Baron Strucker
Baron Strucker is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Wolfgang von Strucker
During World War I, he fought for Germany and served as a corporal in the army when he encountered the time-displaced Momentary Princess in Leipzig that appeared at regular intervals in history. After seeing it, Strucker touched it and saw a vision of the future where he became the leader of Hydra before the relic disappeared again. (Gambit v3 #10)
Over 20 years ago, he led the surviving forces of the Hydra Bruderschaft that sought to re-establish themselves. Strucker came to learn of a secret cache of gold that could be accessed by a young Jewish girl named Gabrielle Haller. Thus, he sent his forces to kidnap her where he had the girl open the doorway to the gold cache that was hidden in a cave. They were then attacked by Charles Xavier and his friend Magnus both of whom were Mutants where they had come to free their friend Gabrielle. This resulted in Strucker's defeat with Magnus taking away the gold and a cave-in being triggered that seemingly buried the Baron. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #161)
At some point, he had a two Mutant children named Andrea and Andreas Strucker who formed a group named Fenris. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #200)
He later came to marry his third wife who was Elsbeth von Strucker who was noted for being a smart woman that kept to the shadows with few knowing about her and her becoming the fourth richest person in the world. She was a Satanist who had been funding Hydra since 1957 with her taking four kings and three presidents as lovers as she lived to be 175 years old in the modern day. (Wolverine v3 #23)
Whilst at Ichor base, he came to discover that many of his Hydra forces had been replaced by Skrulls who were conducting their invasion of the planet. Strucker personally killed the ones sent to assassinate him and triggered a self-destruct that killed everyone at the underwater city that included both Hydra forces as well as Skrull infiltrators. He then re-grouped at the New Zealand based Gehenna base where he gathered all of Hydra's forces and established the Hydra High Council though noted that they were missing one member. This saw him personally going to the island of Shinkoku where Hydra attacked the Second City of the Twilight Dawn which was a resurrection temple of the Hand. He then forced the Hand Grandmaster to perform a resurrection of a select body with this act being so great that it cost the ninja master his life. This saw the resurrection of Gorgon who assumed the position of Grandmaster of the Hand and took his place as one of the leaders of the re-formed Hydra. (Secret Warriors v1 #2)
He stated that he departed the ranks of the Hydra when they allowed those he deemed impure and unclean into their ranks during the events of the Secret Empire. Due to tax cuts in the American government, the United States began recruiting people to run prisoners with Strucker being awarded a position. This resulted in him managing the Myrmidon which was a private penal facility designed to hold those that were enhanced beings. As warden, he headed the prison when Steve Rogers was arrested for the apparent murder of General Ross. (Captain America v9 #7)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Other offspring included the two leaders of Fenris which included his daughter Andrea Strucker and son Andreas Strucker. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #200)
Within Hydra's ranks, he had a personal assistant named Ms. Fischer who enacted his plans and schemes. (Secret Warriors v1 #2)
Powers and abilities
Strucker’s most potent weapon was the red gloved gauntlet known as the Satan’s Claw. It was said to be operated electronically and unleashed powerful energies such as voltage to shock an opponent. (Strange Tales v1 #157)
Notes
- Baron Strucker was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos v1 #5 (January, 1964).
Alternate Versions
- In Marvel Zombies Destroy! v1 #2 (2012), a version of Baron Strucker appeared in alternate reality designated as Earth-12591. During World War II, Nazi Germany was losing the conflict leading to Baron Strucker looked for an advantage against their enemies. They believed a weapon resided within the gods of the Norse pantheon and looked for a means of accessing Asgard. An expedition to Tibet was made to find the Rainbow Bridge led to them finding a llama who offered them the Death Spore Flower which was from the underworld of Hel. Use of these flowers led to the creation of the Marvel Zombies that came to spread around the world.
- In Hail Hydra v1 #3 (2015), an alternate version of the character was shown as an inhabitant of Battleworld Earth-85826 where he was part of the Hydra Empire domain. In this domain, Hydra won World War II and came to dominate the world with Strucker operating as their version of the Avengers under the identity of the Iron Baron with him wearing an Iron Man Armor.
- In Avengers of the Wasteland v1 #4 (2020), an alternate version of the character appeared in the Wastelands that was designated as Earth-807128. This version participated in the villain takeover of the world that was enacted by the Red Skull which saw many of the planets superheroes being killed. Set fifty years later, Baron Strucker was one of the many villains who ruled over territory split between the various supervillains. He and his Hydra forces came to resent Doctor Doom for not giving them more power and he prepared to launch a siege against the Latverian's territory. However, Doom and his army of Doombots attacked Hydra first who were massacred with Baron Strucker being eliminated by the Latverian monarch himself.
In other media
Television
- In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Baron Strucker made multiple appearances where he was voiced by actor Jim Ward.
- In Avengers Assemble, Baron Strucker appeared as an antagonist in the animated series episode "Seeing Double" where he was voiced by actor Robin Atkin Downes.
Films
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Baron Strucker made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting.
- In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Baron Strucker appeared as a HYDRA member who briefly was shown in the ending credit sequence where he was portrayed by Thomas Kretschmann.
- In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Baron Strucker appeared in the film where he was once again portrayed by Thomas Kretschmann.
Video games
- In Captain America: Super Soldier, Baron Strucker appeared as a boss character in the video game where he was voiced by actor Kai Wulff.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Baron Strucker appeared as a boss antagonist in the setting of the Facebook video game.
Appearances
- Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos v1: (1964)
- Strange Tales v1:
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
- Gambit v3:
- Secret Warriors v1:
- Captain America v9:
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