Captain America: Brave New World is the 590th episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert and Lon Harris. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2025 superhero film Captain America: Brave New World. It was published on April 29, 2025. It is 6 minutes and 9 seconds long. It has been viewed over 1.1 million times.
Script[]
You love Captain America. You love the Hulk. Now, their palette-swapped versions are squaring off, in the least-anticipated clash since New Coke vs. Crystal Pepsi.
Captain America: Brave New World
Meet your new Captain America, a guy who's been taking Ls since 8 Mile.
Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. (8 Mile): (rapping, to Papa Doc) What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed? This guy's a gangsta? His real name's Clarence!
Crowd: OOOHHHHH!!
While Steve Rogers used top-shelf steroids to make America great again, after DOGE cutbacks, all that's left is a middle-aged man in a bird suit; still, he's got a paid subscription to Duolingo...
Captain America: (in Spanish) You have been very brave.
Sam: (in Japanese) Pleased to meet you.
Sam (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier): (in Arabic) Always happy to help, sir.
...the power to dish out multiple concussions with a single frisbee (montage of Sam hitting enemies in the head with his shield), and an A.I.-powered drone to do all the heavy lifting. (montage of Redwing assisting Captain America in battle) Redwing gave its life, and they don't even rebuild him in the credits; the disrespect, man. Forever a drone... (shows Red Hulk destroying Redwing)
America's new President is Thaddeus Ross, a blackmailed narcissist with rage issues. (shows President Ross smashing a table in anger)
Sterns: Unleash your anger.
President Ross: Leave me alone!
Leila: Sir!
President Ross: RAAAGH!!
Don't blame me; I voted for the other foreign asset.
Bat-Seraph: Future Congressman James Buchanan Barnes.
Anyway, Thad's just a puppet of Dr. Sterns, a super-genius who's right 100% of the time, 50% of the time.
Sterns: There was an 89% chance you'd turn around...
Sidewinder: The buyer told me everything. [There] was a 77% chance...
Together, they're hatching a fiendish plot that will leave you wondering, "Is that the same nerd from the old Hulk movie? But the other guy is different, right? No?" (shows Harrison Ford's Ross alongside William Hurt's Ross from Captain America: Civil War)
President Ross: --I've changed. Really changed.
"Am I supposed to know this dude (Joaquin Torres) from something? Sorry; I canceled Disney+. Is that thing (Tiamut's frozen body) a callback to The Eternals?! I thought we agreed that was a dream!" (shows Kumail Nanjiani's Instagram story describing his exercise journey)
Betty: Hi, Dad.
(in a stereotypical "Jewish mother" voice) "Marvel, baby... If you forget about Liv Tyler for 20 years, so will we, okay?"
The world is fighting over the right to recast Wolverine... (shows Henry Cavill as "The Cavillrine" in Deadpool & Wolverine)
Senior Advisor: He intends to secure the adamantium for himself.
President Ross: Jesus.
...with countries racing to secure the most important metal on Earth since the last one.
President Ross: It's even more indestructible than vibranium.
Now, Cap must perform a reverse-World War II -- that's where you stop America from launching a sneak attack on Japan's Pacific fleet -- while also finding time to prove his super-unc's innocence...
Sam: (as a mind-controlled Bradley shoots at President Ross through a glass display) Isaiah!
...stopping Sidewinder from appearing in even more obvious re-shoots...
Sam: If you break out of Allenwood, I'll find you.
Sidewinder: When... I break out...
...and deciding whether to trust Ruth Bat-Seraph, without diving too deep into her backstory.
Torres: She was born in Israel and trained in the Red Room.
She's small and tough, okay? We don't want Marc Platt to come yell at us. (a Vox article with the title "How Marvel managed to upset Palestinian - and Israeli - fans" pops up)
Finally, get a ringside seat to the main event, that the trailers already spoiled. (shows Red Hulk roaring in the film's official trailer) After Ross stops taking his reverse-Cialis pills, he'll get grumpier than Harrison Ford being asked a Star Wars question...
Jimmy Fallon: (as Harrison Ford bashes an action figure of Han Solo) Oh, hey! Give it! Hey, come on!
Harrison Ford: F*CK!
...emerging Red Rocket-style with all the moves of a prime Avengers-era Hulk (shows Red Hulk wrecking the White House with the regular Hulk's moveset); meanwhile, in the blue corner, we have a hero whose only weakness is human beings of moderate size and strength.
Copperhead: (after slamming Captain America through a church pew) You need a minute?
Captain America: (pained) Nope. Nope, let's get this over with.
On paper, it's a matchup equal to Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby (shows Captain America taking a punch from Red Hulk), but thanks to his Wakandan "Get Out of Jail Free" tech (shows Captain America unleashing a shockwave through his vibranium-laced wings), Cap will buy just enough time... to beg for mercy on behalf of an overworked effects department. "Please! They only have two days until it's time to render every individual rock on the Thing's ass!"
So sign back up for Disney+ for a month, for a placeholder MCU installment you'll catch up on before Doomsday...
President Ross: --I want you, [...] to help me rebuild the Avengers.
...that breezes past all the political stuff it brings up...
Bradley: The United States government threw me in prison for 30 years. They experimented on me for decades.
Torres: Yikes, that's... Uh, that sucks.
Sam: Can we start?
...in favor of a serviceable action flick that will kill a spare couple of hours on a lazy afternoon. I guess that's the ceiling for the MCU these days; what do you think, Cap?
Sam: No, no, it was good. Solid... B-plus.
Starring: Serumless in Sea Battle (Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America); Built Ford Tough (Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross/Red Hulk); Joaquin Phoenix (Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres/Falcon); Piccolo's Left Nut (Tim Blake Nelson as Dr. Samuel Sterns); Lack Widow (Shira Haas as Ruth Bat-Seraph); My Inner Monologue at Parties (Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley)...
Bradley: I should've stayed in my damn house...
...Giancarlo Playing a Bad Guy? WHAT?? (Giancarlo Esposito as Seth Voelker/Sidewinder); Itty Betty Cameo (Liv Tyler as Betty Ross); and The Buck Stops By (Sebastian Stan as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes).
Marvel vs. D.C.
The honest title for Captain America: Brave New World was ‘Marvel vs. D.C.’ Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Didn't the Washington Monument already get destroyed in Spider-Man: Homecoming? (shows an exploding Chitauri power core damaging the Washington Monument in Spider-Man: Homecoming) At what point do you just stop fixing these things?
Viewer's Comments[]
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Trivia[]
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Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Manager: Emin Bassavand
Manager, Content Operations: Tiffany Tse
Post-Production Specialist: Rebecca Castaneda
VP Content: Max Dionne
