12 Reasons Captain America Makes The Best Standalone Marvel Movies

8. CGI-Lite Action

It's a given in modern blockbusters that your finale will be a CGI extravaganza. There needs to be that money shot that sticks in people's memories/caps off a spoilerific trailer. But in addition to the race-against-the-clock finale (when isn't it?) there's going to be a series of smaller-scale action that builds excitement and also push the plot along. It's simple formula. Because it takes less to be a threat to Cap and the wider cast of characters his stories employ, the general action doesn't need to be as overblown. So while the finale of his films are massive (The Winter Soldier in particular), the earlier action can be a little more reigned in and, gasp, light on CGI. Which all serves to make things feel that little bit more real; we say it a lot, but audience's eyes are pretty good at picking up when they're being lied to. So when a real person is punching another real person, it's going to get your adrenaline pumping a little faster and that bit involved in the events on screen. Not being nigh on invunerable (i.e. a God or requiring a suit of armour to fight) is unique to Cap in the MCU, so that gives him a distinct advantage.