Red Skull
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Modern, Comics: In Latveria, with Zola and Doctor Doom's equipment, the Skull takes over Steve Rogers' body before Rogers breaks free and the Skull is destroyed.
Cinematic
Johann Schmidt, a German physicist and SS officer who founded Hydra, took Erskine's early Super Soldier Serum in 1940, and was disfigured as Red Skull. He found the Tesseract in Norway in 1942, broke with Hitler, and was beaten by Captain America. In February 1945 he touched the Tesseract and was thrown to Vormir. He guarded the Soul Stone there and showed Thanos and Gamora how to take it in 2018.
Comics
Berlin street orphan turned Hitler's protege, Shmidt became the masked Nazi terrorist Red Skull and Captain America's chief foe. Left in suspended animation under a Berlin bunker in 1945, he returned in the modern era chasing the Cosmic Cube and world domination. Revived again and again through Zola's cloning and mind transfers, he worked from the shadows as Dell Rusk and through Aleksander Lukin. Doctor Doom finally killed him in Latveria.
Captain America (1990)
Italian boy kidnapped in 1936 by Mussolini's Blackshirts and made into an experimental super-soldier at Fortezza Lorenzo. Brainwashed and disfigured, he becomes the Red Skull and fights Captain America in 1943, surviving by cutting off his own hand. Decades later he builds a criminal empire and plots to take over the US presidency in 1993 before Captain America ends him.
Timeline 26 events
- Golden · Comics: The Red Skull sends an impostor to Camp Lehigh and then comes in person to murder soldiers there, clashing with Captain America and Bucky.
- Silver · Comics: Hitler takes the young Shmidt under his wing, trains him personally, and gives him the red skull mask and the name Red Skull.
- Silver · Comics: Cornered in a Berlin bunker in 1945, the Skull is buried by a bomb and survives in suspended animation for decades.
- Silver · Comics: Found and revived by the HYDRA council THEM, the Skull steals the Cosmic Cube from A.I.M. and fights Captain America again.
- Bronze · Comics: The Skull's body ages rapidly, and he dies of old age after a final duel with an aged Captain America.
- Modern · Comics: Arnim Zola moves the Skull's mind into a clone of Steve Rogers, and the Skull begins undermining the United States covertly.
- Modern · Comics: A Cosmic Cube holding the Hate-Monger's mind destabilizes during the Kubekult affair and destroys the Skull.
- Modern · Comics: After escaping a nightmarish dimension, the Skull holds limited reality-warping power until Korvac takes it and sends him back to Earth.
- Modern · Comics: A story set in 1944 sends the Skull to the Dark Dimension with the Eye of Agamotto, where Dormammu banishes him back to Earth after he fails.
- Modern · Comics: As Defense Secretary Dell Rusk, the Skull tests a biological weapon at Mount Rushmore before the Avengers expose him.
- Modern · Comics: The Winter Soldier shoots the Skull on Aleksander Lukin's orders, and the Skull's consciousness lodges in Lukin's body.
- Modern · Comics: The Skull's agents shoot Captain America outside a New York courthouse, using Crossbones and a conditioned Sharon Carter.
- Modern · Comics: In Latveria, with Zola and Doctor Doom's equipment, the Skull takes over Steve Rogers' body before Rogers breaks free and the Skull is destroyed.
- Modern · Comics: A tale set in 1943 shows the Skull using the Cosmic Cube to rule a Nazi-dominated world until time-displaced heroes and Paul Anselm undo it.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Hiding in Latveria after his resurrection, the Skull fights the Thunderbolts and is killed by Doctor Doom.
- 1934 · Cinematic: Schmidt murders his rival Ernst Kaufmann during the Night of the Long Knives and takes over his weapons program.
- 1935 · Cinematic: Learning that Abraham Erskine tried to flee Germany, Schmidt imprisons Erskine's family in a concentration camp.
- 1936 · Captain America (1990): Blackshirts kidnap young Tadzio from Porto Venere, kill his parents and take him to the secret base Fortezza Lorenzo.
- 1940 · Cinematic: Schmidt seizes Erskine's unstable serum, injects himself at Castle Kaufmann, and is left with the red deformed face that earns him the name Red Skull.
- 1942 · Cinematic: Hydra invades Tonsberg, Norway, where Schmidt finds the Tesseract hidden in a church and destroys the village.
- 1943 · Cinematic: Captain America raids Hydra Base Camp C3, frees the prisoners, and fights Schmidt, who escapes by plane.
- 1943 · Captain America (1990): The brainwashed Red Skull leads a missile plot against the White House and overpowers Captain America before losing his hand.
- 1944 · Cinematic: Schmidt studies a Viking Runestone on a Danish island castle until Captain America and the Howling Commandos invade, and he has Zola build Tesseract weapons.
- 1945 · Cinematic: During the attack on Hydra headquarters, Schmidt flies the Valkyrie bomber, touches the Tesseract in his fight with Captain America, and is sent through a wormhole to Vormir.
- 1993 · Captain America (1990): Red Skull plans to swap bodies with the new US President Kimball, and sends his daughter Valentina to kill the awakened Captain America.
- 2018 · Cinematic: On Vormir, Red Skull greets Thanos and Gamora and explains the Soul Stone's price; Thanos sacrifices Gamora and the curse on Red Skull ends.
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Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Captain America), Winter Soldier, Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Hope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne, Peggy Carter, Nick Fury, Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), Kingpin, T'Challa, Dormammu, Doctor Doom, Sharon Cooperman, Tom Kimball, Howard Stark, Sharon Carter, T'Chaka, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Warlock, Dum Dum Dugan, Sam Kolawetz, Maria Vaselli
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Arnim Zola, Thanos, Wolfgang von Strucker, Crossbones, Erik Selvig, Helmut Zemo, Valentina de Santis
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