Arnim Zola

 

Today's post is about another Captain America foe who has been a constant thorn in his side, Arnim Zola. First appearing in Captain America # 208 (1971), Zola was a brilliant biochemist during WWII in the employ of the Nazi Party and was one of the first human genetic engineers. His greatest contribution was in developing a brain pattern imprint device, this allowed a persons mental essence to be projected into a cloned brain. This was gifted to Adolf Hitler and allowed his brain to be transferred into a new body, the body that would become the supervillain known as the Hate Monger. Zola used his technology on himself, thus allowing him to survive past the war into the modern era. The Red Skull has through the years also financed several of Zola's experiments for the creation of monsters such as Doughboy, Primus and Man-Fish. His experiments have made him a dangerous foe over the decades. He was instrumental in pulling Steve Rogers from the timestream, so that the Skull could project his brain into Rogers body. His whereabouts after those events are unknown. He will be portrayed in the upcoming Captain America film by Toby Jones.