MCU: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Captain America: The First Avenger

11. The Tone Is Like Nothing Else In The MCU

Say what you will about the film, but it has a tone that's utterly unlike anything else in the MCU. Before the film's release, many were worried that a Captain America film would be unable to avoid feeling like a soulless propaganda flick, but the movie's tongue-in-cheek self-awareness ensures it never feels like a cynical flag-waving exercise.

Right from its opening sequence, Captain America replicates the free-wheeling adventure movie tone of, say, Indiana Jones, complete with the typical Nazi villains. Director Joe Johnston worked as an art director on Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, so it's not just a happy coincidence.

Being the MCU's only far-flung period piece to date, it was always going to be a different beast to most everything else, but more than a dozen films later, Cap's solo debut still stands out as a uniquely playful, agreeably nostalgic offering.