Who Is Baron Zemo? We Explain

His evolution as a revenge-seeking villain, criminal mastermind, and even occasional anti-hero has made him a unique and multilayered villain. No matter what his scheme happens to be, Baron Zemo has always believed in one thing: that he was destined to rule the world.

Helmut Zemo's father Heinrich was a ruthless but brilliant Nazi scientist who built a death ray to help conquer the world, only to be thwarted by the Howling Commandos. This blow to his reputation in Germany led to him disguising himself with the now-famous purple cowl. Heinrich went insane when Captain America beat him again and his cowl was permanently stuck to him thanks to his super-glue invention, Adhesive X. Zemo gained revenge when he booby-trapped a rocket whose detonation put Cap in suspended animation. By the time of Avengers #6, Heinrich created the Masters of Evil as a way of trying to kill Cap and his friends in the Avengers once and for all. Zemo died when his death ray caused a rock slide that buried him while fighting Cap in Avengers #15.

Years later, a villain in a bright orange and red costume who called himself the Phoenix, not to be confused with the X-Men's Phoenix, menaced Cap and his partner, the Falcon. In Captain America number 168, The Phoenix revealed himself to be Heinrich Zemo's son Helmut, having reverse-engineered how to make Adhesive X and the death ray. At that time, Helmut Zemo was no match for Cap one on one, and Cap himself was reluctant to fight him, seeing Helmut as another victim of the war.

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Zemo's father | 0:00
The Baroness | 1:30
A wolf in superhero clothing | 2:28
Mansion siege | 3:39
Daddy issues | 4:52
Hero of Counter-Earth | 6:03
Cap: it's complicated | 7:09
Mind control mania | 8:34
Zemo knows best | 9:55

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