It was later revealed that the teenaged boy was an accomplished sniper and field agent…but again, none of that is in play here. Bucky Barnes was adopted by the guys at Camp Lehigh after his father died in combat. Initially first appearing in the pages of Captain America Comics #1, he was a typical “kid sidekick” of the era, complete with Robin-esque domino mask. – Bucky Barnes is a drastically different character from any of his comic book incarnations. – Scenes of a pre-Cap Steve Rogers getting outraged about the Nazis while watching newsreel footage in a movie theater are staples of any expanded telling of his origin, but especially in the criminally overlooked mini-series, The Adventures of Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty by Fabian Nicieza and Kevin Maguire. In other words, if you want to believe that Indiana Jones is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, be my guest…Disney owns him, anyway. Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston worked on the Raiders production (as did legendary Marvel artist Jim Steranko). Marvel also published a comic adaptation of that classic film, as well as The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones comic book series. – Even though Hitler’s real life obsession with the occult is well documented, I’d like to think that Skull’s line about how “the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert” is a reference to the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The tesseract is stashed in a wall sculpture of Yggdrasil, “the world tree,” and the serpent (whose eye holds the key to unlocking the tesseract’s hiding place) is Jormungandr, the serpent that Thor does battle with during the Asgardian end of days. You can see the seeds of Thor: Ragnarok hinted at here. – The ties to the Thormovies don’t end with that line about Odin’s treasure room, however. It’s general, all-purpose ability to “warp reality” is more or less in place throughout its comic book history, though, and the Red Skull has shown a fondness for it on more than one occasion…always to his undoing. …the Tesseract was something known as “The Cosmic Cube” (it was the ’60s, yo), and it was a purely technological, not magical or alien piece of superhero headache inducingness. They were created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Just to get this out of the way right up front, our primary players in this movie, Captain America and the Red Skull were both introduced in Captain America Comics #1 in 1940. So join us as we overanalyze as much of Captain America: The First Avengeras we possibly can… It’s really amazing just how much Marvel lore this movie contains, and how faithful it is, at least in spirit, to the very first Captain America story, too.
But it is the one that does the most heavy lifting in terms of world-building for the Marvel Universe, and some of its scenes have taken on more weight recently, thanks to projects like the Agent CarterTV series, not to mention its two sequels, The Winter Soldierand Captain America: Civil War, and let’s not forget Avengers: Infinity War.
The 2011 Joe Johnston film wasn’t the first Marvel movie, nor was it the first to bring in elements from upcoming projects ( The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2 both beat it to the punch). You could almost consider Captain America: The First Avenger to be the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we’ve come to know it.
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