| NOTE: This article is about the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Adolf Hitler. You can find information on other version in the disambiguation page. |
| “ | So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, my people struggled. They... they felt weak. They felt small. And then Hitler comes along with the marching and the big show and the flags. | „ |
| ~ Abraham Erskine's opinions on Adolf Hitler. |
Adolf Hitler is a supporting antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, serving as the overarching antagonist of the Captain America trilogy and its 2011 tie-in comic book Captain America: First Vengeance.
He is, just like in real-life, the leader of the Nazis, the Chancellor of Germany and one of the engineers behind World War II, one of the Earth's deadliest conflicts. However, during the conflict, Hitler grants Johann Schmidt the permission to found the newest incarnation of the HYDRA society, permitting Schmidt to become the fearsome Red Skull and Captain America's archenemy.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Transforms the National Socialist German Workers' Party into the Nazi Party after Germany's humiliating defeat in World War I and gains followers until he rises up to become his country's Chancellor, convincing Germans with his Aryan race ideology that they are destined to rule over everyone, essentially turning his country against itself.
- Establishes the Schutzstaffel (SS) with Heinrich Himmler, which goes to recruit Johann Schmidt and Daniel Whitehall into their ranks.
- Orders the assassinations of the Sturmabteilung's higher officers, among them his loyal aide Ernst Kaufmann, during the Night of the Long Knives just to get the Wehrmacht's support for his regime.
- Forms and funds (as seen here) the special weapons division of HYDRA, led by Schmidt and consisting of researchers like Arnim Zola, so they can design weapons for the Nazis and create the "Superior Man" the Aryan race ideology claims about to which they can use to take over the world. Though HYDRA as an ancient society already existed thanks to Hive, this makes Hitler responsible for allowing Schmidt to create a new incarnation for the organization.
- Starts the Holocaust, an attempted genocide on all of Europe's Jewish population, and World War II by invading Poland, triggering the second yet most deadliest worldwide conflict that claims millions of lives.
- Among the victims from the Holocaust were Professor Abraham Erskine's wife and children, who were sent there by Schmidt mainly to blackmail Erskine into developing the Super Soldier Serum to create Hitler's "Superior Man" in exchange of recovering his family, which ultimately didn't happen because Erskine's family die thanks to a typhus outbreak that happens at their concentration camp.
- Another victim was highly likely a German old man who stands up to the Asgardian God of Mischief Loki Laufeyson when he attacks Germany in 2012, as he refuses to kneel before Loki as he knows that there are always men who think they are superior to others.
- Basically banishes Schmidt away after he disfigures himself experimenting with Abraham Erskine's first Super Soldier Serum by giving him a new base in the Alps as a "reward", but Schmidt sees through this as an "exile" because he no longer fits within Hitler's Aryan ideal, a total ungrateful move considering all that Schmidt made for Hitler. This later leads Schmidt to become the Red Skull, defect HYDRA from the Third Reich and try to bomb every major city of the Earth, including Berlin, to take over the world with the Tesseract's powers.
- Cowardly goes into hiding once the Allies turn the war's tides, appointing Karl Dönitz as his successor before committing suicide to avoid capture.
- Though indirectly, his crimes against humanity would be just some of the many reasons Arthur Harrow and his cult would try to release Ammit to rule over the world to protect them from bad people like Hitler.
- While he claims to be an extremist, he truthfully is anything but that. Adolf Hitler is a maniacal egotist who wants to torture and kill anyone who is different, not a gray character seeking to complete his "noble work" of "purifying" the earth of problematically anomalous life.
- Although the MCU has a very high Heinous Standards, Hitler lacks the same resources most villains due to living in a different time period, not to mention that his historical and realistic crimes allow him to stand out as he does go to influence some of the franchise's totalitarian villains.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He suffers from insufficient characterization, as he never actually appears onscreen in the films and just appears in a tie-in comic book, where he just physically appears for the chapter where Johann Schmidt meets him and then is just mentioned.
Trivia[]
- Adolf Hitler is, so far, the only Near Pure Evil from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to originate from the Phase One. All others started appearing since the Phase Two onwards.
- Only the Sacred Timeline version of Adolf Hitler counts as Near Pure Evil, as his What If...? counterpart from Captain Carter's universe doesn't stand out due to an even greater lack of characterization, never appearing onscreen.
External Links[]
- Adolf Hitler on the Villains Wiki
- Adolf Hitler on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Adolf Hitler on the Marvel Wiki
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