Could Baron Zemo be in Captain America?

An odd, but fascinating rumor leaked today via Comic Book Movie, as the editor there claims that he was talking with an unnamed artist, who slipped saying that “even though they [Marvel Studios] are doing most of the concept work themselves I was asked to give my opinion on what they’ve come up with for Zemo and it looks amazing. Very close to the comic book but far less cartoonish and a lot more realistic.”

We officially know that the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) is the villain in The First Avenger, and there’s been rumors of Marvel Studios building plot lines for the sequel (not The Avengers, which will be Captain’s second film appearance) for the Winter Soldier (here). So could they be hinting at the Baron Zemo, a great villain from the very, very, thin rogues gallery of Captain America?

Baron Zemo’s Wiki biography goes like this: Dr. Heinrich Zemo, 12th Baron Zemo was one of the top scientists in the Nazi Party. Zemo fought both Captain America and his allies the Howling Commandos during World War II. A brilliant, if sadistic, scientific genius, Zemo created many weapons of mass destruction for Hitler’s army, including a large-scale death ray cannon, a disintegration pistol that was a miniaturized version of his death ray, and primitive androids of considerable strength and invulnerability. Heinrich Zemo’s intelligence was only matched by his sadism, as he routinely tested his deadly weapons on innocent people, both prisoner and civilian inside the Third Reich. This ultimately came to a head, during an early encounter with the Howling Commandos, when Zemo decided to test an experimental death-ray cannon on a nearby German town. The death-ray killed hundreds of innocent German civilians as a result, making Zemo a mass murderer. Though he arrogantly believed that he could frame his act of mass murder on the Allied Forces, Nick Fury and his fellow Howling Commandos exposed Zemo’s role in the town’s destruction, resulting in Zemo becoming a reviled figure throughout Europe, even amongst his fellow Germans.

I pretty excited for this, but I would think he would make a great villain for the sequel, leaving Red Skull solo for the first go-round. Thoughts?

Jon Peters

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