“The scratch is a tiny thing, you can’t really detect it from any distance.”

In my head, I’ve explained such damage away thusly : since the shield was the result of an alloy of Adamantium and Vibranium, it has a sort of “memory effect” where the molecules (unstable, perhaps?) will vibrate and fill in, or “heal” scratches or small cracks over time. (I think back in the days of the great Gruenwald this would have qualified me for a No-Prize.  :-D  )

Which reminds me (if you know) - does Fox have sole movie-rights to the word “Adamantium” as part of the X-package? I was wondering if that’s why in “CA : The First Avenger” they said the shield was just Vibranium.

Thanks!

I’d imagine that they said that because there is no adamantium in Cap’s shield–it’s a Vibranium-steel alloy. Adamantium is the substance that Myron MacLaine came up with attempting to duplicate the process that created Cap’s shield, so it’s the not-as-good version.