#Super hero hype series#

#Super hero hype series#

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hugo Weaving played the character in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and Ross Marquand voiced the character in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) as well as an alternate version in the Disney+ animated series What If.? (2021). He was portrayed by actor Scott Paulin in the 1990 direct-to-video film Captain America. The character has been adapted to a variety of other media platforms, including animated television series, video games and live-action feature films. The Red Skull was ranked number 21 on Wizard magazine's top 100 greatest villains ever list and ranked as IGN's 14th-greatest comic book villain of all time.

Initially wearing a fearsome blood-red death skull mask that symbolizes carnage and chaos to intimidate, decades after the war he suffers a horrific disfigurement that matches his persona. Originally portrayed as a Nazi agent and protégé of Adolf Hitler during World War II, the Red Skull has endured as the archenemy of the superhero Captain America. The main incarnation of the character, Johann Shmidt, was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Captain America Comics #7 in October 1941.

The first version, George Maxon, appeared in Captain America Comics #1 and #4. The Red Skull is an alias used by several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and its predecessor Timely Comics. Enhanced strength, reflexes, and healing.Inhabits a cloned body of Captain America that grants:.Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and marksman.Expert tactician, strategist, and field commander.Lyles, the Agent of a Thousand Faces (impersonated in Europe during World War II), the Man (head of the People's Militia), Cyrus Fenton, John Smith (the English version of his natural German name), Teacher, Tod March (president and founder of Galactic Pictures), Aleksander Lukin, the White Skull The Red Skull as seen on the cover of The Marvels Project #7 (March 2010) by Steve Eptingĭer Rote Schädel (German name, translation: 'The Red Skull'), Senator Dell Rusk, Bettman P.