
Blasted by a beam of energy, Red Skull disappeared through the portal, never to be seen again. The villain picked up the cube and it opened a portal into space above him, much like it does when Thanos uses the Space Stone. During the fight, Red Skull fell backward into the device drawing power out of the Tesseract, knocking it loose. That’s the blue cube that Loki used in “The Avengers” to open up a portal to space to let Thanos’ army of aliens attack New York - and it’s the cube that Thanos destroys at the start of “Avengers: Infinity War” to reveal the Space Stone.ĭuring the climax of “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Cap and Red Skull fought aboard Red Skull’s huge, Tesseract-powered bomber. Schmidt and his chief scientist, Arnim Zola, created powerful weapons for HYDRA using the power of the Tesseract. The serum made Schmidt powerful, though, and in “Captain America: The First Avenger,” he used that power and his position in HYDRA to inflict some serious damage on the world. The Red Skull, also known as Johann Schmidt, is a HYDRA member and former Nazi whose face was deformed when he took an early version of the super-soldier serum that would eventually turn Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) into Captain America. But I would have done it.”Īlso Read: 'Avengers: Infinity War' - Yes, The Keeper of the Soul Stone Was Who You Thought It Was And I didn’t really wanna do it that much. They said: ‘It’s just a voice job, it’s not a big deal.’ I actually found negotiating with them through my agent impossible. And the promise when we first signed the contracts was that the money would grow each time. “By then, they’d pushed back on the contracts that we agreed on and so the money they offered me for ‘The Avengers’ was much less than I got for the very first one, and this was for two films. We were all obliged to sign up for three pictures: I was thinking probably wouldn’t come back in ‘Captain America’ but he may well come back as a villain in ‘The Avengers,'” Weaving said. I loved playing that character Red Skull – it was a lot of fun. Weaving, who last played the Red Skull in “Captain America: The First Avenger” revealed in a new interview with Time Out why he didn’t return to play the character in the last two “Avengers” movies.

The kicker was that the actor behind the skull wasn’t Hugo Weaving but Ross Marquand. One of the biggest surprises of 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” was when the Red Skull revealed himself on the planet Vormir, where he’s cursed in a purgatory state to serve as a guide to those seeking the Soul Stone.
