- “Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight car. Soldier? Mission Report December 16, 1991!”
- ―Baron Zemo
Helmut Zemo, known as Baron Zemo, is a Marvel Comics supervillain who appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is the main antagonist of Captain America: Civil War and a supporting character in the Disney+ series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. He is primarily a foe of Captain America.
Helmut Zemo was a soldier and a baron, a member of the royalty of Sokovia. He lost his family during Ultron's attack on his country and blames the Avengers for his loss. He thus sought to tear them apart by staging a terrorist attack on the signing of the Sokovia Accords, setting off a chain of events that led to the Avengers fighting each other and splitting up.
Baron Zemo was created by Roy Thomas, Jenny Blake Isabella and Sal Buscema.
Background
Official Description
- The Sokovian special forces officer who targeted the Avengers after he lost his family in the battle of Sokovia, has been rotting in a German prison since we last saw him in “Captain America: Civil War.” But Zemo is about to be reignited with a new ferocity.
Appearances
Captain America: Civil War
Colonel Helmut Zemo is a Sokovian citizen and a terrorist who sought revenge against the Avengers after losing his family during the Battle of Sokovia, becoming obsessed with defeating and destroying them. Knowing that he's no match against the Avengers, he instead planned to have them destroy each other by first framing the Winter Soldier for the assassination of T'Chaka, causing Captain America to defend his friend from the world. This action caused the Avengers Civil War in which Iron Man led a man-hunt for the Winter Soldier and Zemo allowed Iron Man to discover that the Winter Soldier was also responsible for the deaths of his mother and father. With the Avengers in ruins, Zemo explained his motives to Black Panther, who was about to kill him after learning the truth about his father's death but stopped after realizing how much vengeance had consumed him. Zemo attempted to commit suicide but was stopped by Black Panther and handed over into the custody of Everett Ross for his imprisonment.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
- “I have no intention to leave my work unfinished.”
- ―Baron Zemo
Zemo returns and dons his traditional purple mask from the comic books. In the series. Bucky helps to break Zemo out of prison and he then temporarily allies with Sam and Bucky to defeat the Flag Smashers, a group of super soldiers. The Dora Milaje later appear and they take Zemo to the Raft, so he can spend the rest of his days imprisoned.
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Trivia
- In the comics, the Zemo family were of German nobility, all of which were barons. However, Heinrich Zemo was allied with the Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A., as a brilliant scientist yet a power-hungry aristocrat and supervillain with a grudge against Captain America, who he fought in World War II.
- In the comics, there are two versions of Baron Zemo. The first, Heinrich Zemo, was the enemy of Captain America during World War II. The second, Helmut Zemo, is Heinrich's son who succeeded his father's villainous career in opposing Captain America and formed the team of villains the Masters of Evil.
- In the comics, Zemo's father Heinrich developed a serum called Adhesive X, an extreme form of superglue (as noted by Black Widow) which after accidental exposure became the reason Heinrich never took off his hood. Later on in his life, Helmut was exposed to the serum as well, disfiguring him, though it doesn't appear to be the in-show reason for why they never showed his full face after his raging and empowerment.
- As opposed to the comic versions of Baron Zemo, who was a supervillain and had varying degrees of superhuman abilities as seen in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Assemble, the one in Civil War has no super-powers or swordsmanship skills, but is a master of manipulation and military strategy.
- The short dance performed by Zemo in the third episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier went viral shortly after the episode's airing. A few days later, Marvel released an extended version of the performance, as well as a one-hour loop, posted on their official YouTube page.[1]
- Originally, Baron Zemo was going to appear in Thunderbolts* in the post-credits scene, revealing that he was behind all the events, but this was scrapped.
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