1. It's The First Time Cap Doesn't Use A Gun On Camera
Marvel Studios
Captain America isn't Batman. He's a soldier who's used firearms in the past and probably will again in the future, but he tries to avoid them if possible. However, despite Rogers preferring to use his mighty shield as frequently as possible, every single film to feature the character up until The Winter Soldier had him using guns.
Granted, that makes sense in The First Avenger (he is fighting in a literal war after all), but it's still weird to think that it was only as recently as 2014 that he retired their use in combat; even 2012's The Avengers included a brief sequence where Cap used an assault rifle, but since the release of Winter Soldier he hasn't actually used any.
This fact is made even more interesting by the fact that Cap featured in three separate films prior to his debut in the MCU, all of which saw the title character use guns without batting an eye.
It's a small detail, but seeing as how the change has stuck with the character since The Winter Soldier, it's still important.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
