Marvel 5 Reasons Heinrich Zemo Is The Better Baron Zemo (& 5 That It’s Helmut)

Marvel: 5 Reasons Heinrich Zemo Is The Better Baron Zemo (& 5 That It’s Helmut)

Baron Zemo is one of Captain America’s foremost nemeses, but the alias belongs to two Marvel Comics characters. Which is better?

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Baron Zemo is one of Captain America’s foremost nemeses, standing at stature second or even equal to The Red Skull. However, the alias actually belongs to two distinct characters: Heinrich Zemo, the 12th Baron of the name who fought Captain America during WW2 and briefly in the present before his demise, and his son Helmut, who adopted his father’s title and vendetta against Steve Rogers.

Both Zemo senior and junior alike are iconic villains in their own right, but which one comes out on top as more deserving of the title “Baron Zemo?” Let’s compare and find out.

10 Heinrich: Killed Bucky

In the final days of WW2, Cap and Bucky were sent to investigate the theft of an experimental allied drone plane by Zemo’s forces. Unbeknownst to the pair, Zemo’s plan wasn’t to use the plan to score a symbolic victory against the Allies, but to eliminate his two most hated foes in one fell swoop. Cap and Bucky reach the plane just as it launches, discovering too late that it’s equipped with an explosive; though Steve is able to leap off in time, Bucky’s sleeve is caught on the plane and he is caught in the explosion. Upon being reawakened by the Avengers many years afterwards, the specter of Bucky’s demise haunted Cap like no other of his fallen comrades, even after he avenged his sidekick’s death by killing Zemo.

9 Helmut: Ruined Bucky’s Life

Of course, if you have even a passing knowledge of modern Marvel lore, you’ll know that Bucky’s story didn’t really end in the explosion of that drone plane. Landing in the freezing waters below and missing his right arm, Bucky was discovered by a Soviet submarine and brainwashed into the KGB’s assassin, the Winter Soldier; the name a reference to him being kept in suspended animation between missions. Steve eventually discovered what had happened to his friend and restored his memories; Bucky even assumed the mantle of Captain America after Steve’s own death. This was not meant to last, however, as Helmut Zemo discovered Bucky’s Winter Soldier past, thanks to a tip from fellow super-villain The Ghost, and leaked it to the public. Having started on the path to redemption, Bucky was forced to shed the Captain America identity and fake his death yet again.

8 Heinrich: Put Cap On Ice

Bucky’s seeming death wasn’t the only consequence of Zemo’s drone plane master stroke. Cap himself was sent plummeting into the same freezing waters as his side-kick, but unlike Bucky, his remains went totally undiscovered for decades and was presumed dead until he was found by the Avengers decades later.

While the cryogenic stasis of the ice meant Cap hadn’t aged a day when he awoke, he found himself in an unfamiliar land, a superhero Rip Van Winkle. Faced with almost everyone he once knew either aged or dead, coupled with an America that failed to live up to the ideals he clung to, Captain America’s adjustment to modern times wasn’t an easy one. Any way you slice it, the reason we know Captain America as “the man out of time” is Baron Zemo.

7 Helmut: Invaded Avengers’ Mansion

The younger Zemo’s greatest claim to super-villain fame occurred in the Under Siege storyline (comprising The Avengers #270-277), where he assembled a new Masters of Evil group and invaded the Avengers’ mansion. Zemo and his 17-villains-strong team initially prevailed, storming the mansion and taking key Avengers, including The Black Knight, Hercules, and of course Captain America. Zemo’s plan is foiled only by the escape of the Wasp, who assembles a team, including her husband Ant-Man, Thor, and Monica Rambeau, to retake the mansion. Nevertheless, Under Siege stands out as a time where victory was only very narrowly snatched from Zemo’s grasp.

6 Heinrich: Founded The Masters Of Evil

Helmut may have lead the Masters Of Evil on occasion, but it was his father who founded the group. Discovering in The Avengers #6 that Captain America had returned and joined the Avengers, Zemo assembled a group of super-villains to counter his old enemy’s new allies. Recruiting Thor foe Radioactive Man, Iron Man adversary the Melter, and enemy of Ant-Man & Wasp The Black Knight, Zemo launches his attack on the Avengers. Soon after recruiting exiled Asgardians Amora and Skurge, Zemo’s Masters of Evil become recurring adversaries of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes over the next collection of issues, dissolving only upon their leader’s death in The Avengers #15.

5 Helmut: Founded Thunderbolts

The Thunderbolts began as one of the most insidious schemes cooked up by a villain in the Marvel universe. Following the simultaneous disappearance of the Avengers, The X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, there was a vacuum of super-powered teams left in the world. Zemo took note of this, and assembled several former members of his Masters of Evil, granting them new costumed identities, renaming himself Citizen V, and introducing Thunderbolts as the world’s next great superhero team.

Zemo’s plan was for the Thunderbolts to gain the public trust in the way the Avengers had, be granted access to all sorts of classified information, then sell the info on the black market. His plan backfired as several Thunderbolts came to enjoy playing hero and became sincere in their intentions, but the initial Thunderbolts remains one of the most twisted and ingenious schemes by a Marvel super-villain.

4 Heinrich: Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

If you ask most Avengers fans what the best animated depiction of the team is, most would probably answer the 2010-2013 cartoon The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. The series weaved together characters and storylines from all across Avengers’ history, staying true to the spirit of the comics but still putting a fresh spin on things. The series’ depiction of Baron Zemo was no different, being among the show’s most memorable villains. The creators chose to use Heinrich over Helmut, and the elder Zemo was arguably even more impressive a villain than his comic counterpart, being the founder of HYDRA in addition to the Masters of Evil, and usurping his son’s key accomplishment of leading the Masters in an invasion of Avengers’ mansion.

3 Helmut: Marvel Cinematic Universe

While the animated Avengers faced Heinrich exclusively, their live-action counterparts have only dealt with Helmut. Appearing in Captain America: Civil War portrayed by Daniel Brühl, Zemo was reimagined from his comic counterpart; a Sokovian civilian, Zemo blamed the Avengers’ carelessness for his family’s death and conspired to tear them apart from the inside. By the time his scheme was brought to fruition, he had become one of the most successful villains in the MCU, achieving his goal of breaking the Avengers, if only for a time. Brühl is set to reprise his role in the upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, sporting his comic counterpart’s mask to boot.

2 Heinrich: A Nazi

Born of German nobility, Heinrich Zemo was a staunch believer in the concept of a “master race,” specifically believing his blood-line to be it. As such, he easily fell in line behind the Nazi party as it seized power in his native Germany, becoming one of Hitler’s key scientists.

While Zemo passed on the ideals to his son, Helmut eventually came to forsake them, even if he still ultimately remains a villain. Heinrich, on the other hand, remained a committed Nazi until his dying breath, and thus was an innately more despicable villain than his son currently is.

1 Helmut: Costume

Let’s be blunt; Heinrich Zemo’s costume was never the most impressive thing about him. Though likely meant to evoke images of the KKK, the purple hood that adorned his face often just looked silly. His son’s costume, though maintaining the general look and color scheme, somehow ended up an improvement; the skin-tight mask gives him an inhuman quality, whilst the sword he wields both adds to his nobleman image and acts as a fitting contrast to Captain America’s famous shield. It says a lot that the aforementioned Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, while using Heinrich’s name and backstory, chose to use Helmut’s costume for their Baron Zemo.

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