Helmut Zemo

Daniel Brühl
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Modern, Comics: He and his wife Heike assemble the Kinder, abducted children raised to worship them, until Captain America frees the children.

Cinematic

A Sokovian nobleman and former commander of the elite unit EKO Scorpion who lost his family in the Battle of Sokovia. Blaming the Avengers, he hunted down Hydra's Winter Soldier scientists and engineered the Civil War by framing Bucky Barnes. Captured, he was freed years later to help track the Flag Smashers, killed Wilfred Nagel, destroyed their serum, and was returned to the Raft.

Comics

Helmut Zemo is the 13th Baron Zemo, a German noble and terrorist who inherits his father's hatred of Captain America. He disguises himself as the Phoenix, leads the Masters of Evil, founds the Thunderbolts as Citizen V, and later rebuilds Hydra. He is imprisoned in Pleasant Hill, runs a Hydra network from Bagalia, and is finally killed in Doctor Doom's world takeover plot.

Timeline 27 events

Bronze · Comics: As the Phoenix he attacks Captain America to avenge his father and falls into a vat of Adhesive X, which disfigures him.
Bronze · Comics: He reappears as Baron Zemo, allied with Arnim Zola's mutates and Primus, and kidnaps Arnold Roth to trap Steve Rogers.
Modern · Comics: He revives the Masters of Evil, which then seize the Avengers' mansion headquarters.
Modern · Comics: With Batroc's Brigade he uses the Bloodstone to raise his father, who only disappoints him.
Modern · Comics: He and his wife Heike assemble the Kinder, abducted children raised to worship them, until Captain America frees the children.
Modern · Comics: As Citizen V he founds the Thunderbolts, a villain team posing as heroes to win public trust.
Modern · Comics: His consciousness is moved into his counterpart Iron Cross on Counter-Earth, where he kills that world's Zemo patriarch.
Modern · Comics: The Thunderbolts return from Counter-Earth to Earth and Zemo is left leading them.
Modern · Comics: His Liberator device ends in a clash with the Avengers and Moonstone, and he escapes with the moonstones.
Modern · Comics: He publicly exposes Bucky Barnes as the Winter Soldier.
Modern · Comics: He allies with the Hydra Queen to found a new Hydra.
Secret Wars · Comics: He leads New Hydra from Bagalia in a plot to sterilize humanity using Lucas's blood, and is stopped by Sam Wilson and Ian Rogers.
Secret Wars · Comics: Held as Jim in the Pleasant Hill prison, he regains his identity and seizes the town in revolt against S.H.I.E.L.D.
Fresh Start · Comics: He relaunches the Thunderbolts as Citizen V in New York, then fakes his death with the Ghost to rebuild Hydra in secret.
Fresh Start · Comics: He is killed by Emperor Doom after announcing a Hydra invasion of Doomstadt, and a Doombot takes his place.
1978 · Cinematic: Born into an aristocratic family in Novi Grad, the capital of Sokovia.
2015 · Cinematic: During the Battle of Sokovia he lost his wife, son and father, and he blamed the Avengers.
2016 · Cinematic: He tracked down Vasily Karpov in Cleveland, took the Winter Soldier book, and left Karpov to drown.
2016 · Cinematic: He framed Bucky Barnes for the bombing in Austria that killed King T'Chaka.
2016 · Cinematic: He posed as a psychiatrist in Berlin to reactivate the Winter Soldier and then escaped.
2016 · Cinematic: At the Hydra base in Siberia he killed the five sleeping Winter Soldiers and revealed the Stark murder footage, breaking the Avengers apart.
2016 · Cinematic: Black Panther stopped his suicide attempt and handed him over for imprisonment in Berlin.
2024 · Cinematic: Barnes broke him out of the Berlin prison, and he flew with Barnes and Sam Wilson to Madripoor to trace the new super soldier serum.
2024 · Cinematic: In Madripoor he met Selby, then shot serum creator Wilfred Nagel at Buccaneer Bay.
2024 · Cinematic: In Riga, Latvia, he smashed the Flag Smashers' serum vials and escaped the Dora Milaje and the new Captain America.
2024 · Cinematic: He visited the Sokovian Memorial, made peace with Barnes, and was taken by the Dora Milaje to the Raft.
2024 · Cinematic: From his Raft cell he learned that his butler Oeznik had assassinated the remaining Flag Smashers.

enemy of

Steve Rogers, Winter Soldier, T'Challa, Sharon Carter, Karli Morgenthau, Hawkeye, Doctor Doom, T'Chaka, Everett Ross, Jeffrey Mace, U.S. Agent

allied with

Sharon Carter, Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Kingpin, Ghost

travels to

The Raft

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