

has presented us with a marching list of Hydra officers over the course of its first few seasons, most notably John Garrett, played by Bill Paxton, who operated in the shadows as The Clairvoyant, and Daniel Whitehall (Kraken from the comics), another former Nazi turned Hydra super-scientist. team and often threatening their missions.Īgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Since then, he's spent most of his time on the run, eluding the reach of the S.H.I.E.L.D. at every rank, Ward revealed himself as a traitor, and tried to kill his former teammates. However, during the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, when Hydra revealed that they had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. During season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Ward was on the side of the angels, an agent with a reputation rivaling that of Black Widow, helping Agent Coulson's team take down super villain threats around the globe.

television show.Īgent Ward has really risen in the ranks in the last two years. So who's pulling the strings? For that, we need to look to the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. After all, even after the fall of Hydra's secret castle fortress, they still appeared in Ant-Man, where they managed to make off with a vial of very dangerous Pym Particles. So, without Strucker, is that the end of Hydra? Not so! If you cut one head off Hydra, two more will grow to replace it, or so their marketing department tells us. After stealing the Scepter of Loki in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., developing the powers of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and likely heading Hydra since Red Skull's disappearance, Strucker was murdered by Ultron suddenly, after only about 5 minutes of combined screen-time. With such a long repertoire of comic book villainy under his belt, its strange to see that Strucker was quickly and unceremoniously dispatched offscreen in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Faking his own death, Strucker has run Hydra from behind the scenes, orchestrating his machinations of hate and megalomania across the globe for decades. Strucker has had his body chemically and mechanically augmented to be incredibly strong, and has barely aged since the time he was an actual Nazi officer in Hitler's service. In Marvel Comics, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is the current monarch of a long family line of German aristocrats who used their extensive wealth and knowledge to back the Nazi party, eventually turning their assets exclusively towards Hydra. Could he bring his old master back to the screen? Only time will tell. Never truly a leader in the ranks of Hydra, Zola nevertheless was the main cause of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s downfall in the MCU, and in the comics he has cloned and revived the Red Skull on multiple occasions. Despite that, and his weird appearance in the comics (with a camera for a head and a video screen embedded in his robotic torso), there is no denying this guy's genius. You've got to love that when they programmed Arnim Zola into the computer, they still gave him glasses.

database, turning their own data against them. He appeared again in The Winter Soldier in the form of a computer program, his brain loaded into the S.H.I.E.L.D. However, lackey or not, Zola's menace came seething out from behind his unassuming appearance, thanks largely to a great performance by Toby Jones. Arnim Zola was originally seen in Captain America: The First Avenger as a nerdy lackey who helped Red Skull develop his powerful laser cannons for his troops.
