Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===Red Skull===
One of the few Golden Age baddies to still be running around in modern Marvel, the Red Skull was originally a psychotic youth in Nazi Germany, a random bellboy in a hotel whom Hitler declared could be made into a better Nazi than any of his supposedly elite agents he was meeting with at the hotel at a time, [[Not as Planned|and succeeded]]. Red Skull is generally portrayed as a masterful spy and manipulator, whose primary role in the World War 2 comics was a combination of overseeing various Nazi mad science projects and managing a spy ring of Nazi American 5th columnists. He usually has no inherent superpowers of his own, unless you count his iconic "Dust of Death"; a toxic compound that swiftly kills the victim and dissolves their face, leaving them with a bloody skull for a head. His own similar mug used to be a mask, until he was exposed to the Dust of Death and somehow survived.

In modern times, he's either attempting to lead a Nazi revival or just trying to take over the world for his own brand of hate-fueled tyranny, depending on the story.