Captain America Theory Fixes Nick Fury's First Avenger Plot Hole
Captain America knew something was off thanks to a baseball game that was broadcasted on the radio when he woke up after being frozen for decades, and this detail has sparked a lot of questions about S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury’s attention to detail, but a theory fixes this plot hole by connecting it to Captain Marvel. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 1 was all about introducing the members of the original Avengers team, and among those was Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), who made his debut in Captain America: The First Avenger.
The first Captain America movie told the origin story of Steve Rogers, from his days as a fragile young man looking to join the army to taking part in Project Rebirth and becoming Captain America after being injected with the original Super Soldier Serum. At the end of The First Avenger, Captain America had to crash his plane in the Arctic to avoid detonating the weapons it carried, and while he was presumed dead, he actually spent almost 70 years frozen. The final scene in The First Avenger saw Captain America awakening in a 1940s-styled hospital room and escaping only to find himself in present-day New York City, where he was approached by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who told him the truth.
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What made Captain America suspicious of his surroundings was a radio broadcast of a baseball game from 1941, a game he actually attended. S.H.I.E.L.D. went to lengths to create a 1940s environment in order to ease Rogers into what was now happening, so it’s strange that they made a mistake with the game they chose to broadcast. This plot hole has made way for different theories on what really happened there and why it was most likely
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