Sin (Marvel)
Sin is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Sinthea Shmidt was a female human born the daughter of the infamous Nazi war criminal known as the Red Skull. Seeking a male heir, the Red Skull fathered a daughter with a washerwoman. The woman died in childbirth, and the Red Skull almost killed the child, angry that it was a girl and not the boy he expected. One of his followers, Susan Scarbo, convinced him not to, telling him she would raise the girl herself as her nanny. The Skull agreed and left the girl now named Sinthea to be raised by Scarbo, who indoctrinated her with the Skull's views as she grew up. The Skull returned when Sinthea was a child and put her in a special machine that accelerated her aging process until she was an adult and gave her superhuman powers. (Captain America v1 #298)
Sinthea was later captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and taken to their re-education facility, where they attempted to reprogram her to be a 'normal' American girl and gave her false memories to that effect. Later, the Red Skull was assassinated by the Winter Soldier under the orders of Aleksander Lukin, and one of the Skull's henchmen, Crossbones, broke into the facility and kidnapped Sinthea. Crossbones tortured Sinthea to break S.H.I.E.L.D's conditioning. After he succeeded, she entered into a relationship with him, and - with Sinthea now calling herself simply Sin - the two went on a killing spree. They later reunited with the Skull, now living inside the mind of General Lukin. (Captain America v5 #15) As the first part of the Skull's Master Plan, Sin disguised herself as a nurse after the Civil War while Crossbones sniped Captain America at the courthouse, even though it meant obeying her father and abandoning Crossbones to his fate. Sin then revealed to Sharon Carter that she was the one who had killed Cap. (Captain America v5 #25)
Fear Itself
After taking the Black Widow and Sam Wilson hostage, Sin sent one of her henchmen to disrupt the trial of Captain America and sent a demand: Bucky Barnes. After escaping with help from the manipulative Doctor Faustus, James confronted Sin and Master Man and brashly attempted to foil her escape. After the escape, Sin allied herself once more with Baron Zemo to retrieve the Book of the Skull, with which she would discover the whereabouts of a hammer her father summoned way back in 1942. After successfully retrieving the book and explaining its origins to Zemo, Sin betrayed him and went on her own to retrieve the hammer for herself. (Fear Itself: Book of the Skull v1 #1) Sin and her henchmen went to the stronghold of the Thule Society housing the hammer, invaded it and killed everyone who crossed her path. After finding the hammer and being deemed worthy by it, Sin, now as Skadi, went to set her new master, the Serpent, free. (Fear Itself v1 #1)
By her father's side, Skadi and the other Worthy went to the fallen Asgard, in Broxton, Oklahoma, where they battled the Avengers once more. Sin was taken down by Rogers, who was wielding the mystic Mjolnir. After the Serpent was killed by Thor, Sin's hammer was taken from her by Odin, as well as the hammers of the other Worthy. Suddenly, Sin woke up in a hideout where strange people said they freed her from custody and they would help to find her hammer again. (Fear Itself v1 #7)
She was later recruited by Helmut Zemo to join his new Hydra High sect where he embarked on a plan to use a newly activated Inhuman in a bid to sterilise the world. The boy's blood was capable of this power and Zemo intended to provide only those loyal to him the cure. Their operation was uncovered by the new Captain America Sam Wilson who attempted to shut down their activity. He later confronted Sin who intended to break psychologically Wilson and end the legacy of Captain America by attempting to rewrite his history as part of a smear campaign. In addition, she had her Sisters of Sin put Wilson's family in the crosshairs of sniper where she told the new Captain America to kill himself by jumping off the ledge. Wilson seemingly complied and Sin did her part in moving Zemo's plans forward where she also refused to use the cure as she had no desire to become a mother. Believing her foe defeated, she lowered her guard which was when Wilson struck as he had been saved by Redwing. He then looked to stop Sin from activating the launch mechanism for the sterilisation bomb which caused a chain of explosions that caused her to lose her footing. Captain America attempted to save Sin but she refused to be helped by the hero causing her to fall seemingly to her death. (All-New Captain America v1 #3)
Return
Whilst with her father, the newly sentient Cosmic Cube Kobik manifested around them with Sin attempting to eliminate the intruder. With Kobik's reality manipulation, the young girl with but a gesture returned Sin back to her old appearance prior to face being ruined. (Captain America: Steve Rogers v1 #2) She later returned helping her father as he was in hiding in the criminal nation of Bagalia. (Uncanny Avengers v3 #5)
Sin and Crossbones are shown to be in charge of a super-prison that was established by HYDRA. Their super-prison was raided by the Underground in their mission to free their captive friends. (Secret Empire v1 #8)
In the aftermath, Sin organised a faction of Hydra around herself and settled on an island with her group being referred to as Neo-Hydra. They were then approached by Miss Sinister who revealed that she had telepathically looked into the mind of Old Man Logan and had seen his reality where the villains won. Thus, she sought out Quentin Beck so that he would resume being Mysterio and bring about the future that was similar to that in the Wastelands universe. Sin was intrigued by the idea as it meant succeeding where her father had failed though she had disagreements with Miss Sinister on how to go about this task as Sinthea wanted to gain a profit first. She sought to use Mysterio to test the limit of his abilities and have fun before enacting their plan. (Dead Man Logan v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
After claiming the Hammer of Skadi, Sin came to be possessed by the entity within thus taking the name Skadi. (Fear Itself v1 #1)
She said that she had no intentions of ever becoming a mother with sterilisation being a more preferable path than such a fate. (All-New Captain America v1 #3)
Sinthea was driven by a need to prove herself against her fathers views that she was inferior. Thus, she worked hard to prove herself the superior Shmidt. (All-New Captain America v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
In search for great power, she came to find the Hammer of Skadi and became a bearer of the Asgardian weapon. Transformed into Skadi, Sin came to join the ranks of the Serpent's elite generals known as the Worthy. (Fear Itself v1 #1)
Notes
- Sin was created by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Neary where she made her first appearance in Captain America v1 #290 (February, 1984).
In other media
Films
- In Captain America, a character based on Sin appeared in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Francesca Neri. This version was Valentina de Santis, the Italian daughter and underboss of Tadzio de Santis who served in this continuity as the Red Skull.
Video games
- In Marvel: War of Heroes, Sin appeared as multiple playable cards including her as Skadi in the video game.
- In Marvel: Future Fight, Sin was introduced as a playable character in the mobile game.
- In Marvel's Midnight Suns, Sin appeared in the setting of the video game's DLC "The Good, The Bad, and the Undead" and "The Hunger" where she was voiced by actress Emily O'Brien.
Appearances
- Captain America v1: (1984)
- Fear Itself v1:
- All-New Captain America v1:
- Uncanny Avengers v3:
- Dead Man Logan v1:
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