It feels to me that the term “superhero movie” used to be a subgenre that could take on many forms. For example, Logan was a Western epic with super-powered characters at the core, but the tone was nothing like any of the other X-Men films of years passed. Or the way that Constantine gave us a dark horror-thriller with demons and monsters but kept the detective-slash-noir aesthetic and allowed it to bleed through. But, these days it feels like nearly all of the caped cinema we’re getting fits into the same all-encompassing, mass appealing mega-genre that has really started to feel the same across every film- With the rare exception of films like “The Batman” or Marvel’s recent “Werewolf By Night”, there’s been a frustrating lack of variety in the tones of modern comic book cinema- But back in 2011, Marvel was in the infancy of building out there now-dominating connected universe by way of introducing different characters in their own films, before crossing over into one giant blockbuster event with Marvel’s Avengers.

With Iron Man already being two films in, and Thor and the Hulk being introduced in their own outings, it was time for Kevin Feige and the folks as Marvel Studios to wind the clocks back to 1942 and introduce audiences to one of the MCU’s most iconic heroes- in Captain America: The First Avenger.

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