Arnim Zola

* Android
* Human
* Robot
* Spider-Man

**Arnim Zola** is one of the secondary antagonists (along with Kraven the Hunter, Rhino, and Taskmaster) of *Ultimate Spider-Man* and a recurring antagonist in *Avengers Assemble*.

In *Ultimate Spider-Man*, he is the main antagonist of the *S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy* arc in Season 3: *Web-Warriors* and one of the secondary antagonists (along with Kraven the Hunter, Rhino and Hydro-Man) of the *Hydra Attacks/The New Sinister Six* arcs and the tertiary antagonist of *The Spider Slayers* arc in Season 4: *vs The Sinister 6*. In *Avengers Assemble*, he is one of the secondary antagonists (along with Kang the Conqueror, The Executioner, and The Enchantress) of the *All-New All-Different Avengers* arc in Season 4: *Secret Wars*.

He is a Swiss scientist who uploaded his mind into a machine body and an enemy of Captain America and Whizzer following World War II. He was a member of the second incarnation of the Cabal.

In the present day, Zola was a high ranking leader of Hydra but was arrested on the Triskelion and fell into a long hibernation, until he was intentionally and unknowingly awakened by Spider-Man and Iron Spider and later briefly hacks Iron Spider's armor. After that, he tricks Iron Spider into aiding Zola reassembling his body back together, allowing him to flee to the underground laboratory of the Triskelion, where he builds his Synthezoid army and uses them against Spider-Man, Iron Spider, Agent Venom and Power Man. However, with the arrival of Whizzer, they manage to defeat Zola and destroy his laboratory. After that, he replaces staff and students at the S.H.I.E.LD. Academy with his synthezoids until only Spider-Man, Agent Venom, Cloak and Rhino were left. When the synthezoids are on the verge of defeat, Zola fires missiles from the Tri-Carrier to destroy it. On the Tri-Carrier, Zola and his army take all the heroes down apart from Spider-Man who he attempted to switch bodies with while also taking the other heroes' powers, causing Spider-Man to wear the Iron Spider armor and imprisoned Zola in a deactivated television. After being freed from his state, he allies with Doctor Octopus and they hack the Tri-Carrier, turning it into HYDRA Island with their HYDRA army, who they enhanced with the Goblin serum. However, with help from his allies, Spider-Man launches HYDRA Island to the planet of Saturn with Zola still on it. Refusing defeat, Zola takes HYDRA Island back to Earth, but he and Doc Ock failed to extract the Venom symbiote from Agent Venom. In a confrontation with Spider-Man, he was defeated when his body was stabbed by Scarlet Spider. Zola then has Michael Morbius aid him and Doc Ock in creating the Anti-Venom symbiote. However, during the Sinister Seven's attack on the Triskelion, Doc Ock betrays Zola for his mistreatment and transforms HYDRA Island into Octopus Island, switching Zola's body off. Zola's body is still on Octopus Island when Scarlet Spider crashes it into the sea. Crossbones then took over leadership where they tried to capture Madame Web as Zola wanted after taking of the Tri-Carrier and having Morbius and Doc Ock recreate the Carnage symbiote on Zola's orders. Later, Doc Ock, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman discover an old Hydra base where Zola had hired Doc Ock to create the Spider Slayers and Kaine and steal Doc Ock's nanotech research and where Scarlet Spider's origin is held. After stealing his nanotech back, Doc Ock reactivates Zola and escapes. Zola then returns to the surface and attempts to destroy Spider-Man by brainwashing Scarlet Spider into helping him. However, Spider-Man, alongside the Web-Warriors and Spider-Woman, battle Zola long enough for Scarlet Spider to restore himself to normal and alongside his allies and the Spider Slayers, to destroy Zola's system and defeat him, although the Spider Slayers sacrifice themselves in the process. He is then supposedly destroyed once and for all when his final life form, Spider-Man's watch is thrown into the ocean.

Despite this, Zola cleverly finds a way to survive and eventually finds himself working under Loki Laufeyson, who instructs him, Amora the Enchantress, Kang the Conqueror and Skurge the Executioner to form the Cabal, and install the Leader as their fake leader until the time is right. When Black Panther attacked them and stole their vibranium storage, he defeated and wounded Zola, but the villain returned to banish the Avengers across space and time, aided by the Cabal, before betraying and leaving Leader to his fate against the New Avengers. Zola went to an alternate dimension, Dimension Z, and ruled it with brainwashed operatives and his Doughboys army with Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye imprisoned in his dimension. Eventually, Ant-Man arrives to save them and shoots an electrical fire blast which shatters Zola, but he possesses Captain America's body. In the powerful captain's body, he proves to be more than a match for the Avengers until Ant-Man gets inside his chest and disconnects him from the captain, sending him back to his body. He then defeats and prepares to kill Captain America when Ant-Man once again infiltrates Zola's body and badly damages his core, causing Zola to explode out of existence once and for all.

## Powers, Skills, and Abilities

### Powers

* **Cybernetic Transformation:** Zola's most noticeable feat was performed upon himself. He constructed a specially-modified robot body which lacks a head. Instead, Zola's face is located via holographic projection on his chest.
* **Advanced Strength:** His robotic body has superhuman levels of strength, being able to cripple Nick Fury just by tossing him.
* **Magnetism:** He was able to charge Iron Spider's armor with magnetic energy.
* **Techno-Mind Transferal:** Whenever his body is damaged or utterly destroyed, Arnim is able to send his personality to another piece of technology elsewhere, thus giving himself a form of immortality. This was seen when nothing else was left, Zola's mind went into an old TV Set.
* **Mind Control**
* **Mind Ray**

### Skills, and Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Arnim Zola has no natural superpowers, but he is a scientific genius and biochemist specializing in genetics and cloning. He is not only capable of creating exact clone copies of his "clients".

## Paraphernalia

**Equipment**

* **Arnim Zola's Robotic Body**
* **ESP Box**

**Transportation**

**Weapons**

* **Laser Cannons**
* **Flamethrower**

## Appearances

### Ultimate Spider-Man

**Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite Comic*** Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite Comic #27
* Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite Comic #28
* Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite Comic #29

**Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6*** Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6 #1
* Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6 #2
* Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6 #7
* Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6 #11 (cameo)