
The Captain America: The First Avenger trailer, which ran during the Super Bowl, provided Americans with a first look at Chris Evans as the Star Spangled superhero. It included some eye-popping special effects wizardry in the creation of a 98-lb weakling version of Steve Rogers before his transformation, and also provided a first glimpse of the film’s Nazi villain, the Red Skull. Compared with the narrative-less special effects mongering of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer, which also ran during the Super Bowl, the Captain America trailer with its origin-story elements was War and Peace.