Okay, so like in ‘Titanic’ (almost exactly), we are in present times. Nick Fury and some S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents are down in the Arctic Ocean in a submarine looking for…something. One of the newb Agents asks Fury what they’re looking for, and he explains that they are looking for someone; a hero once known to the world as ‘Captain America’. The Agent (being the newb he is) asks who Cap is, and…
OPENING CREDITS: News clippings and early footage of Steve Rogers / Captain America, Nazi Regimes, World War II, Hitler, the Great Depression, etc.
Then the REAL first scene is the beginning of Steve Rogers’ story. Then after the whole freezing in the ice ‘Alice-going-down-the-tunnel-to-Wonderland-type’ scene, we are back in the present and Nick Fury finds Cap in the ice and S.H.I.E.L.D. unthaws him. Big freak out scene and Fury calms him down and shows him around the new world. After a good soul-searching-‘Dust in the Wind’-scene, Steve agrees to join The Avengers and…
CREDITS. After the credits…very, very subtle hint on the ‘Avengers’ villain. A couple possibilities could be:
Bruce Banner is training or exercising out in the middle of nowhere when he is approached by a mysterious man with a familiar voice…‘Dr. Bruce Banner…how would you like to finally stop running?’
Or…
Nick Fury is urgently brought onto the main deck of the Hellicarrier when someone informs him that… ‘Col. Fury…they’re here.’
So it seems like this is the most logical way to really introduce Captain America to today’s world without having to either rush it in the first 10-20 min of the movie or have him whine and moan about it for the whole movie. The Avengers shouldn’t be wasting any time with any of the character’s individual problems. The conflicts should affect the entire team, basically. So, what do you think? (Bonus: 2 Fan-Posters!!!)
