Superhero Hall of Fame: Captain America The First Avenger (2011)

Join us for a new series we're calling "Superhero Hall of Fame" in which we go back to classic superhero movies and ask whether these movies hold up and whether the superhero genre has anything going for it, or whether it was all a fad.This week we look at Captain America: The First Avenger starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Lones and Hugo Weaving, in which we talk about how the movie deals with the idea of heroism and separates it from having superpowers, how the movie overcame assumptions audiences had about Captain America as a character, how The First Avenger helped build Phase 1 of the MCU and what lessons modern day MCU movies can learn from it when building shared universes.