Red Skull led them to it and disappeared after Thanos sacrificed Gamora as he claimed his prize. As Thanos had obtained the stone, Red Skull's curse was broken, and he was free to leave Vormir and pursue his own goals once more. In an alternate timeline created by the Avengers , Black Widow and Hawkeye had both traveled from to in order to take the Soul Stone from Vormir. Red Skull witnessed Black Widow sacrifice herself to obtain the Stone for Hawkeye, only for Captain America to then return it following their successful mission, which trapped that version of Red Skull on Vormir.
Johann Schmidt was born in North Germany an only child. Schmidt was an intelligent young boy who had eventually became a physicist. Over the years, Schmidt became interested in Norse mythology, developing a theory that Norse Gods and their " magic " could be more than myth.
However, Schmidt's rise in power with Nazi Germany was stalled by Ernst Kaufmann , who then attempted to block Schmidt's access to Hitler. Unwilling to allow his new position to be challenged, in June , as part of their Night of the Long Knives , Schmidt had then murdered Kaufmann as he managed to seize control over his weapons program.
With Ernst Kaufmann dead, Schmidt continued slaughtering his enemies, attacking the facility in Kummersdorf , where he had recruited Arnim Zola. Wanting access to Erskine's work on the superior man, Schmidt imprisoned his family in a concentration camp, where they eventually died, which Schmidt did not tell Erskine. As the war continued, Schmidt had actively participated in several German conquests, earning several high military decorations, including the Panzer Badge and the Iron Cross First Class , and Schmidt may have also suffered a wound during combat to merit him the Wound Badge which he would wear on his own SS uniform.
Schmidt questions Abraham Erskine. In , Schmidt had learned that, at long last, the first, unstable version of Abraham Erskine 's Super Soldier Serum was now finished, which Schmidt had desired for himself.
However, despite Schmidt's orders and even the threat of execution, Erskine refused to hand it over to Schmidt. In the end, Schmidt took the Super Soldier Serum by force and had Erskine imprisoned before ordering that Erskine's own wife and child ren were sent into a concentration camp.
Having regained Erskine's serum as he had intended, Schmidt then traveled onto Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps , where Schmidt had injected himself with the serum in order to get superpowers.
The serum was supposed to make him faster, stronger, and more agile, and Schmidt soon felt all the effects running through his body, as his muscles grew and his mind became clearer, as Schmidt finally became the superior man as he had always intended. However, the process also came with some painful side effects and rendered Schmidt with a red and horrifically deformed face.
Though he adopted a synthetic mask that resembled his former appearance to disguise the deformity, he became known as "Red Skull". However, Schmidt saw his new post more as an exile than as a reward. He continued his research into the occult and developed a sense that HYDRA had become superior to the Nazis and sought to find a weapon that would overthrow Hitler. Schmidt begins hunting down the Tesseract. Schmidt shared in Adolf Hitler 's passion for occult power, although Schmidt's belief in it proved stronger than Hitler's as his obsession with understanding his powers grew.
Researching in history to find the greatest weapon ever known to mankind, Schmidt learned of the Tesseract , which was lost on Earth having been held in Odin's Vault. Believing it not to be a myth, Schmidt began searching for it, knowing it would give him the power to defeat both Hitler and the Allies. Schmidt stands over the brave Church Keeper. As they were entering a church with his army led by their Uber Tanks , Schmidt had ordered his men to demolish the door of an ancient church where the Tesseract supposedly was, killing Jan in the process as Schmidt had arrived in his car to investigate the potential site of the Tesseract.
Schmidt threatens the Church Keeper 's family. As he had entered the church, Schmidt found his soldiers attempting to open an ancient tomb under the orders from the Lieutenant , while the Church Keeper was being held at gun point on the ground.
As he entered, Schmidt addressed the Church Keeper, commenting on how it had taken him a long time to find this church. However, the Church Keeper still bravely refused to submit to them, despite witnessing the death of Jan, insisting that the Tesseract was simply a legend. Schmidt takes hold of the duplicate Tesseract. When his soldiers attempted to find it for him, Schmidt, after seeing that his soldiers were unable to move the marble coffin's heavy lid off, then proceeded to shove the lid effortlessly using all the strength he had gained from Abraham Erskine 's Super Soldier Serum.
Once the coffin was opened, Schmidt had then found what appeared to be the Tesseract, which was taken from the bones of an ancient soldier. However, Schmidt had deduced this to be a fake and instead calmly smashed the glass cube on the ground without a second thought. Schmidt being told where to find the Tesseract. Schmidt noted that while it had been kept on Asgard , the Tesseract was the jewel of Odin's Vault and was not the sort of item that would be buried inside of a grave, although he remained convinced that the true Tesseract was undoubtedly close to their location, as he began questioning the Church Keeper over this.
Unwilling to leave without his prize, Schmidt threatened the Church Keeper with obliterating the village and then potentially killing the church keeper's entire family. Schmidt finally locates the actual Tesseract. Fearful of the innocent lives that would be lost if he did not submit to HYDRA, the church keeper had finally relented and indicated to the wall behind them.
Looking at this wall, Schmidt commented on how it depicted Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms , before finding a button in the eye on the snake, granting him access to a hidden box.
Opening up the box carefully, Schmidt had been amazed to find the Tesseract inside, much to the complete and utter horror of the church keeper. Schmidt shoots and kills the Church Keeper. Looking at the Tesseract, Schmidt asked the church keeper if he had ever seen it, which he denied. Ignoring all the Keeper's warnings that the Tesseract was not for the eyes of ordinary men, Schmidt was told that he would burn if he had tried to use it.
Recalling using the Super Soldier Serum, Schmidt told the man that he already had burned and shot and killed the church keeper before he gave an order to destroy the entire village as he walked away with his greatest weapon. Schmidt harnesses all the Tesseract 's power. As they prepared to begin the test to test to see if all its power could be harnessed and stored inside the Tesseract Cradle , Zola had hesitated due to fear of losing control since he was still uncertain of how exactly much power the Tesseract had truly held, due to his limited knowledge of the device, and if his machines would be able to handle it without overloading.
Schmidt and Arnim Zola begin the experiment. As the experiment began, Zola's uncertainty led to him carefully raising the pressure by a small percentage, eventually stabilizing the device at just seventy percent. Schmidt, however, then insisted that he had not come all that way to be cautious and pushed Zola out of the way of the control panel. Schmidt and Arnim Zola realize their success. Ignoring all of Zola's warnings, Schmidt then proceeded to overload the machine, causing it to break due to all the Tesseract's incredible power.
Schmidt and Zola watched as the entire room was filled with a strange light as the machine crashed. Although they had believed that the machine broke down due to the high amount of energy, they had then discovered the Tesseract Battery had actually succeeded in capturing just a small dose of the Tesseract's true power inside it. Schmidt sees how to contain Tesseract energy.
Zola then realized that just the very small amount of energy they had captured could power the entire facility and help them build weapons powerful enough to change World War II , allowing the Nazis to defeat the United States of America and claim victory.
Seeing this, however, Schmidt had other ideas. Schmidt discussing locating Abraham Erskine. Schmidt, having discovered Abraham Erskine 's location, dispatched his assassin to kill him, informing Arnim Zola of this as Schmidt was in the middle of being painted while unmasked. In America, Erskine then subjected Steve Rogers to the Project Rebirth , transforming him into an incredibly powerful soldier, but Heinz Kruger , Schmidt's assassin, managed to successfully assassinate Erskine and destroy all of the Allies' supply of the serum before committing suicide.
Schmidt meets with Adolf Hitler 's emissaries. When SS officers came to Schmidt's base under Adolf Hitler 's orders to question him about the progress in developing advanced weapons for the Third Reich, Schmidt then personally showed them around his headquarters. While they explored the facility, Schmidt had listened as Schneider noted Hitler's displeasure with his actions, noting that he had been given the facility as a reward for Schmidt's injuries from taking the Super Soldier Serum , although Schmidt called it exile.
Schmidt deciding to murder Adolf Hitler 's men. Upon being insulted by these Nazi Officers, Schmidt made his decision to kill them all and cut all ties with their Nazi Party. Taking a breath, Schmidt then invited the group into another room, promising that he would show them exactly what he had been working on. Bringing them into another room in the facility, Schmidt complained to the officers of how Hitler was talking of the thousand years Reich but was failing to deliver or even protect his own men, commenting on how his men died across Europe and yet Hitler was no closer to winning World War II.
As Schmidt set up his equipment, Roeder had mocked him by suggesting Schmidt's plans were to win the war with his Magic , although Schmidt insisted it would be through science. While he began to activate his Tesseract -powered weapons, Schmidt had explained how HYDRA was building an arsenal of weapons that would be capable of destroying all his enemies in a matter of hours, although Roeder had then questioned why Schmidt referred to these as only his enemies. As Schmidt then insisted that he had harnessed the power of Asgard , Schneider had called him a madman.
Schmidt brutally murdering Adolf Hitler 's men. Reacting in horror at Hutter's demise, Schneider and Roeder tried to flee, as Schmidt then began firing blasts of the Tesseract's energy at them.
Although Schneider tried to avoid some shots, Schmidt then succeeded in vaporizing him, before turning his attention to his final target. Finding him desperately attempting to get through the doors, Schmidt took personal pleasure as Roeder screamed in terror during his final seconds before being completely vaporized into nothing. Arnim Zola was horrified by what he had seen, but still remained loyal to Schmidt and gave a salute. Schmidt smiled upon seeing his men's unwavering loyalty to him before then calmly walking away to continue in his quest to take complete control of the entire world.
Schmidt and Arnim Zola discuss their work. With HYDRA having finally become fully self-funded, Schmidt had then explored his Weapons Facility within Austria , where the prisoners of war were still being forced to construct the new weapons that were powered by the Tesseract. Walking through their facility, Schmidt was then informed by Arnim Zola that everything, including the production of the Valkyrie was currently proceeding on schedule. Despite all of the progress being made by their slave workers being high, Schmidt had then ordered that they increase their workload by an exceptional amount.
Although Zola gave his warnings that such an increased workload would likely kill all the men who were already pushed up to the point of complete exhaustion, Schmidt had made it clear that he was not concerned for their wellbeing, noting that if the men died, they could still get more workers to take their place.
Schmidt witnesses Captain America 's attack. In November , Schmidt's Weapons Facility in Austria had been suddenly invaded by Captain America , who had gone there on a one man mission to free his friend, Bucky Barnes , and the other P. As their riot broke out, Schmidt watched the carnage on his monitor as all the prisoners were freed and attacked Schmidt's forces. Schmidt and Arnim Zola deciding to retreat. The problem is that they should have caught him much earlier: Dell Rusk is an anagram for Red Skull!
Who got him the job, Comoro Todd? A purple faced, gauntlet-wearing guy named Ashton? Did the audience learn it through a metallic Montage?
Heroes and villains have their iconic weapons. For Captain America, it's his red, white and blue shield. When it comes to Wolverine, it's his unbreakable Adamantium claws. For Doctor Doom, it's his suit of armor.
Although Red Skull is associated with wearing a red skull mask which later became his actual, hideous face , he also used a weapon called the Dust of Death. When a victim comes in contact with the Dust of Death, their skin shrivels and turns red within seconds, making them look like a version of the Red Skull. He would either fire it from a gun or hide in in an innocuous item like a phone receiver. At one point the Red Skull's mind was placed in a clone of Steve Rogers.
While fighting Captain America, he tried to attack him with the Dust of Death, which Skull had cleverly placed in a cigarette that was in his mouth. Quick reflexes resulted in the Dust backfiring and hitting Skull in the face. Although it didn't kill him, it permanently gave him the visage of the former red mask he used to wear. The Red Skull saw his demise during a battle with Captain America but was resurrected by Arnim Zola who placed his brain into the cloned body of Steve Rogers.
Realizing that his Nazi ideology from the s was antiquated and limiting, Schmidt changed his approach on how to destroy America. It wasn't going to be with a Nazi army or with giant robots programmed to destroy America; he was going to do it with money and political influence. Skull now operated under the name John Smith why isn't he more creative with aliases? In a very savvy act, Schmidt financed a right-wing militia group called the Watchdogs, who, through violent means, enforce ultra-conservative American values.
It was genius of the Red Skull to support a pro-American group that was so extreme it actually served to undermine American values and stability. Given the opportunity, Steve Rogers would not kill the Red Skull, even as they fought to the death as old men.
Skull was able to influence the American government to fire Rogers and have the man that took the mantle of Captain America revealed to be a violent psychopath. To further undermine Captain America, Skull was even able to rewrite his origins. The Red Skull was able to infiltrate a S.
The Cube was now sentient and went by the name Kobik. Clearly that was not a part of the Red Skull's master plan!
When you think about the origins of superhero characters, a lot of them are quite random and accidental. Peter Parker being bitten by a radioactive spider could be due to the dumb luck of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
If Bruce Banner was just a little bit faster, he could have not only saved Rick Jones's life he could also have avoided getting struck by the massive dose of radiation that came from the gamma bomb that detonated and turned the scientist into the Hulk. As villainous and evil as Johann Schmidt may be, the very creation of the Red Skull was an act of randomness. Johan Schmidt ran away at a young age from his depressing orphanage and lived life on the streets as a thief.
Eventually he would get a job as a bellhop at a local German hotel. As luck would have it, Hitler was visiting the hotel and was yelling at his officers for letting a prisoner escape. Hitler thought they were incompetent and said that the bellhop would make for a better soldier.
That bellhop? Johann Schmidt. Hitler decided to be a man of his word and drafted Schmidt into the Nazi party, training him to eventually become the Red Skull. Before you read, you should know that this entry has spoilers to Avengers: Infinity War , so don't say we didn't warn you! In the battle, the Red Skull physically touched the Tesseract. A portal to space opened above him and he was painfully whisked away to parts unknown. It was generally assumed that Skull was killed and never to be heard from again.
Here's the spoiler: Red Skull makes a shocking appearance in Avengers: Infinity War on the planet Vormir, serving as the stone-keeper for the Soul Stone! As it turns out, touching the Tesseract didn't destroy him, it transported him to Vormir, where he turned into a spirit-like creature that instructs those that have found the Soul Stone how to obtain it.
It is Schmidt who tells Thanos that he must sacrifice something he loves if he wants to walk away with the Soul Stone. With a tear in his eyes, Thanos takes Gamora and throws her off the nearby cliff. Her sacrifice enables Thanos to walk away with the Infinity Stone.
Now that the Red Skull no longer needs to be there to guard the Soul Stone, does that mean he's truly dead? Perhaps he'll return in Avengers 4? The Red Skull has used a variety of weapons over the years to threaten Captain America. For example, Skull helped create Sleepers, robots that were over six feet tall, weighed half a ton, and kind of looked like Man-E-Faces from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
The Red Skull also infamously wielded on several occasions a Cosmic Cube, a device of immense power that can warp reality. Skull used it recently to re-write the very origins of Captain America to make him an agent of Hydra. However, Skull used perhaps his most unorthodox weapon in the pages of Uncanny Avengers. Red Skull unearthed the body of Professor X and removed his brain to use as a weapon. He fused Xavier's brain with his own and gained significant mental powers, enough to cause the citizens of New York to go mad and attack each other.
An attack on Red Skull by Magneto doesn't kill Johann Schmidt, but instead transforms him into Red Onslaught, whose name and appearance is reminiscent of Onslaught, a creature of psionic energy that was born from the consciousnesses of Professor X and Magneto. This isn't the first time Red Skull worked with brains; at one point Skull tried to transplant the brain of Adolf Hitler into Captain America! Sometimes to truly understand villainy you need to understand its origins.
Are people born evil or are there events that trigger some to think that they are above the law as well as morality? When you look at a complex character like Erik Lehnsherr who watched his parents killed in a World War II concentration camp, you understand how he grew to hate non-mutants and become the X-Men villain Magneto. What about the Red Skull? Did something happen with the Red Skull during his childhood to make him one of the most hated people to ever appear in comics? Hermann and Martha Schmidt had a son named Johann, but during the birth Martha died.
He also has a daughter in later versions of the comic named Sin Sinthea Shmidt who also takes on the identity of Red Skull due to her being Scarred like him. After his introduction, he uses the Tesseract to summon a monster from the multiverse which has immense power and slimy tentacles. Fans are speculating that the monster is the same one from the Dr Strange comics called Shuma-Gorath.
While it was Red Skull that summoned the monster, it ends up devouring him and going back to its dimension, so both of their appearances are short-lived…for now. Skip to content. Has Margot Robbie deactivated her Instagram? Twitter speculates why Suicide Squad star left the app!
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