Baron Zemo (Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)

Sending his Masters of Evil to die and risking Surtur destroying the universe to save himself from the Enchantress

### Type of ED

Sociopathic Opportunist

**Baron Zemo** was one of the original leaders of the terrorist organization HYDRA and the leader of the Masters of Evil. He is one of the arch-enemies of Captain America (alongside Red Skull) and a major antagonist in *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*.

He was voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Despite being a mere human with no superpowers other than enhanced speed, strength, and longevity, Zemo is shown to be fearless in battle and has been able to take on more powerful characters such as the Abomination and the Enchantress (although he needed a Norn stone and help from the Avengers), even controlling the latter for a short time.
	+ To highlight how skilled he is in battle, he took down Grim Reaper (another skilled fighter) in less than a few seconds.
* He's shown to be a highly intelligent mastermind as he sent Arnim Zola's doughboy to distract most of the Avengers so he could fight Captain America alone, and he never trusted the Enchantress, knowing that she would betray him, and waits for the right time to put a control collar on her neck.
* He's very clever as he was the first to notice something suspicious after Captain America was replaced by a Skrull.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He used chemicals in World War II, planning on unleashing Virus X upon the allies, which based on his own reaction to the virus, would have been horrific.
* He's extremely petty as he wants to destroy Captain America for himself getting infected with his own virus (which was his own fault). His revenge is so important to him even 70 years after the war ended.
* He tells Thor, an Asgardian god, to kneel before his master, showing that he has a god complex.
* He betrays the Enchantress by putting a control collar on her while she's summoning the Asgardian army to Earth, forcing her to have the army under his control.
* When the Enchantress pursues him after his betrayal, he sends his teammates Arnim Zola and Crimson Dynamo to die for him and later uses the final Norn stone connected to Muspelheim (something even Loki never dared to do) to protect himself from the Enchantress's magic, risking Surtur destroying the universe just to save himself.
	+ This made him indirectly responsible for everything involving Surtur afterwards including the destruction of the realms Nidavellir and Korbin as his use of the Norn stone allowed Surtur to break free from his imprisonment in Muspelheim.
* He will take any opportunity to destroy Captain America and the Avengers, as shown when he orders his team to attack them after promising surrender. To highlight how dangerous and dishonorable he is, Captain America wouldn't allow him out of his prison cell to help defend Prison 42 against Annihilus, knowing fully well that Zemo would take advantage of this as another opportunity to kill him.

## External Links

* Baron Zemo on the Villains Wiki
* Baron Zemo on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Baron Zemo on the *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes* Wiki

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