10 Alternative Opening Movie Scenes You Never Saw

6. Steve's World War II Dream - Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier kicks off with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) continuing to adjust to modern life while working for S.H.I.E.L.D. in Washington DC, and most notably meeting up with Sam Wilson aka Falcon (Anthony Mackie) for the first time.

We didn't know it at the time, of course, but "on your left" would ultimately be leading audiences to one of the coolest cinematic callbacks of the entire decade in Avengers: Endgame.

Yet an alternate planned opening scene took an altogether different tone, by depicting a World War II-set dream sequence, in which Captain America teams up to help Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough), and the rest of his commando unit, only to suddenly abandon them.

Steve is then woken up by his alarm clock in the present day and reads in the newspaper that Dugan has died, cementing both how haunted Steve is by those he left behind, and how he's struggling to adapt to being a man out of his own time.

It's an interesting scene albeit one which might foreshadow the Bucky twist a little too obviously - for those few who didn't know it going in - while the meeting between Steve and Sam kicks things off on a more laid-back note before the film's first action scene aboard a hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. ship.

Though the alternate scene was never filmed, an animatic was at least created, giving some impression of how it might've turned out:

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