Avengers: Age Of Ultron Primer – Captain America’s Shield
By Steve Lam
The Shield in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Steve Rogers is immediately drawn to the circular Vibranium shield when Howard Stark shows him a range of options for personal protection.
In The Avengers (2012), during the forest fight over custody of Loki, Captain America uses the shield to defend a strike from a Mjolnir-wielding Thor. Though the shield easily holds up, the resulting shockwave from the two legendary weapons causes a section of the forest to be destroyed.
In The Avengers (2012), during the Chitauri invasion of New York City, Captain America, in a team effort, uses the shield to focus and aim one of Iron Man’s repulsor beams.
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America uses the kinetic-absorbing properties of the shield to cushion his fall from several stories out of the Triskelion, when he’s trying to escape Hydra-loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.T.R.I.K.E. agents.
Join us tomorrow as we give some more quick facts in our on-going Avengers: Age of Ultron Primer series.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is set for a North America release date of May 1, 2015, and is being directed and written by Joss Whedon, and starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig, James Spader as Ultron, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Idris Elba as Heimdall, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Wofgang von Strucker, and Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw.
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