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The Red Skull, Johann Schmidt, former Nazi general officer and confidant of Adolf Hitler is one of Marvel's most frightening major villains, thus he deserves respect!

He's been Captain America's arch-nemesis since WWII, also and enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D, the Avengers, and the interests of U.S.A and of the free world in general. He has been seemingly killed several times in the past, but he always returns time and time again to plague the world with schemes of genocide and world domination.


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The Red Skull rarely involves himself in direct combat, he's more the mastermind, the evil hand pulling the strings from the shadows, having hordes of minions, LMD's, and plenty of financial and political power to back up his evil schemes.

However, if push came to shove, he's shown to be a very capable hand to hand fighter, cunning and brutal.


The Red Skull always kills his sparring partners

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Another training of the Red Skull

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Defeats Crossbones in hand to hand, Crossbones has been shown to be around Captain America's level.

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He can fight toe-to-toe with the Kingpin. The Kingpin has beaten Daredevil in h2h and is incredibly strong

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Red Skull's trademark "dust of death" is one the most frightening assasination methods ever shown in comics. A fatal poison gas that distorts the victim's face into a "red skull".

Kills one of his agents in the Comission of superhuman activities, because he was "no longer useful"

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Kills the Scourge of the underworld, one of his minions,
dedicated to eliminate low-rate criminals, because he failed to kill a target

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Kills one of his employees because "she was a bad accountant"

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Red Skull vs Avengers

With only his wits and a few gadgets, Red Skull defeats a team of Avengers, composed of Hercules, Quicksilver, Crystal and Black Widow.


The Red Skull is fast enough to dodge Black Widows' stingers along with a crumbling ceiling, and no one realizes when or how he escaped.

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Red Skull proves how sneaky and good actor he is by fooling and taking down Hercules.

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Red Skull KTFO Crystal and proves to be... faster than Quicksilver?

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Eventhough Black Widow gives the fight of her life, Red Skull comes on top in the end.

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Black Widows tries a final desperate move..and fails!
Fortunately for her, Red Skull receives an important call when he's about to stomp her head.

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Realizing the object he's looking for is not there, Red Skull decides to take a leave and teleports himself away, sparing the lives of the Avengers, for now.

Defeats Crossbones in hand to hand, Crossbones has been shown to be around Captain America's level.

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I made a little mistake here, this was supposed to be the second scan of the Skull vs Crossbones match, curse this 15 min edit rule.

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Nice thread

Do you have any comic pics with him and his daughter Sin? Or some with Crossbones?

Isn't the red skull dead now?

Originally posted by steverules
Isn't the red skull dead now?

No.

Originally posted by steverules
Isn't the red skull dead now?
No, the Red Skull doesn't die, he just "jump bodies".
He's currently living in his 4th body, inside Aleksander Lukin, and you can bet he'll be back soon.

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FIRST DEATH

This was the first official death of the Red Skull, in Captain America v1 300. He died of a heart attack in battle with Cap, both were handicaped (trapped, poisoned and abnormally aged) in that battle.

Red Skull's handicap was bigger than Cap's, though, he was aged up to 80yo and fatally ill even before the match, and without a super soldier serum helping him to overcome the poison, yet he fought fiercely until the end, which was the Skulls dying wish, he wanted to go out in a final, deadly embrace with Cap, his nemesis of a lifetime.


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Once defeated, Red Skull asks Cap to finish him off, Cap rejects the idea and the Skull finally succumbs to a heart attack, probably a combination between the poison, the old age and the struggle of the fight.

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The Red Skull returned from death some time later, stronger than ever, with his mind transferred to a body cloned from Captain America himself, and calling himself Mr. Smith.

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SECOND DEATH

The Skull is turned to ashes by the explosion of the Cosmic Cube!

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Once again, the Skull returned, and once again stronger than before, this time even wielding Reality Warping powers as a side effect of the explosion of the Cosmic Cube

His third death was at the hands of the Winter soldier, i'll add it later

You should post the crossover scene where he fights the Joker

Originally posted by Endless Mike
You should post the crossover scene where he fights the Joker
yes

Red Skull was the main villain of the non-canonical Batman/Captain America crossover by John Byrne.

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The Joker felt disgusted when he discovered he was working for a Nazi who was planning a big mass genocide (i wonder why)

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Both villains tried to kill each other, only to realize their poison weapons were pretty much alike.

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As the Joker ended being another victim of the Red Skull, he decided to join forces with the heroes, even saving the day in the end. It could be said that the final battle of the Skull and the Joker ended in a double, fatal KO.

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Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, was the son of a coarse, drunken German villager named Hermann Schmidt and his reportedly saintly, long-suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband.

Martha died giving birth to Johann, their only child. Driven to madness by the death of the woman he both loved and hated, Hermann Schmidt tried to drown the newborn infant, accusing him of murdering Martha. The doctor who had just delivered the baby saved Johann from his father, and the next morning Hermann Schmidt committed suicide by cutting his own throat with a straight razor.

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The doctor took Johann to an orphanage, where the child led a lonely existence. He ran away from the orphanage when he was 7yo and lived in the streets as a beggar and a thief, he spent most of his time in prison for crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft. The young Schmidt was once employed by a Jewish shopkeeper, whose daughter, Esther, was the first person who treated Schmidt kindly up to that point. Seized with passion for Esther, Schmidt tried to force himself upon her, only to be rejected by her.

In unthinking fury, Schmidt murdered Esther pounding her with a shovel.

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Schmidt fled the scene in terror, but also felt ecstatic joy in committing his first murder, because at last he had given vent to the rage at the world that had been building up in him throughout his life.

Years later, after the Nazis had come to power in Germany, Schmidt was working as a bellboy in a hotel where Adolf Hitler came one day to stay. That night Schmidt brought refreshments to Hitler's suite and found Hitler berating the chief of the Gestapo. Hitler ranted to the Gestapo chief that "I could teach that bellboy to do a better job than you!". Inspired, Hitler declared that he would make the bellboy into a "perfect Nazi" who would serve as his right-hand man. Schmidt eagerly agreed to do what Hitler wished as he saw in Hitler's eyes all of his own fears and frustrations, the embodiment of evil, the hatred of mankind and a model after which he could pattern himself, but even then, Schmidt was aware that his destiny was to surpass his master.

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A quote from Ed Brubaker. published in Marvel Spotlight: Captain America Remembered (2007), page 8:

I realized a little while ago that the Red Skull is the one major super-villain who is pretty much just straight up evil. He's not crazy; he's just evil.

He's this nihilistic, anarchistic, fascist guy who brings out the worst aspects of all those things. Magneto and Dr. Doom each have moments of redemption and each have a certain humanity that makes them who they are, but the Red Skull would happily fiddle while America burns.

Originally posted by Evo
Do you have any comic pics with him and his daughter Sin? Or some with Crossbones?
Plenty of them, Crossbones has been the Skull's right hand man for several years, and perhaps his best single operative and the most loyal.

When the Skull says "jump", Crossbones says "how high"
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And here is the origin of Sin. As you can guess, the Red Skull has never been candidate for the "father of the year" award.

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The Skull used Sin as a guinea pig and made her age prematurelly, turning her into the first Mother Night. She'd be de-aged later on and Susan Scarbo would take the role of Mother Night as another of Skull's henchmen.

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^News flash, Sin. The Red Skull is sexist too

The Skull has always been ashamed that his only potential heir in the world is a woman. That's why he says no one will ever take his place, and the day he dies, he will take his evil with him.

Speaking of the way the Skull treats his women..

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You might want to note that Red Skull says he's the financer of some of the top subversive organizations in the world. In other words, he's a funder of terrorism worldwide.

Another scene of the Skull and his former ladyfriend Mother Night (Susan Scarbo). This is how the Skull treats his hoes.

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And yet, the Skull has complete control over them, he's that pimp

The Red Skull sexens the maniacal homicidal Viper!

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He's apparently good in bed

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Red Skull did break the Viper's legs later on, but that's another story

The Red Skull is fast and skilled enough to make Spiderman admit his superiority in h2h combat.
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^Cool! nice contribution

A little feat of marksmanship

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It seems the Skull is extremely good at throwing knives, just check out the perfect aim and the long distance from the target.

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I always thought the red skull made a great villain. Not exactly what I'd call a respectable character, but so valuable as an evil character to make Cap who he is in turn.
He's classic, I still remember him being the only cool thing from the old 80's Captain America movie aside from Cap's shield... Rock on with this thread, you're doing a great job.

Originally posted by jinzin
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I always thought the red skull made a great villain. Not exactly what I'd call a respectable character, but so valuable as an evil character to make Cap who he is in turn.
He's classic, I still remember him being the only cool thing from the old 80's Captain America movie aside from Cap's shield... Rock on with this thread, you're doing a great job.
Thanx, and yes, the Red Skull is a superb villain, he's like the definition of evil, because he's not crazy like Carnage or the Joker, he's not a born demon or evil god like Blackheart or Loki, he doesn't see himself as a businessman like Kingpin or like a messiah or a savior to his race/country like Magneto or Doom. Red Skull is just evil, an evil human being, and he doesn't try to justify it, he embraces evil for what it is, he wants to return "to the cold unfeeling dark" and take the world with him, that's why, in a way, the Red Skull is more frightening than any other major marvel supervillain, and we cant deny that we all respect what we fear


A hideout of the Red Skull cant possibly lack a torture chamber, as the Skull delights in inflicting torment to his prisoners. He once described torture as a "spectator sport"

Red Skull's "recreation room"
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Snapping the spine of a tortured prisoner
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He doesn't mind crucifying people or torture women to death
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Eventhough it was off panel, the Skull did beat a young man to death, The guy, called Roscoe, was trying to replace Captain America at the time Cap took the identity of Nomad (in the cover of the issue Roscoe appears crucified), the brutality of the crime made Steve to reassume his identity of Captain America once again, to prevent other people to assume the risks that were meant for him only.

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This was, apparently, the very first time Cap and Red Skull ever met

He could have killed Cap right there if he wanted to.

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Red Skull easily lifts all of Cap's weight with one arm and defeats him with one hit.

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The Red Skull's fists are thunder and his reflexes are lightning! >.>
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In their very first match, the Red Skull is smacking Captain America around most of the time

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and yeah, this is the Skull without super soldier serum or any other power ups

The Red Skull is pretty unique - the villain who's actually hated & despised by other villains. He's irredeemable, and one feels like taking a shower after too much time with him.
Good job with the thread. Keep going...

Originally posted by roughrider
The Red Skull is pretty unique - the villain who's actually hated & despised by other villains. He's irredeemable, and one feels like taking a shower after too much time with him.
Good job with the thread. Keep going...
That's true, Red Skull's relationship with other villains has always been fraught with problems, mostly because of his Nazi background.

As one of Marvel's major super-villains, the Skull was invited by Loki to join his Acts of Vengeance.

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Too bad he didn't get along very well with the rest of the group.

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FRAME 1

R.SKULL: silence lackey! the Wizard has insulted a member of the master race! he must apologize before we proceed!

WIZARD:You'll see yourself welcomed into Heaven before I speak those words, Skull!

FRAME 2:

MAGNETO: at least we agree on that, Wizard!
Magneto has nothing in common with mere humans, unless it's a furious hate towards everything that scarlet-headed creature represents! all that is vile and despicable in the world!

R.SKULL: you dare?!

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R.SKULL: mutant bastard! in the old times we used to turn your people into soap!

MAGNETO: in other times your race tried it, nazi! You and your accursed. miserable race!

LOKI: gentlemen, please..!!

Doc Doom punked by the Red Skull
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KINGPIN: well, well.
The kids are playing again , i see

R.SKULL: watch your mouth fatass! unless you want a dose of the same..

Originally posted by Locard
Doc Doom punked by the Red Skull
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KINGPIN: well, well.
The kids are playing again , i see

R.SKULL: watch your mouth fatass! unless you want a dose of the same..

Skull must have used Hitler's gun. 313


Why did he shoot Doom anyway?

Originally posted by Evil_Ash
Skull must have used Hitler's gun. 313


Why did he shoot Doom anyway?

Because he made the Skull angry , that's why

Nah, seriously, these guys have a grudge going on, since they have crossed swords several times in the past.

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Doom, shrinked, humilliated and literally in the hands of Red Skull
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Doom is tired of suffering so many Skull-abuse.
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Death duel
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Doom punked by the Skull's technology >.>
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Doom suffers "total defeat" in his own country
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All hail the Red Skull, new King of Latveria!
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Originally posted by Locard
Because he made the Skull angry , that's why

Nah, seriously, these guys have a grudge going on, since they have crossed swords several times in the past.

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Doom, shrinked, humilliated and literally in the hands of Red Skull
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Doom is tired of suffering so many Skull-abuse.
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Death duel
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Doom punked by the Skull's technology >.>
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Doom suffers "total defeat" in his own country
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All hail the Red Skull, new King of Latveria!
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Wow.

Skull pwns Doom.

Originally posted by Locard
Because he made the Skull angry , that's why

Nah, seriously, these guys have a grudge going on, since they have crossed swords several times in the past.

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Doom, shrinked, humilliated and literally in the hands of Red Skull
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Doom is tired of suffering so many Skull-abuse.
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Death duel
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Doom punked by the Skull's technology >.>
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Doom suffers "total defeat" in his own country
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All hail the Red Skull, new King of Latveria!
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Wow. I didn't realize Doom & The Skull had such a feud going. But it makes sense. The Skull would view Doom & his people as sub-human slavs; the fact Doom comes from gypsy stock only makes him seem lesser in his eyes. And Doom won't be viewed as anyone's lesser.

Red Skull has the same problem having allies that the Nazis did - hard to have them when you view virtually anyone different as beneath you.

I would imagine Magneto killing Skull where he stood. Due to the fact that Skull with Hitler had Mags people killed.

Originally posted by TheTick
I would imagine Magneto killing Skull where he stood. Due to the fact that Skull with Hitler had Mags people killed.
At the end of that crossover, mags actually traps the Red skull in the bottom of a bunker with only a little water to make him starve to death.

Originally posted by roughrider
Wow. I didn't realize Doom & The Skull had such a feud going. But it makes sense. The Skull would view Doom & his people as sub-human slavs; the fact Doom comes from gypsy stock only makes him seem lesser in his eyes. And Doom won't be viewed as anyone's lesser.

Red Skull has the same problem having allies that the Nazis did - hard to have them when you view virtually anyone different as beneath you. In fact, both see each other as lesser beings (that's what happens when two megalomaniacs collide).

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Originally posted by Akuki
At the end of that crossover, mags actually traps the Red skull in the bottom of a bunker with only a little water to make him starve to death.
Yeah. Magneto really wanted to hurt the poor Skull

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He was angry.

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The Skull decided to take a "strategic retreat".

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Magneto had to fight all his way to the Red Skull; mechanical defenses, armed henchmen, skullbots, and some of Skull's most powerful minions: the 4th Sleeper and the Controller, were unable to stop enraged Magneto (hey, we all know he's a heavyweight, and he can be really frightening if he wants to)

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Magneto finally manages to catch the Skull and pretty much buries him alive.

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These were dark hours for the Red Skull, but he managed to survive, as always. Of course, the Skull now has things to settle with Magneto, but it seems their roads have never crossed again.

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The following scans involves more people being victims of Red Skull and his infamous dust of death. All of them belongs to different issues and situations.


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A feat of sneakyness: Red Skull manages to kill his target inside a locked, guarded room, under the noses of all the guards, one of them being Captain America.

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Protip for those who want to be Skull's henchmen: dont dare to question him.

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The Skull himself was exposed to his own dust of death once, but survived. Probably he developed a certain inmunity to it, or he took some antidotes "just in case".His face, however, was permanently disfigured and redskullized

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It happened after he returned from death, in a body cloned from Captain America.

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During several decades the Red Skull was wearing a mask, but after this incident, that was no longer necessary

Im glad it happened; after all, it'd be kinda disturbing to have to see the Skull walking around with Cap's face all the time.

I dont recall a super villain who enjoys beating up women so much as the Red Skull

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This is Betty Grable. Former actress and WWII pin-up/sex symbol
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This is what the Skull would do to Betty Grable :/

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I was just having fun

Ok, back to seriousness.

Outwit & kill feat against two A.I.M guards. (not much of a feat, but it looks badass, though)

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"When it comes to evil, the Red Skull is in a class by himself"

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Gassing entire populations.

Mass genocide has always been Red Skull's bag after all

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A comment from Cap about the Skull's eyes

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Proud to be a world class menace

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The Red Skull is not only a world class menace in himself. but also through the many subversive and criminal organizations he commands or funds.

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ULTIMATUM - (Underground Liberated Totally Integrated Mobile Army To Unite Mankind) an anti-nationalist terrorist organization

The Scourge of the Underworld - name of various masked vigilantes dedicated to exterminate small-time super villlains.

The Watchdogs - a right-wing terrorist group

The Resistants - mutant terrorist group

The sweat shop - (also known as Power Brokers inc) a band of mercenary muscleheads.


Here's the Skull talking to John Walker (Captain America's replacement at that time) who'd be later known as the U.S. Agent

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One of the "misfortunes" the Skull is referring here is none less than the kidnap and murder of the parents of U.S.Agent.

He gave the order to the Watchdogs, one of the organizations above mentioned .

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Here's the Skull explaining the whole plan to Captain America (Steve Rogers, the original one, ya know).

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He wanted to inflict mental anguish and to ruin the image of the new Captain America by turning him into a berserker madman, and you know what? he did it

Here are the oldest Red Skull scans i have. They're from the time Cap was using his original triangle-shaped shield and Bucky was still alive (as Bucky), looong time ago.

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A gun is useless if the Skull comes for you
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Red Skull displaying some kinda hypnotic powers (???) as he kills his victim
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Red Skull = expert in hand made explosives?

yeah, why not?

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Cool cover. It belongs to the "Cosmic Skull" saga.

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speaking of such..

The Red Skull wents cosmic!

By internalizing all the power of the cosmic cube. Humanity witness the birth of a brand new God.

A very evil one
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In case you're wondering how this happened

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Red Skull = lord of this world

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Take a look at the world of the Red Skull

Downfall of America
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Land of slaves
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In the world of the Red Skull, only the fittest survives
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Make the people fight for shelter during a flood
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Make them fight for shelter inside a phone cab, while marching naked under an ice storm
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Make them starve to death, and fight for an apple
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kukuku, let's torture sum hungry babies
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More cosmic Skull badassery

Shine, Thor, shine!
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Skull's reality warping powers in display
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Vanishes Justice with a snap of his fingers
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Spreads Korvac (!!!) thin across six dimensions
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Ok, im done with cosmic Skull, now let's see a different one

The Skull became pretty badass and beefy with this high-tech exoesqueleton bought to some rogue SHIELD agents

lets snap some necks

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I bet Steve never thought his romantic date with Diamondback would end up like this:

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Very rare to see someone catching Cap's shield in mid air, not even godlike people usually do that.

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You might want to note that this armored Skull is really beatin' the crap outta Cap and he seems helpless like a baby. Cap , indeed, would have died if it wasn't for the SHIELD agents and Diamonback's LMD that came to his rescue in the last minute

Armored Skull vs SHIELD Agents

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Red Skull gives offers you cant refuse
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Red Skull is a man of wealth and taste, and he can be very persuasive if he wants to.

Here's trying to buy Spidey's conscience, with money and sweet words.
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As you can imagine, Spidey refused the offer in the end, and he had to fight all of Skull's lackeys to get out of there, but he was certainly tempted, just look at his face.

Funny 'What If' stuff =D

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Originally posted by Locard
Funny 'What If' stuff =D

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LMAO

Stuff from the bullpen bits

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Just for the record, the Korvac that Red Skull defeated is likely to be one before the transformation on the classic Korvac saga. He is still a cosmic threat that fought one on one against Dr. Strange though.

Originally posted by Locard
Red Skull is a man of wealth and taste, and he can be very persuasive if he wants to.

Here's trying to buy Spidey's conscience, with money and sweet words.
http://i8.tinypic.com/855f29y.jpg

As you can imagine, Spidey refused the offer in the end, and he had to fight all of Skull's lackeys to get out of there, but he was certainly tempted, just look at his face.


Eh?

That's Spider-man greedy mask.

How could we forget the death of Captain America as one of the best
of Skull's feats

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Capdeath.PNG

Cap is gunned down as he's brought to the federal courthouse

The assassination orchestrated by the Red Skull, involves Crossbones as a sniper and Dr. Faustus posing as a S.H.I.E.L.D psychiatrist, who gives Sharon Carter a hypnotic suggestion to shoot Cap at a crucial moment

Crossbones shoots Cap in the back and provokes chaos among the crowd, In the chaos that ensues, Cap is wounded three more times in the stomach and chest, this time by his girlfriend, Sharon Carter. Rogers is taken to a hospital, where he dies

Now Sharon is on the edge of suicide and Cap went to the afterlife knowing he was killed by the woman he love

This proves that Red Skull doesn't just likes to kill, he also loves to inflict mental anguish

Cap died not as a hero, but a criminal, while being booed and despised by the citizens he always defended, while having rotten eggs and tomatoes pouring on him, gunned down by the woman he loved..

This is what happens when you mess with the Red Skull. He surely took his time to get rid of Cap, but he made the waiting worthy

Who did actually win the bout between Captain America and the Red Skull (I mean, the one held at Adolf Hitler's arena)? I would like to know that one.

Originally posted by Frozen
Who did actually win the bout between Captain America and the Red Skull (I mean, the one held at Adolf Hitler's arena)? I would like to know that one.
Cap did thanks to interference from Bucky

After so much abuse from each other, Doom still has enough regard for the Red Skull to invite him to Latveria and to be surprised by him. Lets remember that this is the same Doom that said to Beast that he had nothing that could interest him:

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Red Skull will send a giant robot to your town, wreck it entirely and then get benefits from doing it:

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Just how evil is Johann? Well, in the Marvel Universe he plotted the economical crisis that is messing the world as of now:

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Locard,
After killing all five of his sparring partners, did Johann Schmidt get to face the real Captain America?

Originally posted by Bentley
After so much abuse from each other, Doom still has enough regard for the Red Skull to invite him to Latveria and to be surprised by him. Lets remember that this is the same Doom that said to Beast that he had nothing that could interest him:

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/Enteithegreat/Red%20Skull/Redskull-Latveria.jpg
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when i saw this i was like.. WTF?

I think Brubaker really forgot about the historical enmity between these characters, i mean, as far as i know, the last time Doom and Skull faced each other was in Acts of vengeance, with Doom hitting Skull with a backhand and Skull shooting him down after that

of course, It could be argued that they are just making business here, and for villains, usually "business comes first"



MOST EVUL BASTARD EVA!



Originally posted by Frozen
Locard,
After killing all five of his sparring partners, did Johann Schmidt get to face the real Captain America? No, not that time at least. During all that story Cap was wearing his black costume and John Walker was the one using Cap's starspangled uniform btw

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that'd be the bio for the 90's