Trivia: SPOILER: At the end on Nick Fury's gravestone, under his name is the passage from Ezekiel 25:17: "The path of the righteous man is beset..." This was the start of a big monologue made famous by Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction. (01:59:25)
Trivia: Stan Lee makes his customary cameo appearance as a security guard at the Smithsonian who is present when Steve Rogers steals his original Captain America suit from the museum display. (01:30:00)
Trivia: Spoiler: Brock Rumlow at the end of the film is in the hospital, badly burned. In the comics, this is how he becomes the villain Crossbones. He later appears as that character in Avengers: Age of Ultron. (01:57:20)
Trivia: When the helicarriers start their targeting for people and locations to destroy, for a brief moment you can see "Anthony Stark" shown in the fully repaired Stark Tower, now the Avengers Tower (it has the big Avengers A logo now). (01:49:05)
Trivia: The film producers actually put a lot of thought into Steve's notebook of things to catch up on. The producers thought it would have been a good idea to show Steve's notebook as a way to see that Steve Rogers is a man out of time. Since the idea is that Captain America can feel like he's a hero, not just for America, but the whole world, the producers set up an internet campaign from each different territory to weigh in on the different things Steve would have in his notebook. The campaign would work as the people would have to vote on 20 things Steve could have missed in the last 70 years. The top 5 vote getters from each country ended up getting implemented into each region's version of the film. The bottom 5 options (Thai food, Star Wars/Trek, Nirvana (band), Rocky (Rocky II?) and the Troubleman soundtrack) remained in each version of the film. (00:02:30)
Trivia: When Rogers returns to his apartment and is told his stereo is on, the song that is playing on the turntable is the same song played at the end of Avengers: Endgame when he is dancing with Peggy Carter. (00:35:15)
Trivia: When Cap and Black Widow are driving to his old army base in New Jersey, she asks him where he learned how to steal a car. This is a reference to the 1990 Captain America film, in which Captain America steals someone's car on two separate occasions.
Trivia: There are two additional scenes in the credits. One part-way through connected to The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a second shorter scene right at the very end. (02:03:00 - 02:09:30)
Trivia: At the hijacked ship, Captain America fights the enemy leader, Batroc, who is loosely based on the comic villain, Batroc the Leaper. The movie Batroc shares the same colour scheme, is also French, but unlike the cartoon version, does mixed martial arts (with a little jumping). (00:03:45)
Trivia: Romanoff mentions Operation Paperclip at one point, calling it a Shield operation. In reality, it was a large operation conducted by the American government, in which hundreds of Nazi scientists were recruited. One of the most famous subjects was Werner Von Braun, who designed the V2, but went on to make the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program.
Trivia: Danny Pudi has a small cameo as the techie who lets Captain America into the communications room near the end of the film. Pudi is one of the stars of the cult TV-series "Community." Directors Joe and Anthony Russo, in addition to directing this film, also directed a number of episodes of "Community." (01:31:10)
Trivia: When Jasper Sitwell was being interrogated by Captain America, The Falcon and Black Widow, he mentions a couple of people Hydra is targeting. One in particular is a certain neurosurgeon named Stephen Strange. Otherwise known as Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, a future member of The Avengers who will have his own film in Phase 3 of the MCU. (01:12:15)
Answer: Here's what he said in an interview: The thing with him is, you don't know if he's making up a story to get you to do a certain thing or if he's actually giving you a piece of himself. The great thing for me about that particular story is that is what my grandfather did when I was a kid. He actually ran an elevator in a hotel in Chattanooga, Tenn. That was his job. I used to go down there and sit in the elevator with him while he took people up and down. He got tipped that way and had money in his pocket or in a bag - and a little gun. He always had a pistol with him, some brass knuckles. I did not write that, it was just in there. It totally just happened that way. I chuckled about it. I was trying to figure out if I had talked about my grandfather in some interview somewhere years ago or something and somebody read it and put that in there. I never found out if that was the case. I think it's a true story for him.