain America all experience a scenario where they refuse to physically move, mirroring Steve Rogers stance on the Sokovia Accords.

Only Bucky understands the PA announcement because he mentioned that all winter soldiers can speak 30 languages.

If you look closely on the right side of War Machine's chestpiece, you can see tally marks of kills in the form of tiny Ultron heads, referencing the battle for Sokovia in Age of Ultron.

Jim Morita was rescued from a Hydra base and became one of Captain America's Howling Commandos. Morita's grandson would eventually become the principal at Midtown High, Peter Parker's school

When the kids are buying Captain America comics, they've removed Bucky from the cover, because it wouldn't make sense in this continuity.

Falcon says there are four hostiles left but we only see them take out three more. The fourth was taken out by Cap in this quick shot.

The Russos snuck the Bluth family stair car from Arrested Development (a sitcom in which the Russo brothers directed some episodes) into the background of the big fight scene.

When Steve Rogers is making his PA announcement revealing that SHIELD has been compromised by Hydra, he states that they "shot Nick Fury" rather than "killed Nick Fury" because he claimed earlier that he is always honest.

The final shot of his theatre tour closely resembles his iconic round shield, which he had yet to recieve in the movie

Howard Stark jokes that 'Hydra won't attack you with pocket knives'. Towards the end of the movie, a Hydra agent does just that.

During the theater scene there is considerably more females than males in the theater. That is because most of the male population was drafted for the war.

We see how and when Tony Stark receives that injury to his left arm.

Cap mentions in his speech that Hydra shot Nick Fury, not killed him, calling back to his line earlier in the film that he is "always honest" since Fury is actually still alive.

The colonel throws a grenade at the recruits who didn't know it's a dud. Steve throws himself on it, intending to sacrifice himself to save the others. However, Peggy, who also didn't know it was a dud, also runs towards it, indicating that she was willing to make the sacrifice.

Early on in Captain America (2011), Howard Stark makes a quip about the lack of the need for kevlar reinforcing in Cap's suit to block knife blows, but, as it turns out, Cap actually fights Hydra soldiers with knives.

While showing footage from the 'Avengers', a screen indicates that there were only 74 casualties in the Battle of New York

Steve, Bucky and Sam all wear caps that match color of their suit

Robert Redford's Alexander Pierce keeps "Newman's Own" spaghetti sauce in his fridge showing the cinematic reunion of the two on screen actors that starred in several movies together.

There is a scene where the Red Skull is having his portrait painted. His actual red visage has not been revealed to the audience yet, and is kept in darkness, but the painter's palette contains almost exclusively shades of red.

Cap drops a multi-ton jetway onto Spiderman. Despite having just met Spidey, he knows it won't kill him because, just seconds earlier, he had the perfect opportunity to gauge his strength.

When Ant-Man becomes Giant Man, certain parts of his suit turn blue. Blue is the color of the Pym particles that enlarge.

After recently receiving the Super Soldier Serum, Steve jumps towards the fence with his hands reaching for the top, anticipating that he would need to vault over the fence like a regular person would. This shows how unfamiliar Steve was with his new powers.

Right before the elevator fight scene and the revelation of a conspiracy inside SHIELD, the shot frames the elevator with the Watergate complex in the background. This was where the Watergate conspiracy was first exposed, too.

The dispatch asks for the shooter without knowing the cause of Nick Fury's injury. Evidence that S.H.E.I.L.D has been infiltrated

At the post-credit scene where Bucky visits the Smithsonian, the mannequin which carried Steve Roger's old uniform has been removed, indicating that the uniform was never returned to the Smithsonian.

When Rumlow attacks Captain America with a stun stick, they both tremble for a few moments because they are making contact, allowing the current to pass through both the of them.

Cap knew Spidey was strong to hold the container because he just had an "arm wrestle" with him seconds before. So cap didn't try to kill Spidey, but knew that he would be strong enough to hold the falling container.

Avengers (2012) deleted scene shows Tony Stark's parent's date of death that matches up with their date of death in Captain America Civil War (2016), assuming their bodies were found the next morning.

When Steve Rogers finds Dr.Zola and the H.Y.D.R.A. archives, a lot of pictures show up on the screen. In this one you can see a very familiar date on the top

As Wanda draws the gas out of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, she also uses her powers to create a shield from bullets

Choi plays a soldier who is freed by Captain America. In Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) Choi plays the school principal. In one scene Peter is in the principal's office and on the wall behind the principal you can see a framed picture of Choi's other character.

We see the red paint primalirly being used in painting Johann Shmidt despite there being no red in the shot; this is before Schmidt is first seen as Red Skull

The Tessaract is found by Schmidt in Tonsberg with Odins worshipers. Its the same place where Odin won a war against Frost Giants and lost the Tessaract in the process.

Clint introduces himself to T'challa and gets shot down. But in Avengers Endgame, we see that T'challa has come to acknowledge his fellow Avenger.

When Steve examines the gear left behind by Crossbones' men, a bomb is clearly visible inside the jacket, Crossbones later tries to kill Steve with a bomb vest, and Steve says he should've seen it coming

The terrorist Batroc was completely reimagined from his comic book version, Batroc the Leaper. However, he slightly retained his costume.

Before Captain America gets his real shield he uses two random objects (Trashcan Top and a Car Door) as shields, both of which if combined closely resemble the final product of his real shield.