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Captain America Elevator Fight is an image macro series featuring screenshots from the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame in which Captain America fights a group of Hydra soldiers in an elevator. In February 2020, a four-panel amalgamation of scenes from both films as a vehicle for various dad jokes went viral.

Origin

On April 4th, 2014, Marvel Studios released the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier.^[1] In the film, Captain America (played by Chris Evans) fights a group of Hydra foot soldiers in an elevator (shown below, left). Roughly five years later, on April 26th, 2019, Marvel Studios released the film Avengers: Endgame, which features a recreation of the scene, in which Captain America whispers "Hail, Hydra" in the ear of Jasper Sitwell (Maximiliano Hernández) to avoid the fight (shown below, right).^[2]

The earliest available meme featuring a mashup of the two films together was published on June 2nd, 2019. The meme features Captain America whispering to Sitwell, Sitwell responding with "Avengers Assemble" and, finally, a shot from Captain America: The Winter Soldier in which soldiers attack Captain America. The post, uploaded by Instagram ^[3] user @daily.dcmarvel.post, received more than 38,000 likes in less than one year (shown below).

Spread

The following year, on February 7th, 2020, Redditor^[4] LazyMeercat shared a variation of the meme in which Captain America tells the dad joke "I saw my dog walk over sandpaper / he said rough rough." The post received more than 5,400 points (98% upvoted) in less than three days (shown below, left).

Over the next few days, others continued to share variations of the format. On February 8th, Instagram^[5] user @trashcanpaul shared a variation with the joke "have you ever eaten a clock? / It's time consuming." The post received more than 49,000 likes in less than two days (shown below, center).

The following day, Redditor^[6] ihazone shared a variation with the joke "Your flat earth movie was just nominated for an award / The Golden Globes." The post received more than 47,000 points (93% upvoted) and 100 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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