| Comics | Golden Age • Post-Golden Age • Ultimate |
|---|---|
| Movies | Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| “ | Seeing your nation with fresh eyes, my dear Captain America, I assure you-you've lost your war. It just happened so slowly you grew accustomed to it. But if you look to your heart, you will realize the truth. You're fighting to change it back, to add some semblance of sanity to an incurably sick culture that breeds only parasites, greedy polluters and psychotic madmen. A hopeless struggle you continued out of habit. You imagine that if you fight hard enough, one day you will wrest control from the bankers who own you and return this nation to its former glory. Clean streets, honest neighbors, attractive wives, green lawns. But in reality this is, and will remain, your America. An uneducated population fixated on competition, material wealth and voyeurism. Violent monsters doused in antibiotics to offset their diet of sugary sweet drink and mounds of carcinogenic cow flesh! This is what you fight for! | „ |
Summary
When Johann Schmidt was born, his mother Martha died while giving birth to him, leading to his father Hermann attempting to kill him and eventually killing himself. Left an orphan on the streets of early Nazi Germany, Johann turned to a life of theft until he began working as a bellhop in his late teens. During this time he ended up rescuing Germany's then-leader from an assassination attempt, who was so impressed with the hatred of mankind he could see within him that he began personally training Schmidt into a "perfect soldier". Upon his training's completion, he had become the Red Skull. He is the archenemy of Captain America.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B | 8-C | Unknown, possibly High 3-A
Key: Red Skull | Cloned Body/"John Smith" | Red Onslaught
Name: Johann Schmidt, Red Skull, Roter Totenkopf, John Smith
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Male
Age: At least 80
Classification: Human supervillain
Powers and Abilities:
- Durability Negation with Dust of Death
- Illusion Creation with holographic projector
- Stealth Mastery (Killed a prisoner in a locked room in a tower without the superheroes, including Captain America, noticing)
- Previously Telepathy, Mind Manipulation, and other abilities (In the past, his own brain was fused with that of Charles Xavier, giving him his powers)
- Regeneration (Low)
- Resistance to Poison Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Illusion Creation and Radiation Manipulation (Has the same powers as Captain America due to using a body cloned from him)
Same as before in addition to:
- Invisibility (Also by bending light around itself)
- Reality Warping (Can create holes in reality[3], contained Franklin Richards[4], created a massive citadel[5])
- Telepathy (Including Mind Control (Possessed Thor)[6], Mind Manipulation (Can shut down minds), Memory Manipulation, Pain Manipulation, Manipulation of one's perception of time), Telekinesis, Teleportation, Astral Projection, Sleep Induction (shown here)[7]
- Magnetism Manipulation (shown here).[1], Matter Manipulation (Atomic level)
- Electricity Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Energy Manipulation and Projection (shown here, here[8] and here[5])
- Earth Manipulation (Can create earthquakes and volcanoes)
- Ice Manipulation (Can freeze an area to near Absolute Zero)
- Limited Gravity Manipulation (Can reverse gravity)
- Limited Biological Manipulation (Can manipulate the iron in blood, causing bodies to freeze and denying access to certain abilities)
- Statistics Amplification (Can amplify its physical abilities)
- Enhanced Senses (Can perceive phenomena across the electromagnetic spectrum)
- Spatial Manipulation (Can create wormholes)
- Perception Manipulation (Can alter or take away senses) and Power Nullification (block the parts of the brain used to control superhuman powers)
- Clairvoyance (Can sense things from another person's perspective. Can communicate with animals, Can identify mutants via their distinct brainwaves, Can learn or teach languages and other complex information telepathically)
Attack Potency: Wall level+ | Building level (Stronger than before. Inhabits a cloned body of Captain America. Outmatched and defeated Black Widow) | Unknown, possibly High Universe level (May be comparable to the original Onslaught)
Speed: Likely Hypersonic (Dodged one of Black Widow's stingers) | Hypersonic | Possibly Massively FTL+
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human | Class 25 (Comparable to Captain America) | possibly Unknown (May be comparable to the original Onslaught)
Striking Strength: Wall level+ | Building level | Unknown, possibly High Universe level
Durability: Wall level+ | Building level | Unknown, possibly High Universe level
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Melee Range, Several Meters with weapons
Standard Equipment: Assorted handguns, explosives, a holographic projector, and a trick cigarette that can fire his deadly Dust of Death powder
Intelligence: Genius. A brilliant strategist and political operative. Is a highly trained German soldier with expertise in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship and explosive weaponry. Successfully inflicted mental anguish on U.S. Agent, and ruined his image by turning him into a berserk madman. Created an explosive that blasted through a wall.
Weaknesses: None notable
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