Champion of HYDRA

The Champion of HYDRA was an inter-dimensional octopus-like creature that emerged from a portal created by the Tesseract during the Attack on Castle de Krake.
==Biography==
===Summoned by HYDRA===
The creature was discovered by Johann Schmidt who after separating HYDRA from the Third Reich proclaimed it as HYDRA's Champion and planned on using it to control, and if so destroy the world. Schmidt latter used the Tesseract from the HYDRA Stomper to summon the Champion. Just as Captain Carter, Howard Stark, Howling Commandos, and Steve Rogers confronted Schmidt, he used the Tesseract to bring the Champion to his castle. As Red Skull praised HYDRA's Champion, it turned on Schmidt crushing him to death with its tentacles to the horror of everyone. As the Champion tried to climb out of the portal Captain Carter kept slicing it with a sword she found, while the HYDRA Stomper and the Howling Commandos shot at it, and Stark tried to close the portal on it.
However, the Champion managed to keep the portal open and got its mouth through, briefly paralyzing the Commandos, causing Rogers to get them out. Carter realized she had to force it back in order for the portal to close at the cost of her being stuck with it and so she used her shield to force the Champion into the portal with her, allowing Stark to close the portal while Carter continued to fight off the Champion in its home. Due to the nature of the Champion's home, to which the time Carter had fought the creature off, the Tesseract opened up another wormhole in the year 2011 with parts of the Champion's tentacles lying at Nick Fury's and Clint Barton's feet.
==Powers==
*Superhuman Strength: To be added
*Superhuman Durability: To be added
*Superhuman Stamina: To be added
*Regenerative Healing Factor: To be added
*Tentacle Manipulation: To be added
==Relationships==
===Enemies===
*HYDRA
**Johann Schmidt/Red Skull † - Victim
*Strategic Scientific Reserve
**Peggy Carter/Captain Carter - Attempted Victim and Killer
**Howard Stark - Attempted Victim
**Steve Rogers/HYDRA Stomper - Attempted Victim
**Howling Commandos
***Bucky Barnes
***Dum Dum Dugan
***Jim Morita
***James Montgomery Falsworth
***Gabe Jones
***Jacques Dernier
==Trivia==
*The Champion of HYDRA bears many resemblances to Hive, both in physical appearance, and their story role. Hive is a tentacled being indirectly responsible for the formation of HYDRA, who sought to return Hive to Earth after he was banished to Maveth. Hive was successfully brought through a portal by HYDRA in the third season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
*In an interview, character designer Ryan Meinerding said director Bryan Andrews was inspired by 's and asked for a similar character to appear in What If...?.What If...? Character Designer on If Monster Is Shuma-Gorath
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:What If...? Characters
Category:Unknown Race
Category:Villains
Category:Deceased Characters
Category:Characters Killed by Captain Carter/Super Soldier Peggy Carter