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10 MCU Characters That Are Totally Different From The Comics

It goes without saying that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the most accomplished example of a comic book canon being translated to the big screen to date. Over the 16 films currently released by Marvel Studios, the MCU has brought vast reams of comic book characters to the movies, usually with a deep fidelity to the source material.

8) Baron Zemo

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Comic Books: The son of Heinrich Zemo, one of Hitler’s top Nazi scientists, Baron Helmut Zemo was involved in a Joker-like accident when he fell into a vat of experimental glue Adhesive X. With his face now horribly disfigured, Zemo took to wearing a purple hood and became a bona fide supervillain – even forming the Masters of Evil. He’s also been affiliated with HYDRA on occasion.

MCU: For his appearance in Captain America: Civil WarDaniel Bruhl played Helmut Zemo only in name. His barony was never mentioned and the character’s iconic purple hood was nowhere to be seen. This Zemo shows some of his counterpart’s Machiavellian nature, though, by fracturing the Avengers to the point of civil war through his subtle manipulations. He doesn’t have a Nazi background, however, and is instead motivated by the death of his family in the Sokovia incident (seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron).