User blog comment:Pikatoo/Ask Pika 2.0/@comment-25421952-20150309211407/@comment-24281142-20150309221013

Yeah, but Pika had it there.

Anyways, for Bats VS Cap, the animation is just there for show remember. Cap throwing his shield into the smoke? That's just to show that they think he'd lose his shield at some point, and you can see what that lead to.