Spin Master Marvel: Hail Hydra Board Game

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Ripped from the Headlines: Hydra's infiltration of SHIELD is specifically said to have begun with Operation Paperclip , the real-life program in which former Nazi scientists were recruited to work for the American government. This gave Zola and his cronies the access they needed to subvert American nationals into becoming double agents and recreate Hydra as a conspiracy within SHIELD from the start of the latter organization. The Infiltration: It's revealed that HYDRA had infiltrated SHIELD shortly after the latter had been formed.

Hypocrite: He hates being compared to the Red Skull despite being an unrepentant mass-murderer. He even has the nerve to criticize democracy for being corrupt when his regime is so much worse. We dismantled their network, but that just sent the rats scurrying off the sinking ship." ― Jeffrey Mace and Phil Coulson [src] Raina and other Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. villains have this motivation. Notable because, at least Raina, finds the idea of working for Hydra otherwise discomforting. Graduation Ceremony: HYDRA's examination for new recruits to eliminate their weakness of attachment, making them completely loyal to the organization. The new recruits had to kill their own dog to pass the test. The technique was executed at the HYDRA Preparatory Academy, [24] and by John Garrett to test Grant Ward. [23]S.H.I.E.L.D. 6-1-6: a modified Boeing C-17 Globemaster III temporarily used by John Garrett's HYDRA branch. Horrible Judge of Character: Trusts his High Council note Madame Hydra, Baron Zemo, Viper, Arnim Zola, Kraken, Doctor Faustus, Hive, and Gorgon just because they all worked for HYDRA in the past. While most of them were fairly loyal to his cause, at least Doctor Faustus and Viper have tried to undermine him in some way.

If you have already played HAIL HYDRA using the First Game Rules and are looking for the new changes to the game, read all sections that have the symbol below in the top left corner. Zolanator 2000X Assault Rifle: An assault rifle developed by Arnim Zola. It was a heavily modified variant of the StG-44, and fired conventional ammunition as opposed to energy bolts. It was used by the HYDRA troops and by the Howling Commandos. Arnimhilation 99L Assault Weapon: One of many weapons developed by Arnim Zola after the discovery of the Tesseract, this rifle could fire energy pulses that could disintegrate enemy soldiers with one shot.

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Zola: HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. Their original incarnation. The modern organization has no racial agenda, accepting members from all nationalities. One snarky but likely explanation is: "You can't sell toys of Nazis." Captain America's Shield Hydra Supreme Armor: An armor Captain America utilized while struggling to maintain control of the United States of America. It was created by Arnim Zola using the majority of the fragments of the Cosmic Cube that had previously taken the form of Kobik, combined with technology stolen from Tony Stark's lab prior to the destruction of The Mount. [49] It was later destroyed by Prime Earth's Captain America with the help of a blow from Mjolnir. [15] Trivia Ophelia Sarkissian: We were orphans. Little girls, all alone. Hydra gave us a home. Eight great houses. Twelve girls to a house. And in the end, the most determined... the most ambitious... the most aggressive... That girl would be the Viper. All it cost was everything.

Hydra itself had a version of this with their Department of Occult Armaments in the 1990s Midnight Sons titles, though the D.O.A. never amounted to much. After the SSR and the Howling Commandos all but destroyed HYDRA in the 1940s, Zola did this to the organization, rebuilding it within the nascent S.H.I.E.L.D. for the next several decades. In the meantime, Schmidt had his apprentice, General Werner Reinhardt to search for other mysterious artifacts. [13] Reinhardt was able to discover the blue-skinned extraterrestrial corpse in some unspecified location, possibly in the deserts of North Africa. [14] The corpse was soon stored in HYDRA Research Facility Number 4 in Austria. [13] Sadist: A psychological and physical sadist, who enjoys hurting people for the hell of it. Noticing a trend with Cap's rogues? To this end, Kobik used her omnipotent powers to create an alternate timeline in which Steve Rogers was proselytized into Hydra when he was a kid. [15] [12] Early Life [ ]

Enemy Civil War: A frequent problem. Hydra are notorious for schisms and violent internal power struggles, but being devoted to the Fuhrer-principle and having no real ideology beyond " Take Over the World" note Of COURSE! will do that. Cut off one head, two more shall take its place." As shown in The Winter Soldier this is a true statement. As the last remnant of HYDRA, Zola managed to reconstruct the organization from within S.H.I.E.L.D. in a far more subversive manner than the overt methods of Red Skull. Depending on the Writer: For a time, they were subject to some severe Villain Decay, occasionally portrayed as simple generic terrorists of the week, not even worth fussing about. After Secret Warriors (and then their appearances in the MCU) this has fallen by the wayside. To help the Orchis' anti-mutant cause and spread mutant hate, he pretended to be Cyclops, reformed the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, and stole a nuclear weapon. [54] Attributes Powers

Faustus: HYDRA scientists, such Dr. Daniel Whitehall and others, were able to indoctrinate gifted individuals such Carl Creel, [13] Agent 33, [46] and Donnie Gill. [46] In the rise of Nazi Schutzstaffel, the brutal Johann Schmidt re-branded the cult Hydra and incorporated itself into the Nazi government as a division for both deep science and the investigation of the occult. While Adolf Hitler had always maintained an interest in both fields, Schmidt was obsessed with them, leading to his taking of the Super Soldier serum which transformed him into the Red Skull. No longer a champion of the Aryan image, Hitler had Schmidt quietly transferred elsewhere, under the illusion that he could continue his work in private and with better funding, but the façade did not convince Schmidt. The Latin inscriptions on the seal are: " ET ID LUCEM EX TENEBRIS," which translates as: " May the light come from darkness." He has very little regard for superhuman life, going so far as to facilitate concentration camps reserved for Inhumans. There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Hydra calls one of its superweapons The Overkill Horn. Its function? Remotely activating every single nuclear weapon on the surface of the planet.

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Among the events shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier to illustrate how HYDRA fed crisis in the world were the rise of power of Muammar Gaddafi, the Coup of Hugo Chavez, the economic crisis in 1980 or the Iran revolution in 1979, as seen when Arnim Zola gives his speech to Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff. Various HYDRA operatives who escaped justice after the war infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. shortly after it was formed, as well as other positions of power within the American government, working secretly in their ranks. Led by Zola, HYDRA worked from the shadows, directing their agents to complete the tasks that were assigned. [16] Villain Team-Up: Surprisingly rare until recently. Most Hydra villains were members of Hydra or one of its break-away branches. Norman Osborn is one of the few to reach out to Hydra. Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The only way to explain how the organization affords its many, many bases. A Nazi by Any Other Name: Hydra started off as an actual Nazi organization during World War II which became independent when the actual Nazis, well, lost. When your founders are Nazis it's no stretch that your organisation end up Nazi-like. (As revealed in Captain America: Hail Hydra and Secret Warriors, Hydra actually let the Nazis think that, but are actually older. Still, they saw the Nazis as having compatible goals, and still have evidence of that connection.)