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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I commented before the context makes it a bit rough to work it in because Sokovia is pretty clearly a former Soviet state, which would obviously rules out a aristocratic system. Barons wouldn't exist for like 3-4 generations.
I suggested before "Baron" would maybe fit him more as a military callsign. Maybe due a aristocratic family.
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I'm pretty sure that was his dad, not Helmut Zemo.
A big thing was his dad using a super science adhesive and Captain America causing that to get stuck to his face.
Helmut on the other hand was just horribly disfigured in some way, the details escape me.
Edited by ArthurEld on Mar 13th 2021 at 8:31:20 AM
I love that the Avengers’ first recurring nemesis was an old nazi scientist who really loved glue
And he just gets casually one upped by Paste Pot Pete in one issue
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI really like the Gandalf line, partly because it's almost literally the stereotypical Hipster catchphrase, "I liked x before it was popular."
And it does seem in line with the kind of intellectual that Bucky and Steve were. Although it's a later thing, I'm thinking of the countercultural embrace of Tolkien.
Although I saw on Twitter that it might be anachronistic (The Hobbit had a very limited original print run and didn't reach the U.S. until a year after Bucky says he read it). But see the note about hipsters.
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The very first issue he appeared in, too. The Masters of Evil are going around spraying people with Zemo's adhesive, the Avengers call Paste Pot Pete in prison, and before you can say "the guy who killed Bucky and froze Cap got owned by who?!", no more sticky spray. Except for Zemo, who just wants to get that mask off and be an inconspicuous Nazi war criminal like those in Argentina, instead of a supervillain in a silly costume.
Seriously, if Heinrich Zemo wasn't such a tool I'd almost feel sorry for the old guy.
Trope Editor (he/him)That issue is also the most Avengers has ever felt like DC silver age wackiness
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Well, there's also that time that they fought the hidden civilization of Lava Men that lives beneath the earth...
Right before the glue caper in fact!
Before Avengers settled into the more Marvely pattern of having at least one person every issue incredibly bummed out over some drama
Forever liveblogging the AvengersA big thing was his dad using a super science adhesive and Captain America causing that to get stuck to his face.
Maybe he should have used that adhesive to construct a shelter for himself, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law then.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Imagining Bucky being shocked at the retcon that Bilbo lied about how he got the Ring.