MAXO: Captain America: The First Avenger

Book of the Stranger

Stop whatever you're fonduing! This week, we're heading back to the dark days of World War II where plucky Steve Rogers finds that his only hope of helping his country might be to go through some hare-brained scheme orchestrated by a German scientist to turn him into...a super soldier. (And, um, I guess the first Avenger, too.) We'll see why it's important to stand up to bullies in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. Meanwhile, we'll also see what happens when a demi-god has to go to high school in 1999's Hercules: Zero to Hero. The lesson today: no matter how awkward you are, you can still overcome it as long as you either use experimental science to greatly enhance your physique or make sure that your father is literally a god.

Notes:

• The Chris Wars
• National Treasure
• Argus Filch
• Walder Frey
• David Bradley
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• 1936 Summer Olympics
• Tommy Lee Jones
• List of characters portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones
• Batman Forever
• Men In Black
• Mulan climbing a big pole
• Margaery Tyrell
• Natalie Dormer
• Elementary
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Rocky & Bullwinkle
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• SR-71 Blackbird
• Stealth aircraft
• Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles
• Kool-Aid Man
• Times Square
• Triptych
• Eric Idle
• Icarus
• Greek numerals
• Hebrew numerals
• One Thousand and One Nights
• The Hunt for Red October
• Cassandra
• Diedrich Bader
• Sandra Bernhard
• Wayne Knight
• Brad Garrett
• Teenager
• Fluffy
• Cerberus
• Wonder Woman
• The Dirty Dozen