Captain America #433 sees Zemo continuing his unfortunate habit of falling off things

[iamrman]

Baroness Zemo is actually Heinrich Zemo reborn in to a female body. She claims that this was all part of a ruse, but I wouldn't put it past Helmut Zemo to marry his father in a female body.

Comments

[tinygaylaura]

"Gott in himmel!

What are the odds!

No really the odds against this happening to me so many times in a row must be ridiculous!"

Well RIP to Zemo and his wife

They died the way they lived

In a castle

[blues32]

If it was this easy for Heinrich to get a new body, he'd have done it ages ago when his hood was fused to his face.

[janegray]

The man seriously needs to invest in jetpacks.

[thanekos]

Love to put superfluously verbose word/thought balloons in comics, stating things that the art already does/the reader could probably figure out on their own, like " You are my enemy and saving me, I am amazed and a bit shamed! ", " Holding my enemy up is significant exertion, but I will hold on! ", and " I have been shot in the arm - it made me let go of the guy I am holding! "

It's a miracle the third panel with Baroness Zemo doesn't have " I am shooting you, fiend - shooting you with my gun! "

[scorntx]

I, uh, don't remember ever hearing about this one before.

But I can see why Helmut leaves it off the ol' resume.


... wait, hold on. He fell over a rail?
There was a RAIL?!
No wonder no-one bothers with the damn things.

[arilou_skiff]

Came for Zemo falling of things, learned that he married his dad.

[phantomfo]

It's Zemo's fault for installing a designated "Vat Room" in his house.

[remial]

was this about the time Steve lost the Super Soldier Serum and ended up getting a new supply from the Red Skull, because Skull didn't want Cap to die a wimp in power armor?

[shakalooloo]

I presume the next page is a series of panels showing each of the children dropping in after their parents in an unrelenting tide while Steve watches on and weeps at the humanity.

[iamrman]

They weren't the Zemos' natural children. The Zemos had kidnapped them for nefarious purposes that weren't made entirely clear.

[scorntx]

Must've been an interesting discussion with the architect.

"Oh, the wife wanted a rumpus room, but I think a Vat Room just adds more of a flow to a house, you know?"

[dan_ingram]

I don't imagine Zemo will do any better off flying at the ground at escape velocity

[dan_ingram]

His 'pretend to be his dad' wife.

Totally not creepy...

[iamrman]

Baron Zemo is blasting off agaaaaaiiinnn... *twinkle*

[tinygaylaura]

I needed a good laugh today, thank you for this

[iamrman]

At the end of Gruenwald's run, yes. I believe the Red Skull gave Steve a blood transfusion. But yes, he saved Steve because he didn't want his nemesis to go out like a wimp,

[tinygaylaura]

Baron Zemo: I require the wall to rotate

To reveal on its other side

Well

That need not concern you

Builder: ya want it knocked through?

Baron Zemo: You misunderstand me

The wall must remain

It must be there

But not there

Builder: Ya want a hatch?

Baron Zemo: NO

I wish the wall to rotate on its axis

Roundy round

Builder: Nah

Can't be done

That's a load bearing wall

Now

If ya wanted this wall

*Points to opposite wall*

Huge job but

It could be done

Baron Zemo: Somewhat less impressive but I suppose the roaring fire does lend it a somewhat....

Builder: Nah mate

Fire 'ad 'ave to go

Baron Zemo: Absolutely not!

The fire is crucial to the effect!

Builder: Look mate, if I "Rotate" the wall for you the effect you'll get is a room full of smoke

I can't rotate the chimney

[tinygaylaura]

Red Skull: I can't let our final battle be you being booked like a jobber!

Steve: Every word you just said made me hate you more

[tinygaylaura]

Something creepy going on in the decrepit castle where two insane fascists have abducted children to be part of a new Hitler Youth?

Surely not!

[tinygaylaura]

"I'm heading for the vanishing point!

Watch for the twinkle!"

[zachbeacon]

Look, if given the choice between boots with good tread and boots with fur lining then you gotta go with style.

I'll admit I really enjoyed Thunderbolts-era Zemo but he's one of those antagonists that I've had to reevaluate in light of real world events. Some stuff that used to be over the top just isn't anymore and guys like Zemo and Doom come off a lot less like cartoon characters now.

Weirdly Lex Luther comes off better, though. At least he divested from his company when he became President.

[john_drake1964]

Baron Zemo must have been watching Space Mutiny then...all those railing kills.

[tinygaylaura]

He didn't tho, he just ran it in secret because back then it was assumed that you'd have to cover this sort of thing up

We now know that of course you don't have to

No one cares

No one really cares about anything

X Files summed the world up beautfully in The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat

We're living in a post conspiracy age

It's so PoCo

[john_drake1964]

Turns out it's from the same architect who designed the house from the Vincent Price version of "House on Haunted Hill" which has a giant vat of acid in the basement.

Which no one has taken to draining or removing or covering at any point...

Seriously, why are there no covers or nets or something in case of situations like this? It's like someone is actively tempting fate that they won't take a nosedive straight into them...

[donnblake]

It's been a while, and I think I might be getting this from, like, an audio adaptation, but didn't he tap Talia al Ghul to run it for him while he was president? And then it turned out that she'd stole everything out from under him?