Hydra’s Red Skull

The Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) is a supervillain appearing in Marvel Comics, and of course, is a character in the Atomic Mass Game’s, “Crisis Protocol”

“Not A Scratch, Doctor. Not A Scratch.”

“And The Führer Digs For Trinkets In The Desert.”

Shmidt longed for a master to show him how to achieve power. Years later, after the Nazis had come to power in Germany, Shmidt was working in a hotel where the dictator of Germany’s Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, came one day to stay.

“Great Power Has Always Baffled Primitive Men.”

That night, Shmidt brought refreshments to Hitler’s suite and found Hitler berating the chief of the Gestapo for letting a spy escape.

“Quite Simply, Gentlemen, I Have Harnessed The Power Of The Gods.”

On hearing Hitler’s voice, Shmidt decided that Hitler was the master he had sought. When Hitler ranted to the Gestapo chief “I could teach that bellboy to do a better job than you!” the dictator then looked closely at Shmidt and saw the bellboy’s hatred of all humankind, an emotion that Hitler asserted he himself shared.

“You Pretend To Be A Simple Soldier, But In Reality, You Are Just Afraid To Admit That We Have Left Humanity Behind.”

Shmidt saw in Hitler’s eyes all of his own fears and frustrations, the embodiment of evil and a model after which he could pattern himself.

“We All Think That At First. We Are All Wrong.”

Having become a confidant of Adolf Hitler during World War II, Schmidt gained ambitions to become the superior man, leading him to use the prototype of Abraham Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum on himself, resulting in him becoming disfigured with a red face, gaining the name Red Skull.