History Monster / CaptainAmerica

-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]''' telling his backstory to [[Characters/CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter Steve Rogers]], "The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull" (from ''ComicBook/TalesOfSuspense'' Vol. 1 issue #66)

* [[NaziNobleman Baron Heinrich Zemo]] joined the Nazi party after Germany lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Heinrich committed several war crimes, such as strangling a Polish Freedom Fighter named Citizen V to death, and testing a DeathRay on a [[PoWCamp concentration camp]] inmate. He also captured and flayed the original Human Torch, recreating the Torch's power to help the Nazis win the war and used the Torch's powers to incinerate one of his own Nazi minions, just for kicks. Heinrich also built a death ray, and when Nick Fury and his [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]] tried to capture it, Heinrich rigged it to explode, destroying a nearby German town. Heinrich was once a loving father and husband, but a fight with Captain America left him disfigured and consumed with hatred for Captain America, and started [[DomesticAbuse beating his son and wife]]. Heinrich even tried to shoot through his son Helmut to kill Captain America at one point, and was willing to kill his wife when she opposed him. Near the end of the war, Heinrich tried to steal an experimental plane in England and rigged it to explode, seemingly killing [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] and trapping Cap in suspended animation. After the war, Heinrich [[ArgentinaIsNaziland fled to South America]], hired a band of mercs and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved a remote South American native tribe]]. One day when the tribe rebelled, Heinrich violently put down the rebellion and had all the ringleaders of the rebellion killed. When Captain America returned in modern times, Heinrich enacted several revenge schemes, including creating Wonder Man in order to infiltrate the Avengers and stating that his powers will destroy him if Heinrich doesn't give him an injection every week. Heinrich also kidnapped Cap's young friend Rick Jones and stuck him in a trap designed so that Captain America would kill him if he tried to free him.

* [[EvilGenius Doctor Deirdre Wentworth]], alias [[SmugSuper Superia]], is a [[StrawFeminist misandrist]] determined to create a [[LadyLand female dominated world]] ruled by her. Abducting 10,000 female super villains, Superia attempts to sterilize every other woman on Earth, making only her minions capable of producing following generations. Although this plan of her's was thwarted, Superia goes on to manipulate and brainwash Cathy Webster into becoming the unstable man-hating super woman, Free Spirit, under her command. After seemingly be killed by the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], Superia gifts her younger self knowledge of the future and uses a Cosmic Cube, removing the frozen Captain America from several timelines, leading to the whole multiverse being destabilized and threatening reality. Inserting herself in the Avengers while posing as a superhero called Broad Stripe, Superia causes their disbanding and replaces them with her own minions, the [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaCorps AmeriCommand]]. Eliminating anyone who stands against her, Superia turns America into a police state; has any superhumans not loyal to her imprisoned and tortured; keeps Tony Stark's disembodied brain in a jar; traps the Fantastic Four in the Negative Zone except for Susan Storm, whom she is implied to have caused a miscarriage. When confronted by Captain America for her evil deeds, Superia refuses to admit any guilt and has the gall to tell him he could destabilize reality by merging with another version of himself, even as he does it to undo the damage she caused to the multiverse.

-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]''' telling his backstory to [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]], "The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull" (from ''ComicBook/TalesOfSuspense'' Vol. 1 issue #66)

[[Franchise/CaptainAmerica The First Avenger]], whether [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]] or [[Characters/CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter someone else]], has been fighting [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazis]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Hydra]], and other enemies of America [[LongRunners since 1941]]. Some of [[Characters/CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter the Sentinel of Liberty]]'s foes, however, have gone [[CompleteMonster above and beyond]] in terms of sheer evilness.

** Issue #37's "The Chambers of Dr. Agony": [[MadScientist Dr. Conrad Meer]], better known by his preferred appellation "[[TortureTechnician Dr. Agony]]", is one of the most sadistic [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Nazis on record. Devising ways to push human pain to the utmost limit to create {{Super Soldier}}s for [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], Dr. Agony kidnaps innocents and drags them into his torture chamber to work them down, hours at a time, until they expire, gleefully using everything from red-hot cages to spiked boards to make his prey suffer.

[[Franchise/CaptainAmerica The First Avenger]], whether [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]] or someone else, has been fighting [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazis]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Hydra]], and other enemies of America [[LongRunners since 1941]]. Some of [[Characters/CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter the Sentinel of Liberty]]'s foes, however, have gone [[CompleteMonster above and beyond]] in terms of sheer evilness.

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[[Franchise/CaptainAmerica The First Avenger]], whether [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]] or someone else, has been fighting [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazis]], ComicBook/{{Hydra}}, and other enemies of America [[LongRunners since 1941]]. Some of [[Characters/CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter the Sentinel of Liberty]]'s foes, however, have gone [[CompleteMonster above and beyond]] in terms of sheer evilness.

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], real name [[DiabolicalMastermind Johann Schmidt]], is Cap's ArchEnemy, and a protégé of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. Once a bitter, psychotic street kid, Schmidt was originally [[FromNobodyToNightmare a petty criminal]] with a violent streak. Convincing a friend to try and assassinate Hitler, Schmidt stepped in and saved Der Fuhrer's life. He then donned a Skull-shaped mask and took on the role of a grateful Hitler's spymaster. Trapped in suspended animation by Cap, Schmidt awakened in the modern era and resumed his old ways. Firmly convinced that DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and that everyone needs somebody to bully, Schmidt has committed every crime in the proverbial book, from the petty to the grandiose. He made several attempts at taking over the world through the use of the Cosmic Cube, killing thousands of people every time; attempted to transplant Adolf Hitler's brain into Captain America's body; tried to bodyjack Cap himself on several occasions; and fought [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]] for control of the New York drug trade. He has manipulated the Scarlet Witch as part of a plan to exterminate the world's mutant population; used his Dust of Death to gruesomely kill any subordinate who fails him or looks at him funny; and has been the mover and shaker behind countless Neo-Nazi movements, fascist governments, and terrorist cells, most notably ComicBook/{{Hydra}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM AIM]]. In an alternate future, he spent his time triggering natural disasters, then showing up to inform people that he would not be saving them. When his daughter, Sin, was born, Schmidt planned to kill her for the crime of being a girl; he continuously abuses her. While in a relationship with Mother Night, he brutalized her constantly. With an end goal of reducing society to its most primitive, [[TheSocialDarwinist dog-eat-dog levels]], Schmidt is universally despised in both the superhero and supervillain communities.

Franchise/CaptainAmerica has been fighting [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazis]], ComicBook/{{Hydra}}, and other enemies of America [[LongRunners since 1941]]. Some of his foes, however, have gone [[CompleteMonster above and beyond]] in terms of sheer evilness.

* Arnim Zola was a [[EvilutionaryBiologist Nazi biochemist]] in his human years. To escape mortality, Zola used his cybernetic brilliance to digitize himself and survive inside robotic shells to continue his experiments. One of his worst acts was to create the monstrous Hate-Monger, and afterwards he continued to complete multiple experiments for the Red Skull, his usual employer and master. It is later shown that Zola was a monster just waiting to cut loose. When he and Captain America were lost in Dimension Z, Zola becomes its dictator, [[AGodAmI and its God]]. He inflicts horrible experiments among the people, overwriting their minds to be loyal to him alone, and turns others into horrible mutants that he sics on those who don't accept his rule. Even his own children there are nothing but pawns, his affection to them fake to manipulate them, and he is more than willing to [[OffingTheOffspring kill them]] if they do not conform to his wishes. Zola, to end his long war with Captain America, created a way to get back to Earth, with a bomb that would kill countless innocents before Zola sent his mutants, with the intent of overwriting the minds of the people of Earth and mutating others, a process that would kill billions.

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-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]''' telling his backstory to [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]], "The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull" (from ''[[ComicBook/TalesOfSuspense Tales of Suspense]]'' Vol. 1 issue #66)

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]], real name [[DiabolicalMastermind Johann Schmidt]], is Cap's ArchEnemy, and a protégé of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. Once a bitter, psychotic street kid, Schmidt was originally [[FromNobodyToNightmare a petty criminal]] with a violent streak. Convincing a friend to try and assassinate Hitler, Schmidt stepped in and saved Der Fuhrer's life. He then donned a Skull-shaped mask and took on the role of a grateful Hitler's spymaster. Trapped in suspended animation by Cap, Schmidt awakened in the modern era and resumed his old ways. Firmly convinced that DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and that everyone needs somebody to bully, Schmidt has committed every crime in the proverbial book, from the petty to the grandiose. He made several attempts at taking over the world through the use of the Cosmic Cube, killing thousands of people every time; attempted to transplant Adolf Hitler's brain into Captain America's body; tried to bodyjack Cap himself on several occasions; and fought [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]] for control of the New York drug trade. He has manipulated the Scarlet Witch as part of a plan to exterminate the world's mutant population; used his Dust of Death to gruesomely kill any subordinate who fails him or looks at him funny; and has been the mover and shaker behind countless Neo-Nazi movements, fascist governments, and terrorist cells, most notably ComicBook/{{Hydra}} and Characters/{{AIM}} In an alternate future, he spent his time triggering natural disasters, then showing up to inform people that he would not be saving them. When his daughter, Sin, was born, Schmidt planned to kill her for the crime of being a girl; he continuously abuses her. While in a relationship with Mother Night, he brutalized her constantly. With an end goal of reducing society to its most primitive, [[TheSocialDarwinist dog-eat-dog levels]], Schmidt is universally despised in both the superhero and supervillain communities.

** Issue #23's "The Mystery of the One Hundred Corpses": [[MadDoctor Dr. Izan]] is an evil Nazi spy who convinces Americans to turn over their sick and dying to him for the hope of a miracle cure. [[SerialKiller Izan]] kills his "patients", dumps their bodies in a quarry, and [[KillAndReplace swaps them]] with a Nazi doppelgänger with American citizenship. Having repeated this scheme nearly 100 times, clogging the quarry with bodies, Izan plans to use all these doppelgängers to facilitate a [[DayOfTheJackboot Nazi takeover of the nation]].

* [[ComicBook/MarvelLegacy "Home of The Brave" & "Out of Time" arcs]]: [[WastelandWarlord King Maximillian Babbington]], the ruler of a post-nuclear United States of America, starts out as the leader of the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist militia "Rampart"]], having previously had his men take a police station containing several children hostage. After Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, prevents Rampart from hijacking a festival, Babbington lures Captain America into a trap before [[NukeEm using hundreds of nuclear warheads]] to decimate the USA to 10% of its former population--[[BodyHorror with many survivors being disfigured]]--and encasing Captain America in ice to put him on display. Succeeding on [=Earth-TRN850=], when Captain America is freed from his icy prison by resistance members as of 2025, the USA under Babbington has become a [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans fascist regime]], where allegedly inferior people are branded as such, and people are killed for so much as gathering together.