As Marvel fans celebrate the birth of Steve Rogers on July 4, Mark Ruffalo took the time to highlight a special moment that involved Chris Evans’ Captain America from Avengers Endgame. The actor behind Bruce Banner marked the holiday with a close-up of Cap’s butt, or as Ant ManScott Lang (Paul Rudd) would call it, America is a **. And basically, Ruffalo’s Instagram and Twitter posts inspired the real celebrations to start.
Mark Ruffalo shares a photo of Captain America from ‘Avengers: Endgame’ on Instagram and Twitter
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As they say, history repeats itself. On July 4, 2019, Ruffalo shared a funny GIF of Evans on Not another teen movie while looking at a photo of Cap’s butt. So Ruffalo kept the tradition alive this year.
When Ruffalo posted America’s a ** on Instagram and Twitter in 2020, the Avengers Endgame Star simply posted a cropped screenshot of the back of Cap. She then captioned the photo with a peach emoji and wrote, “Happy # 4th of July.” Nothing more and nothing less. But still, most Marvel Cinematic Universe viewers understood the reference.
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In Avengers Endgame, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) commented on Captain America’s wardrobe options since 2012. “Mr. Rogers, that suit did nothing for you **, he said.
Then Scott tried to calm Steve down and kicked him. “I think you look great, Cap,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s America is a **.”
Later, Steve faced his self from the 2012 era and had a chance to settle the matter once and for all. “That’s America a **,” he said.
Where did the Captain America joke in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame come from?
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In an interview with the LA Times published in May 2019, Avengers Endgame Screenwriter Stephen McFeely revealed where the joke on Captain America’s butt came from.
“It’s kind of a goal,” McFeely said at the time. “Chris Evans has never been comfortable in that outfit from the start. Avengers movie. So, in the rearview mirror, it’s a little way to wink at what that was like and what it is now. And then it was built from there. ”
He added: “When we got to the scene of the fight where he defeated himself, his butt is on the ground and he was sitting there to receive a callback.”
Then, when he spoke to SYFY WIRE in October 2019, McFeely explained that Cap was originally not supposed to comment on his own and that the scenes were filmed during reruns.
“We remade the Cap on Cap fight, the end of it, and that helped us tremendously,” said McFeely. “And then we had to get out of that scene a little differently. And there [2012 Cap] he was slumped on the ground with his butt in the air. “
In the meantime, Final game Screenwriter Christopher Markus hinted that Evans was satisfied with the end result.
“It is rare that you can find a joke for Captain America to say that [is] in the character of Captain America, “Markus said.” He doesn’t make many unsafe smart remarks. So I think Chris is happy when you can do something fun that stays in Cap’s wheelhouse. “
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