The First Avenger Movie Facts
31 of the most interesting The First Avenger facts you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of The First Avenger movie message.


The First Avenger Movie Trivia Facts
These trivia from Reddit and other sources can be used as questions with answers in quizzes or games.
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A man dressed in red can be seen in a large tube during the Stark Expo 1943. This character is also known as the Human Torch, an android that could set himself aflame, created by scientist Phineas Horton.
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Cap throws a Hydra agent out of the Valkyrie who screams as he falls in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). This is mimicked in The Avengers (2012) when he throws a mind-controlled Shield agent off the Helicarrier, who falls and screams in the same way.
The First Avenger Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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The sound clip used during cap lifting Mjolnir is the same that they played during cap jumping the bridge in his first movie.
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For the briefest moment, we see Meredith Quill(Starlords mother) saying hi to Captain America. -
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. -
When Red Skull opens the box containing the Tesseract, his words "and the F?hrer digs for trinkets in the desert" are a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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The Nazis who visit the Red Skull are named after former members of the pre-Techno band Kraftwerk (explanation in comments) -
Steve Rogers asks Abraham Erskine where he's from - "Queens...before that Germany." Erskine asks Rogers where he's really from and he replies "Brooklyn." In Civil War, he asks the same thing of Spider-Man and they both have the same replies.
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Someone calls out Cap's location. Which is, of course, "on your left."
The First Avenger Hidden Facts

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

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.









When Dr. Erskine is telling Steve about his denial to give Schmidt the super soldier serum, even though no sound is present in the flash back, you can make out the Dr. Erskine says "Nien" instead of "No" which is appropriate because they were in Germany.





The First Avenger Plot
Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier, transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist organization.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of The First Avenger. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
Director | Joe Johnston |
Production | Paramount Pictures |
Stars | Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones |
IMDB score | 6.9 |