[44], Baron Zemo recruited the Iron-Handed Jurgen Hauptmann of Red Skull's Exiles, as well as a new female Beetle and Fixer to expose Bucky's sins to the world. Zemo fought both Captain America and his allies the Howling Commandos during World War II. Joined by several of his former colleagues, Zemo adopted his old costume identity of Citizen V and revealed a new incarnation of the Thunderbolts during a press conference led by Fisk, where he said that he and his team will end the Punisher's reign of terror on New York and restore order to the city. Heinrich had a son, a gifted and brilliant boy named Helmut Zemo, who would take his father’s place and become one of the most dangerous and well known villains in the entire Marvel cannon. Character » When his elderly father Heinrich died in battle with a revived Captain America years after World War II, Helmut Zemo sought revenge. The teams worked together to stop her, and it ended with Moonstone comatose and Zemo disappearing to an uncertain fate as he stopped the amok moonstones that had empowered her. But comic books didn’t just tell stories about impossible men and women with amazing powers and flashy costumes, they told stories about the actual men and women in uniform as well, and a lot of them weren’t so happy and carefree with their subject matter. He took over the leadership of the Masters of Evil and becoming one of the leading me…

The siege climaxes in hand-to-hand combat between Captain America and Zemo, which ends when Cap reveals to Zemo that his father's death was his own fault.

Zemo kept to the shadows for a while, watching events unfold while making his own plans. Before he died in his former pupil's arms, Trick Shot warns Hawkeye of the threat he will soon face. Before he died in his former pupil's arms, Trick Shot warned Hawkeye of the threat he would face. (Disney+ Original Series), Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 3.

After years of plotting his revenge against Hawkeye (for his role in the Thunderbolts), Baron Zemo's plans begin to take shape. Fury and his squad did not shy away from dealing with some pretty complex themes. He raised his father only to learn that his father was nothing but disappointed in him. They parted ways with Zemo barely surviving a psychic assault by Mother Night. Baron Zemo and his family are too tied into Marvel History and Captain America to make an easy transition to the D.C. Universe, although the original Masters of Evil might have fought the earlier incarnations of the JSA, while those led by Helmut Zemo faced off against their children and students, both in Infinity Inc. and in the current JSA comic. [21] Under his direction, the Masters of Evil succeeded in taking over the mansion headquarters for Captain America's super-team, the Avengers, in the Avengers' most serious defeat. Skills: After showing "Jim" a video tape that revealed Pleasant Hill's true nature as a prison, this mysterious man revealed to "Jim" that he had subconsciously created a device that could revert them back to their true selves. Sam and Ian rescued him and then, running away from Hydra agents, they were teleported by an elevator to Zemo's main basement in Bagalia. [9], Heinrich then formed the original Masters of Evil to serve as a villainous counterpart to the Avengers; the other founding members included the villainous Black Knight, the Melter, and the Radioactive Man who were gathered by his pilot. Helmut Zemo was created by Roy Thomas, Tony Isabella and Sal Buscema and first appeared as Phoenix in Captain America #168. During World War I, Zemo met his grandfather Herman Zemo and witnessed him utilizing chemical warfare against British forces led by Union Jack. Issue #51 was called The Assassin and told the tragic story of a man who was forced to become an assassin when the Gestapo held his family hostage. any Comic Vine content.

Current Connections to Underworld (High), Thunderbolts, Redeemers, V-Battalion. His Physical Attributes in the body of John Watkins as well as in his new Counter-Earth body are the same as listed above (7/4/5). and Hydra by joining as one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s undercover agent by the name of Mark Gruler and joined as one of Hydra's highly-skilled assassins just so he could steal all the organization's information which started the Hydra Uprising and it's alleged downfall that also started the Nimrod Crisis, which he participated in, a prelude event during Ultimate War. In this Marvel Universe, Zemo is working in a group of Nazis lead by Baron von Strucker who are fighting Tony Stark in the 1930's.In the end it turns out that Baron Zemo is actually Howard Stark who has been brainwashed.

[35], Zemo was later targeted by the mysterious Scourge (in reality, Nomad working on behalf of a government agent, Henry Gyrich, when both were mind-controlled), who stalked Zemo in his headquarters and beheaded him. It wasn't long after this tragic incident that Helmut had found out the terrorist organization Hydra, who recently revealed its existence to S.H.I.E.L.D. But Volker hesitated and could not go through with it. After building a super-villain army in secrecy, Zemo launched a coordinated assault that spiraled Pleasant Hill into chaos, freeing the rest of the prisoners from Kobik's grasp. Dreadlord was previously Zymo of Z'axis, a general who fought in the Worldwar. With Rogers now rendered old and depowered thanks to the Iron Nail, Zemo has turned his sights to Sam Wilson, the new Captain America. Fixer returns Zemo back to normal, whom is furious for what S.H.I.E.L.D. He is very skilled in field tactics and even turning the tide of every debate that he is involved in into his favor.

Then he sends Jurgen to attack Bucky while he is in the hospital while Bucky was drugged by nanites that was slipped in his martini. Decades later, Helmutt uses the runes to release Loki from the Room With No Doors, setting the events of Ultimates 2 in motion. Harbin slew the entire horde and so impressed the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire that he was elevated to nobility and awarded Zeulniz. Because Hulk was blinded he panicked, swinging at everything; friend or otherwise. He traveled through several centuries. He is now living in the body of his (Zemo’s) counterpart from Counter-Earth. In this Marvel Universe,Baron Zemo's name is Dreadlord. He grew up as the son of a former Nazi whom had fought Captain America in World War II. He orchestrates an explosion that ends up injuring Falcon. In order to ensure that the Nazis could not use Adhesive X against Allied troops, Captain America confronted Zemo in an attempt to destroy the limited supply. He formed a rival group of former Thunderbolts to confront the main team and deal with the threat Photon (Genis-Vell) posed. [65], Unbeknownst to anyone, Kobik had been indoctrinated in secret by the Red Skull in the ways of Hydra while she was still in S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill and Steve Rogers. It wasn’t enough, and they turned against him. Zemo admitted he’d acted out of his indignity over how Bucky had been so quickly forgiven his sins, while Zemo’s reformation had met only suspicion no matter how many times he saved the world. [15] This version is revealed to be Howard Stark chemically brainwashed by a combination of zolpidem, ethanol, chloromethane, and "ophentonyl", the acronym forming the name. In the comics, the Zemo family were of German nobility, all of which were barons. He was then confronted by a new Citizen V, claiming to be the true heir to the title, as Zemo never was. Helmut followed in the footsteps of his father before him, becoming an enemy of Captain America and the Avengers. [73], Slowed Aging: Like his father, Zemo makes use of the Compound X serum to retain his youth and vitality, despite his considerable chronological age.[74]. You can search for

Helmut Zemo was born to greatness-and great darkness. When Hasbro took over the Marvel Legends line from Toy Biz, they released a Baron Zemo figure for the. Helmut felt that, with Bucky alive, his father's legacy had been ruined. Headquarters (Expansive), Intensive Training, Leadership, Language (European I), (Only as Citizen V, pre-Thunderbolts Secret Revelation) Popularity. This site uses a handful of cookies. Wendell asked the Baron why he saved him and the Baron told him that enough Zemo blood had already been spilled. [58], In Hydra's hidden base in Florida, with everything going according to his plan, Zemo celebrated his victory before actually having won. He is a skilled swordsman and hand-to-hand combatant. Zemo, however, was standing right next to the vat containing the chemical, which poured over his hooded face. He furiously sought revenge against S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, and especially the Avengers themselves after unfortunately losing his entire family after a group of small surviving fleet of Chitauri (at some point after the Chitauri Invasion) had somehow arrived through a Tesseract-summoned wormhole and raided a portion of their nation, destroying half of their buildings and other structures and taking too many lives for him and his surviving people to handle. He also makes use of various energy weapons and mind-control devices. Within the Marvel Comics Universe, Baron Zemo was an old enemy of Captain America and made his first appearance as a flashback in The Avengers #4 in 1964. While Zemo seems to be 'the ultimate villain', there is more depth to his character. When Helmut arrived in the present he was greeted by a distant cousin named Wendell Volker.

Rogers responded that he was very sorry about the loss of his family and some of his people, but that they shouldn't be blamed for their demise because they were doing the best they could to help the lives of the innocent, and finally explained that Helmut still has to pay the price for his ruinous acts for almost causing the Third World War. Men loyal to the barony murdered Elsbeth's family to keep them from becoming too powerful. Fury and the Howling Commandos first premiered in May 1963, making it a Silver Age comic book created at the height of Lee and Kirby’s creative partnership. Hademar was a weak man who had never seen battle, but who was all too eager to become the next baron. Helmut later returns to the present after Norman Osborn's defeat following his attack on Asgard. Baron Helmut Zemo, the second villain to take the name, made his first debut in Captain America #168 in 1973. Baron Zemo starts to target the Barnes and recruits Jurgen "Iron-Handed" Hauptmann (of Red Skull's Exiles) and Sin to help him. During this time, however, Captain America and the Avengers were believed dead after seemingly sacrificing themselves to the psychic menace known as Onslaught. That being said if I were to be nit picky about it I would say there are two slight critiques of the film. Fixer transferred Zemo's mind into his double's unmutilated body. Then it appeared that Baron Helmut Zemo saved the world by fighting an alien threat to the world. for not helping the ruined nation of Germany to rise again from the Chitauri Invasion, but was later defeated and imprisoned for indirectly causing all of the following wars to happen. The Zemo barony started in Zeulniz, Germany in 1480 when Harbin Zemo, the granary charge man and ministerialis of the town borrowed a suit of armor and stood alone against an invading horde of Slav raiders.