Captain America: The Winter Soldier - First trailer

Just in time for the release of Thor: The Dark World and in the thick of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s first season, Marvel has released the first trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Often overshadowed by other heroes in the marvel universe, Captain America over the years has found great difficulty being relevant, his outing in Captain America the First Avenger and the Avengers have created a solid foundation for Caps very own universe where after watching this trailer you can really see Captain America been given the onscreen respect he deserves. With marvels phase 2 well under the storyline are developing quite well leading us into the Avengers sequel coming in 2015.

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It seems Steve Rogers isn’t all that happy with how S.H.I.E.L.D. has been running things, telling Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) “I thought the punishment usually came after the crime” when Fury describes S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plan to stop threats before they happen. Cap notes that “this isn’t freedom – it’s fear.” This is Captain America in a post-Battle of New York world quite similar to the way we saw Tony Stark fight his demons in Iron man 3.“Captain, to build a better world, sometimes means tearing the old one down,” Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) tells him. “And that makes enemies.”

And with that, the Winter Soldier seems focused on figuring out who the real enemy is: the people working against S.H.I.E.L.D. or S.H.I.E.L.D. itself? Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have promised this Cap tale — based on Ed Brubaker’s run on the comic — will be something of a political thriller, but we’ll get to see for ourselves when the movie hits theaters in April 2014.

Enjoy the trailer.