Red Skull

"What a country you have build, here am I, a war-criminal, eating better than most American workers; is that what you call the American dream?"
The Red Skull is an alias used by several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and its predecessor Timely Comics. The first version, George Maxon, appeared in Captain America Comics #1 and #4. The main incarnation of the character, Johann Shmidt, was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Captain America Comics #7 in October 1941. Originally portrayed as a Nazi agent and protégé of Adolf Hitler during World War II, the Red Skull has endured as the archenemy of the superhero Captain America. Initially wearing a fearsome blood-red death skull mask that symbolizes carnage and chaos to intimidate, decades after the war he suffers a horrific disfigurement that matches his persona.
The Red Skull was ranked number 21 on Wizard magazine's top 100 greatest villains ever list and ranked as IGN's 14th-greatest comic book villain of all time. The character has been adapted to a variety of other media platforms, including animated television series, video games and live-action feature films. He was portrayed by actor Scott Paulin in the 1990 direct-to-video film Captain America. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hugo Weaving played the character in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and Ross Marquand voiced the character in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) as well as an alternate version in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021).
=====- The Red Skull=====
=====Johann Schmidt, more notoriously known as 'The Red Skull' was a terrorist and Nazi war criminal as  SS Obengruppenfürher,  secret agent and independent terrorist, being one of the most feared of all Nazi agents, know for his vicious and ruthless determination and inhumanity. He was the only agent of the Third Reich to be injected with a secret formula to enhance human potential, making him one of only two superhumans, but as well horrifically disfiguring his face into a grotesque red skull, leading to the creation of his feared codename.=====
=====The other being his sworn archenemy Steve Rogers, codenamed; Captain America, with whom he engaged in a bitter titan battle for many decades.=====
After the war, he was recovered and allied himself with the terrorist organization: HYDRA. The Skull became its leader, engaging in terror on world scale, the construction of weaponry and toxins and other activities that threaten world peace.
==Early life==
=====Johann Bernd Schmidt was born in poverty in German Bavaria around 1906. He was raised by a heavily abusive and mentally unstable father. Johann showed sings of sociopathy from early age.=====
Category:Villains