The Avengers (2012) – Cap’s stroll through New York

Director Joss Whedon did an admirable job of assembling the Avengers for the 2012 film, and for the most part balanced out their storylines. Each felt integral to the film's plot, while getting substantial screen time. That being said, there was a scene cut that would've arguably made Steve Rogers' arc that much better, while giving better context for a character that Whedon focuses on during the film's climax. The scene involves Cap going through modern day New York and hesitating to call his old flame Peggy Carter. Along the way he sketches the new landscape while sitting at a diner, where a waitress shows interest in him. After that we see Cap take a lonely subway ride through the city before he settles in on the boxing gym that we see him introduced in during the theatrical cut of the movie. While this sequence is slow and kills the pacing a bit, it does a fantastic job of showing the isolation and loneliness that Steve Rogers feels as a man out of time.