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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Uh maybe I'm missing something but isn't Schimdt like that since that's how the formula works. It amplfifes how somone is on the inside and makes them look like that on the outside. Steve is a good person so wasn't changed but Schmidt was always an evil monster which is why he turned out like that.
Edited by miraculous on Jun 18th 2021 at 5:12:53 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."When I first saw that I thought it was from the tie-in comics, but I don't remember it being in the EP.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI think that was from a tie-in comic that went showed how Schmidt forced Erskine to make to supersoldier serum for him.
Honestly, I remember that comic going showing a lot more of Schmidt's crimes, from participating in the Night of the Long Knifes
, to sending Erskine's family to a concentration camp and lying to him for years that they were still alive as he held him prisoner. I honestly wouldn't mind an expansion on Schmidt to include those crimes if I'm being honest.
Oh dear god, we're going to rewrite every single MCU entry at this rate, aren't we?
Zola doesn't actually make the Serum "fail" and turn Schmidt into Skull, but yes, a tie-in comic does have him deliberately proclaim he knew Erskine would disappoint Schmidt with the Serum and sat back to let it happen without offering help so he could then swoop in and impress Schmidt after the failure with his own technological advances. He's downright cheerful that Schmidt has been disfigured and driven even more mad. He then smugly mocks Erskine that he and his family will be killed for the failure—worth noting that Erskine's family was already dead at this point, but Zola nonetheless needlessly torments him that it's "his" fault for "failing" Schmidt.
Edited by Ravok on Jun 18th 2021 at 5:43:21 AM
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!Quickly:
- King Of Wolves: General Yang, second only to Genghis Khan himself in the Mongol Empire, is a brutish conqueror who happily leads his men on savage campaigns where he takes any woman who catches his fancy. Abducting time-displaced heroine Kyoko, Yang has an old woman killed for trying to stop him and only relents in raping Kyoko when she threatens suicide. Wantong to breal her, he shows her the arenas he's created where prisoners are forced to fight to the death for his amusement, revealing the mightiest of them is Kyoko's lost love Iba. Upon seeing their love for one another, Yang makes Iba "Kneel" by hurling knives into his legs and sends him to die in battle before plotting to make Kyoko his by forcing her to walk through the desert heat until she will do anything for a drop of water.
- The Last War, by Mike Shackle: Darus Monsuta is one of Ergil's Chosen and the most vile servant of the brutal Emperor Raaku. Seeking to advance in the view of his liege, Darus leads the hunt for rogue mage Aasgod upon Ergil's conquest of Jia and the defeat of Jia's elites Shulka forces. An accomplished healer, Darus is fond of taking captives and torturing them before healing their wounds magically, only to torture them to the point of death to do it all over until he is given his answers. Upon receiving them, he tortures his victims to death anyways. Darus seemingly kills Aasgod and tortures the rebel leader Jax until he breaks by regrowing Jax's lost arm and cutting it off multiple times before even murdering his own sister in a fit of paranoid fury.
Zola's exact quote:
Edited by Ravok on Jun 18th 2021 at 5:49:25 AM
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!Tie-in material never ceases to amaze and surprise me.
To be honest I would be okay with Skull getting a rewrite to include what he does in the comic. Sounds worth noting.
Edited by Bullman on Jun 18th 2021 at 7:55:53 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadAnyway, this discussion about hydra and Armin Zola reminded me of something.
That Morbius in his hydra agent scientist portrayal in ultimate spiderman provbaiy keeps so, I'll check over the weekend and inform you guys.
Funnigly enough him and schimdt sound closer to their 616 comic counterparts from that stuff then their film portrayals.
Edited by miraculous on Jun 18th 2021 at 5:58:13 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Speaking of Schmidt in that comic, I think this image
of Schmidt from it could be used on Image Links—or even as a replacement for the current image on the MCU CM page.
Edited by Ravok on Jun 18th 2021 at 6:03:27 AM
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!
I do prefer the image but that would mean having him as both the quote and the image. Though there is this quote of Ego I quite like so we could replace the current one with that and the current image with this suggested one.
It's also worth noting that, in that comic? Zola does still show signs of being scared of Schmidt...when Schmidt is in the room. When he's alone for the first time with Erskine? That's when the mask drops and he reveals a coldly smug, cruel personality. So I can't even say it's outright out of line with the films: he still puts up a look fear and nervousness around Schmidt, but the second he's given time to himself with a victim, he shows a nasty side. It honestly is what furthers my feelings that, for the canon we get, Zola was merely terrified of Schmidt doing something to him—not what Schmidt was doing to the rest of the world, which Zola went along with just fine.
Edited by Ravok on Jun 18th 2021 at 6:04:28 AM
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!@Lightysnake
Let's be honest, The Winter Soldier also did that. Zola was clearly portrayed as a reluctant Punch-Clock Villain in the first film, but he's retconned into being a vicious maniac in the second.
This is one of the main reasons why I voted against him. That said, when I think about it, it's not the first time this has happened. For instance, in the DCAMU, Talia al Ghul was unambiguously portrayed as a sympathetic character who cared about Batman and their son during her first film... only to be retconned into a pure evil psycho in her second appearance. Hence why she was approved.
By the way this discussion on Nos made me think of him so more and I found a possible image of him for the Image Links page.
Only problem I have is that I doubt that image words will be legible in an upload. But I have no idea so wI would like to see how to looks first before we replace the main image.
Edited by miraculous on Jun 18th 2021 at 6:09:41 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."

Abstain on the Red King.
If I may ask a question about Zola's entry:
"Zola deliberately lets a Super-Soldier experiment go wrong and mutate his boss Johann Schmidt into the Red Skull so a rival will be blamed and his family killed."
Wait, Zola is responsible for Red Skull's disfigurement and the death of Erskine's family? Where does that come from? I'm pretty sure it was never mentioned during the first Captain America movie, and I couldn't find any information about it anywhere (not even in the MCU Wiki).