Most fans weren't expecting the Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger to appear. ... He headed up HYDRA, a faction of the Nazi Party during World War II.

Red Skull, aka Johann Schmidt, ... Hugo Weaving rather than Infinity War's Ross Marquand) is initially the head of HYRDRA, working alongside Nazis during World War II.

Johann Schmidt's Red Skull has an important place in the MCU's history, as he was the first supervillain Steve Rogers fought after becoming Captain America during WWII.

Hugo Weaving played the WWII-era villain in Captain America: The First Avenger. The Red Skull was dead by the end of the movie, but death isn’t always the end in superhero stories. At this point ...

During World War II as a member of the Nazi party, the Red Skull was granted command of his own kill squad, who routinely wiped out whole villages for no reason and bombed random strips of land.

Take A Good Look At The Red Skull. Published Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:41:39 -0600 ... sickly wannabe soldier during World War II who gets an injection that turns him into a super-warrior.

Scenes in last week’s Steve Rogers #15 went a step further, portraying a WWII-era conversation between Red Skull and Captain America in which they discuss how Skull betrayed his fellow Hydra ...

AVENGERS ENDGAME implied that Captain America was reunited with Red Skull on Vormir, ... After all, Steve Rogers and the villain hadn’t seen each other since World War II, ...

During a panel appearance at the recent Awesome Con 2025 (via ComicBook.com), Marquand shared how he found out he would be playing Red Skull in Infinity War and Endgame, revealing that he had ...