To say captain America was not better than the avengers is an understatement. This is wayyyy better than the avengers and may I say the best marvel movie thus far. It tapped into our world as we know it with all the conspiracy like NSA the illuminati and more captain America is really my favorite avenger now he kicks so much ass in this movie and the winter soldier even though he isn't in it as much as I wanted him to be in it he was awesome he did some serious damage. The entire cast was great black widow had a much better roll this time around and from this point on everything has changed and I like how this movie sets up the avengers and they have so many Easter eggs to other avengers and upcoming ones that have magic powers and is a Doctor. This movie tops everything as to great action great script and you don't have to see the first cap movie but at the same time you do to understand some other major plot points actually the actual plot point to the movie in general. But this movie has you to think is stuff like this really going on. To answer that question is yes if you watch conspiracy videos most of this stuff is happening and captain America shows that in order to stop the corruption in this world you have to be heroic even though cap is a Boy Scout it should make us all want to be hero's like him. To put it all in a nutshell Captain America should be on everyone's top superhero movie list now. And even though I loved man of steel so much I hope and pray DC gets there stuff together and please don't put batman vs superman out on the same day as Captain America 3