How is Red Skull alive?

The Red Skull inhales the dust of death and his face takes on the appearance of a living red skull; his head loses its hair and its skin shrivels, clinging tightly to his skull, and taking on a red discoloration. The Red Skull survives the exposure due to the effects of the Super-Soldier Formula.
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Is Red Skull dead or alive?

Red Skull is still alive and might return to wreak some more havoc on the world. First introduced in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, Red Skull (previously known as Johann Schmidt) was the leader of HYDRA, the terrorist organization hellbent on world domination.
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Why is Red Skull on Vormir?

The Red Skull explains that his quest to control an Infinity Stone led it to reject him, sending him to Vormir. He's tied to the Soul Stone as its representative, it seems, and he can never possess it himself.
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How was Red Skull created?

He headed up HYDRA, a faction of the Nazi Party during World War II. He experimented on himself with a version of the super soldier serum that made Captain America tall and buff. Unfortunately for the Schmidt, the serum backfired and gave him, well, a red skull.
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How did Johann turn into Red Skull?

Schmidt's impatience is what caused his head to be so terribly disfigured. It resulted in the complete loss of hair, the skin all over his face to deteriorate and fall away, and his head to develop a red discoloration.
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Why did Red Skull rip his face off?

When Erskine refused to hand it over, however, Schmidt took it by force and injected himself, only to discover that it was incomplete, resulting in Schmidt's face becoming hideously disfigured while he gained his abilities. Schmidt's skin was burned off his face, giving him the nickname of the Red Skull.
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Why did the serum not work on Red Skull?

In 1940, a prototype version of the serum was tested on Johann Schmidt, turning him into Red Skull in the process. However, the formula wasn't ready for use at the time, and the serum's effects affected Schmidt's personality drastically.
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Is the Red Skull human?

Having become a confidant of Adolf Hitler during World War II, Schmidt gained ambitions to become the superior man, leading him to test the version of Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum on himself, resulting with him becoming hideously disfigured as well as gaining the name of Red Skull.
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Is Electro the Red Skull son?

Rhienholdt Schmidt is the son of Red Skull and adopted brother to Chameleon. He joined the Moscow Police Department as a detective under the name Rheinholt Kragov. He became a powerful supervillain known as Electro.
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Is Red Skull a HYDRA?

The Red Skull, also known as Johann Schmidt, is a HYDRA member and former Nazi whose face was deformed when he took an early version of the super-soldier serum that would eventually turn Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) into Captain America.
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Who put the Soul Stone on Vormir?

While on Vormir, Romanoff and Barton met Red Skull, who informed them that one would have to sacrifice the life of a loved one in order to obtain the Soul Stone. Despite Barton's attempts to sacrifice his own life, he was bested by Romanoff, who fell off the cliff, thereby allowing Barton to acquire the stone.
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Did Captain America meet Red Skull again?

While the idea was dropped early in development, Joe Russo confirmed that Captain America did meet the Red Skull again when he gave the Soul Stone back to Vormir before returning to the alternate 1940s to live out his retirement, albeit offscreen.
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Who guarded the Soul Stone before Red Skull?

There are two possibilities: no one was the guardian beforehand or there was someone who got replaced by Red Skull. The Soul Stone doesn't need a guardian, it's just helpful to give the information about it out. Remember it requires a sacrifice but it doesn't necessarily need someone there telling others this.
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How did Hawkeye hold the Soul Stone?

Simply because he was wearing a glove (if I remember correctly). Although that seems like pittance compared to an infinity stone. The soul stone has effectively "chosen" him because of the sacrifice of Black Widow. Another human in the same setting would be destroyed.
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Who is the leader of HYDRA?

Johann Schmidt – the leader of Hydra, a special weapons division of the Nazi Schutzstaffel and a modern-day incarnation of the ancient society. Arnim Zola – an Swiss-born scientist working for Hydra before, during, and after World War II.
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What is Rhino's suit made of?

Rhino wears a a thick polymer mat suit similar to a rhinoceros hide, covering his entire body except for his face.
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Why did Electro turn yellow?

One of the best examples of this is when Harry Osborn breaks Electro out of the Ravencroft Institute. Feeding off of electricity, Electro evolves into a stronger - and eventually more realized - version of his post-accident self with yellow and orange charges flickering through him.
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How did Rhino get his powers?

Aleksei Sytsevich was a member of the Russian mafia who willingly underwent a series of chemical and radiation treatments meant to give him an artificial skin covering that would grant superhuman strength.
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Is the Red Skull just a mask?

In the comics, the Red Skull started out just as a man in a hideous red mask, but it's very different in the films! In the movies, he has similar powers to Captain America thanks to Schmidt injecting himself with a version of the Super Soldier Serum.
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What is Red Skull backstory?

Dissatisfied with the standard drill instruction his subordinates used to train Shmidt, Hitler took over personally. Upon completion, Hitler gave Shmidt a unique uniform with a grotesque red skull mask, and he emerged as the Red Skull.
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Is super-soldier Serum possible?

A formula capable of enhancing human beings into "Super-Soldiers." The exact formula given to Steve Rogers is unknown, there have been many attempts to duplicate it but never successful.
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Is the Red Skull stronger than Captain America?

Red Skull is Immune To One Attack Far More Powerful Than Captain America. Marvel Comics supervillain Red Skull has long been established as Captain America's arch enemy, though fans recently learned that he is immune to an attack far more powerful than anything Captain America could deliver.
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Did Red Skull take the same serum as Captain America?

The film Captain America: The First Avenger showed the transformation of both the titular character and his arch-nemesis, Johann Schmidt, aka The Red Skull. While both men took the same super-soldier serum developed by Dr.
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What was red skulls real name?

Johann Shmidt, the Red Skull, was the son of a coarse, drunken German villager named Hermann Shmidt and his reportedly saintly, long-suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband. Martha died giving birth to Johann, their only child.
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