Yeah, but if they still had serum left, wasn’t that pod thing that Cap was put in still kicking around somewhere?
NB I know I’m picking holes a lot, but you don’t get a no prize unless you come up with a workable explanation, so thought it would pass the time on a Friday afternoon 
For bonus points, note that Erskine tells Steve that right when they’re about to share a drink the night before our hero will get dosed with the serum and the rays; at the last moment, Erskine’s eyes go wide and he grabs the drink back upon remembering that, oh, crap, it slipped my mind: you can’t drink anything the night before.
What did Blonsky and Banner drink the night before their treatments? Beats me. What are the odds that Erskine wrote down the warning he half-forgot? Probably zero.
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Hey, you’ve got to set the dials to the right wavelength. Banner thought it was the “gamma” wavelength. It’s actually – ultraviolet? Maybe x-ray? Who knows?
It’s being studied by “top men.”
Was Steve Rogers the first go at the Super Soldier process, or is there a room next door full of bony, but tanned, earlier attempts?
Now that you mention it, the guy who went through it before him looked awfully sunburnt. 
In the comics, there was a storyline for a while that Rogers wasn’t the first subject of the final formula, that it was (in the spirit of the Tuskegee Experiment) tested on a black guy first. When Rogers finds out, he immediately finds and befriends the other guy, and he even covered for Rogers with the star-spangled suit and shield on occasion.
Who?
Top.
Men.
Those guys are the best!
According to wikipedia, Reinstein was the name used in the original Cap’n America comics, which was later revealed to be an alias.
Forgot to mention, when I saw it again last night, I paid close attention to Hulk’s expression in the scene where he knocks Thor off-camera. He has sort of a wry, satisfied smile that was just perfect.
Also noticed that, at least in the 3D version, you sometimes see grit and debris stick to the “camera lens” during the NYC street action scenes.
The guy playing chess with Stan Lee in the park at the end is not Ian McKellen or anyone else I recognized. Just some extra or character actor, as far as I could tell.
And for those who’ve seen I Am Legend, a question:
When Iron Man is stretched out on the pavement and thought to be dead, and Hulk roars at him, isn’t that almost exactly the same spot outside of Grand Central Station where the Will Smith character in I Am Legend is caught in a zombie trap and his dog is injured by the zombie dogs in saving him? I’m not a New Yorker, but it looked like it to me.
Dunno, but it might also be the exact same spot on the same back lot movie set they’ve used in 147 other movies. Just sayin’.
I’m pretty sure they didn’t film anything in New York.
Just got back from FINALLY seeing it, and there was a ‘New York Crew’ listing in the credits, so…might have been a wee bit of it actually filmed…somewhere…in…New York…state…I guess.
Anyway, loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Really makes me wish I liked comics, 'cause I really really want the backstory on what are considered characters too ‘minor’ to really expound on.
I want more Hawkeye. I want to know Fury’s story. I want to know the Hawkeye-Widow story hinted at in conversation in the movie. Lots of stuff that apparantly didn’t even warrant a lot of comic space, much less bringing it into a movie.
Also, Loki was just damn hot this time 'round, rawr! And yeah, with all the man-meat floating around, I’m fixating on the cranky, angst-filled goth-wannabe and the equally angsty, but quieter about it arrow-slinger. Rawr!
That’s as may be, but as it appears on screen, I’m pretty sure that particular spot - right next to Grand Central Station - appears in both Avengers and I Am Legend.
They did. Not much, but they were definitely there.