The Red Skull - in Other Media - Television

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  • Red Skull appears in several episodes of the Captain America segment of The Marvel Super Heroes 1960s animated series, voiced by Paul Kligman.
  • Red Skull appears in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Peter Cullen. In the episode "The Capture of Captain America", he orchestrates Captain America's capture so that he can transfer his mind into Captain America's body.
  • Peter Cullen reprises his role of the Red Skull in the animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Quest of the Red Skull".
  • Red Skull appears in a flashback in the "Old Soldiers" episode of the animated series X-Men, voiced by Cedric Smith.
  • Red Skull appears in the 1994 Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Earl Boen. He first makes a cameo in the episode "The Cat" (in which he is briefly voiced by David Warner) where a group of people working for him attempt to trick a younger Walter Hardy into reviewing the Super-Soldier formula and giving the information to them. After Walter figured out who the men were, he managed to successfully evade them. Later on during the "Six Forgotten Warriors" story arc, it is revealed that after Red Skull and Captain America fought, they were trapped in a vortex. Fifty years later, his son Rheinholt Schmidt and stepson Chameleon free him from the vortex only for one of the captive scientists to also free Captain America. Red Skull's doomsday weapon is that he turned Rheinholt into this show's version of Electro. During the struggle, Red Skull and Captain America ended up trapped in the vortex. In the "Secret Wars" arc, Red Skull is sent by the Beyonder to an alien planet to fight Spider-Man and his team of superheroes. He collaborated with Alistair Smythe and Doctor Octopus (who lost his kingdom of Octavia to Doctor Doom who converted it into New Latveria) to fight the resistance led by Storm and General Torg. Black Cat attempts to take revenge on Red Skull for what he tried to make her father do only for Doctor Octopus to intervene. Red Skull and Doctor Octopus managed to escape. Red Skull (alongside Doctor Octopus and Alistair Smythe) is sent back to Earth with no memory of the events when Doctor Doom absorbs the powers of the Beyonder.
  • The Red Skull appears in the children's animated series The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Wrath of the Red Skull", voiced by Mark Hamill in a German accent. He was a disfigured youth whose face resembled a Pink Skull and was bullied by a young Arnim Zola. To cope with this, he painted his face red, took the name of the Red Skull, and embarked on a career of villainy, before being foiled by Captain America and Nick Fury. Red Skull cryogenically froze himself trying to freeze Captain America and Nick Fury. He was found in the Villainville Wiener Hut and was released by Doctor Doom (who saw the Red Skull as a hero). The Red Skull continued his evil plan to enact Plan USB, and his ego annoyed Doom. After managing to claim an Infinity Fractal, Red Skull had Mole Man excavate Plan USB (which was short for "UberSkullbot). When UberSkullbot was excavated, it ended up in a fight with the UberDoombot until Doctor Doom and Red Skull united to attack the Super Hero Squad and Nick Fury. The UberSkullbot and the UberDoombot were stopped by the Super Hero Squad and the Red Skull accidentally freezes himself when Captain America deflects the blast from his freeze gun. Captain America uses his frozen body at his birthday party to keep the food cold. In the episode "World War Witch", Thanos attempting to use the Time Infinity Gem to send the Super Hero Squad's Space Helicarrier back in time ends up sending Scarlet Witch back in time to World War II where she stumbles on a plot by Red Skull to launch a rocket onto the Allied Forces. She teamed up with Captain America and the Invaders to stop Red Skull's plot before returning to the present when the other Super Hero Squad members came to rescue her.
  • Red Skull appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Steven Blum in a German accent as Red Skull and then an American accent as Dell Rusk. In the episode "Meet Captain America", he is depicted as HYDRA's Super-Soldier. Formerly an underling of Baron Heinrich Zemo, he has since become his own master. One day, Red Skull finds the entrance to Bifrost Bridge and obtains some of the creatures from Asgard, modifying them with obedience collars, and planning to use them against the Allied Forces. Captain America and Bucky find his laboratory, and when the equipment is destroyed, it ends up freeing the creatures from their containment cells before Captain America and Bucky send them back to Asgard. Red Skull escapes to his rocket, but Captain America and Bucky also follow. When Captain America and Bucky get on the rocket, Red Skull ejects, leaving the rocket to go on self-destruct. Red Skull's Dell Rusk persona appears in the present day in the episode "Nightmare in Red". He has assembled a team consisting of Red Hulk, Falcon, Doc Samson, and Winter Soldier (all of whom have been deceived to believe that the plan they are carrying out for Rusk is for the benefit of their country). In the episode "Code Red", Red Skull uses his notorious Dust of Death to turn all the Avengers (except for Iron Man) into versions of himself. His archenemy Captain America is captured by Winter Soldier and brought to the Skull, whereupon Captain America rips off the Red Skull's Dell Rusk mask, revealing his true identity. Winter Soldier manages to resist the Red Skull's programming enough to give Captain America the cure for the Dust of Death. Captain America then defeats Red Skull. In the episode "Winter Soldier", Captain America interrogates the Red Skull, but a group of Sleepers attack the Hydro-Base and successfully rescue Red Skull. Red Skull then launches an attack on Washington DC, but he is thwarted by Captain America and Winter Soldier.
  • Red Skull appears in Avengers Assemble voiced by Liam O'Brien in a German accent. He was first seen in "The Avengers Initiative" Pt. 1 leading HYDRA forces into fighting Captain America. With the help of MODOK, Red Skull manages to capture Captain America and bring him to his HYDRA base in Antarctica. When the Avengers arrive, Iron Man discovers that MODOK used a machine that caused Captain America and Red Skull to swap bodies. At the same time, it was revealed that Red Skull was dying from the side effects of the Super-Soldier Serum attempt that was used on him. Captain America used Red Skull's to fight him and the HYDRA soldiers until Falcon manages to switch their bodies back. Before escaping with MODOK, Red Skull managed to steal Iron Man's armor as an alternative to his survival. In "The Avengers Initiative" Pt. 2, Red Skull modifies the Iron Man armor to his design. He and MODOK use microbots to cause the Avengers members to fight each other as a diversion so that he can blow up the Arc Reactor in Avengers Mansion. Iron Man manages to thwart the plans. When the Avengers use different tactics to take down Red Skull while Thor and Hulk caused the Arc Reactor to go high enough to not blow up Manhattan, Red Skull gets away. While on his submarine, Red Skull sends a message to other villains to join his Cabal in order to combat the Avengers (this message was also intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D.).

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